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Ep 315: Arshia Sattar and the Complex Search for Dharma

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Is There Too Much Self-Doubt?

I think that there wasn't enough self-doubt, where what happens is that the elites have themselves to blame not just for not doing enough, but also for thinking too much of themselves. The disdain for vernaculars, not just languages, but cultures, that stopped us from engaging, right? I mean, especially when I'm talking to young people, as one other language, don't just speak it, at least read it, if you can write it so much, the better, but at least you must be able to read in it,. That is a colonial legacy and we should have been more smart about this. We only looked back because we thought, if we're

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