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Ep 333: Subhashish Bhadra on Our Dysfunctional State

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of APMCs

Ajesha and I have had an episode of the farm law so I can kind of linked that. And you point out how number one, the police structure that we have is, you know, just taken from the British from the colonialists. So the objective of it is not to protect the rights of the people, but to subjugate them. It's a fundamental problem with the state and not necessarily with any one party. You write about nearly 1,800 people arrested under preventive detention laws even though they had not committed a crime. This included at least 30 MPs as well as many of the detainees for alleged plot to blow up railway stations. For example, actress Nehalatha

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