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Ep 341: The Steady Determination of Yamini Aiyar

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of a Strong State

I remember in the early 2000s I'd written a piece for the Wall Street Journal arguing that the reforms of 91 didn't go far enough. The mybob-circar was still dominant it's still uh you know to again go into your extended family history there is an anecdote I read about your father-in-law Shankar Pila Krishna Kumar and his early days as a district collector. He had organized Shivra three festival on the banks of the periar where priests were replaced by officers as Prasadam they distributed title deeds to the landless stop quote. This seems to me to be a great metaphor for how we actually look at the state. What we really need

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