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  • The Wrong Gods: When the Sacred is Shaken

    The Wrong Gods: When the Sacred is Shaken
    2025/05/08
    What do we call progress — and what do we lose when we pursue it blindly? In this episode of SBS Spice, Dilpreet Kaur Taggar speaks to the team behind The Wrong Gods — the new play by Counting and Cracking writer S. Shakthidharan, now premiering at Sydney’s Belvoir St Theatre. Set in a rural Indian valley, The Wrong Gods is an intimate drama about a mother and daughter divided by belief, and a community forced to reckon with the promises and perils of modernisation. Featuring conversations with actors Nadie Kammallaweera and Radhika Mudaliyar, designer Keerthi Subramanyam, and Shakthidharan himself. Listen now on SBS Spice, wherever you get your podcasts.
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    12 分
  • Jo Gowda: What’s So Funny About Migrating

    Jo Gowda: What’s So Funny About Migrating
    2025/05/06
    Bangalore-born comic Jo Gowda joins SBS Spice to talk about her new show Export Quality at the Sydney Comedy Festival — a sharp, funny take on the migrant experience in Australia. From navigating Brisbane’s eerie quiet to decoding how Aussies talk (and eat), Jo unpacks the layered reality of life as an outsider looking in. Offstage, she’s also raising a full-blown Aussie kid who loves Vegemite — and no, she still hasn’t made peace with it. Plus: a rapid-fire round as your favourite Bangalore dad. Listen wherever you find your podcasts.
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    14 分
  • Cassandra Fernando: Making Labor’s Case for Re-Election

    Cassandra Fernando: Making Labor’s Case for Re-Election
    2025/04/28
    Labor MP Cassandra Fernando has represented the seat of Holt in Victoria since 2022. As Labor seeks a second term in government, she makes the case for her party’s record and its promises to voters. In this episode of SBS Spice, she speaks to Suhayla Sharif about Labor’s plans to tackle the cost of living crisis, HECS debt, and the national housing shortage. Fernando, who migrated from Sri Lanka as a child, also discusses the role of representation in Australian politics and the challenges of connecting with an increasingly diverse electorate.
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    22 分
  • Kumar on being Queer, Candid and Comedy Royalty

    Kumar on being Queer, Candid and Comedy Royalty
    2025/04/25
    Singapore-based comedian Kumar has been pushing the boundaries of Asia's entertainment landscape for over three decades. Performing as a drag queen and comedic entertainer, his unfiltered yet effervescent humour has never bowed down to binaries and boxes. Just before taking to the stage for Sydney Comedy Festival, he sat down with Suhayla Sharif to explore how old school humour is shaping the future of being funny. Listen now on SBS Spice, wherever you find your podcasts.
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    14 分
  • Prashasti Singh on Hindi, Anxiety and the Divine Feminine

    Prashasti Singh on Hindi, Anxiety and the Divine Feminine
    2025/04/24
    Stand-up comedy royalty Prashasti Singh makes her Australian debut with Divine Feminine — a show delivered entirely in Hindi at the Sydney Comedy Festival. In her first Australian interview, she joins Dilpreet Kaur Taggar on SBS Spice to open up about language, longing, and the layered experience of performing for desis abroad. Together, they dive into age anxiety, algorithm-induced identity crises, and the unexpected comfort of finding “your tribe” far from home. Listen now on SBS Spice, wherever you find your podcasts.
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    14 分
  • From Labor to Australia’s Voice: Fatima Payman's Political Reset

    From Labor to Australia’s Voice: Fatima Payman's Political Reset
    2025/04/22
    Senator Fatima Payman quit Labor over Palestine. Now she’s leading her own party. In this episode of SBS Spice, she tells Suhayla Sharif why she walked, what it cost her, and how it led to the formation of Australia’s Voice. From HECS relief and supermarket price gouging to Gaza and foreign aid, she outlines her party’s vision—and what she believes young Australians should be pushing for at the ballot box in the upcoming federal election. Listen now on SBS Spice, wherever you find your podcasts.
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    25 分
  • Ruchi Page on a Body That’s Meant to Be

    Ruchi Page on a Body That’s Meant to Be
    2025/04/16
    Writer and digital creator Ruchi Page joins SBS Spice on the long, messy journey of making peace with your body. Growing up as a brown girl in a predominantly white town, Ruchi learned early on how body image is shaped not just by mirrors, but by the people we love, the cultures we come from, and the spaces we’re told we don’t belong in. In this conversation with Dilpreet Kaur Taggar, we talk about softness, shame, and the power of real storytelling — both online and in Butterfly Foundation’s new campaign The Changing Room, which Ruchi is part of. Listen now on SBS Spice, wherever you get your podcasts.
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    15 分
  • Urooj & Anirban: Funny, Foreign & Political in Australia

    Urooj & Anirban: Funny, Foreign & Political in Australia
    2025/04/14
    What makes a joke travel? Urooj Ashfaq and Anirban Dasgupta, two of India’s most distinctive comedy voices, are touring Australia and figuring that out in real time. From navigating diaspora nerves to resisting the pressure to “perform Indian-ness,” they talk about what lands, what doesn’t, and how the rules of the stage shift depending on where you are—and where you’re from. In the lead-up to their Sydney Comedy Festival show, they join Dilpreet Kaur Taggar on SBS Spice to unpack silence, self-censorship, and the strange freedom that comes with being funny far from home.
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    17 分