Wow ! She has won so many awards ! Fantastic and congratulations 

Fascinating interview. Now i really like to see the film!

In this episode, I talk with Dr. Geetha Jayaraman, a former journalist and a filmmaker who teaches film practice at the Culture Lab, Newcastle University, UK. Geetha’s debut feature film "Run Kalyani" won the Special Jury Award at the Kolkata International Film Festival and got awards in the Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actor categories at several international film festivals including Trichur, New York, and Montreal. 
As a director, script writer and producer of a range of documentaries. Geetha produced the award-winning documentary ‘Algorithms." She also wrote a prize-winning script for "A Certain Slant of Light" which won the 2008 Goteborg International Film Festival’s development fund.

J. Geetha: Ep. 20

In this episode, I talk to the award-winning novelist and professor at UC Berkeley, Vikram Chandra, about his critically-acclaimed mystery/thriller novel Sacred Games. Winner of the Hutch Crossword Award for English Fiction, and finalist of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Sacred Games is now the first original television series from India on Netflix.

Vikram Chandra

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On the day of the world's very first Global Climate Strike, Alka Kurian talks to Amitav Ghosh about his new novel "Gun Island" a book about a world ravaged by climate change.

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In this interview, I speak with Nandita Das on her book "Manto & I," which is based on her 2018 biopic "Manto," South Asia's leading author, playwright and scriptwriter Saadat Hasan Manto.

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In this interview, I speak with Namita Gokhale, the founder-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival, about her latest novel Jaipur Journals.

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In this podcast, I talk to Japleen Pasricha, the founder-editor of "Feminism in India," the country's leading digital feminist media platform.

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This podcast connects listeners with South Asian writers and filmmakers as they explore some of the major issues of the world. From politics to culture, each episode looks at topics that impact and shape the lives of people living both in South Asia and its diaspora.

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