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!
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and how we can still think about and enjoy Harry Potter without engaging with J. K Rowling's bullshit Transphobia and outdated opinions.
And with that I conclude the strangest mini series! Or do I?
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
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!
We think about democracy and how it might be a futile exercise, also Star Wars, lots of Star Wars
We think about forgetting as Escapism in the context of Shakuntala, Anastasia, The Lion King and Gollum, all fan favourites of course.
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!
Introduction to the ways in which we'll be looking at Escapism in different forms of media.
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