Brave New World - Social Class, Caste, and role of Diversity
The humanity of the future structures the world and human 'class' based on (convoluted) logic. Humans, almost manufactured, are assigned societal class at birth. Pain, quiet misery, and hopelessness e...
17 Maj 20231h 51min
Brave New World - Belonging to Everyone = Belonging to No one?
Humanity of the future structures the world and human 'class' based on (convoluted) logic. Humans, almost manufactured, are assigned societal class at birth. Pain, quiet misery, and hopelessness ensue...
11 Maj 20231h 6min
The Little Prince - Adventure, Childhood, and Love
The narrator draws a boa constrictor that swallowed an elephant whole. He finds, quite disappointedly, that adults can not see the glaringly obvious and prefer to call the drawing a 'hat'. The vexed n...
4 Maj 20231h 24min
Indian Cinema interprets Hamlet - Haider
A (quite literal) Shakespearean drama. Inspired by Hamlet, Haider is set in the heavily militarized Indian region of Kashmir. Haider returns from university to find his father gone, his home destroye...
27 Apr 20231h 40min
Common Sense - Monarchy, Government, and Thomas Paine's Call for American Independence
January, 1776. It is mere months before the signing of the Declaration Of Independence. The Stamp Act and the American Revolution that it caused are more than a decade old. Amidst the turmoil, the fig...
19 Apr 20231h 43min
A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki - 2013
Two women. A conversation across an ocean. And perhaps, across time. Young Nao comes home to Japan. A home she neither knows nor understands. In pain and directionless, she puts her story down for som...
12 Apr 20231h 56min
Searching For Sugarman - Malik Bendjelloul - 2012
A man of music. A nation's love for his art. The quest to take it to him, an ocean away. Rodriguez's career in music never took off. Having started with odds stacked against him, he went on with his l...
4 Apr 20231h 20min
Intro - Meet The Gang!
Meet the gang of nerdy pirates! Alejandro, Cat, Danielle, Donovan, and Vikhyat (tiny group, we know), get together in this episode to talk about what brought them together, what the Sunken Treasures i...
4 Apr 20239min
