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Ep 341: The Steady Determination of Yamini Aiyar

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Mybob Mentality in India

The Indian state is just all these contradictions coming together it's centralization that enables federalism and then at the and accommodation of all forms of identity with all kinds of like quirky compromises. There are a lot of coercion bringing together what is the modern nation state and in some ways excessive the powers that have been given to the state itself. I always think I'm perhaps being a little too pessimistic and you're much closer to the beast and you worked with it in different ways how would you respond to this view? "I don't disagree with any of what you have said but I also think that so so look like I had it not been for the centralizing impulse the ability to accommodate"

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