In this final episode of our Flash interviews series, we speak to Cameila Dewan, an environmental anthropologist focusing on the anthropology of development and is an Associate Senior Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University, as well as Taran Khan, a journalist and writer, who is the author of Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul, which won the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award and the Tata Literature Live First Book Award for Non-Fiction.

In this Shuddhashar Freevoice Free-thought podcast, we share Flash Interviews with two esteemed scholars: Anthony Kwame Harrison and Andrew Fiala, both regular contributors to our magazine. They speak to Ella Harris Perin, Shuddhashar FreeVoice’s Oslo Scholars Intern.

Anthony Kwame Harrison is a writer, teacher, skier, and Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech. His article The Inconvenience of Black America featured in our Identity issue.

Andrew Fiala is Professor of Philosophy and Founding Director of the Ethics Center at California State University, Fresno. His latest contribution to our magazine is titled Imagining a Pragmatic Post-Identitarian Peace, which featured in our Identity issue.

In this Shuddhashar Free-thought podcast, we share Flash Interviews with three esteemed writers. Kaniqua Robinson, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Furman University, wrote ⁠‘Except as a Punishment for Crime’: Black Labor and the US Criminal Justice System⁠ for issue 39, Labour. Karthick Ram Manoharan, faculty at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, most recently published  ⁠Fanon at 100: Some Reflections on Decolonization in ⁠Issue 43, Identity. Kylie Fisher, Assistant Professor of Art, Furman University, contributed ⁠Curation as Storytelling and Advocacy⁠ to Issue 42, Curated. 

Ella Harris Perin, Shuddhashar FreeVoice’s Oslo Scholars Intern is moderator. Ella’s most recent article was published in Issue 44, Youth: ⁠Resisting Historical Isolation: The Importance of Archival Research⁠.

In this special episode of the Shuddhashar Free-thought podcast, we focus on the theme of our November 2022 issue, Cultural Genocide. Joined by contributors Esther Brito and Henrik Kjellmo Larsen, PhD researchers at the American University School of International Service and Monash University in Australia, respectively, we attempt to deconstruct and walk through the evolution of cultural genocide in the 21st century.

In this episode of the Shuddhashar Free-thought Podcast, Sofia Karim, an architect, campaigner for prisoners of conscience and founder of the Turbine Bagh project, an art movement borne against fascism and authoritarianism in Bangladesh and India. Karim sheds light on the sytematically censored stories of enforced disappearances, incarceration, and the war on information by the authoritarian regimes in South Asia.

In this episode of Shuddhashar Free-thought Podcast, we discuss the history of race relations and prejudice, the role of NGOs in contentious politics, and Europe since the Syrian refugee crises of 2015. Our guest is Henrik Kjellmo Larsen, a PhD researcher on humanitarian volunteers at Monash University.

Ramon Lee, a passionate activist, poet, and community organizer, joins the Shuddhashar Free-Thought Podcast in this episode to provide some great insights into his political poetry and experiences with spoken word poetry. Ramon also delves into racial politics, the current political atmosphere in the United States, and the value and significance of poetry for African American culture and history.

In this episode of the Shuddhashar Free-Thought Podcast, Marta Breen, a Norwegian journalist, and nonfiction author whose work focuses primarily on women empowerment and women’s issues, joins the podcast as a valuable contributor to an important discussion about feminism, women’s issues, the male gaze, and more.

In this episode of the Shuddhashar Freethought Podcast, Kasia Paprocki, an associate professor from the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, offers an eye-opening perspective on the climate crisis. Paprocki discusses the process of authoring her recently released book, Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh, and her article titled, The Climate Crisis is a Colonial Crisis, featured in Shuddhashar's 26th issue on the Climate Crisis.

In this episode of the Shuddhashar Free-Thought Podcast, Sibusiso Hlubi, a valued worker in ICT for government foreign affairs and foreign embassies, joins the podcast as a valuable contributor to an important discussion about South Africa's various responses to the coronavirus pandemic, travel bans imposed on South Africa, and vaccine apartheid.