Observations of Amitava Kumar

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 8, 2015

Amitava Kumar, a writer and professor of English at Vassar College and the author of Lunch With a Bigot: The Writer in the World (Duke University Press Books, 2015), talks about encounters with people and ideas in this country and India, including a lunch with an ultra-right Hindu politician whose group had put him on a hit list.

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