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Ep 302: The Life and Times of Teesta Setalvad

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Is the 1984 Congress Vote a Pretext for What Was Already Planned?

In 1991 liberalization in India led to a new middle class which just happened to be conservative or bigoted. That played into the political arena and thinking of it that way it almost seems as if what we have seen in our politics was sort of inevitable events might be circumstantial. The best governments have always been coalition and low key and non-confrontationist but that's not what the Hindi film is about, he says.

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