What's your ism?
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What's your ism? is a society podcast hosted by Sudipto Mondal, The News Minute. It has 49 episodes, with the latest published August 2025.
What's your ism is a podcast about ideas and ideologies that claim to liberate the world and somehow always fall short. TNM's Sudipto Mondal and his guests grapple with impressive sounding isms -- Marxism, Feminism, Ambedkarism, religious systems -- and their inherent contradictions. An attempt to understand academics, activists, politicians, artists, rebels and wannabe revolutionaries who are in search of grand unified theories to solve the problems of the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
society ·en ·49 episodes
Land, Labour, and Liberation ft. Lawyer & CPIML Leader Clifton D’Rozario | What's Your Ism EP 48
Mamdani’s rise, Trump’s threat, and South Africa’s post-apartheid warning: Journalist Nic Dawes
Dalit Labour, Muslim Migrants, and the City: What’s Your Ism? Reflections
“We Are the Broom People”: Caste, Labor and Love | What’s Your Ism? with Du Saraswathi
Guns, Peace, and Power: What’s Your Ism? Reflections | Maoists vs the Indian State
What’s Your Ism? 43 ft. Degree Prasad Chouhan | Adivasis in the Maoist War: Fighters or Fronts?
What’s Your Ism? 42 ft. Professor Haragopal | The State, the Maoists, and the war for tribal land
Shit, Caste, and the Divine: What's Your Ism? Reflections | Raees Muhammad
What's Your Ism? EP 40 | From Ravichandran to Raees: Dalits, Islam & the anti-caste | Sudipto Mondal
Charvaka, Ambedkar & Ravana’s Regret: What’s Your Ism? Reflections | Anand Neelakantan
What's Your Ism? Ep 38 ft. Anand Neelakantan | Ram vs. Ravan: Whose Side Is History On?
Roma, Banjara, and Ambedkar | What’s Your Ism? Reflections
What’s Your Ism? EP 36 | Ambedkar in Europe: A Roma School’s Fight Against Segregation
What's Your Ism ft. Dhanya Rajendran & Vignesh Vellore | How TNM Survived 11 Years in Journalism
What’s Your Ism? Ammu Joseph on pioneering feminist journalism in India
Gauley Bhai: Music, Resistance, and Identity From Kalimpong to Bengaluru
Holiday Special | Manjeet Sarkar: Comedy, Caste, and the Art of Storytelling
Holiday Special | Parvaaz: A Kashmiri Band in Bengaluru’s heartstrings
What’s Your Ism? Special Episode 30: The Sudipto Mondal Story - Identity, Caste & Journalism
What’s Your Ism? EP 29 From Emergency to Hindutva: Ft. MG Devasahayam on India's Democratic Crisis
What’s Your Ism? Ep 28 ft. Nadira Khatun on exploring Muslim narratives in Hindi cinema
What’s Your Ism? Ep 27 ft. Kalpana Sharma on Feminism, Dharavi, and Himmat Magazine
What's Your Ism? EP 26 ft. Shailaja Paik on Redefining Feminism and Dalit Identity
What’s your ism? Ep 25 ft. Arvind Narrain on progressive isms for our times
What’s your ism? Ep 24 ft. Rishika Pardikar on India’s climate crisis
What’s your ism? Ep 23 feat. Dr. Aditya Sondhi on Indo-Pak military history
‘I live without an Aadhaar’: What's Your Ism? Ep 22 | ft. Anti-Aadhaar activist Kiran Jonnalagadda
What’s your ism? Ep 21 ft. Nikita Sonavane, Lawyer and Researcher on Brahminical Policing
What's Your Ism? Ep 20 feat. Josy Joseph on the future of journalism & the state of the Indian union
What’s Your Ism? Josy Joseph on future of journalism, Indian democracy
What’s Your Ism? Ep19 feat. Rahul Sonpimple on JNU, Dalit-Muslim unity and activism
What’s your ism? Nandan Kamath on sports, governing bodies, nation building
What’s your ism? Ep 17 Prakash Ambedkar: The legacy, struggles, & future of Dalit politics
What’s your ism? Ep 16 feat. first time MP from Tamil Nadu Sasikanth Senthil
What’s your ism? Ep 15 feat. Sharda Ugra on Hindutva and sports
What’s your ism? Ep 14 feat. Shivasundar on the ‘Hindu Left’
What’s Your Ism? Ep 13 feat. Teesta Setalvad on coalition building against BJP & Hindutva
What’s Your Ism? Ep 12. feat Major General Vombatkere on Election Commission's partisanship & election security
What’s Your Ism? Ep 11. feat H V Vasu on Congress's shift left and progressive movements
‘Dalit Muslims are striving for legitimacy’: Prof Khalid Anis Ansari on anti-caste discourse in Muslims
What’s Your Ism? Ep 9. feat Shalin Maria Lawrence on Dalit Christians in anti-caste discourse
‘Caste census not poll issue for OBCs’: Sumeet Mhasker on reservation, Hindutva
‘Time to revise theoretical positions’: D Raja on communists, caste, Buddha
‘Slur to say communists are anti-Dalit’: Sitaram Yechury on caste, capitalism, international Left
‘BSP, Mayawati losing relevance’: RS Praveen Kumar on anti-caste movement, switch to BRS
‘Mainstream media trumpeter of regime’: Sagarika Ghose on Hindutva, media, liberalism
Suniti Bhikkuni on caste, gender and Buddhism
Kavita Krishnan on marxist parties and the feminist cause.
Suraj Yengde on caste and Christianity
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