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Acts of nonviolent civil disobedience and dissent are often termed 'anti-national' by trolls armies. Some would say that these ideas are rather alien to us, borrowed from western liberal democracies. But one of India's best known historians, Romila Thapar, says that dissent is as old as Indian civilisation itself. In this episode, Sandip talks to Thapar about her new book, Voices of Dissent, which looks at the history of dissent in India, from Vedic Brahmanism to Shaheen Bagh. Full transcript available here.