The Yodakin Podcast

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The Yodakin Podcast episodes

  • In conversation with Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky
    In this episode, Arpita Das, publisher and founder of Yoda Press, is in discussion with Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky about her book, The Women's War: A Female Soldier’s Account of Her Time in Afghanistan. The book narrates the gripping true story of Riebnitzsky's tours to the Helmand Province in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2009. There she comes into contact with the Afghan women who are fighting against oppression, domestic violence and the horror regime of the Taliban, and together they initiate a covert collaboration. The women receive the necessary aid to establish dressmaking rooms, beauty salons, chicken farms and other projects while being aware of the fact that the international military forces are their only chance to get rid of the Taliban. 
    Das and Riebnitzsky discuss how this book emerged out of the friendships built by a soldier with Afghan women who helped the international military forces in unexpected ways. It is a book by a woman in the armed forces about what war does to women, about the looming risk of taking chances in wartime and about grief over fallen friends, but more importantly, it is about how women in one instance found the will to not only survive but to make something out of the terrible conditions that war brings.
    The background score is called 'Ao Ba Aeen Chashman' from Homayoun Sakhi's album The Art of the Afghan Rubab, sourced from afghan123.com.
    35 min
  • In conversation with Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky

    In this episode, Arpita Das, publisher and founder of Yoda Press, discusses Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky's book, The Women's War: A Female Soldier’s Account of Her Time in Afghanistan. The book narrates the gripping true story of Riebnitzsky's tours to the Helmand Province in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2009. There she comes into contact with the Afghan women who are fighting against oppression, domestic violence and the horror regime of the Taliban, and together they initiate a covert collaboration. The women receive the necessary aid to establish dressmaking rooms, beauty salons, chicken farms and other projects while being aware of the fact that the international military forces are their only chance to get rid of the Taliban. 


    Das and Riebnitzsky discuss how this book emerged out of the friendships built by a soldier with Afghan women who helped the international military forces in unexpected ways. It is a book by a woman in the armed forces about what war does to women, about the looming risk of taking chances in wartime and about grief over fallen friends, but more importantly, it is about how women in one instance found the will to not only survive but to make something out of the terrible conditions that war brings. 

    The background score is called 'Ao Ba Aeen Chashman' from Homayoun Sakhi's album The Art of the Afghan Rubab, sourced from afghan123.com. 

    34 min
  • Episode 8: In conversation with Mrinal Pande, Ira Pande and Priyanka Sarkar

    Bhairavi: The Runaway, by Shivani urf Gaura Pant, has been translated from the Hindi for the first time in English by Priyanka Sarkar. On the eve of this book's launch, Arpita Das, founder-publisher of Yoda Press, sits down with Mrinal and Ira Pande, Shivani's daughters and esteemed writers, and with Priyanka Sarkar, to talk about Shivani's process of writing, her inspirations, how she carried the role of a writer in the 1970s and 1980s India and how much of an effect her resilient female characters have on young women even today.  Bhairavi: The Runaway is the first book in the joint imprint of Simon and Schuster India and Yoda Press. 

    1 hr
  • Episode 7: In conversation with Thomas Crowley

    Publisher Arpita Das and author Thomas Crowley discuss his upcoming book, Fractured Forest, Quartzite City and delve deeper into the history and politics surrounding the Ridge in Delhi. In this conversation Crowley not only maps the ancient past of the Ridge but also deciphers the future of this ecological wonder that will ultimately shape the environmental impact it could have on Delhi. 

    36 min
  • Episode 6: In conversation with Bhaswati Ghosh
    Bhaswati Ghosh and Arpita Das sit down to discuss Victory Colony, 1950, Ghosh's debut novel on the aftermath of the Indian Partition. They discuss the inspiration behind the novel, which is set in Calcutta, its deeply resilient protagonist Amala Manna and how history has treated the Partition on the eastern border of India.
    26 min
  • Episode 5: In conversation with Nupur Dhingra Paiva
    Arpita Das and psychotherapist and author Nupur Dhingra Paiva sit down to discuss the effects of lock down across the world due to COVID19. How children are the most affected but are also the most resilient. Nupur Dhingra Paiva also talks about the way children's coping mechanisms have a lot to teach us about how we view our self isolation.Tune in!
    38 min
  • Episode 4: In conversation with Sarah Ladipo Manyika
    On 13th December 2019, Goldsmiths Award nominee, Sarah Ladipo Manyika sat down with Arpita Das, Publisher-Founder of Yoda Press. Their candid conversation over coffee included Sarah's inspiration behind her extraordinary novel, her love for stories that remain untold and most importantly, why she feels that it is the young people of today that grapple most with the anxiety around ageing.
    18 min
  • Episode 3: 'Open Couplets'
    This excerpt is from our book Open Couplets written by Torsa Ghosal. Somewhere in the dingy lanes of north Kolkata, a young girl born to a family of idol-makers learns to carve goddesses with her own hands, a right that her artisan father had reserved for her brother. But, years later, when Ira Chatterjee—a breezy, jet-setting ethnographer born in the same neighbourhood—comes looking for the girl, no one knows where to find her.Elsewhere, in the middle of America, Ira lives with her friend, Fasahat Zaidi, a poet, translator, but mostly, a raconteur extraordinaire from Lucknow. One day Fasahat is reciting ghazals at a bar in a saree, another day he is emailing Ira outlandish tales starring the likes of Mir and Insha. Until one day he goes mysteriously missing and no one can tell what became of him.Determined to find those who nobody remembers, Ira embarks on a labyrinthine journey, a chimera-chasing adventure, only to confront her own state of oblivion.Buy it here -http://yodapress.co.in/open-couplets
    17 min
  • Episode 2: 'Miss Hadd'
    In this episode of The Yodakin Podcast we bring to you Miss Hadd from Padmini Mongia's collection of short stories titled 'Baby Looking Out and Other Stories'. One evening Miss Hadd sits down and tells young children a frightening story---a story that could come true because all her stories are true. All you have to do is look, and see.
    14 min

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The Yodakin Podcast is a larger conversation on and with the books published by Yoda Press and their authors. Visit www.yodapress.co.in.