The Best True Crime to Stream: Leaving the United States

In this podcast, certainly 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 probably the most sensational eras of Hollywood or New York.

This story has all of it: the mysterious dying 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 at present, however printed on hundreds of fliers.

The present’s hosts, Tooba Masood and Saba Imtiaz, Pakistan-based journalists, have been researching the circumstances surrounding Zaidi’s dying 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 impartial podcast, and a few may discover the format — a dialog between the hosts, with a few notable friends in Season 2 — simplistic, however there’s nothing easy or boring concerning the story they’ve resurfaced.

In India, organized marriage, as its identified within the West, is solely often known as marriage — however marrying for love, which nonetheless accounts for solely a small fraction of marriage there, is an anomaly referred to as “love marriage.” As we study in “Love Commandos,” the ultimate season of NPR’s “Rough Translation” podcast, love marriage generally is a harmful, even lethal, proposition for the younger {couples} who comply with their hearts as a substitute 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 referred to as Love Commandos has for a few decade supplied shelter and security to those that marry for love. Now, its chief, Sanjoy Sachdev, is dealing with allegations of extortion. As Warner places it, “Escape is far from the same thing as freedom.”