The Yodakin Podcast

<p>For our 21st episode, the last of 2024, we have Naima Rashid reciting a few of her poems from Sum of Worlds, published by Yoda Press in September 2024. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>Naima Rashid, an author, poet, and...

<p>In our 20th episode (in our 20th year!), Founder-Publisher Arpita Das is in conversation with environmental lawyer and legal scholar, Arpitha Kodiveri. Arpitha Kodiveri is the author of 'Governing Forests: State, Law...

<p>In the 19th episode of The Yodakin Podcast, Publisher Arpita Das is in conversation with queer activist and writer Maya Sharma. Maya Sharma is the author of two pathbreaking LGBTQIA titles, Loving Women: Being...

<p>In this episode of The Yodakin Podcast, Publisher Arpita Das is in conversation with renowned historian, Prof. Chinnaiah Jangam. Prof. Jangam translated Gabbilam:A Dalit Epic by Gurram Jashuva from the Telugu into...

<p>In this episode of the Yodakin Podcast, Publisher Arpita Das is in conversation with renowned Malayalam author B.M. Zuhara about her book ‘Dreams of a Mappila Girl’ and Fehmida Zakeer, a brilliant translator. Among...

<p>In this episode, Arpita Das, publisher and founder of Yoda Press, is in discussion with Lisa Björkman, Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Louisville, Research Fellow, Max Planck...

<p>In this episode of the Yodakin Podcast, Arpita Das and graphic novelist and researcher Samarth discuss the experiences that led to the creation of the graphic novel Suit. Samarth talks about how he chose the theme of...

<p>In this episode, Kanchana Viswanathan reads some extracts from Chellammal's Journal: A Woman's Memoir of a Joint Family in Twentieth-Century India. Chellammal’s Journal records the journey of a woman in an...

In this episode, Sophia Naz reads some poems from Open Zero. Open Zero is at once a visceral close up of the stark ground realities of loss and an evocation of its many shapes; the ongoing erasure of a syncretic culture...

<p>In this episode of the Yodakin Podcast, publisher Arpita Das and author Saiba Varma discuss the important questions around the colonisation and re-colonisation of Kashmir, mental health care in the valley and...

<p>In this episode of the Yodakin Podcast, publisher Arpita Das and author Saiba Varma discuss the important questions around the colonisation and re-colonisation of Kashmir, mental health care in the valley and...

<p>Author and professor, Dolly Kikon sits down with Arpita Das to discuss her book Living with Oil and Coal. Among other things they discuss the idea of extraction in the North-East India, the haats that were at once...

In this episode of The Yodakin Podcast, Arpita Das talks to Kavita Daiya about her newest monograph, Graphic Migrations: Gender and Precarity in India and the Diaspora. Among other things, they discuss the external and...

<p>Arpita Das sits down with author Anuradha Kumar and talks to her about her latest work of literary fiction, The Hottest Summer in Years. Among other things, the two discuss Anuradha's literary influences, how she...

<p>In this episode, Arpita Das, publisher and founder of Yoda Press, is in discussion with Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky about her book, The Women's War: A Female Soldier’s Account of Her Time in Afghanistan. The book...