The Yodakin Podcast
Episodes
Episode 24: Arshi Javaid in conversation with Ekta Chauhan
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The 24th episode of The Yodakin Podcast features a recording of a conversation between Arshi Javaid, author of 'Yaadgah: Memories of Srinagar'...
Episode 23: Padmini Mongia reads from Baby Looking Out and Other Stories
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our 23rd episode, Padmini Mongia reads from her short-story collection, 'Baby Looking Out and Other Stories', published by Yoda Press in 20...
Episode 22: In conversation with Arshi Javaid, Neeta Kolhatkar, and Namita Waikar | Ananke Lit Fest 2025
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our 22nd episode is a special one, where Arpita Das, Founder-Publisher of Yoda Press, moderates a panel between three of our authors, as part of the 2...
Episode 21: Naima Rashid reads poems from Sum of Worlds
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For our 21st episode, the last of 2024, we have Naima Rashid reciting a few of her poems from Sum of Worlds, published by Yoda Press in September 2024...
Episode 20: In Conversation with Arpitha Kodiveri
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In our 20th episode (in our 20th year!), Founder-Publisher Arpita Das is in conversation with environmental lawyer and legal scholar, Arpitha Kodiveri...
Episode 19: In Conversation with Maya Sharma
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the 19th episode of The Yodakin Podcast, Publisher Arpita Das is in conversation with queer activist and writer Maya Sharma. Maya Sharma is the aut...
Episode 18: In Conversation with Professor Chinnaiah Jangam
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Yodakin Podcast, Publisher Arpita Das is in conversation with renowned historian, Prof. Chinnaiah Jangam. Prof. Jangam translat...
Episode 17: In Conversation with B. M. Zuhara and Fehmida Zakeer
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Yodakin Podcast, Publisher Arpita Das is in conversation with renowned Malayalam author B.M. Zuhara about her book ‘Dreams of...
Episode 16: In conversation with Lisa Björkman
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Arpita Das, publisher and founder of Yoda Press, is in discussion with Lisa Björkman, Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affair...
Episode 15: In conversation with Samarth
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Yodakin Podcast, Arpita Das and graphic novelist and researcher Samarth discuss the experiences that led to the creation of the...
Episode 14: Kanchana Viswanathan reads extracts from Chellammal's Journal
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kanchana Viswanathan reads some extracts from Chellammal's Journal: A Woman's Memoir of a Joint Family in Twentieth-Century India. Ch...
Episode 13: Sophia Naz reciting poems from Open Zero
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sophia Naz reads some poems from Open Zero. Open Zero is at once a visceral close up of the stark ground realities of loss and an evo...
Episode 12: In conversation with Dolly Kikon
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Author and professor, Dolly Kikon sits down with Arpita Das to discuss her book Living with Oil and Coal. Among other things they discuss the idea of ...
Episode 11: In conversation with Kavita Daiya
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Yodakin Podcast, Arpita Das talks to Kavita Daiya about her newest monograph, Graphic Migrations: Gender and Precarity in India...
Episode 10: In conversation with Anuradha Kumar
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Arpita Das sits down with author Anuradha Kumar and talks to her about her latest work of literary fiction, The Hottest Summer in Years. Among other t...
Episode 9: In conversation with Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Arpita Das, publisher and founder of Yoda Press, is in discussion with Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky about her book, The Women's War: A F...
Episode 8: In conversation with Mrinal Pande, Ira Pande and Priyanka Sarkar
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bhairavi: The Runaway, by Shivani urf Gaura Pant, has been translated from the Hindi for the first time in English by Priyanka Sarkar. On the eve of t...
Episode 7: In conversation with Thomas Crowley
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Arpita Das and author Thomas Crowley discuss his upcoming book, Fractured Forest, Quartzite City and delve deeper into the history and polit...
Episode 6: In conversation with Bhaswati Ghosh
01 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bhaswati Ghosh and Arpita Das sit down to discuss Victory Colony, 1950, Ghosh's debut novel on the aftermath of the Indian Partition. They discuss the...
Episode 5: In conversation with Nupur Dhingra Paiva
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Arpita Das and psychotherapist and author Nupur Dhingra Paiva sit down to discuss the effects of lock down across the world due to COVID19. How childr...
Episode 4: In conversation with Sarah Ladipo Manyika
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On 13th December 2019, Goldsmiths Award nominee, Sarah Ladipo Manyika sat down with Arpita Das, Publisher-Founder of Yoda Press. Their candid conversa...
Episode 3: 'Open Couplets'
13 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This excerpt is from our book Open Couplets written by Torsa Ghosal. Somewhere in the dingy lanes of north Kolkata, a young girl born to a family of i...
Episode 2: 'Miss Hadd'
17 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Yodakin Podcast we bring to you Miss Hadd from Padmini Mongia's collection of short stories titled 'Baby Looking Out and Other ...
Episode 1: 'Mohua'
30 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The quiet, bookish narrator who walks with a limp and often feels like the odd one out is drawn to the story of the beautiful Mohua who died a hundred...