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Thinking People
By Ketaki Sharma and Sanaya ChandarSociety & Culture
Thinking People episodes
- 2024 in Review: The Year in Pop Fandom
Hosts Ketaki Sharma and Sanaya Chandar unpack pop music fandom in 2024, how fans now feel an outsized sense of ownership over artists and their choices, and how this affects their relationship with the music at the heart of it.
Hosts: Ketaki Sharma, Sanaya Chandar
Artwork: Sripradha Ganesh
Production: Yash Hirave (Instagram | LinkedIn)
Music: Aksheya Chandar (aka The Multiverse Concept)
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1 hr 1 min - 2024 in Review: The Ambani Wedding ft. Chirag Thakkar
In this episode, hosts Ketaki Sharma and Sanaya Chandar dissect the Ambani wedding and its transformation into a major media event in 2024. They explore how the wedding relates to power, privilege, and class dynamics in India, the motivations behind it, and what it reveals about the wedding industrial complex and the space it occupies in the Indian psyche.
Guest: Chirag Thakkar (Associate Publisher, Bloomsbury India)
Hosts: Ketaki Sharma, Sanaya Chandar
Artwork: Sripradha Ganesh
Production: Yash Hirave (Instagram | LinkedIn)
Music: Aksheya Chandar (aka The Multiverse Concept)
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51 min - Bollywood's Crisis of Ideas ft. Swapnil Rai
In this episode, hosts Ketaki Sharma and Sanaya Chandar explore ‘Bollywood’ – the industry, its stars, why it feels like it’s fallen into a crisis of ideas over the past few years, and how an uncertain future for the industry’s megastars might signal major shifts in how we think about it.
Guest: Swapnil Rai (Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor).
Learn More:
Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema by Swapnil Rai
Hosts: Ketaki Sharma, Sanaya Chandar
Artwork: Sripradha Ganesh
Production: Yash Hirave (Instagram | LinkedIn)
Music: Aksheya Chandar (aka The Multiverse Concept)
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Write to us at [email protected]1 hr 12 min - Living in DelhiIn this episode, hosts Ketaki Sharma and Sanaya Chandar explore what it means to live in Delhi, what makes the city what it is (the bad and the good), why people move here, and what, despite all odds, makes them stay.Hosts:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketaki-sharma/,https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanaya-chandar/Artwork:https://www.behance.net/sripradhag873cProduction: Yash Hirave (https://www.instagram.com/yash.hirave_/ |https://www.linkedin.com/in/yash-hirave-a496b8194/)Music: Aksheya Chandar (akahttps://open.spotify.com/artist/6h98IazcNOflNZh8whc88M?si=1t_-GpOiQe2CNXvpGVEcAA)--Follow us on social media:https://twitter.com/DIWTPod |https://www.instagram.com/dudeiwasthinking/ |https://in.linkedin.com/company/dude-i-was-thinkingWrite to us at [email protected]1 hr 10 min
- Love at the Movies ft. Shakuntala Banaji
In this episode, hosts Ketaki Sharma and Sanaya Chandar explore the evolution of rom-coms and the forms of escapism they have traditionally offered, why we love “love stories,” and how these films inform expectations and hopes regarding our relationships. Guest: Shakuntala Banaji (Professor of Media, Culture and Social Change, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Hosts: Ketaki Sharma, Sanaya Chandar
Artwork: Sripradha Ganesh
Production: Yash Hirave (Instagram | LinkedIn)
Music: Aksheya Chandar (aka The Multiverse Concept)
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References:
Movies
- Nachatiram Nagaragiradu (Pa. Ranjith, 2022)
- Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
- Bareily Ki Barfi (Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, 2017)
- Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (Karan Johar, 2023)
- Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996)
- Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (Aditya Chopra, 1995)
- Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (Karan Johar, 1998)
- Silsila (Yash Chopra, 1981)
- You've Got Mail (Nora Ephron, 1998)
- Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
- Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, 1995)
- Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
- Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013)
- 10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger, 1999)
- Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (Mansoor Khan, 1988)
- Bombay (Mani Ratnam, 1995)
- Swades (Ashutosh Gowariker, 2004)
- Sir (Rohena Gera, 2020)
- Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (Karan Johar, 2001)
- The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra, 2013)
- Laapataa Ladies (Kiran Rao, 2024)
- Lipstick Under My Burkha (Alankrita Shrivastava, 2017)
- Fire (Deepa Mehta, 1996)
- Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (Anil Sharma, 2001)
- Jab We Met (Imtiaz Ali, 2007)
- Kabir Singh (Sandeep Reddy Vanga, 2019)
Books
- Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
- Reading Bollywood by Shakuntala Banaji (2006)
Television
- The Romantics (Netflix, Smriti Mundhra, 2023)
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1 hr 8 min - The Laundry Basket is Half Full
In this episode, hosts Ketaki Sharma and Sanaya Chandar make sense of the building blocks of an independent life for women in India, from laundry baskets to bank accounts. They talk about how they negotiate desires for independence with the demands it places on them and how being financially independent affects their own perceptions and ambitions for themselves.
Hosts: Ketaki Sharma, Sanaya Chandar
Artwork:Sripradha Ganesh
Production: Yash Hirave (Instagram | LinkedIn)
Music: Aksheya Chandar (aka The Multiverse Concept)
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54 min - Introducing 'Thinking People Podcast'
Thinking People is a podcast that makes sense of how our everyday lives are responding to dynamic shifts in popular media and technology. In each episode, hosts Ketaki Sharma and Sanaya Chandar pause to think about how we live, who we are, and the patterns underlying our sociological and interpersonal relationships.
Life moves fast, tune in to think about it.
4 min - Reading in the Attention Economy ft. Chirag Thakkar
What do streaming content dumps, social media, and erratic attention spans mean for our ability, capacity, and desire to read? In this episode, we discuss how we read in the attention economy and the forms and stories that cut through the noise. Guest: Chirag Thakkar (Commissioning Editor, Penguin Random House India)
‘Spiralling Into’ is DIWTPod’s series in which hosts Ketaki Sharma and Sanaya Chandar spiral down the rabbit hole over emerging pop culture themes in music, TV and film, technology, and society.
**Thinking People Podcast was formerly known as 'Dude, I was thinking...'
Hosts: Ketaki Sharma, Sanaya Chandar
Production: Yash Hirave (Instagram | LinkedIn)
Music: Aksheya Chandar (aka The Multiverse Concept)
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1 hr 12 min - Spiralling into Taylor Swift
Introducing ‘Spiralling Into,’ DIWTPod’s new series in which we spiral down the rabbit hole over emerging pop culture themes in music, TV and film, technology, and society.
This episode dives into all things Taylor Swift—the artist and the celebrity. We explore what it means to be a Swiftie, listening to Taylor Swift in India, and as we always like to ask: what does that say about ourselves?
**Thinking People Podcast was formerly known as 'Dude, I was thinking... (DIWTPod)'
Hosts: Ketaki Sharma, Sanaya Chandar
Production: Yash Hirave (Instagram | LinkedIn)
Music: Aksheya Chandar (aka The Multiverse Concept)
References:
- Taylor Swift Tells Us How She Wrote 'Lover' | Diary of a Song
- Taylor Swift review – pop’s hardest-working star gives Eras tour her all
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56 min - What Does it Mean to Speak English in India? ft. Tara Kapur
A transformed technological landscape has brought English language productions on streaming platforms and mobile applications into Indian pockets. In this episode of 'Dude, I was thinking...,' hosts Ketaki Sharma and Sanaya Chandar explore what it means to speak English in India with guest Tara Kapur (India Marketing Head, Duolingo English Test).
**Thinking People Podcast was formerly known as 'Dude, I was thinking...'
Production: Yash Hirave (Instagram | LinkedIn)
Music: Aksheya Chandar (aka The Multiverse Concept)
References:
Indo-Anglians: The newest and fastest-growing caste in India by Sajith Pai
Eternally Confused and Eager for Love (Netflix)
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Curious and insightful conversations about pop culture, technology, and everyday life. It’s not about finding the answers, but asking the right questions.