5 Objects Podcast | A Conversation With Roopa Gogineni

5 Objects Podcast | A conversation with Roopa Gogineni

By Suchitra Vijayan December 2, 2017

For each episode, our guest will be asked to choose five pieces or items that have influenced their intellectual life and their work. These five items can be books, art, music, poetry, photographs, performance, a person, an event, or an experience. The choices then become the basis of a free-flowing conversation that discusses our guest’s life, their personal, political, and intellectual journeys and histories. At the end of the program, our current guest will nominate the person to be interviewed next in the series making this podcast an exercise in serendipity and intellectual history of a new generation of writers, scholars, artists, and activists.

Roopa Gogineni

Roopa Gogineni is a filmmaker and photographer who lives between Nairobi and Paris.

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This week, we spoke to Roopa Gogineni, a filmmaker and photographer who lives between Nairobi and Paris. She holds an MSc in African Studies from the University of Oxford, where she researched the construction of media narratives around Somalia. She has produced a radio documentary on race and historical memory in Louisiana, made reality TV in Somalia, and photographed the last mountain shepherds in Spain.

Roopa choose:
1. Colored People: A Memoir by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
2. Summers spent in India as a child
3. The evening news
4. Cuba, an African Odyssey (documentary)
5. Photographing the other
Roopa was nominated by Canadian-Somali journalist Hassan Santur and she elected Nanjala Nyabola, a Kenyan writer, humanitarian advocate and political analyst, currently based in Nairobi as our next guest.

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Suchitra Vijayan

Suchitra Vijayan is the author of the critically acclaimed book Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India (Melville House, New York) and How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners (Pluto Press). She is 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Nonfiction. She is an award-winning photographer and the founder and executive director of the Polis Project, a New York-based magazine of dissent. She teaches at NYU Gallatin and Columbia University, and is the Chairperson of the International Human Rights Committee. Her essays, photographs, and interviews have appeared in The Washington Post, GQ, The Nation, The Boston Review, Foreign Policy, Lit Hub, Rumpus, Electric Literature, NPR, NBC, Time, and BBC. As an attorney, she worked for the United Nations war crimes tribunals in Yugoslavia and Rwanda before co-founding the Resettlement Legal Aid Project in Cairo for Iraqi refugees.

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