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Bachelor Party

Breaking Down ‘Indian Matchmaking’ With Shruti Rajagopalan

Bachelor Party

The Ringer

Tv & Film

3.95.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Shruti Rajagopalan joins Juliet Litman to break down the Netflix show 'Indian Matchmaking.' They discuss the realities of Indian arranged marriage, how the show is perceived by American audiences vs. Indian audiences, and the problems of the caste system and colorism as it relates to the show. Read Shruti's Bloomberg editorial here: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-02/netflix-s-indian-matchmaking-is-only-too-accurate?sref=ZvSOnK04 Host: Juliet Litman Guest: Shruti Rajagopalan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, everybody expects us to have an anime podcast.

0:04.6

Micopeters just in charity at long last are they podcasting once again about anime?

0:11.9

Nooo.

0:13.9

I'm just in charity.

0:15.4

And I'm Micopeters.

0:16.7

Honestly, this podcast might turn out to be like the Eddie Murphy Martin Lawrence movie

0:21.6

Life, except neither of us is in prison and in fact, we're not even taping in the

0:26.9

same location.

0:28.2

But we will be talking a lot about the millennial life, you know, music, video games, strange

0:35.1

stuff from the dark corners of the internet that peaks our interest.

0:38.8

People think this is going to be a little topic A, oh, it's topic B, oh, little, you know,

0:44.2

chit chat.

0:45.2

No, every time you tune into this podcast, we are going to lock you into a room for 45

0:50.8

minutes and we are going to do criticism.

0:53.2

We are going to get to the bottom of every Scooby Doo mystery that the discourse produces

0:59.8

for us each week.

1:02.2

Mark my words.

1:03.6

Man, that was, that was a lot.

1:07.0

But anyway, we are excited about it.

1:09.5

We are excited.

1:10.5

We're excited.

1:11.5

We're super excited.

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