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Ep 341: The Steady Determination of Yamini Aiyar

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Growing Up in Baghdad

I have the unique distinction of being born in Iraq in Baghdad and I've always waited for that moment when you know whenever I before visas became biometric and automated. But no my father was in the Foreign Service and he was posted there and that's where I was born and very soon after he was posted in Pakistan. So really actually apart from the story that the day I was born, apples were being sold in the market in Baghdad and so my grandmother and whoever and where else was in the household abandoned my mother and me in the hospital and went to stand in lines to grab their apples. My mother was a journalist and in many ways she shielded us from a lot of the the public life

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