In this forthright and informative episode of The Pooja Bhatt Show, Pooja sits down with Meet Ashar - lawyer, animal rights advocate, Legal Advisor & Director of Cruelty Response at PETA India. Ashar reminds us of something very basic: life matters. Not just human life - all life.

He emphasisies that animals are not problems to be managed, but lives to be protected, and why the manner in which we treat animals is the clearest mirror of who we are.

Ashar breaks down the ramifications of the honourable Supreme Court's orders and reinstates why sterilisation, vaccination, and adoption - not removal - are the only humane solutions going forward.

Pooja and Meet highlight the undeniable link between animal abuse and human violence, and how cruelty rarely stays contained.

This conversation is not only about animals.

It is about justice. About responsibility.

It is about who we have been.
And who, we still have a chance to become.

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Human suffering is the womb of great art.
And sometimes, grace arrives disguised as grief.

This conversation between Pooja Bhatt and award-winning filmmaker Faraz Arif Ansari is not assembled for comfort. Not shaped to soothe. But to awaken.

What unfolds on this episode of The Pooja Bhatt Show is not grief revisited, but life awakened—a meeting where pain has already done its work. Where loss no longer numbs, but sharpens perception. Where silence is allowed to speak before language intervenes.

There is love here without possession.
Faith without certainty.
Identity without defence.
Art not as expression, but as responsibility.

Faraz believes that stories change the world—not loudly, not instantly, but by altering the inner weather of those who listen. By making us more available to truth.

Every pause carries weight.
Every word knows where it comes from.

This conversation understands something essential: suffering is not an interruption to life—it is the moment life becomes conscious of itself. Empathy is not softness, but courage. To stay awake in a fractured world is itself an ethical act.

Nothing is resolved.
Nothing is softened.

And yet, something opens.

Don’t listen to this episode to feel better.
Listen to feel truer.

Some conversations don’t offer answers.
They alter your posture toward living.
This is one of them.

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Some conversations don’t leave you impressed. They leave you nourished.

This episode of 'The Pooja Bhatt Show' feels like coming home — to a warm meal, familiar aromas, and stories that sit gently with you long after they’re told. Pooja sits down with Chef Vicky Ratnani — chef, author, television personality — not to dazzle, but to listen, remember, and reflect.

The journey begins in a Sindhi home in Shivaji Park, with the comforting tang of Sindhi Kadhi — food as memory, as belonging. From there, it travels quietly to the decks of the Queen Elizabeth 2, where Vicky once cooked for Nelson Mandela — a moment held not as spectacle, but as gratitude.

They talk about the unseen heart of food: service as care, kitchens as communities, and why simplicity often carries the deepest flavour. Vicky speaks with honesty about choosing sobriety, about clarity and discipline, and how that inner alignment reshaped his work and life. There is space too for the harder truths — the toll the hospitality world takes on bodies, relationships, and time.

The conversation widens to the evolution of Indian cuisine on the global stage, the responsibility that comes with representation, and the quiet worry of traditions slipping away under the weight of trends. And, as all meaningful conversations do, it circles back home — to nostalgia, to memory, to the food that shapes who we are.

Like the best meals, this conversation doesn’t try to impress — it simply stays with you.

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