Sagarika Ghose on liberalism, BJP, media | What's your ism? 

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Sagarika Ghose, the journalist-turned-politician who recently made headlines for joining the Trinamool Congress, is set to contest the Rajya Sabha polls. Has she abandoned the journalism front? How does she look at Hindutva? What made her pull out of mainstream media?
In this candid conversation with Sudipto Mondal for What’s your ism? - a podcast by The News Minute and Newslaundry - Ghose talks about the BJP, media, Hindutva ideology, liberalism and intellectuals in Indian politics.
On joining the opposition at a time it has “no hope in hell”, Ghose says there is “no space left for the kind of writing I want to do”, and the “danger” to constitutional values is “far beyond” what she could do as a journalist.
She says the mainstream media has been “captured by the Modi government” and has become a purveyor of hatred, bigotry, and “trumpeter of the regime”. “The mainstream media runs counter to what journalism should be”.
Ghose further speaks about why Hindutva is anti-constitutional, the “glass club” of men in newsrooms, diversity in media, significance of opposition in a democracy, and why intellectuals don’t make good politicians.
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0:00-2:42 What to look out for?
2:43-4:00 Introducing 'What's your ism?'
4:01-11:40 Why did Sagarika Ghose leave journalism?
11:41- 14:18 Female gaze in journalism
14:19- 15:22- On constitutional values
15:23-18:01 On social spaces in journalism
18:02-21:56 Diversity in newsrooms v/s politics
21:57-24:50 On acknowledging caste privilege
24:52-36:25 Is the opposition clear with their ideologies?
36:27-41:150 On Sandeshkhali
41:16- 43:53 On caste vulnerabilities during violence
43:54-48:19 On Mamta Banerjee’s ideology
48:20-49:12 On Matua Politics
49:13-55:47 On affirmative action
55:48-57:57 Is society really free?
57:58-1:00:00 Rapid Fire of ‘isms’
1:00:01-1:03:00 What is Sagarika’s favourite ‘ism’?
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