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and we have a great show for you coming up. We have a repeat offender returning guests. We're

so happy that Vijay Prasad is coming back to the show. This, of course, is the KB Helper Show,

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the stream on that happens. So today we have joining us again, Vijay Prasad. He's an Indian historian,

editor and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globe Trotter. He's the

chief editor of Leftward Books and the director of Tri Continental Institute for Social Research.

He's a senior non-resident fellow at Changyang Institute for Financial Studies,

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