Don’t Call Me Resilient The Conversation

Our seventh season is officially over, but we will be back next week for a special bonus episode. You’ll get to meet some of our amazing producers who work hard behind the scenes to produce this podcast.

In Sudan, amid a growing humanitarian crisis caused by a year-long and ongoing war, neighbourhood organizations have stepped in as first responders, and to lead the call for peace.

We’re bringing you an extra episode this week to share a fascinating interview from “The Conversation Weekly.” It’s a podcast hosted by our colleague Gemma Ware, from The Conversation UK. In this episode, psychiatrist Karandeep Sonu Gaind speaks to Gemma Ware on why he's a vocal opponent of Canada's expansion of its medically assisted dying laws to people with solely mental illness.

Political scientist Shikata Banerjee and cinema studies scholar Rakesh Sengupta sit down with Vinita to talk about how Bollywood and popular culture in general are being used by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his right-wing Hindu nationalist BJP to sway voters in the world's largest election.

Student protests on campuses are calling attention to atrocities in Gaza and challenging university administrators to divest. What is the best way forward that avoids unnecessary violence?

In this episode of Don't Call Me Resilient, Vinita explores the complicated, colonial roots of gardening - which affect who gets to garden and what we plant - with researcher Jacqueline L. Scott and community activist Carolynne Crawley.