Sudipto Mondal, The News Minute

What's your ism?

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What's your ism is a podcast about ideas and ideologies that claim to liberate the world and somehow always fall short. TNM's Sudipto Mondal and his guests grapple with impressive sounding isms -- Marxism, Feminism, Ambedkarism, religious systems -- and their inherent contradictions. An attempt to understand academics, activists, politicians, artists, rebels and wannabe revolutionaries who are in search of grand unified theories to solve the problems of the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Sudipto Mondal, The News Minute

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Suniti Bhikkuni on caste, gender and Buddhism 01.12.2023 2:51:21

Bhante Suniti Bhikkuni is the founder of India’s first order of ‘Bhikkunis’ or female monks, a small group of committed Ambedkarite Dalit women who are striving to carve out an identity for themselves within the larger anti-caste movement. She talks about the dilemmas of associating with men and identifying with what passes for Navayana or Ambedkarite Buddhism in the country. She also shared insig...

Kavita Krishnan on marxist parties and the feminist cause. 31.10.2023 1:35:07

India's leading feminist voice from a Marxist perspective, Kavita Krishnan, who was also one of the few women to ever enter the powerful politburo of the CPI (ML), speaks about the moral dilemmas of identifying with the formal left in the country. She also delved into the complications in Marxist thought arising out of questions concerning women, Dalits and other groups that have been marginalised...

Suraj Yengde on caste and Christianity 16.10.2023 2:24:27

Global anti-caste scholar and activist Suraj Yegde, who's also a post doctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, speaks about the future of the Ambedkarite anti-caste struggle, woke culture, Rahul Gandhi and the INDIA alliance. He also elaborates his position on the question of categorising Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims under Scheduled Castes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...