About Deconstruct: A Breakdown of Stories by Authors and Auteurs
Newsreel Asia's long-form podcast Deconstruct wriggles backstage to lift the curtains on the motivations and reportage for an article, podcast or documentary. Listen to media producers and writers unravel the story of their work.
Producer: Sayantan Banerjee
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Amit Varma, eminent writer, journalist and podcaster, talks about his art and his life with great candidness. Famous for his long-form podcast series, The Seen and the Unseen, Amit has managed to present listeners with a repository of curious and enlightening conversations, patient and unhurried in their spirit. Life lessons, inspiring ideas and Amit’s honest admissions - this episode has all these, and more.
9 May 2023
Rajani Mani: The declining bee population
Float like a butterfly, pollinate like a bee. Rajani Mani would probably change the famous Ali quote as she fights for the rights of these productive critters through her documentary.
13 Apr 2023
Malati Rao : Tracing a Geshema’s Journey
As far as one could remember only men could earn the highest monastic qualifications. Malati Rao’s ‘The Geshema is Born’, follows the life of Namdol Phuntsok, the first woman ever to be awarded the Geshema degree.
21 Sept 2022
Paromita Vohra on Writing the Film 'Khamosh Pani
Filmmaker and writer Paromita Vohra will walk you through the experience of writing the 2003 film Khamosh Pani that spotlights violence on women during the partition and the impact on their lives following radicalisation in 1970s Pakistan. As we celebrate 75 years of independence and mark equal number of years of partition, this story deserves a revisit.
7 Sept 2022
Anirban Dutta Gupta : Films That Provide Tribal Agency
Anirban Dutta Gupta talks about how he filmed the isolated Jarawa tribe in Andaman Islands collecting honey and hunting for pig. We have lessons to learn from their practices that also emphasize the need for tribal agency.
25 Aug 2022
Shrayana Bhattacharya : Shahrukh, Women and Economics
Economist Shrayana Bhattacharya speaks about her book "Desperately Seeking Shahrukh" and how Shahrukh Khan transformed into a research method to understand the economic lives of women in India.
11 Aug 2022
Ojaswwee Sharma : Every Right Has a Gender
Transgender people face many atrocities if they choose to live a normal life attending school and College. Ojaswwee Sharma talks about a documentary he made on Dhananjay who battled prejudices and attacks to fight for the empowerment of her community.
27 Jul 2022
Surabhi Yadav : Leisure is a feminist issue
Surabhi Yadav may be an engineer by education but it is her photography that has cast the spotlight on her. Through an Instagram page filled with pictures of women watching a movie, wearing a beauty mask, or eating an ice cream, she throws light on a gender-biased oddity.
12 Jul 2022
Kamala Thiagarajan : Climate Change and the Poor.
In a recent British Medical Journal article, Madurai, South India-based freelance writer Kamala Thiagarajan underlines how climate change is also about our economy. Her story holds a stethoscope to income losses of underprivileged people falling sick amid soaring temperatures.
6 Sept 2021
Targeting of Dissenters, Political Opponents in India
Ajoy Ashirwad, The Wire’s political affairs' editor, details a surveillance operation that was uncovered as part of an international collaboration of journalists working on a list of phone numbers that was leaked to them. The Wire traced the spyware's Indian targets, revealing a dismantling of India's privacy laws and even its constitution.
31 Jul 2021
Rukmini S. on Coronavirus Deaths in India
Data journalist Rukmini S In her Scroll.in story unearthed facts that signalled a clear spike in deaths due to the Coronavirus. A mix of on-the-ground reporting and data analysis tells us what the government didn’t want us to know.
4 Jul 2021
Mridula Chari : Why Many Indians are Still Famished
Journalist Mridula Chari talks about her recently published longform essay ‘Famished’, meticulous documentation of the hungry millions in India in www.fiftytwo.in (www.fiftytwo.in)
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