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Ep 287: The Life and Times of Urvashi Butalia

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Friendships in the Age of the Internet

Friendship started forming when we moved to dely in school and then a university. Now you can meet people with common niche interests that you might have, and that no one else you physically know might share with you. And you can form friends based on shared interests and shared values. So at one level, i sort of lament that there is an overall lack of rootedness, i sometimes feel. That goes back to not having childhood friends. They are there on facebook, but i've never really had friends who've lasted from that period.

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