Media & Public Scholarship
“Hindu Heroes and Muslim Demons: How Singham Again Retells the Ramayana in Troubling Ways,” The Polis Project, November 7, 2024.
“Beneath the Canopy with Dr. Sohini Sarah Pillai– Krishna’s Mahabharatas,” hosted by Barkha Patel and Shachi Phene for Aangan: South Asian Center for Art & Thought, August 27, 2024.
New Books in Indian Religions, hosted by Raj Balkaran, May 30, 2024.
Krishna’s Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative podcast episode, hosted by Heman Das for the South Asia Research Institute for Minorities, March 29, 2024.
Consultant for “How Hinduism Inspired Pop-Culture Avatars,” hosted and written by Andrew Henry for Religion for Breakfast, February 15, 2024.
“Star Wars Religion Course at K-College with Dr. Sohini Pillai,” The Rocker Morning Show with Meatball and Mark, 107.7 WRKR, hosted by Kevin "Meatball" Kerr and Mark Frankhouse, December 8, 2023.
“New Star Wars Religion Class Fills with Hyperspace-Like Speed,” Andy Brown, Kalamazoo College, September 1, 2023.
Jain Ramayana Narratives Book Discussion, with Gregory Clines and Paula Richman, hosted by the South Asian Studies Collective at Dartmouth College, January 10, 2023.
“K’s Best Friend: Yorkshire Terrier Leia Makes Friends On Campus and Off, ” Frances Czuk, Kalamazoo College, August 26, 2022.
Many Mahabharatas Book Discussion, with Nell Shapiro Hawley, hosted by the Centre for Studies of Plural Societies, June 29, 2022.
Image by Saronik Bosu for High Theory (This image is a work of fan art that adapts characters from the Star Wars franchise owned by Lucasfilm Ltd.)
“EPIC,” High Theory, hosted by Saronik Bosu, February 27, 2022.
“The best Mahabharata poems, plays, and novels,” Shepherd, February 7, 2022.
“The Multiplicity of the Mahabharata Tradition,” Karwaan: The Heritage Exploration Initiative, hosted by Eshan Sharma, December 12, 2021.
Drinking with Historians, with Nell Shapiro Hawley, hosted by Matthew Gabriele and Varsha Venkatasubramanian, July 9, 2021.
“The Mahabharata Series: The Philosophy,” Speaking of Indian Arts, with Nell Shapiro Hawley, hosted by Anjali Lai, recorded May 6, 2021 (published on June 14, 2022).
New Books in Indian Religions, with Nell Shapiro Hawley, hosted by Raj Balkaran, April 20, 2021.
“Voices from the Many Mahabharatas Project: A Conversation with Authors and Editors,” with Nell Shapiro Hawley, Robert Goldman, Sally Sutherland Goldman, and the contributors of Many Mahabharatas, Institute for South Asia Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, February 23, 2021.
“Vamp or Victim? Representations of Surpanakha in Contemporary India” at A Tale for All Seasons: The Ramayana from Antiquity to Modernity Symposium at the University of California, Berkeley, November 18, 2016.