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What role did Gen Z play in the popular uprising that led to the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime in the summer of 2024? And what marks have the uprising left on democratic politics in Bangladesh? We discuss these questions with Arild Engelsen Ruud, ... more

Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature: Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation (Routledge, 2025) illuminates individual and collective imaginings of postcolonial Bangladesh. It explores the emergence of Bangladesh as a nation from a... more

This episode features a conversation with Murali Shanmugavelan and Sareeta Amrute about how caste structures IT workspaces and communication infrastructures. We began with their reflections on how they came to scholarship and advocacy on caste. The r... more

In Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas (Duke UP, 2026), Dr. Nikita Kaur Simpson examines the effects of rapid development in the Himalayas on the minds and bodies of the Gaddi people who inhabit them through atte... more

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Asif Iqbal
Author of Bangladesh Anglophone and Vernacular Literature, Cultural Imaginations of a Postcolonial Nation
Routledge
Episode: Asif Iqbal, "Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature: Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation" (Routledge, 2025)
Arild Engelsen Ruud
Co-editor of the special issue on The July 2024 Uprising
University of Oslo
Episode: The Gen Z Revolution in Bangladesh and Its Fallout
Mubashar Hasan
Co-editor of the special issue on The July 2024 Uprising
University of Oslo
Episode: The Gen Z Revolution in Bangladesh and Its Fallout
Ishrat Hossain
Contributor to the collection, researcher
German Institute for Global and Area Studies
Episode: The Gen Z Revolution in Bangladesh and Its Fallout
Murali Shanmugavelan
Data and Society affiliate; Senior Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
Data and Society; SOAS
Episode: Caste and Tech with Murali Shanmugavelan and Sareeta Amrute
Sareeta Amrute
Associate Professor of Strategic Design at Parsons School of Design; Affiliate Faculty of Anthropology at the New School; Principal Researcher at Data and Society
Parsons School of Design; The New School; Data and Society Research Institute
Episode: Caste and Tech with Murali Shanmugavelan and Sareeta Amrute
Nikita Kaur Simpson
Anthropologist and author of Tension, Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas
SOAS, University of London (as described)
Episode: Nikita Kaur Simpson, "Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas" (Duke UP, 2026)
Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra
Author of Veins of Influence: Colonial Sri Lanka in Early Photography and Collections
Center of Southeast Asian Studies, SOAS, University of London
Episode: Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra, "Veins of Influence: Colonial Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in Early Photographs and Collections" (Neptune Publications, 2023)
Satya Shikha Chakraborty
Associate Professor in History at The College of New Jersey
The College of New Jersey
Episode: Satya Shikha Chakraborty, "Colonial Caregivers: Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

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4.6 out of 5 stars from 57 ratings
  • Breadth and depth in an underrepresented (podcast-wise) region

    The podcasts certainly have the format and flare of an academic 1-on-1, but do a major service to those interested in South Asia. There are very few other podcast sources on South Asia that cover the range of topics or dive into them as well as this does.

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The Gen Z Revolution in Bangladesh and Its Fallout
Q: What does the post-uprising election landscape say about the promises of reform and the emergence of new political actors like Jamaat-e-Islami and the right-wing opposition?
The election results show a reconfigured party system with a strong showing by a right-wing Islamist party and a sizeable opposition presence, suggesting that promises of reform may be tested by new political dynamics and the continued influence of security- and governance-centered debates.
The Gen Z Revolution in Bangladesh and Its Fallout
Q: Ishrat, on the topic of 1971 and the War of Liberation, how did students reinterpret the liberation narrative during the uprising and afterwards?
Students did not reject the liberation war outright but reframed it to emphasize equity, human dignity, and social justice, shifting the meaning from a party-line nationalist narrative to a broader, more inclusive idea of liberation that aligned with contemporary democratic aspirations.
Asif Iqbal, "Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature: Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation" (Routledge, 2025)
Q: What do you view as the book's prime intervention?
The book's prime intervention is to bring East Pakistan to life from a literary angle, enabling conversations with political science and history, and showing how literature exposes disjunctures and complexities in events like the 1947 partition and the 1971 war.
Asif Iqbal, "Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature: Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation" (Routledge, 2025)
Q: What is your data? Where do you constitute your argument?
My primary data are novels—Anglophone from the subcontinent and Bengali novels in translation—along with other media and historical documents, with a focus on six chapters each pairing two novels to explore the three historical junctures.
Kalpana Karunakaran, "A Woman of No Consequence: Memory, Letters and Resistance in Madras" (Context, 2026)
Q: What was it like to write about your grandmother as a sociologist versus as a granddaughter?
Writing with academic distance allowed me to present her as a subject of history while still engaging deeply with her life, using first-name references to maintain analytical distance, and to acknowledge the powerful emotional pull of her experiences without letting it overwhelm the scholarly narrative.

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