Filmmaker Shruti Ganguly’s Message To Anti-Trump, Pro-Modi Diaspora Indians | VIGILANT | The Quint
Quick Guide1:31 - Introduction
2:13 - Meet Shruti Ganguly
3:37 - The likeness to a lotus
5:30 - Memories from a childhood in Oman
8:31 - On feeling othered
12:37 - Woodstock, and a Tibetan influence
15:23 - Satyajit Ray, and a sudden turn towards the movies
24:50 - Visa challenges in the US post 9/11
28:36 - Early virality
30:15 - Highlights from a career in films
36:37 - Gaza, and artists for ceasefire
38:45 - Working for a White House committee during the Obama administration
41:23 - Holding on to Indian citizenship
43:58 - A churn in the Indian diaspora
47:42 - Inspired by young people, from CJP in India to Zohran Mamdani in NYC
“There are some people in the [Indian] diaspora who can be critical of Trump but then they don’t mind Modi,” says filmmaker Shruti Ganguly, speaking to The Quint’s editor-in-chief Raghav Bahl on a new episode of the VIGILANT podcast. She adds, “I am often confronting why people should think that they are different, that they operate differently.”
Ganguly, a filmmaker and writer based between New York City and Oslo, is a co-executive producer on the Oscar-nominated feature documentary ‘To Kill A Tiger’ and co-producer on ‘Baksho Bondi’ (‘Shadowbox’) which premiered at Berlinale. In this hour-long candid conversation with Bahl, Ganguly shares stories from her childhood in India and Oman, and early adult life in the United States, looks back on working for a White House committee during the final year of the Obama administration, discusses the power of films and popular culture on political discourse, and explains why she feels inspired by the youth, from the emergence of the Cockroach Janta Party in India to the rise of Zohran Mamdani to the mayoralty of New York City.
The podcast is a part of VIGIL, an offering on The Quint that discusses and champions themes of pluralism and inclusivity in the Indian diaspora. VIGIL stands for Voice of India: Global, Inclusive, Liberal. Have an idea for a guest we should speak to on the podcast, or a topic we should discuss? Write to us at vigil@thequint.com and let us know!
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