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Visvesvaraya: Extracting Moonbeams from Cucumbers

Incarnations: India in 50 Lives by BBC

Mar 2, 201614:18Society & Culture

Sunil Khilnani explores the life and work of engineer, planner and politician Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya. Visvesvaraya was a frail bureaucrat who walked hunched, as if the burden of state-building literally pressed down o...

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Visvesvaraya: Extracting Moonbeams from Cucumbers is an episode from Incarnations: India in 50 Lives by BBC. Sunil Khilnani explores the life and work of engineer, planner and politician Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya. Visvesvaraya was a frail b...

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