Aatish Taseer And The Way Things Are

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On special edition of Agenda we get you writer-journalist Aatish Taseer who recently bagged best fiction award for his Novel 'The Way Things Were' at the Bangalore literature festival. He tells us why there's an urgent need to revise our education system. Aatish links an encounter with the beef controversy in Delhi with unusual scrutiny of his passport by an immigration officer, to complain that there is an atmosphere of fear in the country. He tells us why he thinks Prime Minister Modi may face many more Bihar like defeats in future.

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