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SBS Spice
by SBS
SBS Spice breaks new ground with English language content for young Australians of South Asian heritage. We're talking about the things that make you tick or ick with a fresh new look at pop culture, identity, food, sport, history and much more.
Episodes
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The Politics of Being Seen with Kirthana Selvaraj
Can South Asian identity become a trap for South Asian artists? Two-time Archibald finalist Kirthana Selvaraj is challenging the pressure to make cultural identity recognisable and palatable. In her new exhibition, 'In the Half Light', at Sydney's 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, she…
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Why Thousands Want India's Election Chief Out
More than 2,000 detained as thousands protest the reported removal of 130 million names from electoral rolls in the world's largest democracy. India's Election Commission says the exercise is intended to remove duplicate and ineligible voters, while protesters allege it is disenfranchising...
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Why Chicken Curry Defines Joshua Hinton's Identity
What can a pot of chicken curry tell us about where we come from? For theatre-maker Joshua Hinton, it holds generations of family history, from his grandmother’s extraordinary journey across continents to his own experience of growing up brown in Wollongong. In this episode of SBS Spice, Joshua...
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Inside SBS’s The Jury: Can 12 Australians get it right?
Munesh went into SBS series 'The Jury' fascinated by how juries work. He came out questioning whether they are the right way to decide guilt at all. As one of 12 Australians reconsidering a real murder case, he saw how quickly the same evidence can produce completely different interpretations of...
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Can Indian Food Look to Aboriginal Country?
A naan lands on the table, fragrant with saltbush and lemon myrtle. It’s unmistakably Indian, but its flavours draw from Aboriginal food traditions that have existed for thousands of years. Sydney's Indian restaurant Lavendra brings this rare fusion in its new seasonal menu, Cooking with Country....
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EXCLUSIVE: The Untold Australian Stories Behind 'Dil Chahta Hai'
Twenty-five years ago, Dil Chahta Hai brought Aamir Khan, Preity Zinta, Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti to Sydney for a 45-day shoot. There were helicopters, packed streets, late-night takes, missed shots, and a crew working in a way Anupam Sharma says Indian cinema hadn’t seen before....
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Swati Sachdeva on being bisexual, funny and Indian in Australia
Swati Sachdeva is one of the few women in Indian comedy openly talking about being bisexual, but she has no interest in letting that define her work. In Australia for her first tour, Swati speaks with Dilpreet Taggar about being a woman in Indian stand-up, being boxed in after going viral, and…
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Raghav Handa's Love Letter to Sydney
For Raghav Handa, Sydney is a city of show-offs, daredevils, storytellers and people who know how to make a scene. Naturally, he loves it. The Australian-Indian choreographer’s new work, One Song, premieres with Sydney Dance Company and draws on the city that shaped him. But why do South Asians...
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Could You Survive SBS's Alone Australia?
For four seasons, SBS’s Logie-nominated survival series ‘Alone Australia’ has asked contestants what it means to be truly alone, with $250,000 on the line. Now casting its next group of survivors, executive producer Riima Daher tells Suhayla Sharif what it takes to join the hit series, where…
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The Quiet Force of Sikh Australians and the Power of Service
SBS Spice stepped into a night of big wins and even bigger pride at the Australian Sikh Awards of Excellence 2026. Across eight categories, Sikh Australians were celebrated for building businesses, advancing agriculture, serving communities, excelling in sport and the arts, and uplifting women…
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Shamik Chakrabarti on Australian Culture, Astrology and Comedy
Shamik Chakrabarti has quietly become one of India's most distinctive English-language comedians, and while on his Australian tour, he dropped into SBS Spice. Unfortunately for him, Dilpreet Taggar had bigger priorities than comedy. Like astrology, of course. Somehow they do find time to discuss...
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Australian Star Shabana Azeez Leads SBS's Latest Drama
Australia's very own Shabana Azeez has missed the sourdough slices and local coffees since making her mark in American television with 'The Pitt'. She also hasn't forgotten how being on-screen brings new hurdles for South Asian actors. As she prepared for SBS's latest drama 'The Airport Chaplain'...
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The Airport Chaplain on SBS is Australia's Next Big Drama
SBS’s biggest new drama is ready for departure. At the heart of one of Australia’s busiest international airports, 'The Airport Chaplain' brings together the people, languages and lives that keep the country moving. Actor Arka Das joins Dilpreet Taggar to talk about bringing the ambitious series…
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Are Journalists Storytellers? Ft. Jeremy Fernandez and Mridula Amin
Are journalists storytellers? Or are they just agents for storytelling? ABC News presenter Jeremy Fernandez and photojournalist Mridula Amin have broken and captured some of the most powerful stories in Australian media. In this chat with Dilpreet Taggar, they discuss the weight diversity carries...
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The Mind and Making of Marc Fennell
Amongst the black and white of hard journalism, Marc Fennell is magnetised by the grey. Starting as "that movie guy" on SBS to 'Stuff The British Stole' across its many mediums, Marc has built his career on turning stories into adventures. The 'Mastermind' host joins SBS Spice's Suhayla Sharif to...
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Why Are Indians Calling Themselves Cockroaches?
A movement that began as internet satire has exploded into one of the biggest youth-led challenges to Narendra Modi's government in years. Reporting from Delhi, SBS Asia Correspondent Aaron Fernandes joins SBS Spice's Dilpreet Taggar to explain the rise of the Cockroach Janta Party, the NEET exam...
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Wherever Indians Go, Caste Follows ft Kirtika Kain
As Indians become Australia’s largest migrant community, what conversations are we still avoiding? Growing up, Dalit-Australian artist Kirtika Kain hid her caste. Today, she’s one of the few artists in Australia placing it at the centre of her work. Kain joins SBS Spice’s Dilpreet Taggar to…
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There Is No Such Thing As One India
The West loves simple stories about India. Leena Yadav doesn’t. The acclaimed filmmaker behind Parched (2015) and House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths (2021) joins Dilpreet Taggar to dissect where India’s bold feminist cinema has gone and why one of the world’s most complex countries refuses to…
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Ritviz Is Bringing A Very Indian Party To Australia
As Indians become Australia’s largest migrant community, SBS Spice’s Dilpreet Taggar sits down with Indian music star and innovator Ritviz ahead of his Kurta Saree Dance Party, where you must turn up in kurtas and sarees to celebrate music and South Asian culture. For many young South Asians,...
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What Sri Lanka’s Past Still Asks of Us
Drawn from real life testimonies from the Sri Lankan civil war, theatre production 'The Jungle and the Sea' brings one family’s story to Australian stages. Dilpreet speaks with writer and director S. Shakthidharan, and actors Prakash Belawadi and Nadie Kammallaweera, about memory, identity and…
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Why Doesn't Australia See Itself as Part of Asia? ft. Jeff Khan
Australia is part of the Asia-Pacific, so why do we still look to Europe and North America for cultural validation? Dilpreet Taggar sits down with Asia TOPA Creative Director Jeff Khan to discuss Australia's cultural identity and what it would take to truly embrace our place in the region. They...
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Kanan Gill Forgot This Was An Interview
We tried interviewing Kanan Gill. He had other plans. One of India’s finest comedians spends most of this interview doing everything except answering Dilpreet’s questions. Somehow, they still end up talking about why life is weird and whether anyone ever really figures it out. Kanan is bringing…
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Do You Know How To Talk Australians?
Would you know what to do if someone told you to chuck a U-ey, grab your thongs and head to the servo? Australian is a language all of its own. More than a decade after the YouTube series 'How To Talk Australians' went viral, creator Tony Rogers has revived it as a feature film. Stars Robert...
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All Socceroos Are Australians First
Australia is debating multiculturalism. The Socceroos are living it. The SBS Spice girls invite SBS Sport’s soccer guru Seth Jayalth to break down the FIFA World Cup, politics in sport, Australia’s growing obsession with soccer and the legend of “Sex Before Soccer”. Listen wherever you get your...
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Nikita Gill On The Divinity Of Digital Literature
Instapoetry marks a renaissance in the literary world— social media becoming a writer's new pen and paper. Author Nikita Gill has embraced this new chapter whilst also confronting how digital spheres can misconstrue meaningful commentary. As Greek mythology has opened Nikita up to a realm of...
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Can Journalism Bring Us Together? With Indira Naidoo
Indira Naidoo was one of the first South Asian faces Suhayla Sharif saw on Australian television. Decades later, the two sit down for a conversation about identity, journalism, and the changing role of media in an increasingly fragmented world. A pioneering voice across SBS and the ABC, Indira...
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Would You Open Your Door To A Stranger?
Long before migration dominated political debate, Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature, was writing about belonging. More than 130 years later, New Zealand's Indian Ink Theatre Company is bringing his beloved 'Kabuliwala' to the Sydney Opera House and…
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Australia’s Biggest Tamil Star, Dhee
With billions of streams and views to her name, Dhee has become one of the most recognisable voices in contemporary Tamil music. Growing up in Sydney before finding a global audience, the artist behind Enjoy Enjaami and Rowdy Baby Dilpreet Taggar to discuss her latest single, Vari Vari, filming…
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Sydney Film Festival Is More Than Movies
Growing up in apartheid-era South Africa, Nashen Moodley learned early that great stories could come from anywhere. As Festival Director of Sydney Film Festival, he has spent the past fifteen years bringing incredibly compelling cinema to Australians. The festival is back, so Suhayla Sharif sat...
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What If Your Second Chance Hated You?
A Tamil Sri Lankan woman clones herself so the younger version can live out the acting career she never had. Years later, they finally meet. Chenturan Aran’s 'The Supposed To Be' spirals through migrant memory, failed desire, dead mothers, OnlyFans and the fantasy of becoming someone else, ahead…
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Confessions of a Girmitya
To be Indo-Fijian is to carry one of the most extraordinary origin stories in the South Asian diaspora. 147 years ago, Indians were taken to Fiji under Girmit, a British system of indentured labour that severed families and reshaped generations. In this special Girmit Day episode, Suhayla Sharif...
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Satinder Sartaaj Means a Lot to Punjabi Australians. Why?
Satinder Sartaaj is more than a singer to many Punjabi Australians. He is a poet, philosopher and a reminder of home. Fresh off the viral success of his song “Jaiye Sajana” from 'Dhurandhar: The Revenge', Dilpreet Kaur Taggar met Sartaaj backstage before his Heritage Tour concert in Sydney for…
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Figuring It Out In Public with Sashi Perera & Urvi Majumdar
Some things are easier to keep to yourself. Comedians Sashi Perera and Urvi Majumdar don’t. And we're so glad. Ahead of the Sydney Comedy Festival, they join Dilpreet Kaur Taggar to talk about their shows, 'Pear Tree' and 'Miss!'. From identity and family to bad dates and classrooms, this is…
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Every Step, For Him: A Sikh Widow on ANZAC Day
He served two armies before 25. Now his wife marches for him. Born in Punjab in 1948, Sergeant Major Kuldip Singh served both the Indian and Australian armies, marching in Sydney from 2007 until his passing in 2020. His story sits within a longer, often overlooked history of Sikh service in...
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Love in the Age of the Manosphere with Abby Govindan
Comedian Abby Govindan is asking big questions through stand-up: why is dating so broken, what has the internet done to intimacy, and why does tech keep pushing manosphere content? Fresh off a sold-out worldwide tour, she brings 'Pushing 30' to the Sydney Comedy Festival and stops by for an...
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Who Built South Asian Media in Australia
As SBS Spice turns two, we are reflecting on the legacy we stand on. And so, we had to speak to Manpreet Kaur Singh — a Walkley-nominated, multi-award winning journalist who has spent over three decades shaping South Asian media in Australia, from SBS Punjabi in 1993 to now leading SBS South…
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The Great Divide Between South Asian Australians
There’s a gap within the South Asian community in Australia. We don’t talk about it enough. In this episode, Dilpreet and Suhayla unpack the divide between second gen South Asians and new migrants. Why do we love the culture but keep our distance from the people? Who gets included. Who gets...
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The Offbeat Revolution of a Sari
The sari has never stood still. From the Indian independence movement to the Met Gala, it has carried politics, power and reinvention across generations. As 'The Offbeat Sari', a global exhibition exploring the contemporary sari, arrives in Australia curator Priya Khanchandani joins Suhayla…
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Elsewhere In India | Can you rebuild culture in a club?
The year is 2079. India survives only in memory. Digital artist Avinash Kumar (Thiruda) and sound designer Sri Rama Murthy (Murthovic) invite you into a one-night simulation to rebuild it. Would you step in? ‘Elsewhere In India’ drops Australian clubgoers into a collision of electronica, Indian...
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Raw Mango is holding India, without freezing it
From Kolhapuris on global runways to Indian craft shaping luxury, fashion is looking to India. But is it understanding it? Sanjay Garg has reimagined the sari through his label Raw Mango, moving beyond ornament and towards intention. Currently touring Australia, he speaks with Dilpreet Kaur…
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What Australia’s porn crackdown can’t fix
Aditya Gautam was addicted to porn. As Australia rolls out new laws requiring age checks to access online adult content, the India-born comedian speaks to Dilpreet Taggar about how porn became his sex education and how digital desire reshaped his expectations of intimacy, relationships and...
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The Unfinished Work of Feminism
Shocking new research suggests one in three Gen Z men believe wives should obey their husbands. Are we moving forward or quietly going backwards? Dilpreet Kaur Taggar and Suhayla Sharif unpack feminism, financial independence and the battles a single International Women’s Day cannot fix.
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Thaikkudam Bridge: India's loudest musical experiment
Thaikkudam Bridge doesn’t do neat genres. A band like no other, it moves between soulful ragas, roaring rock riffs and flashes of metal, all powered by a fifteen-member lineup. Ahead of their Australian tour, founding member Govind Vasantha and vocalist Anish Gopalkrishnan join Suhayla Sharif to...
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Is Identity A Shortcut Now?
In a world that rewards neat labels, identity can start to behave like currency. In this episode, Dilpreet and Suhayla get into the tension between being seen and being flattened: the pressure to clap for “brown wins” no matter the craft, the fear of disagreeing within community, and the way...
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South Asian & First Nations Artists Unite For The BhuMeJha Project
Bhumi means land in Sanskrit. Boodja means land in Noongar. The BhuMeJha Project brings both into the same space and it’s coming to Perth Festival. It unpacks the Indian concept of rasa, immersion over spectacle, and what it means to practise custodianship rather than ownership on this land....
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The Netflix We've Been Waiting For
We’ve gone feral for the new Netflix India slate. Thrillers in foggy Punjab. Sex-ed chaos in rural villages. Family feuds. Lust. Politics. Mess. Dilpreet and Suhayla share the shows they’re queueing immediately and why Indian storytelling finally feels brave again. Listen now, only on SBS Spice.
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Meet-cutes are dead. Now what?
When did dating stop being romantic? Between Hinge prompts and gym-obsessed bios, the meet-cute feels extinct. On this episode of SBS Spice, Dilpreet and Suhayla unpack the male gaze on apps, and get honest about body image, first kisses, sex, and when “I love you” should actually mean something....
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The Uncaged Bulbul: Aakash Odedra on the Freedom of Dance
Tales of songbirds, or Bulbuls, have inspired South Asian storytellers for centuries. British dancer and choreographer Aakash Odedra's latest work 'Songs of the Bulbul' intertwines Kathak dance, Indian classical music and Sufi storytelling to harmoniously trace a songbird's journey through love,...
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Danish Sheikh on Queer Love, Courtrooms and Creative Freedom
Passion, ghosting and heartbreak— all part of Danish Sheikh's intimate yet toxic relationship with the law. The lawyer-activist and theatre-maker is now deep in his creative era after witnessing how judicial systems have both turned their back on and embraced LGBTQIA+ communities. From navigating...
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"Australia Day": January 26 and the limits of belonging
"Australia Day", January 26, is often framed as a day of belonging— but belonging for whom? A good yarn can unsettle that idea. Suhayla Sharif is joined by John-Paul Janke, Karen Mundine and Giridharan Sivaraman to question how migrants engage with this date, and what listening to First Nations...
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SBS Spice breaks new ground with English language content for young Australians of South Asian heritage. We're talking about the things that make you tick or ick with a fresh new look at pop culture, identity, food, sport, history and much more.
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