South Asian Films and Books

Alka Kurian
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  • SOCIETY & CULTURE

This podcast connects listeners with South Asian writers and filmmakers as they explore some of the major issues of the world. From politics to culture, each episode looks at topics that impact and shape the lives of people living both in South Asia and its diaspora.

  1. Naseeruddin Shah

    07/21/2024

    Naseeruddin Shah

    In this episode, I talk to India's legendary actor Naseerudding Shah about his relationship with theatre and cinema and the relationship between these two mediums.

    1h 8m
  2. Amitava Kumar

    03/23/2024

    Amitava Kumar

    In this episode, I talk with Amitava Kumar about his 2024 novel My Beloved Life, an absorbing, exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man’s life, an ordinary life made exceptional by the fact that he has loved and has been loved in turn.

    38 min
  3. Yashica Dutt: Coming Out As Dalit

    03/04/2024

    Yashica Dutt: Coming Out As Dalit

    In this episode, I talk to the award-winning writer Yashica Dutt about her book "Coming Out as Dalit." The book exposes the blurred lines between caste and race, for both are fabrications meant to preserve the power of a few and require the ideological purchase of the many. And for women, for whom 'purity' is a measure of status and value, the traps of caste are even more sinister, even deadly.

    52 min
  4. South Asian Feminism and Youth Activism

    11/18/2023

    South Asian Feminism and Youth Activism

    In this episode, I talk with four highly accomplished and widely published, US-based South Asian scholars, professors, creative writers, and performance artists - Dr. Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Dr. Shreerekha Pillai Subramanian, Dr. Shoba Rajgopal, and Dr. Pramila Venkateswaran - about their contribution to the June 2022 special double issue of the Journal of International Women’s Studies and WAGADU (A transnational journal of women’s and gender studies).

    59 min
  5. Shaunak Sen

    10/16/2023

    Shaunak Sen

    In this episode, I talk with the Indian filmmaker, Shaunak Sen, about his Academy Award-nominated best Documentary film "All That Breathes," which tells the story of two brothers who've devoted their lives to protecting and rehabilitating birds in northern Delhi.

    33 min
  6. Mohsin Hamid

    08/31/2023

    Mohsin Hamid

    In this episode, I interview Mohsin Hamid, the award-winning British Pakistani novelist about his latest 2022 novel The Last White Man. Set in an unspecified city and country, this magic realist novel is about a white man who wakes up one morning to find himself changed to a darker skin color and a different, unfamiliar appearance.

    40 min
  7. Geetanjali Shree

    08/09/2023

    Geetanjali Shree

    In this episode, I talk with the award-winning Hindi language writer Geetanjali Shree, about her latest novel Tomb of Sand which won the 2022 International Booker Prize.

    58 min
  8. Deepti Naval

    07/18/2023

    Deepti Naval

    In this episode, I talk with India's acclaimed and award-winning actress, writer, and painter Deepti Naval about her memoir "A Country Called Childhood" where she talks about growing up in Amritsar, India, her life as a student of art in New York, her return to India as an actor, a career which she combines with poetry and painting.

    52 min
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This podcast connects listeners with South Asian writers and filmmakers as they explore some of the major issues of the world. From politics to culture, each episode looks at topics that impact and shape the lives of people living both in South Asia and its diaspora.

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  • Creator
    Alka Kurian
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2024
  • Episodes
    25
  • Rating
    Clean
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  • Show Website
    South Asian Films and Books