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Ep 341: The Steady Determination of Yamini Aiyar

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Inner Struggle to Find a Space for Yourself

I think for me the beginnings of really becoming passionate about what I was going to do were to you know as I sort of finished my undergraduate degree and went to Cambridge. It took a long time to actually learn how to write and it was actually probably in this learning that I discovered who I am. The idea that you can now examine a whole way so the idea that you have to critically examine a question is very exciting but also kind of scary at the same time. You don't get that anywhere in the world with some good teachers and some phenomenally good teachers, even if they're not your friends or family members. That's just part of being an English teacher which has always been one

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