#63 Yashica Dutt on Idea of Love, Arranged Marriages, and 'Indian Matchmaking'"

Anurag Minus Verma Podcast

In this podcast episode, Yashica Dutt provides a critical analysis of the Netflix show "Indian Matchmaking," offering multiple perspectives on the show and sharing her insights into concepts such as love, marriage, and personal preferences, including how these preferences are formed. Additionally, she highlights how her article on the same subject, published in the Atlantic in 2020, was appropriated by various publications without proper credit. Yashica also explores American society and politics, discussing how anti-blackness unites all non-black people globally. She examines how the consumption of black culture, style, and slang often objectifies black people as cultural objects, creating a contradiction in how society perceives blackness.

Yashica Dutt is an award-winning author, journalist, and leading anti-caste voice. Her memoir, Coming Out as Dalit, presents an intimate account of how the caste system impacts Dalits in India. Yashica's work has been published in renowned media outlets like The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Foreign Policy. A graduate of Columbia Journalism School, Yashica currently resides in New York and plans to release her book worldwide soon.

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Links for topics discussed in the podcast:

1. Yashica's article: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/08/netflix-indian-matchmaking-and-the-shadow-of-caste/614863/

2. Twitter Thread on her article: https://twitter.com/YashicaDutt/status/1649823837385523202https://twitter.com/YashicaDutt/status/1649823837385523202

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