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Ep 259: The Loneliness of the Indian Woman

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Love in Hindi Films

In the standard hindi film, at love usually leads to marriage and sex, stopcourt. And this is, like you point out, it's a limited view of love. Where are they getting their knowledge of the world from? They'r getting their knowledge from their limited lived experience around them and from bollywood. I think what's happened is we've all become, in sadly, commodities, and love has become transactional. The reason why women in our country are so exhausted is because we're constantly hustling for love. That's the script of masculinity. Women should have love. And theire hustling for it, be it, what they're doing to their bod

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