Going South
Podcast Description
Welcome to Going South—a podcast that dives deep into the heart of South Asia, exploring its rich cultures, complex histories, and dynamic political landscapes.
Hosted by me, Ria Chakrabarty, Senior Policy Director at Hindus for Human Rights, this podcast is your guide to understanding one of the world’s most diverse and influential regions. In a time when South Asia’s impact on global politics, culture, and economics is growing, Going South invites you to engage with the stories that shape the region and its people.
Each episode brings you conversations with leading voices—historians, journ
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes such as human rights, constitutional issues, cultural narratives, and historical context, with episodes that examine topics like India's shifting political landscapes, the role of grassroots movements, and the implications of ethnonationalism, exemplified by the inaugural episode featuring Aakar Patel discussing the socio-political climate in India.
Welcome to Going South—a podcast that dives deep into the heart of South Asia, exploring its rich cultures, complex histories, and dynamic political landscapes.
Hosted by Ria Chakrabarty, Senior Policy Director at Hindus for Human Rights, this podcast is your guide to understanding one of the world’s most diverse and influential regions. In a time when South Asia’s impact on global politics, culture, and economics is growing, Going South invites you to engage with the stories that shape the region and its people.
In this episode, we speak with journalist Ayushi Kar. We discuss the special intensive revision process in West Bengal, where 9 million voters were deleted from the voter rolls. We delve into the Election Commission of India’s changing goalposts, the message this exercise has sent to India’s Muslims, and what this exercise says about the future of Indian elections. Ayushi brings her extensive experience as one of the first reporters to go to West Bengal to report on this process to provide her insights on this complicated development and how it is affecting West Bengal’s voters just days before legislative assembly elections in the state.
Reading List
Reporters’ Collective work on elections and SIR: “The Electoral Roll Project” – Ayushi Kar, Nitin Sethi, Harshita Manwani, Vishnu Narayan, Gayatri Sapru
Documentaries and short episodes on Bengal elections and election fraud by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
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