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Material Analysis Podcast
Material Analysis is a self aware podcast about a materialist look Indian politics, policy, media, news and society. If you like our work support us on https://www.patreon.com/MaterialAnalysis
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33 episodi
Episode 33 - Sedition
In this episode, Chandu, Bela, and Pramod historicise the concept of sedition and laws made on it, the fundamentally antisocialist nature of these law...
Episode 32 - Malthus
In this episode, Chandu and Bela discuss the proposed population control bill from the Indian state of UP, what it is like as a policy, the history of...
Episode 31 - The Second Wave
In this episode, Chandu and Dhileep discuss the medical emergency of the second wave of the covid pandemic hitting India, and the political-economic c...
Episode 30 - Retrospective
As was characteristic of 2020, even its recap is three months late. Chandu, Pramod, and Bela talk about their feelings about last year, and recap some...
Episode 29 - Hatred
In this episode, Bela, Pinky, Dhileep, and Chandu discuss the political production and reproduction of hatred and how to think about it systematically...
Episode 28 - Food
After taking a month long break the pod is back. In this episode, Pinky, Bela, Pramod, and Chandu deviate from their usual political analysis and talk...
Episode 27 - Police Brutality
In this episode, Dhileep and Chandu discuss police brutality, abolition and justice, in context of police violence from Tamil Nadu to the United State...
Episode 26 - Amphan
In this episode, Pramod, Bela, and Chandu discuss the cyclone Amphan and the response to it
Amphan relief contacts and details: https://d...
Episode 25 - Don't Fear the Reaper
Bonus episode for May Day
In this episode, Bela, Chandu, and Pinky talk about the cultural and artistic depiction of pandemics and plague...
Episode 24 - Blackpill
In this episode, Pramod, Bela, Chandu, Shiuli, and Dhileep talk about the asinine and baffling month long mismanagement of the pandemic, and the polit...
Episode 23 - Pandemic
In this episode, Bela, Chandu, Shiuli, and Dhileep talk about the global response to the pandemic.
Episode 22 - Danga
In this episode, Pramod is interrogated by Chandu, Shiuli, and Dhileep as he is on ground zero during the ongoing anti Muslim pogrom in Delhi
Episode 21 - Propaganda
In this first episode for 2020, Dhileep, Chandu, Bela, Pinky, with new member Shiuli, discuss what propaganda is, how it is perceived, how it is const...
Episode 20 - Happy New Year
In this final track for 2019, and a welcome for 2020, Chandu, Pramod, Bela, and Dhileep talk about their feelings about the podcast since it started o...
Episode 19 - The Anti CAA NRC NPR Protests
In this episode, Pramod and Chandu discuss the ongoing pan India anti CAA/NRC protests, the phenomenon and imagination of violence in protests, police...
Episode 18 - Mental Health
In this episode, Dhileep, Chandu, Pramod, and Bela discuss and analyse mental health and its relationship with society.
Episode 17 - Black Priesthood
In this episode, Bela, Pramod, and Chandu discuss the Supreme Court's historic judgement on the Ayodhya title dispute case, and its grave social and p...
Episode 16 - Words Mean Things
In this episode, Chandu, Pinky, Bela, and Pramod dissect four oft used (incorrectly) phrases in progressive circles.
Episode 15 - Climate Change
In this episode Dhileep, Pramod, Bela, and Chandu go into the details of the science, politics, and activism of climate change.
Episode 14 - Vedic Science
In this episode, Chandu and Pramod discuss the recent fracas about Newton and Einstein, and the state of science and pseudo science in India in genera...
Episode 13 - Books so Lit!
In this episode, Pinky, Chandu, Pramod, and Bela deviate from their usual analysis and talk about books they hate, books that made them think, and boo...
Episode 12 - Kalparashtra Part 2
In this episode, Chandu interviews Prasanna S, a Delhi based lawyer who has been following the ongoing issue of the "abrogation" of Article 370. They...
Episode 11 - Kalparashtra
In this episode, first Chandu, Bela, Pinky, and Dhileep quickly discuss the implications of the "abrogation" of Article 370.
The main pa...
Episode 10 - National Register of Citizens (NRC)
In this episode, first, Pramod and Chandu give a short primer on the history of the Assam colonial state and the roots of the language conflict. Then...
Episode 9 - #Represent
In this episode Chandu, Bela, Jasmine, Dhileep, and Pinky explore the landscape of the politics of representation in India, its optics, limitations, a...
Episode 8 - Gentoo Society Part 2
In this episode (part 2 of 2), Bela, Chandu, Pinky, and Pramod continue the analysis from the last episode of India's dominant religious society, and...
Episode 7 - Gentoo Society Part 1
In this episode (part 1 of 2), Bela, Chandu, Pinky, and Pramod take up the important yet contentious issue of how does the Indian progressive analyse...
Episode 6 - Biriyani and Liquor
In this episode, Chandu and Bela, along with new regular panelist Pinky, discuss and analyse the phenomenon of poor bashing prevalent in Indian media,...
Episode 5 - Which Side Are You On?
In this episode, Chandu and Pramod, along with new regular panelist Bela, discuss the Bengal Doctors' Strike, and clarify misconceptions in the progre...
Episode 4 - Why Bother?
In this episode, Chandu and Jasmine, along with new regular panelist Dhileep, discuss the aftermath of the election results and why it makes sense to...
Episode 3 - Exit Polls
In this episode, Pramod and Chandu, along with guest panelist Suchitra Vijayan of the Polis Project, critique the idea and substance of exit polls in...
Episode 2 - Parasites
In this episode, Pramod and Chandu attack and turn on its head the prevalent ideology which calls workers parasites and explain why welfare is good.
Episode 1 - Balance
In this episode, Chandu, Jasmine, and Pramod, analysts extraordinaire, trash on the concept of political and media centrism in India.