Dear Body
Sarosh Ibrahim
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Hello everyone, my name is Sarosh Ibrahim, and you're listening to Dear Body, a show where I, your host, unpack our stories, our experiences of living as Pakistanis in today’s world, in the social, domestic, political, and cultural space.
If you have any thoughts on any topic or issue, or you just want to get in touch with me about the show, find me on Instagram @saroshibrahim
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Recent Episodes
S1E27 Why Mother–Daughter Relationships Feel So Complicated | EP 27 | Dear Body
What happens when daughters become emotionally responsible too early?In this episode of Dear Body, I'll be sharing the emotional complexity of mother–daughter relationships through conversations with…
S1E26 What Happens When You Are No Longer Recognised? | EP 26 | Dear Body
In this episode of Dear Body, we explore the CNIC not just as a card, but as a body pass. Imagine an object that mediates your ability to move, transact, and belong in Pakistan.Through the story of…
S1E25 The Politics of the Dupatta | EP 25 | Dear Body
In this episode of Dear Body, we explore the politics of the dupatta, not as a piece of fabric, but as a symbol shaped by history, culture, gender, and power.Across South Asia, clothing has never…
S1E24 Why Women Learn to Stay Quiet? | Arslan Athar's Forty Days of Mourning | EP 24 | Dear Body
In this episode, Sarosh Ibrahim discusses Arsalan Attar’s Forty Days of Mourning and examines the layered complexity of its protagonist, Saleema.Set across pre-Partition and Partition Hyderabad, the…
S1E23 The Woman Behind the Diamond: Nur Jahan, Hollywood & the Politics of Visibility | EP 23 | Dear Body
What happens when a Mughal heirloom appears on a Hollywood red carpet, but the woman who once owned it is left unnamed?In this episode of Dear Body, Sarosh Ibrahim examines the resurfacing of the Taj…
S1E22 When Love Needs Women to be Fragile | EP 22 | Dear Body
Pakistani cinema often presents love through the male gaze—where women are written as fragile, childlike, and in need of protection, while male persistence is framed as romance.In this episode of…
S1E21 The Mother-in-Law vs Daughter-in-Law Cycle | EP 21 | Dear Body
The “mother-in-law vs daughter-in-law” trope is deeply ingrained in South Asian culture, but it is not harmless.In Episode 21 of Dear Body, we examine: How this dynamic is produced by patri-local…
S1E20 Is Saba Faisal a Villain, or a Product of Patriarchy? | EP 20 | Dear Body
What do we learn when women are repeatedly told, on national television, how to “save” their marriages?In the latest episode of Dear Body, I reflect on the recurring advice given to young girls on…
S1E19 Why do girls grow up so fast? | EP 19 | Dear Body
What is the cost of education and financial independence in our country? Before you answer this question, I want you to think about yourself, especially if you’re a woman, a girl, when was the first…
S1E18 Is Smog Political or an Environmental Concern? | EP 18 | Dear Body
Every year, we find ourselves having the same conversation about smog. Even though we know that Lahore’s smog isn’t limited to October through January, its visible haze is enough to jolt us,…
What Really Happens to a Woman's Body After 30 | EP 17 | Dear Body
This episode of Dear Body explores the physical and emotional transformations women experience during perimenopause and menopause, phases that are rarely talked about but deeply affect how a woman…
S1E16 Why Workplaces Still Fail Women | EP 16 | Dear Body
In today’s episode, I open up about a world beyond social media, the 9 to 5 world. The world where being a Pakistani working woman means living by a different set of rules. We talk about body image,…
S1E15 All About the Hidden Crisis Women Face in Pakistan | EP 15 | Dear Body
In this episode of Dear Body, host Sarosh Ibrahim takes listeners into one of the most urgent and silenced issues in Pakistan: suicide among women. September marks Suicide Prevention Month, but here,…
S1E14 The Untold Reality of PCOS in Pakistan | EP 14 | Dear Body
What happens when more than half the women in a country are living with a condition no one talks about? In this episode of Dear Body, we’re diving into the world of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS),…
S1E13 Floods, Women, and Survival: Pakistan's Hidden Crisis | EP 13 | Dear Body
This week on Dear Body, I step into a story that is both urgent and deeply personal to me: the gendered impact of floods in Pakistan.When we talk about climate disasters, we usually hear numbers:…
S1E12 Why Are All Our Female Leads in Their 20s? | EP 12 | Dear Body
In this episode of Dear Body, let's unpacks a troubling pattern in Pakistani television: the endless cycle of baby-faced, fair-skinned female leads in their early 20s paired with male actors twice…
S1E11 No Honour in Murder: Femicide and Honour Killing Cases in Pakistan | Ep 11 | Dear Body
What kills women in Pakistan isn’t always a weapon. Sometimes, it’s the silence that surrounds them. In this deeply personal and reflective episode, Sarosh speaks about the harrowing realities of…
S1E10 Are Pakistani Dramas Justifying Toxic Love? | Ep 10 | Dear Body
In this episode of Dear Body, host Sarosh returns after a 2.5-year hiatus to critically examine how toxic relationships are romanticised in Pakistani television, particularly in the drama Mann Mast…
S1E9 Is Taylor Swift Fatphobic? | Ep 09 | Dear Body
In today’s episode, we have a bit of a complicated situation with Taylor Swift’s new music video that came out recently titled “Anti-Hero.” Here, she reflects upon her experiences being in the…
S1E8 Period Poverty and the Fight Against Socio-Cultural Stigmas | Ep 08 | Dear Body
In today’s episode, we will together explore a major stigma in various cultures and spaces i.e. Periods. I am going to start off with how this physiological process of bleeding continuously for 6-7…
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