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Bunkers in a Border Village

In Degwar, a border village in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, residents expand housing by going underground in makeshift bunkers.

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The map owns you.

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When the Social Climber Plays Dirty

Emerald Fennell's Poor Rich People

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A Requiem For the Human Heart

How the history of the organ is a barometer of human morality.

Power

The Politicians vs. The Cartoonists

Future

Water Bankruptcy in the Blue Planet

Hacker Chic

The Missing Link

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Colonialism and The Gut

EP 05The Missing Link

Oceans and Memories

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Black Holes and Bodies

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Immortality and The Hydra

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Machines and Masculinity

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Butterflies and Borders

Palestinian History

Lina Soualem on Archiving Palestine

Sex 2.0

Robots, Virtual Intimacy and Sex in Space. Is This the Future of Sex?

Forgotten Crimes

Ep 2: A Sensational Trial

Nobin’s murder trial and Madhavchandra Giri’s adultery trial turned into spectator sports in Bengal. But was justice served?

The Real Green Revolution

Great Extraction in the Great Nicobar

The Business of Being Literary

To Attend a Litfest, Kill Your Ambition First

Respectfully Disagree

Why Do We Love Rich People Dramas?

Why do we love Schitt's Creek and why does The Menu miss the mark? This week on 'Respectfully Disagree', we discuss class, opulence, and the optics of wealth.

Sex: The Final Frontier

Big Tech Wants You to Get Digisexual

Legalised Disenfranchisement

The SIR’s Architecture of Bureaucratic Violence

Objectified

The Story of The Bindi

In this episode, The Swaddle team explores the history of the bindi and how it has shaped debates around the appropriation of Hindu culture.

Unidentifying

I Have ADHD. Don't Call Me Neurodivergent.

In militantly insisting that they (we) simply be custom “accommodated” in a broken system, the neurodivergence movement is, paradoxically, guilty of considering the system faultless.

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The Cult of the Teenage Messiah

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The Rewind

Are Zombies a Product of 19th Century Slavery?

We look at the creation of zombies, Voodoo practices, and capitalist American appropriation. ‘The Rewind’ is The Swaddle’s short series exploring lesser-known histories and how they relate to our lives today.