Ep 287: The Life and Times of Urvashi Butalia
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Grandna Mamma
In many ways, actually, both my parents, but my father in somewhat unusual ways, and in an indirect kind of way. My mother left la hore a little before partition to come and live in dely. She was very much an independent woman making her own decisions. And my dad, on the contrary, was somebody who wasn't as strong. He was vacillating. Later they told us lovely stories of how there was this one woman to whom he was actually engaged, and he didn't know how to say no to her. So i think she learnt from that time to be an independent person. You know, very often you find women really are able to take their own
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