A foundation-funded atrocity

Future Perfect

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Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Tech News, News

4.5 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In the 1950s and ’60s, Western foundations like Ford and Rockefeller pushed hard to control India's population by sterilizing its people. In 1975, India's government expanded that disturbing practice into a massive atrocity. How did this happen — and how can we prevent it from happening again?Gyan Prakash’s history of the emergencyMatthew Connelly’s history of population controlEmma Tarlo has a book of narratives from the EmergencySavina Balasubramanian explains the focus on sterilizing men in IndiaWhy sterilization continues in IndiaA Disney short film featuring Donald Duck advocating population controlThanks to the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College for the audio of Joan Dunlop, taken from their Population and Reproductive Health Oral History Project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:54.8	Hey listeners, this episode is about an atrocity that happened in India.
0:59.6	Some of the descriptions might be disturbing.
1:04.0	Imagine you live in India back in the 1960s.
1:08.0	Word gets out that there's going to be a kind of festival.
1:13.2	There are people making announcements using such things as like a blowhorn or like a megaphone to shout out information in heavily
1:22.0	populated areas. It depends on where you were, but you might find tents Tents, sometimes even large vans, for example.
1:30.0	And people singing or dancing or performing skits.
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