Ep 288: Chandrahas Choudhury's Country of Literature
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Why People Aren't Reading as Much as They Used to Be
i think that this whole notion of not enough people are reading is something that's been there in every generation. And i think what happens is that there's a small percentage of people in every generation who read, and the same percentage is reading even to day. So you imagine that omor people are not actually reading books, but the number of readers is pretty much the same. In an indian context, it could be said that like an an essay sarara wrote about her grandfather, pramchan. She mentioned how he went to some random event somewhere where he was,. It was not a book y vantagesi forget they exact te sing, but crowds had piled up to see
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