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Ep 183: The Art of Narrative Nonfiction (+ JBS Haldane)

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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How Did Lalitmonde Build the Ifea?

Some Americans, for some reason, tend to do this much better than any one else in the world. They are immediately thinking in s of all enormous senematic terms. And every time they let drop a morsel of detail, you pounce on it and say, yes, yes, i want more like this. What are your theories for why indians are not so descriptive when americans are? For example, even people in england, it's very difficult to get them to describe their friends or family members. One is that they have grown up listening to radio and talk about things like npr,. Another is that they don't know how to tell an oral story at length

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