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Ep 259: The Loneliness of the Indian Woman

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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I Love Good by Iris Murdock

"I think all of us are, most of the time, really living out a play in our heads where we are the central character and everyone else is instrumental," she says. "It seems to me that one way of realizing that we are caught in the shuck review, as it were, is just awareness of oneself and awareness of others" The book has helped her let go of preconceived notions about how people will see her or if this would be considered serious by other people - but also made her less transactional with those who come into contact with her.

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