EPISODE · Apr 11, 2026 · 21 MIN
The internet tried to cancel Life of Puja. Here's why it backfired
from Casually Obsessed · host Express Audio
She reads Dostoevsky in a tin-roofed house in rural Bengal, speaks English on camera, wears a simple saree and sindoor, and has nearly a million followers. Pujarani Pradhan — known online as Life of Puja — became the unlikely centre of a very revealing storm, one that has exposed the classism lurking inside Indian internet feminism. On this week's Casually Obsessed, Aishwarya, Shruti, and Niharika unpack the controversy, the "choice feminism" debate it ignited, and why punching down always backfires.Watch this podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0RQsJkXJwU&t=8s Hosted by Niharika Nanda, Aishwarya Khosla, and Shruti KaushalProduced by Niharika NandaEdited and mixed by Suresh Pawar
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