Our guest this week is Kirat Assi, a popular radio personality who was catfished over a nine year period. What began as a long-distance friendship with Bobby Jandu, a man she knew through her tight-knew community, turned into a controlling and coercive relationship that took over Kirat’s life. Kirat never met the man she spent countless hours chatting with because that Bobby simply did not exist. His identity had been stolen. To our absolute surprise, the catfisher turned out to be Kirat’s closest confidante during this entire ordeal, her own female cousin.
We might just be the only podcast that delves deep into the social norms that shape this story.
Was Kirat gullible? Or could this have happened to any one of us, with the right/wrong circumstances?
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Read more about Kirat’s story on her website.
CREDITS:
Host and Creative Director: Shana
Head of Visual Design: Minal Jadeja
Visual Designers: Akshat Agarwal, Shaumik Kanvinde
This is a Maed in India production
Head of Production: Mae Mariyam Thomas
Project Manager: Shaun Fanthome
Producer: Ruchi Sawardekar
Junior Producer: Quoyina Ghosh
Sound Editor & Mix Engineer: Kartik Kulkarni, Lakshman Parsuram, Nihar Temkar
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