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"Buddhism’s revival in India has been marginal at best, a story of false dawns and dead ends. Its appropriation was primarily an intellectual endeavour, not a religious one: for that reason, perhaps, it was bound to fail." https://ow.ly/uNbZ50Yz4IY Voiceover by Shwetha Srikanthan
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