Not sure what to do this weekend? Listen to The Quint’s top podcasts from this week:
1. Decoding Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch: Choose This Path
Bandersnatch, Black Mirror’s interactive film, has captured our imagination and polarised Netflix viewers. Some loved it, some not so much. But there is a hell lot to unpack in this 'choose your own adventure' movie. Four Quintees have a freewheeling chat in this action-packed round table.
Which Path do you choose?
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Warning: Mild Spoilers
2. Kya Fool Hain Hum: Why We Always Make This Big Break up Mistake!
Why do we always end up falling for people whose behavior — just like Delhi’s air — keeps getting worse over time?
And why is it, that despite making dus hazaar promises to ourselves, we again end up becoming more clingy to our partners than the Kardashian sisters are to the limelight?
Doston, unfortunately, as much as we would like to blame our exes for everything, from our deepest emotional wounds to aaj ke lunch ka late delivery, we TOO NEED to look within and take some responsibility for our own faulty relationship patterns.
Sigh! But here’s where most people end up making a big mistake: instead of working on themselves post a breakup, they become like Usain Bolt, wanting to dash off as quickly as possible to Move On Nagar!
The result? After a good run initially, the new relationship too gets confronted with the same goddamn problems.
Which is why no matter how bakwaas it seems, it is important to recognise our own unhealthy relationship patterns and consciously work on them.
3. 1983 WC Hero Mohinder Amarnath on Where it All Began
If you’ve won the biggest prize available in your sport, it’s obvious that people would consider it your greatest achievement.
But for Mohinder Amarnath – Man of the Final when India defeated West Indies to win the 1983 World Cup and be crowned world champions for the first time – the 25th of June in the summer of '83 isn’t his best memory on a cricket field.
Instead, the one event unsurpassed in terms of fulfillment for ‘Jimmy’ Amarnath, as he’s fondly known to Indian cricket, is when it all began for him, nearly 50 years ago.
In conversation with The Quint, Amarnath – still one of only two players to have been Man of the Match in both the semi-final and the final of the same World Cup – relived the entirety of those five days in Chennai, where he would take the first steps of a storied career in Indian cricket.
4. Geek Speak: How Did Phones End Up With Multiple Cameras?
The next time you pull out your mobile phone for a selfie, take a moment to think about the poor point and shoot cameras that have almost become redundant now. Camera phones have all but replaced them. What were once grainy, tiny images from mobile phones a decade ago, are today high resolution images that can rival the best of cameras. But can mobile phones completely replace cameras? And why do they need multiple cameras on phones?
Listen to the resident geeks at The Quint thrash it out.
5. Unmute Episode 2: Trials of Trans-itions
Listen to the second episode of Unmute – a podcast series where we get voices little-heard to speak out loud.
In this episode we spoke to some members of the transgender community. Although the community has culturally been a significant part of Indian society, when it comes to providing quality of living and healthcare and acceptance, we’re lagging far behind.
The first person I got in touch with Riddhiman, a young trans man. He met me in a state of extreme distress. One of the first things he told me was how he was still addressed as a female by friends and family now and then, no matter how much he asserted his identity as a trans man. He chose to not attend a regular college only to avoid being identified as a girl. Listen in.
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