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.

"TW: domestic abuse, violence, racism, rape. In this episode of the Shuddhashar Free-Thought Podcast, we speak to therapist and feminist . In our conversation, she dispels the utopian myth about contemporary Sweden by sharing her knowledge on the intersectionality of intimate partner violence, feminism and racism."

On this episode of the Free-Thought Podcast, we speak with Zane Robinson, the Community Programmes Manager and Trans Programme Coordinator at LGBT Foundation. We discuss intersectionality, accessibility, accountability, and self-care in LGBTQ+ activism.

On this Free-Thought Podcast, we speak with Lyla Byers as she reflects on her essay in the Shuddhashar Body Politics issue: https://shuddhashar.com/magazine/issue-24-body-politics/ Lyla is a feminist fat studies scholar and she talks to us about the intersectional concerns around fatphobia in this episode.