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Ep 232: Understanding India Through Its Languages

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of Imagining Yourself as a Child

As a young child I would look in the mirror and say that what I saw didn't look like any of the things that are supposed to be there. My objective has always been to try to find up home for myself wherever I go to fit in until one day my daughter said to me why are you doing this. When people ask you in India where are you from make their day is the first time they've met up foreigner from an exotic place who can speak to them so just tell them you're from the Caribbean that will satisfy them. You have to really have the operating system properly in the head it took time Hindi doesn’t give itself up very easily and worse yet Malay

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