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Barkha Dutt on the Nuances of Indian Life

Published: June 29, 2022, 11 a.m.

Growing up, Barkha Dutt was totally rootless. She spoke English, not her parent\u2019s Punjabi. She devoured Enid Blyton and studied English literature during college, but read few Indian novelists. She didn\u2019t even know her caste. This has opened her up to criticism as being a progressive elite who is out of touch with her heritage, and challenged her to be especially thoughtful in the way she examines the many overlapping values in Indian society. A successful broadcast journalist and columnist, she currently runs the YouTube-based news channel MoJo Story and recently published a new book, \u200b\u200bHumans of COVID: To Hell and Back.

Barkha joined Tyler to discuss how Westerners can gain a more complete picture of India, the misogyny still embedded in Indian society, why family law should be agnostic of religious belief, the causes of declining fertility in India, why relations between Hindus and Muslims seem to be worsening, how caste has persisted so strongly in India, the success of India\u2019s subsidized institutes of higher education, the best city for Indian food, the power of Amar Chitra Katha\u2019s comics, the influence of her English liberal arts education, the future of Anglo-American liberalism in India, the best ways to use Twitter, and more.

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Recorded May 5th, 2022

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