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Respectfully Disagree is The Swaddle Team’s very own podcast series, where each week we get together to discuss and dissect the issues we passionately differ on. This podcast is brought to you by TS Studios, a production company that brings The Swaddle’s storytelling and creative point of view to original podcasts and films.
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Always heard about “Men at Work”? We bring you a whole new concept of “Women at Work” where we recognise women who are leading in their respective fields. It aims to have a one on one chat with women who have carved a niche for themselves in several industries. These women have challenged the stereotypical notions of the society and will talk to us through their inspiring journey. 'The Super Womaniya Show' is a weekly podcast, produced by Fever 104, and brought to you by HT Smartcast. So wha ...
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The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society: Books, Film, Music, TV, Art, Writing, Creativity, Education, Environment, Theatre, Dance, LGBTQ, Climate Change, Social Justice, Spirituality, Feminism ...

The Creative Process - Books, Film, Music, TV, Art, Writing, Education, Environment, Theatre, Dance, LGBTQ, Social Justice, Spirituality, Feminism, Technology, AI

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Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists and creative thinkers across the Arts and STEM. We discuss their life, work and artistic practice. Winners of Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Pulitzer, Nobel Prize, leaders and public figures share real experiences and offer valuable insights. Notable guests and participating museums and organizations include: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Neil Patrick Harris, Smithsonian, Roxane Gay, Musée Picasso, EAR ...
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Radicals in Conversation is a monthly podcast from Pluto Press, one of the world’s leading independent, radical publishers. Every month we sit down with leading campaigners, authors and academics to bring you in-depth conversations and radical perspectives on the issues that matter the most.
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The podcast about anything and everything controversial or avoided.From identity, politics and feminism, to travel, technology and sexuality, India chats with guests to discuss the topics that influence their lives. Talking about things that are important to them, they aim to have meaningful conversations around subjects that are sometimes controversial, avoided or that even go completely unconsidered in the world of today.
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We know the wait was long, but we're back with Season 3 of Intersectional Feminism—Desi Style! Last season, we spoke about everything pop culture and feminism, and now, in Season 3, we are back with brand new, exciting guests and conversations. This season looks to explore the nuances of gender in the workplace and will feature women/trans and queer individuals from different fields like journalism, politics, social work, sports, business and so much more. Join our hosts Sukanya and Shriya a ...
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All About Now is a podcast channel that hosts conversations that matter most in the world today. From politics and society to culture and everything in between. Our hosts and guests bring in varied perspectives to the table, making All About Now the go-to source for anyone looking to stay informed and entertained. Whether you're a news junkie or just looking for a new hot take on current events, All About Now by IVM Podcasts is the place for you. So tune in, stay informed, and join the conve ...
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BodhiCommons is a left and progressive bilingual website in English and Malayalam. This podcast is a collection of lectures and talks on various topics like Marxian Political Economy, Feminism, Politics of India and Kerala, organised by BodhiCommons during the Corona lockdown in 2020.
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Welcome to What's a Man? Masculinity in India podcast with your host, Deepa Narayan, an award-winning writer, and researcher, as she explores what it means to be a man today. The series explores power and love in different aspects of men’s lives in homes, schools, and offices. Listen to the responses of some of the 200 educated middle and upper-class boys as young as 7-years old and men across the LGBTQIA + spectrum in Delhi, Mumbai, and other cities with special guests in each episode. Thes ...
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Desi Outsiders

Desi Outsiders

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A podcast by two young Indian women who want to be the voice of reason that fails to be heard in certain Indian households. The podcast is designed to bring meaningful conversations on relationships, dating, education, and feminism into Indian homes. Meenal is an Indian who was raised outside of India in a very traditional Indian household while Ankita was raised in India in a more liberal household. So when these two girls get together, the conversation gets rolling.
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Unlike a Lady

Devishi Sabharwal

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In a society that tells women to sit, talk, walk & live in a manner it defines as ‘ladylike’- (Un)like a Lady is a podcast celebrating the journey of Indian women for who they are beyond these countless expectations. Through first-hand experiences of empowering women from all walks of life, we wish to understand feminism in India in its true sense & seek inspiration from how women continue to defy the existing gender norms of Indian society. Follow us on social media to reach out or leave a ...
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PodCast Buzz

Mohammad Sakhaoat Hosain

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Welcome to PodCast Buzz!! We provide podcasts on stress management, skill's management, theory, motivation, educational training, feminism, and news of the world. PodCast Buzz has a vision to promote research based knowledge to the world.
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Success Gyan is India’s Leading Platform for Personal & Professional Development. Our Mission is to Inspire, Educate & Empower 100 Million People to Become the Best Version of Themselves in Every Area of their Lives Through Our Life-Transforming Education. Success Gyan Podcast has been curated to empower people with world-class content from the World’s best Teachers and Trainers. We believe in Holistic Growth and every Topic is designed in such a way that it helps you master all areas of you ...
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Welcome to A Girl’s Guide to Travelling Alone! I’m Gemma Thompson and I’ve been happily travelling solo since 2002. From weekend breaks, to planning epic round-the-world trips, I’m here to help, with practical tips and advice on topics such as how to stay safe, how to decide where to go, how to avoid Delhi Belly and how to plan a worry free trip. I’ll be interviewing some amazing guests such as Wanderlust Magazine’s resident medic Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth, adventure traveller Dave Cornthwaite ...
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This multi-award-winning South Asian feminist podcast is all about cultural taboos. Everything from sex, sexuality, periods, menopause, porn, mental health, shame, sexual harassment & more. Considered the biggest South Asian feminist podcast representing the voices & views of South Asian women, exploring intersectional feminism from a South Asian lens, Masala Podcast features some of the world's most inspiring South Asian women. Masala Podcast is the winner of multiple British Podcast Awards ...
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So Skewed

Surabhi Chatterjee

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So Skewed is a podcast exploring why we think the way we do about gender, sex and other adjacent topics. In season 1, we are rethinking prostitution; exploring the discourses that make prostitution illegal (and uncomfortable) and countering them with sex worker views. This podcast is created and hosted by Surabhi Chatterjee. The audio production is by Pruthu Parab. The cover art is designed by Rini Alphonsa Joseph. Find this podcast on X and Instagram at: soskewed Business enquiries/ anythin ...
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S G R knowledge foundation present knowledge serises session and now we are on Podcast to the people in society to interact with such speakers and gain knowledge from their experiences and talks. A small initiative to spread knowledge among.
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The Queer Spectrum

Chara, Alan and Mark

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Exploring the complexities, diversity and less represented parts of the LGBTQ+ spectrum. Three LGBTQ+ activists from different backgrounds invite a wide range of guests to discuss some of the lesser known, and fascinating, parts of the LGBTQ+ world, focusing on how they intersect with a diverse range of other identities such as race, neurodiversity, nationality, faith and more...
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In this episode on Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu and Azeezah Kanji talk with scholar Angana Chatterji and journalist Siddhartha Deb. For decades, they have exposed the violence and fascism lying behind the mythology of India as the world’s largest democracy. In the wake of India’s most recent elections, in which the far …
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San Francisco began its American life as a city largely made up of transient men, arriving from afar to participate in the gold rush and various attendant enterprises. This large population of men on the move made the new and booming city a hub of what "respectable" easterners considered vice: drinking, gambling, and sex work, among other activitie…
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Throughout US history, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have been pathologized, victimized, and criminalized. Reports of lynching, burning, or murdering of LGBTQ people have been documented for centuries. Prior to the 1970s, LGBTQ people were deemed as having psychological disorders and subsequently subject to electrosh…
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“The fact is you've got a lot of industrial and political muscle now coming behind clean energy, especially from China, which is the leading country deploying wind energy, the leading country deploying solar, and the leading manufacturer and user of electric vehicles by miles. As one recent report put it, ‘We have petrostates in the world. China is…
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This week, we discuss 'Hot Rodent Men', standards and cultural perceptions around male beauty and why we inevitably categorise people into cookie cutter templates on the Internet. Respectfully Disagree is The Swaddle Team’s very own podcast series, in which we get together to discuss and dissect the issues we passionately differ on.Credits:Featurin…
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How and when will we transition to a clean energy future? How will the transition empower individuals and transform global power dynamics? How did China become the world’s first electrostate, leading the drive for renewable energy, and what can we learn from this? Richard Black spent 15 years as a science and environment correspondent for the BBC W…
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In her new segment BROAD OPINIONS, Sara brings us her hot take on what the news media is calling "Biden's Disastrous Debate Performance", how we should feel about it, and what we should do about it with t-minus 4 months until the election. HINT: It's not the take you might think it'll be. PLUS! Sara brings compelling real-time data on the impact tr…
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Today I talked to Avgi Saketopoulou about her book Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (NYU Press, 2023). My conversation with Dr. Saketopoulou begins in the clinic “one of the most scary and difficult places one can find oneself in” she says because it is in the consulting room that sometimes things “become traumatic for the first…
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The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs opened the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The founding of this facility, and the clinical provision of contraception that it enabled, marked the moment when physicians started to take the prevention of pregnancy seriously as a medical concern. In Contracep…
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In the 1990s, India's mediascape saw the efflorescence of edgy soft-porn films in the Malayalam-speaking state of Kerala. In Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India (U California Press, 2024), Darshana Sreedhar Mini examines the local and transnational influences that shaped Malayalam soft-porn cinema—such as vernacular pulp fic…
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On to sex worker views! Sex worker inputs to feminism feel more radical than mainstream feminism that continues to be a bit weird around sex. The anti-prostitution camp’s ‘concerns’ around sex work continues to be the ‘sex’ (so let’s talk about it) when it should be the ‘work’ (so let’s talk about it). What is it about women and sex that bothers th…
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“As a filmmaker, I've always made films about extraordinary women whose lives are faced with extenuating circumstances who've had adversity thrown at them and who've risen to the occasion. And when I began to look at Diane's story, for me, Diane is a fashion designer, but she's so much more. Her central ethos is woman before fashion, and we felt it…
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This week, we are joined by Ayesha Parikh, curator and founder of Art and Charlie, to discuss artistic freedom, the workings of the art world, and the internet culture of today that’s shaping our views of what art may be.Respectfully Disagree is The Swaddle Team’s very own podcast series, in which we get together to discuss and dissect the issues w…
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Join us in the segment, Women at Work of the Superwomaniya Show ft. Eisha Chopra where she shares her experience of writing for the movie ‘Do aur Do Pyaar’. She shares little details about how the story of ‘Do aur Do Pyaar’ came to be. Eisha Chopra with RJ Stutee talk about women being independent and confident. You can’t miss this exclusive interv…
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Since the age of 10, when she receives her first bicycle, Dervla Murphy dreams of pedaling all the way to India, but her travel plans are put on hold when she becomes caretaker of her mother at just 14 years old. This doesn't stop Dervla from dreaming, though, and when she is released from her caretaker duties 16 years later, her trip to India beco…
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How can we free ourselves from fear and social barriers to live more fulfilling and meaningful lives? What does it take to overcome trauma and turn it into triumph, and failure into reinvention? How can we shine a light on the marginalized and misunderstood to create social change that transforms the lives of women? Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is an Osca…
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“I would like to preserve a real sense of empathy and humility, which comes with understanding that the world is messy, that people are messy, that defects and imperfections exist, that things don't always necessarily kind of go the way you want, even as much as you wish they could. Imperfection is part of life and I guess my concern is that AI-gen…
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How is artificial intelligence redefining our perception of reality and truth? Can AI be creative? And how is it changing art and innovation? Does AI-generated perfection detach us from reality and genuine human connection? Henry Ajder is an advisor, speaker, and broadcaster working at the frontier of the generative AI and the synthetic media revol…
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This week, we are joined by Priyanka Mattoo, filmmaker and writer of the upcoming memoir Bird Milk and Mosquito Bones, to discuss diaspora identity, the rise of indie-desi films, Payal Kapadia's win at Cannes, and mainstream South Asian representation. Respectfully Disagree is The Swaddle Team’s very own podcast series, in which we get together to …
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This week, Sara sheds some light on The Invisible Battalion! While Ukrainian women have been defending their country on the front lines for decades, it wasn't until 2018 that they were actually allowed to serve in combat ranks, thanks, in large part, to a massive campaign known as "The Invisible Battalion," led by the NGO Institute of Gender Progra…
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How can we show more kindness, respect, and love to the animals we share this planet with? What lessons can we learn from non-human animals about living in greater harmony with nature? Ingrid Newkirk is the Founder and President of PETA, actively leading the organization and advocating for animal rights. PETA is the largest animal rights organizati…
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This week, we intellectualise and gossip about the latest pop culture phenomenon, Bridgerton. We discuss #polin, the Sharma sisters outfits, and how much we love Nicola Coughlan.Respectfully Disagree is The Swaddle Team’s very own podcast series, in which we get together to discuss and dissect the issues we passionately differ on.Credits:Featuring:…
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In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liutalks with acclaimed author and activist, and San Francisco legend, Chris Carlsson about his new novel, When Shells Crumble. It begins in December 2024, when the US Supreme Court nullifies the popular vote in the Presidential election and awards the presidency to an aut…
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Cornelia Sorabji dreamt long and hard about becoming a lawyer, even though in India in the late 1800's women were just barely allowed to go to University at all, and were NOT permitted to law school or the court system as a whole. Born into a progressive, education-minded family, though, Cornelia was not deterred by these archaic laws - instead she…
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“One thing people don't realize is that the goal of disinformation is not simply to get you to believe a falsehood. It's to demoralize you into giving up on the idea of truth, to polarize us around factual issues, to get us to distrust people who don't believe the same lie. And even if somebody doesn't believe the lie, it can still make them cynica…
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How do we fight for truth and protect democracy in a post-truth world? How does bias affect our understanding of facts? Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and a Senior Advisor for Public Trust in Science at the Aspen Institute. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a Ph.…
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“I think as there is more automation, there is more kind of emphasis on this question of our choice. The story of the development of things tends to be what do humans decide that they care about? In what direction do they want to go? What kind of art do they want to make? What kinds of things do they want to think about? There is in the computation…
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How can computational language help decode the mysteries of nature and the universe? What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work? How will AI affect education, the arts and society? Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist. He is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alp…
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In Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers (Headpress, 2024), Jared Stearns tells the untold story of the world's most famous X-rated star, who rose to fame as the face of Ivory Snow and the star of Behind the Green Door but struggled to find her true self in a world of sex, scandal, and shattered dreams. Marilyn Chambers was the embodimen…
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'Kalki 2898 AD' is getting a lot of buzz. Amid the hype around yet another pan-India affair that really looks a lot like a Telugu film dubbed in other languages, we're re-releasing an older episode in which we're battling out an age-old debate: Tollywood versus Bollywood. We discuss Vijay Dinanath Chauhan, Vijayashanti, and the troubling gender pol…
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Today, Colin A. Borden brings us the tale of Verity Lambert - the founding producer of Doctor Who! As an aspiring young writer and director, Verity kept running into the glass ceiling, being told time and time again that there wasn't any more room for another woman. Verity kept at it, though, and when an accident on set means someone has to step in…
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“There is magic everywhere. There's wonder everywhere. There's wondrous complexity that is so complex, so difficult to conceptualize, to grasp, to articulate that it might as well be magic for all intents and purposes, but we can gradually start to unpick how the tricks are done, how nature learned to do these wonderful tricks. And that's the wonde…
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Is consciousness an illusion? Is it just a complex set of cognitive processes without a central, subjective experience? How can we better integrate philosophy with everyday life and the arts? Keith Frankish is an Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, a Visiting Research Fellow with The Open University, and an Adjunct Prof…
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Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations (Cambridge UP, 2024) is an illuminating account of the cultural, social, and economic history of the sale of 'French sex'. It explores the discourses and experiences surrounding the early twentieth century debate on sex trafficking, which mobilized various international reform mov…
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“We and all living beings thrive by being actors in the planet’s regeneration, a civilizational goal that should commence and never cease. We practiced degeneration as a species and it brought us to the threshold of an unimaginable crisis. To reverse global warming, we need to reverse global degeneration.” Can we really end the climate crisis in on…
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