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Ep 332: The Life and Times of Uma Chakravarti

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of Oral History

Oral history is really a to the extent that you can hear and you can access directly from the protagonist or protagonist there's a richness which the written text will not hold like this detailed at the clean the Kirphan and kept it. 84 never let you forget partition everybody will talk about the fact that they went to do their partition story only after 84 so 84 was the moment which actually made us confront our own history in a certain kind of way. All the sick people all the sick women and men that I talked to would describe somehow jameh wahani. They're telling the story in the way they want to tell the story you know so they're stamping it with their art

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