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Ep 163: Who Broke Our Republic?

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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How Much of Our Beliefs Are Shaped by Our Circumstance

V. Savarkar's thinking is something that I absolutely loathe obviously Hindutva is a horrible horrible book but the interesting thing is one of the things I realized in that book was that till about 1910 you know Savarkar believed that Hindus and Muslims together had a place in India, they were both part of this nation. And then he spent all those years in the Andaman's where he suffered terrible torture. The torture he suffered at their hands radicalized him and made him incredibly anti-Muslim. His experience of prison completely destroyed the remnants of humanity within him. A lot of us are shaped by our circumstances, it doesn't confer upon you the right to inflict suffering on other

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