THIS EPISODE: The NYT Modern Love essay that made Hindutva twitter explode, why Pakistani Muslims are ruining it for the rest of us, braindead diaspora, the decline of media, how people who have done nothing with their lives suffer from main character syndrome, interfaith relationships, growing up in India as a minority, etc etc etc!

What are NFTs? Do they help or hurt artists? Who is the biggest menace in the Indian music industry? What is the "South Asian music scene"? @AlizaJaanu and guest @tilpa answer these questions and more!

Happy Valentine's Day to all the babes and bums who listen to the podcast! Welcome to our V-day special that is all about MEN. No, not how to GET one. But what are men? How many types are there? What purpose do they serve? We answer pressing questions like "if you had a gun to your head, would you pick a wife guy or a reply guy??" Lots of fun, lots of gender discourse! 

@AlizaJaanu offers up her opinions on the Nidhi Razdan-Harvard phishing scandal saga, getting into what's fishy about this whole phishing thing and answering burning questions like "Is it mean to make fun of her?"

 Then, a software engineer comes on the podcast to talk about how to detect a phishing scam, data privacy, and other important things you should know! Listen and learn. 

Happy 2021, everyone <3

@AlizaJaanu taps into her network of very smart people to bring Kamayani, a writer and researcher on visual culture with a special interest in Hindi cinema, onto Wastefellows to discuss what is on everyone's minds: The Fantastic Lives of Bollywood Wives. Listen to this chaotic recap of the Bollywood wives pilot, as we dive into docusoaps and Reality TV, Bollywood nepotism, and whether Le Bal is the world's greatest scam. 

Wastefellows welcomes special guest @mindunderwear and the two "Agony Aunties" join forces to answer all of your depraved and degenerate questions. Listen to two alpha female Muslim women talk about the study circle epidemic in the country, Hindutva dominatrixes, and what to do when Twitter friendships get too toxic. 

@AlizaJaanu and @DrDang discuss The Print article "What makes Modi’s BJP invincible? The cynicism that India is dead" and David Graeber's (RIP) essay "The Machinery of Hopelessness". We get into shoddy "privilege" discourse, why it is necessary to not present hopelessness as a personal failing, and what it means to feel hopeless in India right now. 

THEN, WHAT YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR! We talk about The Ken Newsletter, what is taught in MBA programs, how MBAs think they can fix every industry, and what people in MBA programs have been telling us! Tag an MBA you know!

Diaspora Gone Wild covers Kamala Harris! We talk about how she MAKES the diaspora GO WILD, South Asian representation in the US, her political career, and most importantly, her storied childhood and family -- like her walks in Besant Nagar with her freedom-fighter grandfather and his revolutionary friends. We talk about her Jamaican father, Donald Harris, and why no one seems to really be talking about him. All of this and A LOT MORE in this episode about the first Democratic vice presidential nominee of South Asian descent. 

Here is the link to the song we play in the episode. Watch the music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmi6zkWrMME&ab_channel=APInternational

You can listen to the full episode 'Aliza and Shruti Fail The Bechdel Test' on mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/Wastefellowspod/aliza-and-shruti-fail-the-bechdel-test/

@AlizaJaanu and guest Jastej Trudeau (@Sturgeon's_Law) continue their interrogation of Bindy Johal's ascent as a prolific gangster and the events that precipitated his steep downfall. The two detour into the notorious affair between juror Gillian Guess and Johal's accomplice Peter Gill, the cultural framing of Bindy Johal through media and film, and why the world desperately needs a definitive Bindy Johal biopic.