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Ep 332: The Life and Times of Uma Chakravarti

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Therigatha and the Hymns of Ananda

The Buddha is supposed to have said that if it was good to last a thousand years it'll only last 500 years now and stuff like that's a very deeply misogynist statement. The Therigatha hymns are soaked with compassion, says the filmmaker. "All the stories of death and bemoaning death of children is in the mouth of mothers"

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