Episodes

  • Ruchi Page on a Body That’s Meant to Be

    Ruchi Page on a Body That’s Meant to Be
    Apr 16 2025
    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 mins
  • Urooj & Anirban: Funny, Foreign & Political in Australia

    Urooj & Anirban: Funny, Foreign & Political in Australia
    Apr 14 2025
    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 mins
  • Brown Women Comedy: Laughing away the shame

    Brown Women Comedy: Laughing away the shame
    Apr 10 2025
    Not your aunty’s idea of stand-up. Daizy Maan and Niv Prakasam are carving out space on Australia’s biggest comedy stages with Brown Women Comedy—one sharp, subversive set at a time. They join Suhayla Sharif to chat about the politics of palatability, turning silence into laughter, and what happens when you take your story and make it the punchline (on your own terms).
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    15 mins
  • Why Netflix’s Adolescence feels like an emergency

    Why Netflix’s Adolescence feels like an emergency
    Apr 3 2025
    A 13-year-old boy, a murder, and the internet—where does the blame begin? Suhayla Sharif and Dilpreet Kaur Taggar break down Adolescence, Netflix’s chilling dive into the manosphere, incel culture, and the online rabbit holes shaping young men. When ideology turns dangerous, who’s really in control?
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    18 mins
  • Shamita Sivabalan refuses to dial it down

    Shamita Sivabalan refuses to dial it down
    Mar 31 2025
    Shamita Sivabalan has always been a force in the spotlight—dancer, choreographer, actor. In TV series 'Good Cop/Bad Cop', they break away from typical roles, playing Sarika Ray, a Marine-turned-cop. Shamita talks with SBS Spice’s Suhayla Sharif about casting challenges in Australia, addressing labels like “too brown” and “too queer,” and what it means for South Asian Australian visibility. Listen now on SBS Spice, wherever you get your podcasts.
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    12 mins
  • Moving Mountains with Poorna Malavath

    Moving Mountains with Poorna Malavath
    Mar 26 2025
    At just 13, Poorna Malavath became the youngest woman to summit Mount Everest in 2014. But that was only the beginning. Since then, she has conquered the highest peaks across all seven continents. Now, she’s turning her focus closer to home—hoping to inspire young girls in India to pursue sports climbing. Poorna speaks to Suhayla Sharif about finding new peaks by staying grounded. Listen now, only on SBS Spice—wherever you get your podcasts.
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    15 mins
  • The in-between of being South Asian Australian

    The in-between of being South Asian Australian
    Mar 24 2025
    The South Asian Australian community is rapidly growing as more migrants from the region choose to call Australia home. A second generation of South Asian immigrants, the children of at least one foreign-born parent, are tasked with finding belonging in social circles that often question the validity of their Australian or South Asian identities. Spice girls Saesha Senanayake and Suhayla Sharif examine the bricks of their 'in-between' identity and what has shaped their understanding of acceptance in multicultural Australia. Listen to the full episode— only on SBS Spice.
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    18 mins
  • Unboxing the world and women of Dabba Cartel

    Unboxing the world and women of Dabba Cartel
    Mar 20 2025
    Dabba Cartel is the Indian Netflix series plating up a fresh take on crime drama. When a Mumbai-based food delivery service unexpectedly turns into a drug cartel, five women are caught in a tangled web of cooking, crime and chaos. Magnifying the hustle and hardships of women in India's working class, Dilpreet Kaur Taggar lifts the lid on the series with director Hitesh Bhatia and co-creator Shibani Akhtar. Listen now on SBS Spice— available wherever you find your podcasts.
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    18 mins
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