Clear Blue Skies Productions
18 episodes - English - Latest episode: 28 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingR Talitha Samuel (b. 1999) is a cultural producer and editor currently based in New Delhi. CBS S1: Experiencing Ambedkar (2021-23) was a political theory podcast that featured only guest experts from caste-oppressed communities, as both pedagogical tool and journalistic principle.
Now, the larger project of CBS Productions is Pokemon-evolving into experimental research-based narrative soundscapes, mixed-media collaging and pirate radio?/science-fiction?/underground events?
All you need to know is that there's no one out here doing it like Samuel, so buckle up.
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Episodes
Samuel, meaning 'God has Heard' - CCA Introducing: R. Talitha Samuel
March 27, 2024 21:51 - 30 minutes - 37.4 MBI had a totally different plan in mind for this visual and audio project when I initially started out. However, just before I was all set to hit record, my grandfather got very sick and passed away. This was during the month of December 2023, and it naturally changed the course of not only my life and understanding of myself but also of this work. I wanted to explore why I do what I do in terms of my approach to audio as a medium, mediated through the literal voices of members of my community...
Episode 8: The Resentment of Borders ft. Sinthujan Varatharajah
April 16, 2023 08:10 - 1 hour - 96.3 MBTHE RESENTMENT OF BORDERS IS A GUIDED EXPLORATION OF THE MORAL CLARITY THAT SELF-DETERMINATION REQUIRES. A CLOSED-LOOP PROTOTYPE OF SUBALTERN OPEN-ACCESS EDUCATION - the snake eats its own tail & we have always been here & prophecy means telling the truth. “..like planes, trains and automobiles, the same technological vehicles of hormones and surgeries take people on different journeys in their lives—depending on whether their oppression/s is/are based on sex/es, self/gender expressions, se...
BONUS Episode - CBS x Mavelinadu Collective: A Faith To Bite Into
December 25, 2022 00:01 - 27 minutes - 38.2 MBIt's Christmas 2022, and the persecution of Christians in this country is getting worse and worse; even as the terror rises, the apathy also seems to loom and grow. It seems obscene and inappropriate to be hopeful. I can't say I've experienced the worst of this hatred and bigotry, but where else can I locate my experiences and identity? Where else do I belong? Where else do I focus my anger than on behalf of those "among whom I was born?" It's the end of a long hard, confusing year. Lookin...
Episode 7 Conclusion: IN/RESURRECTION
May 03, 2022 23:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBSupport the show This is a conclusion to parts 1 & 2 of Carceral Casteism. It is one of two, and you can listen to either or both, in any order as you please. I know I usually give these huge show-notes/accountings/missives for each episode, but, to be honest, you've all been following along, and they're both pretty conclusive, as listening experiences go. So, I'm just going to use this time + space to make my acknowledgements, and give thanks. This series would not at all have been poss...
Episode 7 Conclusion - IN/RESURRECTION
May 03, 2022 23:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBSupport the show This is a conclusion to parts 1 & 2 of Carceral Casteism. It is one of two, and you can listen to either or both, in any order as you please. I know I usually give these huge show-notes/accountings/missives for each episode, but, to be honest, you've all been following along, and they're both pretty conclusive, as listening experiences go. So, I'm just going to use this time + space to make my acknowledgements, and give thanks. This series would not at all have been poss...
Episode 7 Conclusion - IN/RESURRECTION
May 03, 2022 23:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBThis is a conclusion to parts 1 & 2 of Carceral Casteism. It is one of two, and you can listen to either or both, in any order as you please. I know I usually give these huge show-notes/accountings/missives for each episode, but, to be honest, you've all been following along, and they're both pretty conclusive, as listening experiences go. So, I'm just going to use this time + space to make my acknowledgements, and give thanks. This series would not at all have been possible without the ti...
Episode 7 Conclusion: A LASTING PATH
April 20, 2022 05:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBThis is a conclusion to parts 1 & 2 of Carceral Casteism. It is one of two, and you can listen to either or both, in any order as you please. I know I usually give these huge show-notes/accountings/missives for each episode, but, to be honest, you've all been following along, and they're both pretty conclusive, as listening experiences go. So, I'm just going to use this time + space to make my acknowledgements, and give thanks. This series would not at all have been possible without the t...
Episode 7 Conclusion: A LASTING PATH
April 20, 2022 05:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBThis is a conclusion to parts 1 & 2 of Carceral Casteism. It is one of two, and you can listen to either or both, in any order as you please. I know I usually give these huge show-notes/accountings/missives for each episode, but, to be honest, you've all been following along, and they're both pretty conclusive, as listening experiences go. So, I'm just going to use this time + space to make my acknowledgements, and give thanks. This series would not at all have been possible without the t...
Episode 7 PART #2: Carceral Casteism ft. Dr Rev John Boopalan
April 08, 2022 08:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBCarceral Casteism has two parts and 2 choose-your-own-adventure Endings that will release staggered over the next few weeks. This project is meant for Learning & Feeling but not for ease or comfort. Part 2 is about invisibilisation, isolation & Social Order. It’s about how the spectres of the State play out in our classrooms, our nice residential colonies/neighbourhoods, our intimate relationships & our minds. Social Order creates criminals from the underclass & ensures a supply of surplus ...
Episode 7 PART #1: Carceral Casteism ft. Nikita Sonavane, Sanjana Meshram & Dr Rev John Boopalan
April 03, 2022 15:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MByah, it's been a while. Still, I'm happy 2 say that this SERIES (yeah u, read that right!) is worth the wait. Carceral Casteism has two parts and 2 choose-your-own-adventure Endings that will release staggered over the next few weeks. This project is meant for Learning & Feeling but not for ease or comfort. Because while people share BK16 infographics & write poems about Umar Khalid, there isn't a constructive public discussion about crime, punishment or policing in India. Part 1 is about ...
Episode 6: Dalit Feminist Futures - Part II: Holding Up the Sky
February 01, 2022 04:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBWe're back from break!!! Welcome to Part II of Dalit Feminist Futures - I'm so glad you're here! While there may not be a guest expert featured in this edition, it is laden with the learnings, teachings, ideas, voices, art and rich imaginations of so so many experts. Structurally, this episode is MY top-ten hits from scholar Gowri Vijayakumar's commentary and positioning of Italian feminist scholar Leopoldina Fortunanti's text The Arcane of Reproduction. Vijayakumar's essay “There Was An...
Episode 6: Dalit Feminist Futures - Part I: Under the Sun ft. Vijeta Kumar
November 22, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBAdmin note: The audio of this ep is a little funky in some places (&, yes, we’re working on it) so consider yourselves warned! Ok, y’all know it’s been a while. In my defence, I’ve been working on a massive two-parter on Dalit Feminism & this is the first half! In this edition, I talk to researcher, professor and writer Vijeta Kumar, who is just as delightful and wise as her wonderful essays & writing. Her blog Rum Lola Rum & her column for @thirdeyesocial reveal a passionate, principl...
Episode 6: Dalit Feminist Futures - Part I: Under the Sun ft. Vijeta Kumar
November 22, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 47.5 MBAdmin note: The audio of this ep is a little funky in some places (&, yes, we’re working on it) so consider yourselves warned! Ok, y’all know it’s been a while. In my defence, I’ve been working on a massive two-parter on Dalit Feminism & this is the first half! In this edition, I talk to researcher, professor and writer Vijeta Kumar, who is just as delightful and wise as her wonderful essays & writing. Her blog Rum Lola Rum & her column for @thirdeyesocial reveal a passionate, principl...
Episode 5: The Pariah Kite Lodges in the Branches of the Mustard Tree
August 20, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBI had totally forgotten about it being independence day last Sunday, and then I was planning on releasing this one a couple of weeks from now, but I thought I would drop it kind of like a bonus track instead. In some ways, I took only a week to knock this ep out, but in some ways, I’ve been thinking about it since India’s devastating COVID 2nd Wave. I am furious, bitter & filled with hatred, resentment & frustration. Episode 5: The Pariah Kite Lodges in the Branches of the Mustard Tree is a...
Episode 4: A Thousand Will Rise ft. Jyoti Nisha & Divya Malhari
August 12, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 53 MBThis is one of the most ambitious episodes I’ve ever recorded, in terms of ideas covered & just sheer length. The title comes from a cartoon by Syamsundar Vunnamati & it is one that fills me with so much pride, anger, joy & sorrow. Ep 4 explores what it means to be raised as an Ambedkarite, & hopefully critiques some of the major fallacies that savarnas have about Ambedkarite communities,& ways of life. At the same time, through the wonderful experts Jyoti Nisha & Divya Malhari, it is not m...
Episode 3: Surveillance Casteism
May 25, 2021 05:00 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBIn Episode 3 I'm going to be talking about Ambedkar’s disavowal of liberal politics and his critique of liberalism as a whole. I’m joined by Bhawna (@bhawna_dhaania), a radical Ambedkarite, a feminist and an admin of the Spoilt Modern Indian Woman page (@spoiltmodernindianwoman), to talk about the role of humour and satire in broadening people’s political understandings as well as the importance of leisure. Describing this episode makes it seem disjointed but like most fields of existenc...
Episode 2: The City & The Village ft. Sumeet Samos
February 24, 2021 20:00 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBIn Episode 2 of Clear Blue Skies, I'm talking about what I thought after reading Untouchables: The Children of India's Ghetto, and more importantly, what my dear friend Sumeet thinks about this text. We also discuss Jesús Francisco Cháirez-Garza's paper Touching Space: Ambedkar on the spatial features of untouchability and what it means to find ourselves in different locations (the city, the village). Ambedkar saw cities as sites of emancipation, and if his dream hasn’t been entirely fulfile...
Episode 1: A Brief Introduction
January 27, 2021 08:00 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBSupport the show (https://paypal.me/experiencingAmbedkar) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/clear-blue-skies-s1/message