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Ep. 149: A life in Indian Politics

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of Systemic Compromise in Democracy

Three days from today we have the 70th anniversary of our constitution making. I don't think it's inevitable that democracy will degenerate into collecting money and therefore compromising yourself. We as a culture have never really gotten into that Ambedkar's mode, what he advised. Our political party is a family estate. You see the leaders even at an Emileer, MP level, let alone a minister at a prime minister's level. The kind of note that the hundreds of people thronging around them, even as in your mind you abuse them,. This desperate worship of power, not only seeking power for oneself, but also worship of power.

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