ALTbrown Podcast

After three years of both serious and fun conversations highlighting alternate perspectives in diaspora communities. Sharky and Pady have decided to hang our hats. Thanks to everyone who gave feedback and supported us through our run. You can keep up with ALTbrown and the podcast family on Facebook and Twitter. ALTbrown was a collaboration between Shahryar Rizvi and Padmini Naidu.

D’Loco Kid is a writer, performance artist, comedian and actor of Sri Lankan Tamil descent based in L.A.

Members of the indo-Caribbean entertainment group Flat Tire Productions returns with  new crew and a Kickstarter for their five one-act play series “Love Bites”

Zaman M. Amin a.k.a Sundari The Indian Goddess is a Guyanese-American dancer trained in Kathak, Orissi, Bollywood, Bhangra and Chutney styles.

Omar is a Montreal-based filmmaker and director of the 2009 documentary Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam

Jes and Chewy are Asian-American comediennes from New York who recently made a short video about the Ghost in the Shell casting controversy.

Sharky and Pady nerd out to the Netflix mystery/drama series The OA.

Koushik(Ko the Timeless) and Nabin(Brookyn Shanti) are Basmati Brothers, a Bengali-American music duo fusing dance-pop and Hip-Hop.

Jenova is an anime-inspired erotic artist and writer of adult webcomic Rites of Spring.

Pandita Dr. Indrani Rampersad is a Trinidadian-Indian writer, researcher and first female clergy ordained in Trinidad whose research focuses on the Ram Leela among Indo-Caribbean Hindus.

Justin is back talking about his Youtube channel and dealing with a Mandela effect conspiracy theory based around the a supposed film from the 90s starring Sinbad. Mind Sharky’s mic

Sharky and Pady talk among themselves about media in 2016

Sri Panchalam, Jayson Joseph, and Azeem Khan from the garage punk band Doctors & Engineers join the podcast

Foxy is a vlogger, writer, blerd, and blogger highlighting “News, Opinions, & Hoodrat Nerd Shenanigans”

Hassan’s debut short film Veham will be showing at SAIFF 2016 on Saturday, 12/3. New Dead Bhuttos EP(featuring podcast fam Basim Usmani) forthcoming

Nikhil is a lawyer and photographer based in Guyana. His work is on Flickr and  Bad Light, Good Light.

After some delay. Sharky and Pady talk among themselves about the impending Trump presidency, their fears, and a few show reports.

Sharky and Pady chat about the HBO sci-fi series Westworld.

Sadia Arshad is a sexual health educator and consultant of Pakistani-Guyanese descent

Nadir Shirazi is the creator of The MultiFacet, a graphic multimedia series inspired by anime, comics and diverse representation.