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Ep 332: The Life and Times of Uma Chakravarti

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Complexity of History

The world is so complex and I'm very like these days it's sort of become fashionable especially with social media that everybody's passing judgment on everyone else absolutely. To pass judgment on someone is to implicitly call yourself more virtuous and knowledgeable than them. You've kind of had the rigor to to in your 80s reconsider what you felt about a subject that you wrote about in your 40s right? The phrase that you use was you're looking at history from the bottom end tell me a little bit about this because as someone who's a non-historian I love reading history books but I'm anon-historian.

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