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Ep 263: The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Don't Be What You Hate

When the janta party came to power, i was one of the people who sang hosannas. I remember many years back, a decade and a half back, i wrote this piece arguing that one of the best signs of india social progress was rising divorce rates. And my argument was, here a damn good thing, because if devorce rates rise, that means women are gett empowered. In vernacular media, like i think all us make sense of the world by joining dots. We have different dots, we join them, we have a picture of the world. People who read in english are hobbled in the sense that they have a limited number of dots if

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