The Shaktitva Podcast: All about Dharma, Feminism and Decoloniality

The Shaktitva Podcast: All about Dharma, Feminism and Decoloniality

By Neha SrivastavaSociety & Culture
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The Shaktitva Podcast: All about Dharma, Feminism and Decoloniality episodes

  • Ep 3: Israel-Palestine War and the civilizational conflicts that plague the world

    Gurpreet and Neha explore the situation in the Middle East with the Israel-Palestine conflict from the perspective of Hindu women, the shocking reaction to the situation in Western campuses, the popular sentiments in India and more.


    They explore whether "this is what decolonization looks like" and why decolonization looks very different based on the civilizational values being defended.


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      • 56 min
    • Ep 2: Sexual atrocities under 1000yrs of colonial rule and Hindu trans-generational trauma
      South Asian Feminism repeatedly lionizes Mughal rule including faux-feminist takes on the liberation of women in Harems, when the reality was that life for women in colonial rule was stark. Violence against women has been a salient feature of colonialism. We talk about sexual slavery in Harems, Jauhar and the trans-generational trauma of Hindu women from being repeatedly reminded of that history.
      02.15 - Unique Hindu context and it's absence in South Asian feminism
      08.10 - Hindu experience: exploitation of women during invasions and foreign rule.
      17.56 - shortfalls and lack of Bhartiya experience in South Asian Feminism
      20.30 - Hindu Transgenerational trauma and responses. Jauhar.
      37.42 - Colonial excesses and case for decoloniality.
      48.53 - British propaganda to corrupt Hindu identity
      56.20 - Inaction w.r.t factual correction of historical narratives. Glorification of invaders.
      1 hr 9 min
    • Ep 1: Why can't Indian women relate to feminism?

      Gurpreet Chopra and Neha Srivastava discuss their individual journeys and the evolution of their relationship to feminism as it is understood in India, criticisms of mainstream South Asian feminism and an introduction to indigenous Feminism.

      Recommended Books:

      1. The India They Saw - Meenakshi Jain & Sandhya Jain
      2. The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century - Dharampal
      3. Revisiting the Educational Heritage of India - Sahana Singh
        4. 1 hr 7 min

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