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May 2021
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Ep. 573: Truck De India: Rajat Ubhaykar ...

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Anirudh Kanisetti speaks to journalist and author Rajat Ubhaykar, author of Truck De India!: A Hitchhiker's guide to Hindustan, about his months spent travelling the country with truckers and what it taught him about India,  
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