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Ep 312: Ashutosh Salil and the Challenge of Change

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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How Liberal Is India Really?

Dattley Shigos: One constant theme that keeps coming up in my show is about how liberal is India really, right? And I think that bubble has kind of burst in the last few years. In certain ways, India is liberal in terms of how our languages and clothes and cuisines can be so assimilative. But in many other ways, it's deeply illiberal in terms of caste and women and all of these things. So, what is, so to you, what has Indian society, you know, where would you come down on this? We contain multitudes; whatever you say, the opposite is also true as Dattleyshigos about India.

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