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Shanthi Opens Up About Life In Sri Lanka

· 51 min · Explicit

Episode Shanthi Opens Up About Life In Sri Lanka

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What was Shanthi’s life like before the podcast?

In this Thursday episode of The Romesh Ranganathan Show, Shanthi becomes the guest as Romesh talks to her about her childhood in Sri Lanka, meeting his dad, moving to the UK and the difficult years that followed.

She opens up about losing her father at a young age, the freedom she found after leaving Sri Lanka and the financial struggles the family faced while trying to rebuild their lives in the UK.

We also celebrate the team hitting 100,000 subscribers on YouTube with the arrival of the classic Silver Plaque. Plus: thoughts on Aziz Ansari’s appearance on the show and your listener dilemmas, including questions about luck vs fate, marriage roles and family drama.

A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Platform.

00:00 Intro

03:45 On Aziz Ansari on the show

06:38 Getting to know Shanthi

08:09 What’s happened to Shanthi’s house?

11:45 Rapid fire questions

20:41 We reached 100k subscribers!

24:00 Questions from you

25:58 Theorising luck

34:31 A question on marriage roles

40:22 We answer another email

45:34 An alternative outro

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