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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 Limits of Oral History

The oral history project is an extremely dynamic one you know and what you would say yesterday made change from what you say today. Some things may remain the same but other things it's the subtext and the qualifying things which could completely change depending upon the moment or relationship between two people. So in a sense oral history has its limitations. I wouldn't call it a limitation has its let's put it as itsIts qualifications, that we must accept is part of their oral history. It was once the same stuff that has gone into it now written at some point of time and it goes into it and you are now treating it as sacrosanct in a certain kind of way so I don

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