Join Sid and Sj as they take us through a journey of how our understanding of alcohol and other substances are formed from what we witness in and around family environments and how has the wisdom from witnessing led them to think about their own practices as it pertains to organizing in queer spaces as well as having fun, coping in stressful environments. The conversation then gives insight into setting boundaries while parallely understanding the structural injustices that come in the way and the importance of having these conversations moving away from labels and judgements. 

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More about Season 3

Since S1 E9: Cheers, we have been thinking about harm reduction practices in our community. And along with these podcast episodes we bring to you titled:

सगँ-सगै: Harm Reduction as a care practice

A harm reduction chapbook for queer people in Kathmandu

Lovingly, for queer folks, by queer folks.

Harm reduction · Substance use · Community care · 

Read, share from here: https://www.utarchadhav.com/library

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Season 3 edited, mastered and mixed by Saru

Produced by Sj and raji

Episode art: raji 

Utar Chadhav logo and elements art: Supriya

Sober Curious zine art: manantuna

सगँ-सगै: Harm Reduction as a care practice

chap book created by Sj and raji

design by Sj

thank you irina and rajan for your continued support

यो एपिसोडमा, हाम्रो cultural practices हरुले substances संगको सम्बन्धलाई के कस्ता असर पार्छन् र हानी न्युनिकरणले यी सम्बन्धहरुलाई केलाउने, पहिल्याउने के कस्ता अवसरहरुको वातावरण शृजना गर्नसक्छन् र यी कुराहरुमा हाम्रो शरीरमा रहेको ज्ञानलाई किन महत्व दिनु पर्छ भन्ने वरपर रहेर कुरा हुँदैछ। Listen to “mature”millennials Ujjwala and raji talk about their own journeys of understanding their lineage of how they were guided to engage with substances and what feels affirming and what needs to be discarded. The conversation centers the importance of sensorial journeys connected to culture, class and caste intersections. And most urgently the importance of rituals and slowing down in this increasingly disorienting world. 

Listen with your loved ones and we hope it resonates with you to create fun embodied rituals involving your senses that center fun, whimsy and wellbeing. 

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More about Season 3

Since S1 E9: Cheers, we have been thinking about harm reduction practices in our community. And along with these podcast episodes we bring to you titled:

सगँ-सगै: Harm Reduction as a care practice

A harm reduction chapbook for queer people in Kathmandu

Lovingly, for queer folks, by queer folks.

Harm reduction · Substance use · Community care · 

Read, share from here: https://www.utarchadhav.com/library

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Season 3 edited, mastered and mixed by Saru

Produced by Sj and raji

Episode art: raji 

Utar Chadhav logo and elements art: Supriya

Sober Curious zine art: manantuna

सगँ-सगै: Harm Reduction as a care practice

chap book created by Sj and raji

design by Sj

thank you irina and rajan for your continued support

आजको कुराकानीमा Saf र Sj ले queerness तथा हानी न्युनिकरणको अन्तरसम्बन्ध के के होला, activism को स्पेसहरुमा हुने explorations, friendships, networking मा substancesहरु कसरी आइरहेका छन् र यी बिषय बारे कुरा गर्न कहाँ र कहिले सहज र गा-हो छ भन्ने छलफल गर्नु हुँदैछ।In this conversation Saf and Sj deep dive into the everyday reality of queer folks and how they have witnessed harm reduction in practice living interdependent lives. As ideas about us, through stereotypes, burden us, the conversation unpacks how to reduce shame, how to challenge binary mindset, and to identify the structural injustices emphasizing everyday acts of collective care even more important and urgent. 

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More about Season 3

Since S1 E9: Cheers, we have been thinking about harm reduction practices in our community. And along with these podcast episodes we bring to you titled:

सगँ-सगै: Harm Reduction as a care practice

A harm reduction chapbook for queer people in Kathmandu

Lovingly, for queer folks, by queer folks.

Harm reduction · Substance use · Community care · 

Read, share from here: https://www.utarchadhav.com/library

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Season 3 edited, mastered and mixed by Saru

Produced by Sj and raji

Episode art: raji 

Utar Chadhav logo and elements art: Supriya

Sober Curious zine art: manantuna

सगँ-सगै: Harm Reduction as a care practice

chap book created by Sj and raji

design by Sj

thank you irina and rajan for your continued support

Fit in हुने प्रेसर भनेको के होला? हाम्रो हुर्काइ र त्यस वातावरणले हाम्रो substancesहरु संगको सम्बन्धमा के कस्तो प्रभाव पार्छ? Pramila and Sj bring us a nuanced and often retrospective conversation full of care and a deep understanding of taking your own stance while making space for the decisions our friends and loved ones make for themselves. Then to witness and notice is harm reduction in practice. Listen with your loved ones and let us know what stood out for you and where it transported you in your own journey of negotiating how to engage with as well as be around substances, create boundaries and in the process, discover yourself again and again. 

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More about Season 3

Since S1 E9: Cheers, we have been thinking about harm reduction practices in our community. And along with these podcast episodes we bring to you titled:

सगँ-सगै: Harm Reduction as a care practice

A harm reduction chapbook for queer people in Kathmandu

Lovingly, for queer folks, by queer folks.

Harm reduction · Substance use · Community care · 

Read, share from here: https://www.utarchadhav.com/library

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Season 3 edited, mastered and mixed by Saru

Produced by Sj and raji

Episode art: raji 

Utar Chadhav logo and elements art: Supriya

Sober Curious zine art: manantuna

सगँ-सगै: Harm Reduction as a care practice

chap book created by Sj and raji

design by Sj

thank you irina and rajan for your continued support

हाम्रा बानीहरु राम्रा नराम्रा भन्दा पनि जीवनका उतार चढाव संग जोडिएका हुन्छन्। आउनुस् साथीहरु सुनौ प्रतिक र राजीको कुराकानी तेस्रो सिजनको दोस्रो प्रस्तुती अनुभवको फराकिलो चौतारीमा भारी बिसाएर….

The second episode of this season is a conversation between Pratiik and raji talking about many entry points to the conversation of harm reduction in our day to day lives, and how it weaves into our relationships in our communities. Listen with care and with your loved ones. We hope this conversation will resonate with you and help you imagine the joy, pleasure and accountability practices embedded in harm reduction, moving away from the judgements of what is good and bad.

Go to https://www.utarchadhav.com/pim-ki-napim to access season 3 episode 2 and all our previous seasons! Also available where ever you get your podcast.And as always listen and read with loved ones!

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More about Season 3Since S1 E9: Cheers, we have been thinking about harm reduction practices in our community. And along with these podcast episodes we bring to you titled:सगँ-सगै: Harm Reduction as a care practiceA harm reduction chapbook for queer people in KathmanduLovingly, for queer folks, by queer folks.Harm reduction · Substance use · Community care · Read, share from here: https://www.utarchadhav.com/library

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Season 3 edited, mastered and mixed by Saru

Produced by Sj and raji

Episode art: raji

Utar Chadhav logo and elements art: Supriya

Sober Curious zine art: manantuna

सगँ-सगै: Harm Reduction as a care practice

chap book created by Sj and raji

design by Sj

thank you irina and rajan for your continued support

#harmreduction #utarchadhav #harmreductionascarepractice

We bring you our Teaser फुरुन्दाना Mix Episode 1 that will give you a taste of whats to come this season as we have 6 amazing episodes lined up for you. Its been a transformative journey and लड्दै, पढ्दै, सुन्दै, सिक्दै र समिक्षा गर्दै, we are very excited for you to discover this season 3, witness all the stories and continue the conversation.

ल यति भन्दै, here we go! 

Also, do you know about our harm reduction chap book. We created it along side thse episodes as a companion. Visit our website www.utarchadhav.com to access it and all our previous seasons and episodes.

And as always listen and read with loved ones!

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More about Season 3

Since S1 E9: Cheers, we have been thinking about harm reduction practices in our community. And along with these podcast episodes we bring to you:

सगँ-सगै: Harm Reduction as a care practice

A harm reduction chapbook for queer people in Kathmandu

Lovingly, for queer folks, by queer folks.

Harm reduction · Substance use · Community care · 

Read, share from here: Read, share from here: https://www.utarchadhav.com/library

~Navigating the Ups and Downs of Life~ Utar Chadhav

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Season 3 edited, mastered and mixed by Saru

Produced by Sj and raji

Episode art: raji

Utar Chadhav logo and elements art: Supriya

Sober Curious zine art: manantuna

thank you irina and rajan for your continued support

Continue the gentle roller coaster ride with Fareed and raji in the second half of their conversation as they talk about their pleasure explorations, non-normative rhythms and the mixed bag of emotions that comes along with creating archives of their own experiences of pleasure, inspiration and joy. They converse about what archiving pleasure and inspiration stories mean to Utar Chadhav and its many possibilities. They laugh, reminisce and of course talk about movies!

Listen to the full episode here:

Co-Hosts: Fareed and raji

Production, Audio, Mixing: SJ

Art: Fareed and raji

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This season we are diving into conversations on pleasure and inspiration. We are excited to show you the process of how different conversations become one complete episode. 

Join us as we bring to you raw snippets with a lot of ummm-hmmm you would otherwise not hear from our conversations, straight from our new studio space for your auditory pleasure.

Follow @UtarChadhav on social media for more information:Website: ⁠www.utarchadhav.com⁠/

Come join this gentle rollercoaster ride along with fareed and raji as they talk about pleasure and liberation, community and inspiration. They bring in stories from their lives, touching upon intimacy, vulnerability, and how the movies factor into all of this [there's a not-so-secret watch list in their chat! Has a movie stayed with you so long that it inspires you?].

Fareed and Raji celebrate and struggle with the stories about pleasure expressed in places like the movies that shape how they feel joy, how they feel safe, how they connect with themselves and others, and how they find the root (or is it the route?) to their magnetism.

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This season we are diving into conversations on pleasure and inspiration. We are excited to show you the process of how different conversations become one complete episode. 

Join us as we bring to you raw snippets with a lot of ummm-hmmm you would otherwise not hear from our conversations, straight from our new studio space for your auditory pleasure.

Co-Hosts: fareed and raji

Production, Audio, Mixing: raji

Follow @UtarChadhav on social media for more information:
Website: www.utarchadhav.com/

Has this hot weather, humidity and rainy season got you feeling static? Fret not, you are not alone in this feeling. The unpredictable weather and even more uncertain world scenario has us feeling down too. In these trying times, words of inspiration and little pockets of joy mean so much, don’t they? Luckily, we have just the thing for you! We have recently had the privilege of hosting conversation with  little bursts of inspirations who inspired us with their sometimes deep, sometimes random, and sometimes uniquely wise words. 

Talking to Prabodhi and Sadish has helped us make space for young voices to talk​​ about what gives them pleasure, joy, and inspiration to move about and how they experience life. This reflection has also inspired us to listen to not just the youngsters around us but also the inner child within us. 

Sit back, tune in and invite the child within you to ponder upon the simpler things of life and watch as the magic unfolds~ 

#innerchild #favouritethings #utarchadhav #mentalhealthmatters

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This season we are diving into conversations on pleasure and inspiration. We are excited to show you the process of how different conversations become one complete episode. 

Join us as we bring to you raw snippets with a lot of ummm-hmmm you would otherwise not hear from our conversations, straight from our new studio space for your auditory pleasure.

Co-Hosts: prabodhi, sadish, raji and sj

Production, Audio, Mixing: Sj

Follow @UtarChadhav on social media for more information:

Website: www.utarchadhav.com/

eric and raji met in the summer of 2009 at a party. For raji meeting eric changed the course of their life. eric brought an intentionality that raji always craved for. They started having candid conversations about pleasure and desire. Last year raji asked eric if he would want to record a conversation about pleasure and inspiration the next time they met. 

And so in May of 2025, they went camping and recorded this conversation over the course of two days. 

What does infusing joy and intentionality in our day to day lives, in our relationships look like? What does the journey look like and what does looking back at our younger selves, teach us and/or remind us about what we have always valued? How do we discern purpose that is imposed on us vs. purpose that grows from learning from experiences and influences we are open to?

Here’s to the joys of loitering and time traveling!

Let us know where this conversation transports you in your own journey. Listen with a friend, and engage with these questions:

Who taught you how to have fun? What is your pleasure lineage? (borrowed from Pleasure Activism by amb). 

Something you used to believe about pleasure and desire that doesn’t serve you any more? (borrowed from we are not really strangers XXX)

What does sober joy look like when we are talking about pleasure?

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This season we are diving into conversations on pleasure and inspiration. We are excited to show you the process of how different conversations become one complete episode. 

Join us as we bring to you raw snippets with a lot of ummm-hmmm you would otherwise not hear from our conversations, straight from our new studio space for your auditory pleasure.

Co-Hosts: eric and raji

Production, Audio, Mixing: raji and Saru

Follow @UtarChadhav on social media for more information:

www.utarchadhav.com/jabwemet