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Ep 292: Varun Grover Is in the House

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Language in India Is a Ca System of Its Own

Ete: Language in india is a cas system of its own. You're always showing where you are on the social ladder by showing off your sophistication and all that. One reason why people use these british pomposities, which the british have left behind, but we continue. As we orbanize, there is this incentive to the homogenis. i ive seen that e the most boring ya, it's almost boring. And for me, that's a good metaphor for what could be happening culturally in terms of different dialects going into one language. I did an episode on indian food with vicram doctor, where he spoke about the cav

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