The Sanskaari Sass Podcast

Diverse representation is a large conversation in the media that expands over a multitude of bodies. For this episode of Feminism and Chill, disability rights activist and model Virali Modi helps us understand the unfair and stereotyped portrayal of disabled characters in Bollywood. 

Any social movement is based on empathy. It’s what makes us human. Still, we tend to throw it at the back of our closets. For this week’s episode of Feminism 101, we are joined by Mahima Kukreja who helps us breakdown what empathy is, and why its at the very core of feminism. As a copywriter, poet, comedian and activist, Mahima makes this episode insightful and hilarious, and leaves us with a lot of food for thought. 

In this episode of Women at Work, our guest Anjana Bapat proves that women are multitasking goddesses who genuinely run the world. As a belly dancer, plus size model and statistical programmer, Anjana tells us all about her life in the professional spaces she occupies. 

Listen to her talk about how her work intersects with the body positivity movement, the world’s unrealistic beauty standards that come in the way, and why we should all belly dance. 

IT'S ELECTION SEASON IN INDIA! The entire country is waiting and watching with fear, maybe hope on what this election will bring to the future of all its people. For this IRL segment, we get on a call with Japleen Pasricha, founder (we accidentally say co-founder on the podcast!) of Feminism In India, to chat elections, diversity in government, voter participation by gender and more.

Dragon riders, queens, assassins and knights are just a handful of badass ladies we love from Westeros. In this episode of Feminism and Chill, we do a feminist take on Game of Thrones, as the final season of this word-wide phenomenon is upon us. 

To discuss the female characters, their story arcs and the plot devices used by the show, we are joined by Nuriyah Johar, a pop-culture enthusiast who’s got a lot to say about GoT. 

In our Feminist 101 episodes, we breakdown feminist theory and make it easy to understand and digest. This week, we are joined by the incredible Tanvi Ghadge, as we discuss internalised misogyny. We go through what it means and how it affects us in every thing we do, the behaviours we have painstakingly unlearned over the years, and the ones we’re still working on.

We are joined by Marvel fan and all round queen Kejal as we delve into this month’s edition of Feminism and Chill to talk about Captain Marvel, the use of female superheroes in action movies, and their trolls. 

In this month’s edition of Women at Work, we sit to chat with wildlife filmmaker and founder of Pangea Films Eshika Fyzee and learn about her experience of leading a film crew as a woman in a male-dominated work place, her life on field in extreme climates, her wild and hilarious interactions in the jungles, and her in-general badass-ery. 

Recognising, acknowledging and correctly using privilege is something that is essential to being a feminist. We all carry some amount of privilege, yet it gets left behind in the daily feminist conversations for most of us. This week on the podcast, we're joined by Badass Brown Activist who helps us breakdown the concept and understand what privilege means, how to recognise and use it, how it ties into allyship, and how checking and spending our privilege is the bare minimum we can do.

This week for our IRL segment, we bring in journalist and ultimate sass queen Divya Kandukuri to talk about the #MeToo movement, specifically in the Indian context. In the episode, Divya shines light on how we must approach #MeToo for it to be inclusive, and how intersectionality is at the very core of feminism itself. 

This month of love, we've been talking about all things romance, dating and sex, and we're closing with the happiest Feminism 101 term: PRIDE. 

We are joined by Sakshi, co-founder of Gaysi, to talk about what PRIDE means, her experience of attending every single Mumbai PRIDE since it's conception, LGBTQiA representation in the media, the future of the LGBTQiA+ community in India, and even Ekta Kapoor. 

In this month’s IRL episode, we discuss Az*z Ans*ri’s attempt to re-enter mainstream media after the sexual assault allegations that came out against him one year ago. We breakdown rape culture, fake woke boys, consent and non-apologies, separating the art from the artist - conversations we are currently surrounded by in our personal and online lives and how they affect how we date.

Valentine's month obviously called for a feminist breakdown of our favourite rom-coms and romance movies! In this Feminism and Chill episode of the podcast we dive into our favourite feminist rom-coms and all the problematic icons, too. 

Who run the world? Sassy feminist queens making badass music, and even more badass videos to smash everything patriarchal. In this episode of Feminism and Chill (a monthly episode where we talk about pop culture in the feminist context) we talk about some of the music videos that have made a huge impact on us and how we see ourselves.

Under our IRL segment, we discuss real-life events under the feminist context. Up until 2019, Gillette, Hardik Pandya and Bumble India didn't seem to have much in common. But in the first 3 weeks of the year, all three have tied themselves to the feminist conversation in India, especially when it comes to gender roles and boundaries. Listen as we sit with Amrin Talib, content writer at Sanskaari Sass, to discuss how they got it right or got it wrong, and what we think of the reactions to these scenarios in our first IRL episode.

Under Women At Work, we highlight a woman and well, her work! In this episode we sit to chat with journalist and comic artist Tanika Godbole of Missfit Comics about the succinctness of comics, the importance of humour, Tanika's love for Harry Potter, and her haters!

The co-hosts of The Sanskaari Sass Podcast were having a lot of feminist conversations with each other. And in true narcissistic millennial fashion (we don't want to be responsible for killing the podcast industry too!), we decided to plug in a mic and place it in front of us just to share our thoughts, concerns, complaints with the world.

It only seemed fitting to discuss feminism and female friendships for our first episode to introduce your co-hosts Ruchika and Mallika. We talk everything from unrealistic representation of female friendships in pop-culture to the badass sass queens we want to be stranded on an island with!