Queerness and Storytelling in India

Episode 36 with scholar and writer, Snehashish Das


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Snehashish Das offers a critique of Western universalism and asks "us" to consider why we want to fit Indian icons like Bhimrao Ambedkar and Savitribai Phule into Western categories. They discuss the role of poetry by Kabir as well as interlocutors in their "field" to rethink ideas of gender, queerness, desire and subversion. They makes a case for hope by referring to how Begumpura exists in the present, and shares their thoughts on appropriation.

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