About the podcast
It's Not You, It's The Media10 Syys 2024

About the podcast

Are you questioning your reality? Do you feel gaslighted? It's not you, it's the media. Tune in each week.

It's Not You, It's the Media.

A podcast by the Polis Project. https://www.thepolisproject.com/

Hosts:

Suchitra Vijayan is a writer, photographer and activist. She is the founder and Executive Director of The Polis Project. For her first book, The Midnight's Border: A People's History of India, Suchitra traveled across the 9000-mile Indian border. A barrister by training, she previously worked for the United Nations war crimes tribunals in Yugoslavia and Rwanda before co-founding the Resettlement Legal Aid Project in Cairo, which gives legal aid to Iraqi refugees. She is the co-author of How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners (2023) which offers a lens into today's India through the lived experiences of political prisoners.

Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer and writer. She is the co-founder of Warscapes magazine which transitioned into the Radical Books Collective, a multi-faceted community building project that creates an alternative, inclusive and non-commercial approach to books and reading. Bhakti is the author of Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital (2019) and editor of Literary Sudans: An Anthology of Literature from Sudan and South Sudan (2017), Imagine Africa (2017) Mediterranean: Migrant Crossings (2018) and most recently, Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (2023).



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Covering Sudan/Covering Up Sudan

Covering Sudan/Covering Up Sudan

Featuring journalists Ism’ail Kushkush and Raghdan Orsud. Even as Sudan enters the 4th year of devastating war, media coverage remains abysmal. Madhuri Sastry and Bhakti Shringarpure speak to two Suda...

17 Touko 1h 6min

The October 7th Narrative and the Unmasking of Mainstream Media

The October 7th Narrative and the Unmasking of Mainstream Media

Madhuri Sastry and Bhakti Shringarpure speaking with guest Robin Andersen, author of The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza. (OR Books, 2025). They discuss why the media fr...

7 Touko 55min

Good Wife, Bad Wife: Jackie, Diana, Michelle, Meghan, Rama, Melania

Good Wife, Bad Wife: Jackie, Diana, Michelle, Meghan, Rama, Melania

Whether its adoration or demonization, why is the media obsessed with the wives? Madhuri Sastry and Bhakti Shringarpure unpack the ways in which first wives, first ladies or duchesses are always under...

21 Huhti 54min

White Feminism Fail: Why We Can’t Get Behind The 'No Kings' Protests

White Feminism Fail: Why We Can’t Get Behind The 'No Kings' Protests

Bhakti Shringarpure & Madhuri Sastry unpack the ways in which the "No Kings" protests were anchored in mainstream, white and liberal feminist ideas. They ask why there was no popular interest in prote...

3 Huhti 44min

Iran, Lebanon and the Fog of War: From Media Gaslighting to AI and LEGO Propaganda

Iran, Lebanon and the Fog of War: From Media Gaslighting to AI and LEGO Propaganda

Bhakti Shringarpure and Madhuri Sastry discuss the acute escalation in US-Israeli wars in Lebanon and Iran. The mainstream media barely reports on the shocking death toll and numbers of displaced in L...

28 Maalis 51min

Backtracking on Palestine? Zohran Mamdani and the Democratic Party Playbook

Backtracking on Palestine? Zohran Mamdani and the Democratic Party Playbook

Palestinian American activist Nerdeen Kiswani joins Bhakti Shringarpure and Madhuri Sastry to discuss the recent concerns about NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani backtracking on Palestine. In light of Mayor Ma...

19 Maalis 52min

Are The Oscar Films Too Political This Year?

Are The Oscar Films Too Political This Year?

Bhakti Shringarpure and Madhuri Sastry host a pre-Oscars film club. They admit that there have been lots of surprises in the mainstream blockbuster film industry this year. The discussion focused on f...

14 Maalis 1h 13min

On Media Gaslighting: Bombing Iran, Starving Gaza, Killing Children & Saving Muslim Women

On Media Gaslighting: Bombing Iran, Starving Gaza, Killing Children & Saving Muslim Women

Suchitra, Madhuri and Bhakti unpack Western media propaganda about Iran as the war escalates and the death toll mounts in Iran and Lebanon.

4 Maalis 58min

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