In this podcast, considered one of Pakistan’s first within the true crime realm, we journey to Karachi within the late Sixties and early ’70s, when town’s lust-fueled nightlife and high-society scandals would rival essentially the most sensational eras of Hollywood or New York.

This story has all of it: the mysterious demise of a tortured poet, Mustafa Zaidi, whose physique was discovered subsequent to his unconscious muse and lover, the socialite Shahnaz Gul, renown for her magnificence; a rumored suicide pact; an exhumation; a homicide trial; breathless media protection; and even revenge porn, which was not digital as we perceive it immediately, however printed on 1000’s of fliers.

The present’s hosts, Tooba Masood and Saba Imtiaz, Pakistan-based journalists, have been researching the circumstances surrounding Zaidi’s demise for years. Over two seasons, they share their findings in nice element, try to use logic to the gossip of that point and debate the legitimacy of the potential situations. This is an unbiased podcast, and a few would possibly discover the format — a dialog between the hosts, with a few notable company in Season 2 — simplistic, however there may be nothing easy or boring in regards to the story they’ve resurfaced.

In India, organized marriage, as its identified within the West, is just referred to as marriage — however marrying for love, which nonetheless accounts for only a small fraction of marriage there, is an anomaly known as “love marriage.” As we be taught in “Love Commandos,” the final season of NPR’s “Rough Translation” podcast, love marriage is usually a harmful, even lethal, proposition for the younger {couples} who observe their hearts as an alternative of their mother and father’ needs.

In this five-episode podcast — hosted by Gregory Warner, guest-hosted by Mansi Choksi and drawing on years of reporting by the NPR correspondent Lauren Frayer — listeners are taken to modern-day India, the place a mysterious Delhi-based group known as Love Commandos has for a few decade provided shelter and security to those that marry for love. Now, its chief, Sanjoy Sachdev, is going through allegations of extortion. As Warner places it, “Escape is far from the same thing as freedom.”