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Ep 272: The Ferment of Our Founders

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Is There a Politics of Conviction in India?

Post post that violence has taken a different form in the sense that lynch mobs are notwe've seen down fewer riots, fewer riots, but many more lynch mobbings. The idea is that, you know, there is a kind of physical security in giving up a little bit of our natural rights,. And then someone coming to your house. They've come straight to your home. There's a different kind of, it means different things for indian democracy, is what i am saying. I just wanted to show in my book that actually these figures have thought about all these problems and navigated the question of violence and politics more than we had given credit to them.

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