Sonali Kolhatkar

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Meeting Juan Felipe Herrera, Thank God for Childcare, Freaky Zika Virus, Barbie’s New Curves, and Badass Eva Schloss

In this episode of Uprising Uncut, host Sonali Kolhatkar describes her interview with US poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, launches a diatribe against the lack of subsidies for childcare, puts the scary Zika virus into perspective, rails against Barbie’s new…

How Non-Americans View Trump and US Politics, How I Realized a Bollywood Love Story Was a Radical Anti-Imperialist Film, Remembering the 1991 Gulf War, Oklahoma Rapist Cop Gets What He Deserves, and Liberal Establishment’s Hypocritical Critique of Sanders

In this episode of Uprising Uncut, host Sonali Kolhatkar is BACK after a LONG 2-month hiatus (she’s really sorry for the silence) and discusses her trip to Dubai to visit family and how all her non-American friends are laughing at…

Wishing I Could Ignore Donald Trump, Missouri’s Exciting Anti-Racist Campus Fight, Veterans Day Should Vanish Alongside War, and Aziz Ansari Is Master of Truth-telling

In this episode of Uprising Uncut, host Sonali Kolhatkar discusses the latest GOP Debate, why it’s so painful to say Donald Trump and Ben Carson’s names, how the corporate media are feeding the Trump insanity, how exciting it is to…

Charlie Hebdo Vs. Adrian Grenier, Matt Damon Vs. Effie Brown, Standing With Ahmed

In this fourth episode of Uprising Uncut, Sonali discusses Charlie Hebdo’s callous mocking of Alan Kurdi, actor Adrian Grenier’s 9/11 comments on Iraqi deaths, Victoria Law’s incredible stories about mothers incarcerated in federal prisons on drug charges, the women scientists…

Clinton, Sanders, KPFK, A New Study on Unions, Musings on Sept 11th Anniversary, and Yet More Anti-Twitter Ranting

In this third episode of Uprising Uncut, Sonali discusses Hillary Vs. Clinton and Sanders Vs. BLM, more Twitter-hate, KPFK’s internal woes, a new cool study on unions, yay for Seattle teachers, and ‘Did you see the Hungarian Camerawoman trip a…