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World Service,04 Dec 2010,49 mins

04/12/2010 GMT

The Forum

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Is it time to retell the story of India’s past? Should we challenge the historical idea of India as a single national entity? An alternative view from economist and British politician, Lord Meghnad Desai. Can we use nature as a window on our sex lives? German anthropologist Volker Sommer leads us through the natural world to find out what we can learn from the sexual behaviour of monkeys and apes. And in this nomadic modern world of multiple identities, Scottish-Ghanaian novelist Lesley Lokko shines a light on the strains of being more than one person at once. llustration by Emily Kasriel: Gay apes with a hybrid identity re imagine the notion of Indian unity

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