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Podcast: Conspirituality
Episode: Brief: Nair, Mamdani, and Culture against the Culture War (Pt 1)
Description: Well, I seem to always be inspired by the person who is considered marginal. Firstly, their spirit of survival, their resilience, their lack of self-pity, the ability usually to laugh in the face of having nothing and to create a kind of sense of flamboyance and life at any cost, despite having you know no resources of any kind that are visible. That's what inspires me and I think in making portraits of the so-called outsiders, I'm also then allowed to question what is that society that deems us an outsider?
— Mira Nair on BBC “Masterpiece”, 11/29/04
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