Conversations with 'Urban Naxals': Six podcasts that'll help you spot a member of the species in the wild

Are you an Urban Naxal ? How many Urban Naxals do you know? Would you be able to spot an Urban Naxal in the wild? Do you even know what an Urban Naxal is ? We don’t, so we thought we’d track down a few who’ve been tagged so, sit down with them and ask each of them a bunch of fundamental questions about who they were. These podcasts are a result of our “field studies”. 6. Sanjay Rajoura is a stand-up artist and actor and part of the collective Aisi Taisi Democracy. Read the full transcript here. 5. Nakul Singh Sawhney is an independent filmmaker and founder of Chalchitra Abhi, a film and media collective based out of West Uttar Pradesh. Read the full transcript here . 4. Himanshu Saikia is a masters student at the School of Media and Cultural Studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). 3. Koel Sen is a filmmaker. Her mother Shoma Sen was arrested on 6 June, 2018, along with activists Rona Wilson, Mahesh Raut, Sudhir Dhawale and Surendra Gadling for their alleged Maoist links. 2. Meghnad is a public policy professional who runs the YouTube channel Sansad Watch. 1. Susan Abraham is a human rights lawyer and whose husband Vernon Gonsalves was one of the five arrested on 28 August, 2018. Co-produced and edited by  Sonali Jain .