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Ep 338: The Nuances of Intensive Care

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Intergenerational Trauma of Being a Punjabi

I'm half Punjabi and my father was born in Lahore. So I'm culturally Bengali. That's what I thought. But I didn't realize that you were actually, you know, at least generationally or genetically Punjabi. And one of the bad attitudes I kind of picked up was this sort of language robbery. For me, Western culture was a pinnacle of everything. In Maasco, if we spoke anything other than English, then except in our Hindi or Punjabi period, we will find ourselves in an English-speaking upper-middle class elite snobbery. It took me 20s after becoming a doctor to understand that people who don't speak

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