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Rohini Nilekani on Society, State and Markets

Ideas of India

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The Role of Philanthropy in Democracy

I'm just an optimistic person so these sorts of things make me very optimistic about democratizing whether it's through self-love and all of it is on college fees at Elphin's College which I also went to in Mumbai who are actually apparently paid by a progressive Maharajah from Baroda as was his Columbia education. So hopefully you don't need philanthropy except a small amount maybe a little bit on the edges to allow everybody to get a decent education no absolutelyYou create the systems that allowEverybody to get an education without needing necessarily the philanthropy or the kindness of the rich yeah. Do you ever feel like you have to hold contradictions? One of the things I learned in my

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