In this episode, Shruti talks with Salil Tripathi about Bangladesh's economic prosperity, cultural similarities and differences with India, religious and linguistic identity, and about what India can learn from Bangaladesh on its 50th anniversary. Tripathi is an Indian journalist, author and editor, currently the chair of PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee. and he is the Senior Advisor on Global Issues at the Institute for Human Rights and Business. He is the author of "Offence: The Hindu Case," "Detours: Songs of the Open Road" and "The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy."

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