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Main Bhi Muslim
by Main Bhi Muslim™
'Main Bhi Muslim' the podcast is a conversational space for individuality and diversity within the context of being an Indian, a Muslim and everything in between. www.mainbhimuslim.com
Episodes
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EP43 - Understanding the psychic lives of Indian Muslims
This MBM conversation is with Dr Zehra Mehdi, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and academic, whose PhD research and writing is focused on examining and understanding the Muslim life “lived as psychic political subjects” in contemporary India. We begin with Zehra’s story being born and raised in...
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EP42 - Redefining the education system & its role in expanding a child’s world
This MBM conversation is with Sabina Fathima, founder of Sunnyside, a K-12 Experiential Learning School in Chennai. Sabina and I talk about her years of growing up within the Indian educational system, where engineering or medical were considered the only two paths to career and professional...
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EP41 - Challenging society's fears & doubts, one hike at a time
This MBM conversation is with 20-year old Zahra Batool Sayeba, a resident of Minjee village near Kargil. Sayeba is an avid hiker but despite growing up in and around Ladakh, hiking or camping in the mountains was not a pursuit that she or her friends undertook, until an off chance with an older...
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EP40 - Paving her own road towards selfhood
This MBM conversation is with Safiya Bano, a resident of Golconda Hyderabad, who is a businesswoman and beneficiary of the non-profit, SAFA’s training and micro-finance initiative. Before being supported by SAFA, Safiya worked relentlessly for 20 years, starting from stitching shirt buttons to...
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EP39 - Charting one's own path & building SAFA
This MBM conversation is with social entrepreneur Rubina Nafees Fatima who is the Founder & Director of Hyderabad-based non-profit SAFA. For nearly 20 years, SAFA has been instrumental in supporting economically and socially marginalised communities in Hyderabad, through education, skill…
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EP38 - Discussing caste-consciousness & inner lives of a community
This MBM conversation is with Aiman Haque, a Delhi based researcher and writer. Through her years of growing up, working and having family across different parts of the country, Aiman shares how language, caste, history and local cultures have shaped her sense of identity and belonging. We…
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EP37 - Examining Muslim representation in post-colonial Hindi cinema
This MBM conversation is with Nadira Khatun, author of the book ‘Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity: Production, Representation, and Reception’. Through this book, Nadira traces the representation of Muslim characters within Hindi cinema in post-partition India, and how the…
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EP36 - Nurturing a resilient future through faith, memory and community
This MBM conversation with Zara Chowdhary, author of the memoir The Lucky Ones - a survivor’s account of the 2002 Gujarat Pogrom. The book is a deeply personal story of Zara and her family whose roots and history are entwined within the soil and soul of the Indian subcontinent, but also the…
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EP35 - Making libraries & learning centres a reality within one's community
This MBM conversation is with Shabnam Nafisa Kalim, a resident of Mustafabad - a predominantly Muslim suburban area in North-east Delhi, where she and her team of volunteers run two libraries to create a learning and educational space for their community. Mashaal Library and Amma’s Library have...
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EP34 - Decoding identity, friendships and freedoms in present times
This MBM conversation is with Nausheen Khan, an independent film-maker based in India, whose documentary Land of My Dreams is a retracing of her journey as an Indian Muslim woman as she covered the Shaheen Bagh protests in 2019-2020. In this conversation, Nausheen shares her introspection around...
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EP33 - The Life of a Kaamdani Artisan
This MBM conversation is with Shabana Bano, a Lucknow-based kaamdani artisan. Kaamdani or Mukaish as its popularly known, is intricate metal-work embroidery which requires skill, talent, time and patience to stitch patterns and designs onto fabric. For more than 15 years, Shabana ji has been…
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EP32 - The roles of AMU and Jamia Millia Islamia in post-partition India
Can a Muslim university be an Indian university? These are the first words in Dr Laurence Gautier’s book Between Nation and ‘Community’ - Muslim Universities & Indian Politics after Partition, in which she explores the history, nature and contribution of India’s leading Muslim universities -...
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EP31 - Writing about family histories and stories that define us
This MBM conversation is with Nusrat Jafri, author of the memoir ‘This Land We Call Home’. In this book, Nusrat traces her maternal history going back to her great grand-father, who was originally part of the Bhantu tribe, and later adopted Christianity as a way to overcome the ostracisation...
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EP30 - 20th cent Hyderabadi Urdu women writers expanding India's feminist literature
This conversation is with Nazia Akhtar, Assistant Professor at the Human Sciences Research Centre, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad and the author of Bibi’s Room: Hyderabadi Women and Twentieth-Century Urdu Prose, in which she has profiled three prolific Hyderabadi…
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[Election Special] Baatein beyond the ballot
What does it mean to be a Muslim woman from Bundelkhand living through its socio-economic and political realities? What are their aspirations and expectations from the upcoming elections? How do they imagine their futures as citizens of this country? These are some questions that Main Bhi Muslim...
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EP28 - Claiming one's voice and space at IIT and beyond
In this episode, MBM’s host Mariyam Haider is in conversation with Risana Rasheed from Kasargod, Kerala, who along with her twin sister, Ramseena, became the first women in their community to clear the JEE advanced, considered one of the toughest entrance exams, to enter the Indian Institute of...
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EP27 - Realising the IIT dream and expanding one's horizons
In this episode, MBM’s host Mariyam Haider is in conversation with Ramseena Rasheed from Kasargod, Kerala, who along with her twin sister, Risana, became the first women in their community to clear Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)-advanced, considered one of the toughest entrance exams, to enter...
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EP26 - Creating safe space for Kerala's queer and other marginalised communities
In this conversation, MBM’s producer and host, Mariyam Haider speaks with Sulfath Laila and Gargi Harithakam, who are the co-founders of Vanaja Collective - that supports and helps couples from Kerala’s queer community, overcome their families’ resistance and find systemic avenues to bring them...
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EP25 - Celebrating Shaheen Bagh and the power of resistance and love
Main Bhi Muslim’s last episode of the year is with the spirited and incredible human being, Sabika Abbas, aka @boltiaurat on Instagram. Sabika is a poet, organiser, SEL educator and story-teller. Her work revolves around issues of gender, minority rights and justice. She performs in public…
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EP24 - Embracing one's gender-fluidity and transness
In this MBM conversation, Mariyam Haider speaks to Zoya who identify as a “They/Them with a She/Her vibe” and defines themselves as a “queer soul with the vibrant hues of a Transwoman, embracing the diverse rhythms of life.” In this episode, Zoya shares their journey exploring gender fluidity…
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EP23 - Reclaiming freedoms, fun and new futures through football
In this conversation, Mariyam Haider is joined by two of Parcham’s footballers and licensed coaches, 21-year old Madina Bi and 19-year old Fatima Shaikh. Mumbra-based, Madina and Fatima share their journeys with football and negotiating with family members to make it part of their lives. While...
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EP22: Unfurling new freedoms through football ⚽
In this conversation, MBM’s Mariyam Haider is joined by Sabah Khan, Co-Founder of Parcham - a Mumbai-based feminist organisation that champions inclusion, diversity and equality within the society. For more than a decade, Parcham has been running a football program that trains girls from...
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EP21: The Life & Legacy of Kannada writer and feminist thinker, Sara Aboobacker
This conversation is between Dr Sabiha Bhoomigowda, retired Vice Chancellor of Karnataka State Women’s Akkamahadevi University, Vijayapura, and scholar Dr Sukanya Kanarally who has kindly interviewed Dr Sabiha on behalf of MBM. Dr Sabiha is a literary critic and was a friend of the late Kannada...
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[IWD Special] Muslim women participation in India's workforce
In this International Women’s Day special episode, MBM’s Mariyam Haider is in conversation with the team at LedBy Foundation - India's first leadership incubator that focuses on the professional development of Muslim women. Deepanjali Lahiri is the Chief Operating Officer and Fatema Chiba is the...
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EP20: Who Belongs Where in India
In this episode, Main Bhi Muslim’s producer and host, Mariyam Haider, speaks with journalist, playwright and award-winning author, Annie Zaidi. Annie has written several books including: City of Incident; Prelude to a Riot; and Bread, Cement, Cactus: A Memoir of Belonging and Dislocation. She is...
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E19 - The Evolution of Muslim Feminism in India
In this episode, Main Bhi Muslim’s producer and host, Mariyam Haider, speaks with Dr Ghazala Jamil - Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Dr Ghazala is the author of Accumulation by Segregation (Oxford University Press…
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E18 - The Life & Contributions of Fatima Sheikh
In this episode, Main Bhi Muslim’s producer and host, Mariyam Haider, speaks with Dr Tahera Shaikh, Pune-based researcher and author who has spent a key part of her research life documenting the lives and contributions of Savitribai Phule and Fatima Sheikh, 19th century India’s social and...
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EP 17 - Muslim women and public spaces in India
In this episode, Main Bhi Muslim’s producer and host, Mariyam Haider, speaks to Sameera Khan, Mumbai-based, independent journalist, researcher and co-author of the critically acclaimed ‘Why Loiter - Women & Risk on Mumbai Streets'. Over the years, Sameera has been a media trainer, guiding...
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S2 E5 - Challenging patriarchy & bigotry, within and outside one's community
In this episode, Main Bhi Muslim’s producer and host, Mariyam Haider, spoke to Nazni Rizvi, Senior Reporter at Khabar Lahariya, India’s only, all-women, feminist, hyper-local, video first news channel, reporting from within the country’s hinterland. In this conversation, Nazni shares her story of...
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S2 E4 - Trans/Muslim/Indian/Doctor Et al.
In this episode, MBM’s producer & host - Mariyam Haider speaks to Dr Aqsa Shaikh, Associate Professor of Community Medicine at the Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, and the first trans woman to head a COVID-19 vaccine centre in India. Their conversation sheds light on Dr Aqsa’s...
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S2 E3 - Comfortably unsettled at 30
In this episode, Sabika and Mariyam share their journeys as 30 year-old, Indian Muslim women. They discuss the challenges that most Indian women face in their 20s - incuding the pressures to get married, having a ‘settled life’, choosing family over career, finding a good ‘Muslim’ guy, and living...
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S2 E2 - New India's Doctrine of Love
In this episode, Mariyam and Sabika virtually sit down with Indian author, columnist and film-maker, Natasha Badhwar to discuss one’s capacity to love amid times of polarisation and hate in a society. Natasha shares her personal learnings from growing up in different parts of India, marrying a...
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S2 E1 - Defining the republic
In this episode, Sabika and Mariyam, meditate over the meaning of ‘republic’ as Indian citizens. They share their experiences of re-looking at the Constitution and what it means to them in light of national civil movements such as the Shaheen Bagh and Farmers Protests. Allow this episode to bring...
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2020 Wrap Up
In the final episode for 2020, Mariyam and Sabika take a walk through the year to share their experience of working on Main Bhi Muslim, living through the fears, joys, challenges, and exhilaration. The artists share their biggest takeaways from MBM and what the new year brings for them. This is a...
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Episode 7 - Happy Muharram
In this episode, Sabika and Mariyam approach Muharram and its significance in a unique way beyond its symbolism of community grieving. They discuss what Muharram means to them, and how would they bring someone into its fold. In essence, Muharram thus becomes an example of solidarity and allyship,...
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Episode 6 - The Shaheen Baghi : Zainab
In this episode, Mariyam and Sabika discuss the historical figure - Zainab bint Ali and her role in inspiring Muslim women leadership. The co-hosts share their understanding of how the Zainab-led storytelling movement resonates with the Shaheen Bagh protests. Listen to this episode to get a…
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Mann Ki Baat - Azadi Special
This Independence Day, Mariyam and Sabika sit with Vandit from Lights Camera Azadi to discuss their relationship with freedom and the Constitution. From secularism and non-violence resistance; to solidarity and dissent as freedom of speech; the hosts share their journeys as Indians in…
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Bakraeid Special
The Eid al Adha or Bakraeid special brings diverse voices from all walks of life share their understanding of the festival. This episode aims to help listeners enquire the cultural, religious and economic contexts of Eid, allowing reason to dispel myth and ignorance. Join Mariyam and Sabika learn...
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Episode 5 - Bye-Bye Stereotypes
In this episode, Sabika is insistent on burning down all the stereotypes that she and Mariyam, have lived and often accepted as Muslims. Come, add all your cardboard cutout-like stereotypical caricatures to this हवन’s robust flame. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with...
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Episode 4 - Dost dost na raha
In this episode, Mariyam takes a leaf out of her father’s lifelong friendship and narrates how it’s strained under the current political climate. She rummages through memories to shed light on their relationship and questions the cost of losing old friends over new politics. This is a public...
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Episode 3 - Ladne Laayak Ladaaii
This episode is a glimpse of Sabika’s journey in Mumbai, searching for the right flatmate, the right landlord and the right flat - a puzzle that never comes together. Amid all, she realises that her identity as a Muslim makes her invisible in every room, and there are more battles to fight than…
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Eid Special
This Eid, Main Bhi Muslim is bringing you a special Eid episode, where Mariyam brings her college friend, Aakriti who shares her experiences of fasting during Ramazan. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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Episode 2 - Aaj Ka Darr Hai, Meri Awaaz
In this episode, Mariyam shares the story of reclaiming her voice by acknowledging the fear of it. She goes down the memory lane to find roots of her voice as an Indian Muslim and ends up finding that courage and fear are closer than one thinks. This is a public episode. If you would like to...
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Episode 1 - Naam Kya Bataayaa
Beginning from this Ramzaan - two co-hosts have resolved to break their long-standing fast, the radio silence around their own Islamophobia - and reclaim their Indian Muslimness. Mariyam Raza Haider and Sabika Muzaffar will take turns telling tales where the personal becomes political. Today,...
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