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In episode 29 of What's Your Ism?, hosts Sudipto Mondal and Dhanya Rajendran speak with former IAS officer and army veteran MG Devasahayam on the critical issues facing India and its contrast with the Emergency era. 

In episode 28 of What’s Your ISM?, Sudipto Mondal speaks with Nadira Khatun about identity politics, cinema and new her book Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity: Production, Representation, and Reception. They discuss Bollywood’s layered depiction of Muslim identities, its evolution since independence, and how cinema reflects broader societal narratives.

Caste and untouchability are widely perceived as a Hindu phenomenon – orthodoxically, they are categorised as “illegitimate” in the Muslim community. But the Dalit Muslims facing caste oppression strive for legitimacy. So, what is the complex history and dynamics of castes among Muslims? How is it perceived in the political…

This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri and Raman Kirpal are joined by journalists Girish Kuber, Sunita Aron, and Sudipto Mondal. 

RS Praveen Kumar, a former IPS officer, who had quit the civil services to join the Bahujan Samaj Party, has once again taken a u-turn. Last month, the popular Ambedkarite jumped to the BRS – a party he had earlier described as “casteist” and “feudal”. So what triggered this shift?…

Sagarika Ghose, the journalist-turned-politician who recently made headlines for joining the Trinamool Congress, is set to contest the Rajya Sabha polls. Has she abandoned the journalism front? How does she look at Hindutva? What made her pull out of mainstream media? 

I am the person who sent in the Atlantic article as a letter. Disappointed that other aspects of my letter weren’t engaged with and some misconceptions were doubled down on.

This is the third episode of What's your ism? — a podcast by The News Minute, with host Sudipto Mondal, that will grapple with all the impressive ‘isms’ from Marxism, feminism and Ambedkarism to religious systems, and their inherent contradictions. 

This is the second episode of What's your ism? — a podcast by The News Minute, with host Sudipto Mondal, that will grapple with all the impressive ‘isms’ from Marxism, Feminism, Ambedkarism to religious systems, and their inherent contradictions.