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Ep 337: Luke Burgis Sees the Deer at His Window

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Limitations of Language in India

Amitai: India has a very large English speaking elite, people like me for whom English is a first language. The biggest tragedy of our languages is that not enough great books get translated from English to those languages. So if you can get it done, I would say that you absolutely absolutely it's one of those books which I feel would travel well because it's about fundamental ideas. It flicks a switch and once that flick switch is flicked, you're never going back.

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