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Ep. 139: The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Fake News of India

Kalyan Pudhar's book is full of fake news. He claimed without substantiation that sexually transmitted diseases were prevalent among 50% of students. Gandhi's associates told people in Gujarat that cow fat was mixed in the manufacture of foreign cloth. This is how they propagated it. No substantiated, nobody will ask, someone will print it. So we are now worried about fake news from social media. But your print is still more or less still all right, you know.

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