Nirantar Radio

Podcasts

Where we see sound explorations, podcasts, stories, radio essays, which help build a grassroots to policy level conversation around gender and patriarchy.

Episode 01
Can a playful joke turn into a moment of revelation for two mischievous friends? We bring to you a taste of what it means for a young adult to feel all the feelings, straight from Pakur, Jharkhand.
Episode 0
F se Field, Issh se Isshq is a series of audio stories emerging from the lived realities, desires and fantasies. All these narratives help us understand our encounters with sexuality by centering the psyche.
Episode 09
Sounds of mourning and celebration are overlapping in the neighbourhood. Sharafat Bhai's life is going to change completely after his first wife's death as he is set to marry a younger girl. Will the doe-like youthful beauty that he adores and worships age well? Or, will time play its game and turn happiness into jealousy? Sexuality is, after all, a fickle mistress.
Episode 07
Does power only lie in exercising control? Can it also be found in letting go of control, in the service of play, pleasure and sexual freedom? In this special feature of the F-Rated Interview, The Third Eye's Shabani Hassanwalia interviews SIG, who claims to have what everybody in the world is looking for: the secret to peace. In the world of kink, where sexual norms are there to be challenged, bent, and played with, SIG's practice is that of submission: A place of play where he can let go of the performance that real life demands, for a more honest one.
Episode 04
In the last episode of "Sarita aur Madam", Krupa shares a lasting memory of Sarita as she knocks at Prayas' door once again, this time with a desire to learn. At TTE, we are very invested in expanding the notion of the field, and bring to life the lives of various people who make a field humane.
Episode 03
When Sarita knocks on Prayas' door, it is not always a problem that she brings. Sometimes, she brings a unique solution which makes one look at the problem differently. In the Episode 3 of "Sarita aur Madam", Krupa recounts an anecdote where Sarita saved the day and refused to bargain while she was at it.
Episode 02
We all remember the lockdown. Some remember it like yesterday and others believe it happened a long time ago. But, what did 2020 look like for sex workers and social workers? In the Episode 2 of "Sarita aur Madam", Krupa tells us Sarita's response to the lockdown.
Episode 01
After going to school, our podcast series is going to jail. At TTE, we are very invested in expanding the notion of the field, and bring to life the lives of various people who make a field humane. In this case, it’s the social worker who works in prison, and the deep relationships that she forms with those on the other side of the law.
Episode 8
Phulesara’s husband dies within one year of marriage and then she finds a new constant companion: fear. Tune into this special feature of Bolti Kahaniyan: ‘Phulesara Bahu ki Aankh’.
“Baba, how does one become a Bayen (witch)?” Bhagirath asks his father Malinder near the dead lake as the shadow of his estranged mother looms over him. The recollecting of who his mother was and how she was ostracized as a witch from the Dom community in this story by Mahasweta Devi, is the unfolding of the myth of Bayen and the reality of witch-hunt.