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Ep 276: The Incredible Curiosities of Mukulika Banerjee

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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We've Got the Constitution. Bla, Blabla. We Stopped Trying.

I think what really happened in forty seven was this interesting experiment where a relatively liberal constitution, there's a lot wrong with the constitution. It doesn't protect free speech at all, in my view. A relatively liberal constitution was imposed on an illiberal society. And a top down a experiment like that was always bound to fail. Gundy, in that sense, was right at the ange. Has to come from within. We stopped trying. The polling booth in india is unlike any other public space in india. Think about it. Where it is a public building, everybody has to come to vote. There is no other way to voteThe most important counter example of weer

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