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Ep 272: The Ferment of Our Founders
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
Why the Gita Became Such a Big Political Text?
The book opens with 19 o five, o eight, which is considered to be the first mass movement of indian politics. It's a question because it it forces you to ask, who the enemy is? And the answer is, obviously, only the brother, the intimate, the neighbor. The foreigner is of no value in that story. But then the big question, is it ok to kill your own, you know? Then that violence, which is really the main kind of driver of the book, thet violence is not a question to be handled only by the state. In fact, far from it. So i think the central insight of the period, of the early period,
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