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  • Rethinking South Asian Philosophy: Nothing is Neutral

    Rethinking South Asian Philosophy: Nothing is Neutral
    2025/12/18
    This final episode of Rethinking South Asian Philosophy asks what philosophy looks like when we take caste, gender and lived experience seriously. Host Bhanuraj Kashyap speaks with Dr Supriya Subramani, Dr Swati Arora and Dr Samiksha Goyal about everyday indignities, Dalit feminist thought, Gandhian ideas of truth, and the limits of Anglophone philosophy, in Australia and beyond. Listen now, on your favourite podcast app.
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    31 分
  • Rethinking South Asian Philosophy: Caste, mind and the work of liberation

    Rethinking South Asian Philosophy: Caste, mind and the work of liberation
    2025/12/11
    Across South Asia, philosophers have asked two enduring questions: What is consciousness? And what shapes the world we live in? In this episode, Bhanuraj Kashyap speaks with Dr Miri Albahari about enlightenment and the claim that pure consciousness is the ground of reality, and with Dr Yarran Hominh and Dr Supriya Subramani on caste, graded inequality and how our social identities are formed. If you’ve ever wondered how metaphysics meets the everyday, this episode is just for you. Tap to listen.
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    23 分
  • Banned Before You’re Online: Australia’s Social Media Cut-Off

    Banned Before You’re Online: Australia’s Social Media Cut-Off
    2025/12/08
    Australia is set to ban social media accounts for under-16s. It’s a world first. And yes, it’s causing a little panic. Will it keep teens safer or just push them into new loopholes and unregulated spaces? Dilpreet and Suhayla aren’t too convinced. They talk through the safety, the scepticism and the likely chaos that’s coming. Tap to listen.
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    32 分
  • Rethinking South Asian Philosophy: Where meditation becomes insight

    Rethinking South Asian Philosophy: Where meditation becomes insight
    2025/12/04
    How does meditation generate psychological benefits, and can deep meditative experiences open new philosophical insight? In this episode, Associate Professor Bronwyn Finnigan (ANU) and Dr Leesa Davis (Deakin) explore Buddhist approaches to meditation, non-dual philosophies, and the aesthetic and contemplative language of Japanese dry gardens. We also talk about the joy of teaching non-Western philosophy to undergraduates and how it can help revive the philosophical imagination in Australian universities.
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    22 分
  • Rethinking South Asian Philosophy: Exploring Ancient Indian Philosophy

    Rethinking South Asian Philosophy: Exploring Ancient Indian Philosophy
    2025/11/27
    How do perspectives on the world formed thousands of years ago still shape our worldviews today? In this episode of 'Rethinking South Asian Philosophy', host Bhanuraj Kashyap sits down with Professor Monima Chadha (University of Oxford) and Distinguished Professor Graham Priest (CUNY and University of Melbourne) for a wide-ranging and mind-boggling chat about Ancient Indian philosophy. We discuss the Buddhist denial of the self, how Buddhist philosophy can reshape moral responsibility and some strange puzzles in logic that have captivated philosophers for centuries. Along the way, we also reflect on the barriers that persist between Indian and Western philosophical traditions and share stories about the value of engaging in cross-cultural philosophy. Listen now, only on SBS Spice, wherever you get your podcasts.
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    24 分
  • Rethinking South Asian Philosophy: Exclusion and Diversity in Philosophy

    Rethinking South Asian Philosophy: Exclusion and Diversity in Philosophy
    2025/11/20
    Welcome to 'Rethinking South Asian Philosophy', a journey through the world of philosophy and where South Asian philosophy and philosophers currently stand in this complex academic space. In our opening episode, we sit down with Dr. Bryan Mukandi (UOW), Assoc. Prof. Karen Jones (University of Melbourne), and Dr. Helen Ngo (Deakin University) to discuss with them diversity issues within Australian academic philosophy and why non-Western perspectives our underrepresented in our curriculum. We swap stories about loneliness among minority students, why non-Western philosophy gets overlooked, the financial pressure the University sector is facing, and how exclusion in academic philosophy functions. Beyond all of this, we try to work out what to do to bring about meaningful change. Listen now, only on SBS Spice, wherever you get your podcasts.
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    19 分
  • The Villain's View: Raj Labade on Shakespeare's Lessons and Fighting Labels

    The Villain's View: Raj Labade on Shakespeare's Lessons and Fighting Labels
    2025/11/18
    How does a 17th century Shakespearean tragedy hold a mirror to present hierarchies? Actor Raj Labade believes that this reflection is both a point of connection to a rich literary past and how pathways for other South Asian theatre artists can continue to be paved. As he steps into the shoes of Edmund in Belvoir St Theatre's 'The True History Of The Life And Death Of King Lear & His Three Daughters' he sits down with Dilpreet Kaur Taggar to explore the evolution of theatrical tales and representation on stage. Listen now, only on SBS Spice, wherever you get your podcasts.
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    19 分
  • Project Dastaan: Sparsh Ahuja's Lens on Partition and Peacebuilding

    Project Dastaan: Sparsh Ahuja's Lens on Partition and Peacebuilding
    2025/11/13
    The Partition of British India in 1947 that formed the countries of India and Pakistani also resulted in one of the largest instances of forced migration ever documented. Tearing apart families, communities and histories, the fallout lingers in countless lenses on the world 78 years later, including that of filmmaker Sparsh Ahuja. Co-founder of reconciliation initiative 'Project Dastaan', he explores with Suhayla Sharif the partition's deafening silence, the power of art and the potential of virtual reality. Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts.
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    26 分