Podcast: Some Extra Salty Takes on Just About Everything

New Delhi: Launched in November, The Wire’s brand-new podcast series ‘Extra Salty’ is now 5 episodes old. The hosts– academics Amrita Ghosh and Bhakti Shringarpure– dissect a various concern that’s been afflicting them. Ghosh is Assistant Professor of South Asian literature and cultural research studies at the University of Central Florida and the author of Kashmir’s Necropolis: Literary, Cultural and Visual Texts. Shringarpure is an author, editor and innovative director of the Radical Books Collective. She is the author of Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital. “Extra Salty starts where a lot of incomplete discussions route off when you’re with buddies, household or at work. We desired an area to check out subjects that are in the air however may be viewed as too severe, too routine, too silly, too political, too out of favor and hence, typically overlooked. Every episode asks a concern drifting around in the zeitgeist and takes a look at it from all the various angles. Visitors join us to trigger up the argument and include more fuel to the fire. We meddle the individual, political, cultural and intellectual however constantly with a dash of humour and more than simply a pinch of salt. At the end of the day, we’re 2 dissatisfied females who truly delight in additional salty and killjoy handles whatever,” Ghosh and Shringarpure state about why they began this podcast. Far, Extra Salty has actually covered a variety of subjects that were on the hosts’ minds– why the Barbie doll is so popular in South Asia, whether Bollywood has a political program, whether (and how) females can take a trip alone, what Palestine implies for India and what takes place when caste repre
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