Ep 161: The History of Desire in India
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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I Am X, Y, Zed and A, B, C as Well.
i think identity is a bit of trap, because it's only people who want to curtail my identity and shape it themselves who want to know who i am. And so what is sad for me about identity politics is to see people embracing it as their truth when it's nothing but the idea of truth as singularity being imposed on them. People like us should be able to embrace marginality much more fully and not necessarily speak the language of the oppressor - which in this case, i think, is the language of truth with a capitalty.
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