‘Extra Salty’: The Wire Has a New Podcast

Amrita Ghosh and Bhakti Shringarpure speak to guests and dive deep into burning questions of our time – nothing is off limits.

The Wire Podcast Team

Amrita Ghosh and Bhakti Shringarpure speak to guests and dive deep into burning questions of our time – nothing is off limits.

‘extra salty’ the wire has a new podcast

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After an overdose of Diwali sweets, it is time for The Wire’s new podcast season, ‘Extra Salty’.

This is certainly not your bag of chips but two women with their fingers on the pulse. Each week, Amrita Ghosh and Bhakti Shringarpure dive deep into a question that’s been floating around in the zeitgeist.

Expert guests weigh in. No topic is off limits!

This is live on Amazon, Spotify, iHeart Radio and a few other stations. The Wire's YouTube channel will carry the podcast soon.

For now, here are the links you can catch it on: tune in and subscribe.

Podcast site: https://extrasalty.podbean.com/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5vtfjK62IgHye41Vb9qyPs

Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/12d21c37-6a57-4574-9a3d-265f23da2132/extra-salty

Amrita Ghosh is Assistant Professor of South Asian literature and cultural studies at the University of Central Florida. She is the author of Kashmir’s Necropolis: Literary, Cultural and Visual Texts (2023), and co-editor of Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Re-envisioning (2022). She is the co-founder of Cerebration, a bi-annual literary and arts journal.

Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer, editor and creative director of the Radical Books Collective. She is the author of Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital (2019) and she recently co-edited the collection Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War for Zubaan Books (2023).

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