And welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast. I oftentimes have cool

opportunities to have shows where we can actually learn something and today is one of

those days where we have an amazing individual who's doing work in the region of

the country that I love the most.

Of course, the South is God's country.

But Noel didle, how you doing today?

I'm doing good, Bakari, how are you?

I'm more blessed than I deserve.

We start each one of our episodes

by having our guests walk us through the arc of their careers

and yours is decently unique.

Your career starts in India and then you move to Jackson, Mississippi to start a career in academia at

Jackson State teaching English, but also as an activist in the deep south.

Can you talk about the various stops in your career in both India and Jackson?

And why did you choose to teach at at HBCU?

Wow, that's a lot of territory to the hour.

I'll try my best. So Noel did la, she her pronouns, originally from

Guntour, which is on the southeastern part of India and then so that makes me a person of the global

south right and I'm right now making home in the deep south in Jackson, Mississippi is what my son and I call home.

We've been making Jackson, Mississippi home for the last 17 years.

So I'm an immigrant.

So my life started in Guntour. My dad was the first Dalit Bhajun, Christian vice president of a majority university in India and by virtue of him being a cast minority and you know him being first generation somebody to make it to that level from being

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