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Books and Authors podcast with Nikhil Menon, author, Planning Democracy
Books and Authors
English - March 24, 2022 19:44 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBooks Arts self-help books indian authors interview podcast latest books fantasy fiction books and authors famous authors memorabilia ias exams arts podcast Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The heady post-independence years of the 1950s when it was believed that democratic planning could take the nation from abject poverty to prosperity, India's Five-Year plans that grew out of the attempt to marry liberal democracy to a socialist economy, the role of the Indian Statistical Institute and the dynamism of technocrats like PC Mahalanobis in the now-defunct Planning Commission, and how the zeal for planning permeated everything from films to family life - Nikhil Menon, author of 'Planning Democracy', which paints a great picture of a young India striving to find its unique niche in a polarised world, talks to Manjula Narayan on this week's Books & Authors podcast.