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Milan Varia

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Milan Varia is a reporter focused on history and disability and was most recently the Curt Chandler Storytelling Fellow at Penn State.



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Yudhishthira, the king of Hastinapura, had gambled away all his material wealth and offered his wife, Drauapdi, in a bet. (British Museum, circa 1895)

South Asians Gamble Less. So Why Does it Hit Us Harder?

India produced some of the world’s earliest warnings about addiction. Now, prediction markets have put “Vegas in your pocket.”

Milan Varia

Milan Varia

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (left) with his younger brother Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan (right, playing harmonium), recording at Real World Studios in England (Real World Studios)

How the Harmonium Outlived its Haters

Gandhi, Tagore, and Nehru despised it. All India Radio banned it. Yet today, we can’t imagine our music without it.

Milan Varia

Milan Varia



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