Ep. 149: A life in Indian Politics
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Importance of Political Instincts in Youth
When I was growing up in the 80s, you know, if you wanted specific kinds of international music, you had very little available to you. And it just strikes me how we are shaped by the contingency of the influences that are available to us. You know, even our society in politics is perhaps changed by this because I imagine not everyone in your generation is sort of listening to the BBC or has a kind of vocation interest in U.S. politics. So I imagine in that sense, you were an outlier. But at least people of a certain background, the kids who were doing academically reasonably well, etc. There was also this relentless focus on their own professional skills
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