The Pattu Talks Podcast
Grounded talk. Two hosts. One country in motion.
Shivam Soni and Saurabh sit with the questions the news cycle skips — migration, identity, culture, the small politics of daily life.
Reading India Through Its Small Towns
51 min
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Rishtey, Rent aur Reality
Rent bharte hue rishtey kaise badalte hain? Metros me akele rehna aur ghar ki yaad — ek honest baat.
The Quiet Politics of Everyday Life
How the small choices we make — the language we speak at home, the tea shop we visit, the friends we keep — quietly shape the country's social fabric.
Gaon Se Shehar: The Migration Story
Shivam aur Saurabh discuss how migration from villages to cities is reshaping identity, family, and belonging in urban India.
Your hosts
Two friends, one long conversation
We are Shivam and Saurabh — one foot in the village we grew up in, one in the city we now call home. This podcast is what we talk about after the day is over.
Shivam (Pattu)
From a small town in Rajasthan, now in Bengaluru. Writes about cities, work, and the people who move between them. Believes tea shops are a form of infrastructure.
Saurabh
Grew up between two states and never fully picked one. Reads too much, argues in three languages, and thinks the best interviews start after the recorder is off.
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