Correctional

In 2008, on his way home after a launch party in New York City for a magazine he had founded, Ravi Shankar was pulled over on the pretense of a minor traffic violation. He was subsequently arrested on a warrant for a 150 pound 5’10” white man and kept in jail for 72 hours. Shankar weighs 200 pounds and is 6’2”. He is a dark-skinned man of South Indian descent. As any writer would, Shankar turned to words to make sense of what had happened to him. Tune in for a dissection of American race politics, privilege, and one man's trip through the correctional system.