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The Romesh Ranganathan Show

Shanthi Opens Up About Life In Sri Lanka

The Romesh Ranganathan Show

Ranga Bee & Platform Media

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6711 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

What was Shanthi’s life like before the podcast? In this Thursday episode of The Romesh Ranganathan Show, Shanthi becomes the guest as Romesh talks to her about her childhood in Sri Lanka, meeting his dad, moving to the UK and the difficult years that followed. She opens up about losing her father at a young age, the freedom she found after leaving Sri Lanka and the financial struggles the family faced while trying to rebuild their lives in the UK. We also celebrate the team hitting 100,000 subscribers on YouTube with the arrival of the classic Silver Plaque. Plus: thoughts on Aziz Ansari’s appearance on the show and your listener dilemmas, including questions about luck vs fate, marriage roles and family drama. A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Platform. 00:00 Intro 03:45 On Aziz Ansari on the show 06:38 Getting to know Shanthi 08:09 What’s happened to Shanthi’s house? 11:45 Rapid fire questions 20:41 We reached 100k subscribers! 24:00 Questions from you 25:58 Theorising luck 34:31 A question on marriage roles 40:22 We answer another email 45:34 An alternative outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to the Thursday edition of the Ramesh Ranganathan Show. Each Monday we chat about

0:35.8

Monday's guest and answer listener questions. I'm joined by my mom, Shanti Ranganathan show. Each Monday, we chat about Monday's guest and answer

0:37.5

listener questions.

0:39.5

I'm joined by

0:40.1

my mom,

0:40.5

Shanti Ranganathan.

0:41.4

A moment for the

0:41.9

outfit, everybody.

0:43.2

Ooh.

0:43.8

Yeah.

0:45.1

You look good.

0:47.6

What did you just say?

0:49.3

Well,

0:49.6

I didn't know what noise

0:50.3

we were.

0:50.8

Oh, okay.

0:51.5

Do you want to go solo?

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