# 36 with Sumeet Samos (Rapper & Anti-Caste Scholar)

Anurag Minus Verma Podcast

Sumeet is Rapper from Odisha and has completed his post-graduation from JNU. Through his writing and music he is fiercely producing significant anti caste works. He is currently studying at Oxford university.

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Main points discussed in this podcast:

1. Experience of Oxford and campus politics. How it is different from other Indian universities in terms of Campus Politics.

2. Does reading political theories make you a more empathic person from the average person who hasn't read these things?

3. The politics of putting Dalits in boxes and why he feels this is a new form of Orientalism.

4. How rap music which is suppose to be the scream of unprivileged is appropriated by privileged ( ex : Ranveer Singh/ Raja Kumari)

5. How does the life of Christian Dalits (Sumeet is from the same community) is different within the caste hierarchy. How upper caste christians practice casteism.

7. Anti- caste culture of Chennai.

8. Why he left social media and the problem with discourse around politics on social media.

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