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Ep 161: The History of Desire in India

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Shakespeare - What Art Does Write?

If shakespeare was alive to day es age of instagram and tik talk, what do you think he'd be doing? You not. He didn't think of his writing as high art in any sense. So whatever is most popular now, that's what he would be doing. His plays are also full of all kinds of massala elements thrown into it because that's what his plays do. Like so much volume of tropes come from shakespeearxamble exactly. Sh Shakespeare provides the script for a lot of bollywood fil nerve adaptations.

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