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Kushal Roy is a long-time Hyderabad based LGBTQ thinker and a mental health activist. He is an internationally recognised psychotherapist & provides therapy free of cost. And an essayist occasionally published in various news outlets. Here he talks about his journey of being gay in this society and his approach towards providing treatment to those who come out as queer. He also discussed challenges people of poor socio-economic backgrounds throughout the country have been facing even more since the Covid-19 pandemic.  Read him: https://bit.ly/3hT7X85  Helpline Number for his medical help: +919641722948   Editing By: Raghav Goyal ( @raghavgoyal91)  Follow me: @manukrati  If you like my work, support me on Buy me a coffee:  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/manukrati On Paypal: paypal.me/manukratitiwari --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manukrati-tiwari/message

Monu Bikomiya Deori, a 20-year-old Arunanchal Pradesh based Content Creator and Dancer shares his journey from being a TikTok star to an Instagram sensation, who is widely admired for his candid and unconventional Instagram reels which are different from the conventional standards of Instagram aesthetics. Here, we also talked about what he goes through on daily basis, be it online trolling or people around him mocking due to his unfiltered content showing his rural lifestyle and his identity. Later he shared about his TikTok popularity, the impact of the TikTok ban, his first film offer and his ambition to make it to Bollywood. Instagram: @manukrati Support me on Buy me a coffee, if you like my work:  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/manukrati On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/manukrati --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manukrati-tiwari/message

Anshul Trivedi, a Ph.D. scholar from JNU and a freelance journalist who hails from Bhopal (M.P.), explains here how academia and media are affected by the current political regime, also gives insights into the democratic and scientific consciousness of Indian citizens concerning nepotism, corona crisis and choosing a national face as an alternative.  He also shares his experience of being a JNU student when the whole controversy happened in 2016 and how media played a huge role in delegitimizing anti-establishment forces pre-2014 (Anna Hazare Movement) and Post-2014( Farmer protest, anti-CAA/NRC protest).  At the end of the episode, he suggested reading the collected writing on Ram Manohar Lohiya, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King jr's book 'Gift of Love.' Twitter handle:  @anshultrivedi47 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manukrati-tiwari/message

The 'Buffalo Intellectual' is one of the most popular and important Social media voices who presents every mainstream issue with a fresh perspective through the lens of Caste. Apart from being a significant Ambedkarite voice on a digital space, he is a teacher by profession and here we talked about his research work and some different current socio-political issues like Covid Crisis, Social media aesthetics, Educational apps, institutional murders, and how Privileged mindsets in the west are different from those of the Indians (Savarnas).   At the end of the episode, he suggested reading the collected writing of Dr, Babasaheb Ambedkar, and Periyar. And one more book named 'Nationalism Without a Nation in India' by a scholar G. Aloysius. Also, he suggested reading Velivada and Roundtable's work.   Instagram of Buffalo Intellectual:  https://www.instagram.com/buffalo.intellectual/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manukrati-tiwari/message