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Dhindora
Dhindora creates the kind of content that you'd wake up for on a Sunday morning sipping coffee after you are done brushing your teeth, mindlessly. Brought to you by four girls, who like to discuss more than talk--about everything from nukkad dosa joints to the myriad shades of the colour blue. As your earphones murmur our podcasts in your ears, the unnoticed, quirky banalities of life will flash and fade, like passing thoughts while you finish that coffee with a satisfied sweet sigh.
Trigger warning: Sexual Abuse, Invasion of Personal Space.
What is it like, for women to navigate through public spaces? And how does context matter?
In this podcast, we ask five Indian women (coming from reasonable privilege) who have lived both in the country and outside, what their experience and perception of personal safety abroad has been, relative to their experience in India.
We're grateful to Aditi Sebastian, Ananya Nair, M S Ananya, Sherlyn Devadason and Vaishnavi Singh, for being extremely candid and involved in their (voice) notes.
Our second audio library flips pages of experiences that revolve around an urban creation: the swimming pool. Although, the act of swimming itself is not restricted to the urbanscape, for many of us, it is a rite of passage as we grow up. And the swimming pool, which is sometimes a rectangular tank or sometimes a pond, becomes the site for this act thus holding an ocean of stories we carry into adulthood.
The Curious Case of the Purple Face by Sherlyn Devadason - 2:03; Pack Your Trunks by Herman - 5:41; Coming Up for Air by Sanyukta Singh - 11:40; Oh Well! by Khaja Hussain - 14:32; The Pool is now Open by Parth Sharma - 16:23; Horu Maas by Jahnavy Gaggar - 19:01; Hazard Warning by Divyanshi Pandey - 22:15; Always Summer by Aarthi Venkatesh - 24:15
This podcast is brought to you in collaboration with Atish Padhy. From being a colonial tool to a national passion that is always present in our lives, switching from foreground to background and vice versa, cricket has proven to be more than just a sport. In this podcast, a personal narrative reveals how symbiotically we grew up with cricket right from the innocence of childhood to understanding the strategic intricacies in our adulthood. Credits : International Cricket Council (ICC), Indian Premiere League (IPL), Warner Bros, Paul K. Joyce, PepsiCo.
A family member that goes unnoticed or maybe just hidden underneath heaps of textbooks and trinkets, a dining table is so much more than a piece of furniture. It's also seen as a neutral space, waving a flag of peace and becoming the unsaid "settler of house turmoil". It ages with everyone in the house and starts each day with the hope to see the entire family having a meal together.
Made in collaboration with Radhika Sharma, this audio documentary addresses weaving as a lifestyle with focus on a small town Anekal, Karnataka. From a town known for its small community of handloom silk weavers, emerge stories of the weathered handloom, family legacies of craftsmanship, decadent silk saris and poor conditions; stories of capitalistic enterprise and the well-oiled powerloom. This piece guides you through with bits from the production process, distribution and the consumer end of the spectrum, traces of Gandhian philosophy, some Marx and the everyday efforts of the weavers to make ends meet. Interviews with Mr. Venkatapathy, Mr. Srinivasa, Mr. Purushottam, Ramesh Vasalli Natesh TN and Shobana Matthews have enriched the documentary. Voiceovers in English by Atish Padhy, Aleser Murtaza, Rishi Venkateswaran and Gp Capt (Retd.) M S Sridhar
Dil Mango More - from the Audio Library.
A Tangy Case of Tomfoolery by Atish Padhy - 00:41 mins; A Jar of Achar's Achaar by Meghna Achar - 04:58 mins; 'Aam'chi Ajji by Meghna Yesudas - o6:33 mins; Ammachi's Pickles and Preserves by Meghna Nair - 10:26 mins; Monkey Business by Rahul Balaji - 12:03 mins; What can a Mango buy? by Khaja Hussain - 13:54 mins; May Maadham by Abhirami Rao - 15:30 mins
Today’s special on the menu is a podcast that sings to your senses. It has bright colours, intriguing sounds, aromatic flavours; all packed with a punch.
Welcome to the Sensory Sous Chefs, a multi sensory journey, a step-wise process on the experience of cooking.
Who is a pedestrian? A person who walks the same roads everyday to reach the same places, a person who wanders and gets lost like meaning deferred in a sentence or is it a person who stops once in a while to marvel at what lies around and ahead?
This podcast is an experiential/experimental one where we go on a walk. Our words tango in a synchronous fashion with the music by Advaith Jaikumar bearing tiny hints of whimsical jazz and the blues coupled with some Indian classical instruments. The music wanders along with your footsteps and mind giving a language to the feet; to walking.
An experience awaits.
A game for two, Pallanguzhi or Alaguli Mane in Kannada, Kuzhipara in Malayalam and Picchala Peetha in Telugu is a traditional mancala game of Southern India.
An indoor game from the era of the Chola Empire, it hones hand and mind dexterity of the young and the old alike.
The backyard of the house is where its heart is; free, fluid, whimsical. Its a repository of secret herbs, stories and cultures. Paati's Pallanguzhi, finds a cozy spot for itself here in the backyard; in the heart.
Located in Basavanagudi, Veena Works is a store for musical instruments, which is one of the few places in Bangalore where Veenas are crafted from scratch. Dhindora focuses on the legacy of this store with the waning significance of the seven-stringed instrument as a backdrop. In a conversation with Mr. Raju, the current owner of the workshop, interesting facets of veena making unravel. Classical musician, Prashanth Iyengar shares from his abundant knowledge and speaks of the ontological aspects of Veena and the music that it produces.
This short piece, is an overture to a landscape and its subsequent impact on an experience, which is multisensory in nature. Kulukki Sarbath, a summer quencher that finds its origins in Kerala gets its name from the clinking of ice in lemonade against the glass tumbler making the sound 'kuluk-kuluk.'
Delve into a conversation about the then, now, who and how of an establishment that remains synonymous to the city of Bengaluru. Engage with stories of spicy chutney and crispy dosas, with a dollop of glamour of this local sensation.
'The malligai' or the jasmine flower deceives the eyes with its fragility yet holds attention, like a lingering fragrance, much after the flower itself has withered away. Can a small, white, pristine blossom of elegance, 'the malligai' be perceived beyond it's virtue as an accessory to be a significant symbol?