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Ep 216: Being Muslim in India

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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You're a Cout, He Used to Shell Pine Nuts During the Day

Shodon: My favourite sentence in your book is actually a great example of shodon tell, and it'sis a lovely sentence about your grandfather. Yourote cout during he used to shell pine nuts during the day, so he could reward us with fistfuls of shelled nuts in the evening stop court. And i love that. Now, you know, it's interesting that when i was sort of reading about the ark of your family, almost through the er generations, you talk about how they've kept themselves apart from everything outside. In fact, you describe how that lane outside was described to you as cot riddled with poverty, illiteracy, backwardness and unthinkable danger.

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