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Ep 327: The Many Shades of George Fernandes

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of Ramguha's Biography

One of my favorite biographers is Robert Caro and Robert Caro was a journalist in the mid 1960s. He decided he wants to write a biography of a guy called Robert Moses sort of a bureau kind of bureaucrat who wielded enormous power without ever winning elections. The book is a masterpiece one the Pulitzer and Aldat and perhaps my favorite biography of all time it's a biography of Robert Moses, also a biography of New York City. As a biographer there are these two conflicting impulses that you must have faced and one impulses I want to be asked forever as possible right boss time is finished I will also die.

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