Season 2 continues with a voice shaped by public life, identity, and the questions young India is asking today, Anish Gawande.A politician and writer, Anish has spent his career thinking about what it means to participate in democracy as a young person in a rapidly transforming country. In this conversation, he reflects on growing up in an India that is both deeply familiar and increasingly unrecognisable, and the weight of stepping into public service with honesty and clarity.Openly gay and unapologetically himself, Anish speaks about the intersections of identity and political life, the quiet loneliness of being seen before being understood, and the hope that still lives in showing up, not just for a cause, but for oneself. With warmth and precision, he shares how love, belonging, courage, and community shape the way he imagines the future of this country.This episode is an exploration of what young India wants: a politics that feels human, a future that feels possible, and the freedom to live openly in every sense of the word.

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