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Ep 255: Sara Rai Inhales Literature

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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How I Learned to Read and Write in Hindi

i had not really read very much pramton when i was a child. I like to write in hindi because things around me are happening in hindi, you know. A hindi also has the advantage that you can lace it with things from other languages. The registers are important. For instance, if there's a someone who's swearing, or some vendors calling out, you know, jaman o kali dil wali, which are possible to translate in english. And  the whole process of translation, for instance, also began as a sort of groping for language and which language was i was the most comfortable in. It's still the same. You know,

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