You Can Check Out Any Time You Like But You Can Never Leave: Escapism In Mythology And Fantasy

About You Can Check Out Any Time You Like But You Can Never Leave: Escapism In Mythology And Fantasy

Academia meets pop culture in this podcast which examines themes from The Mahabharata and common Fantasies such as Game of Thrones. Each episode thinks about how all these pieces of literature contain elements of escapism and relate to our real lives in one way or the other. Every episode features a different story from Devdutt Pattanaik's Jaya. The story is always linked back to some piece of current media. Mahabharata and Star Wars were always supposed to meet, this series just helps speed the introduction!

Publisher

Anjali Krishnakumar

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 May 2020

Latest episode

10 Jun 2020

Latest episodes

9 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Jun 2020

   Episode 8: Fanfiction and why we don't need J. K Rowling anymore

   I'm back! In today's episode we talk about fanfiction, The Death of the Author and how we can still think about and enjoy Harry Potter without engaging with J. K Rowling's bullshit Transphobia and outdated opinions.

2. 

   9 May 2020

   Episode 7: Conclusion

   And with that I conclude the strangest mini series! Or do I?

3. 

   9 May 2020

   Episode 6: Romance

   What's love got to do with it? Possibly nothing but probably everything! Draupadi is basically the Real Housewives of the forest and no one can tell me otherwise

4. 

   9 May 2020

   Episode 5: Fate and Karma

   Are fate and karma one and the same? Who would win in a fight, Bhishma or Cersei? I only answer one of these questions though, listen to find out which one!

5. 

   9 May 2020

   Episode 4: The Chosen One

   We think about democracy and how it might be a futile exercise, also Star Wars, lots of Star Wars

6. 

   9 May 2020

   Episode 3: Forgetting

   We think about forgetting as Escapism in the context of Shakuntala, Anastasia, The Lion King and Gollum, all fan favourites of course.

7. 

   9 May 2020

   Episode 2: Revenge

   We think about Revenge in the prologue to The Mahabharata as well as The Lion King 2. Thing these two aren't connected? Well, tune in to be proven wrong!

8. 

   8 May 2020

   Episode 1: Introduction

   Introduction to the ways in which we'll be looking at Escapism in different forms of media.

9. 

   8 May 2020

   You Can Check Out Any Time You Like But You Can Never Leave: Escapism In Mythology And Fantasy (Trailer)

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