Latest Kashmir Podcast Episodes
“We need the Constitution to come alive.” The Main Nonviolent and Civil Rights Icon Tactician Reverend James Lawson’s Final Message in Reference to the Architect of the US Constitution James Madison’s Ideas Part 2
India Insight - July 03, 2024 19:00 - 38 minutesPlease enjoy this Part 2 discussion and continuation of the previous podcast with Sunny Sharma and his two elder cousins Abhishek Kasid (Vinni) and Ranjan Wali (Tinku). I further delve into the ideas of James Madison so as to understand what James Lawson meant by bringing the Constitution to li...
“We need the Constitution to come alive.” The Main Nonviolent and Civil Rights Icon Tactician Reverend James Lawson’s Final Message in Reference to the Architect of the US Constitution James Madison’s Ideas Part 1
India Insight - July 03, 2024 18:00 - 33 minutesPlease enjoy this discussion between Sunny Sharma and his two elder cousins Abhishek Kasid (Vinni) and Ranjan Wali (Tinku). This podcast was in honor of the main nonviolent and Civil Rights tactician Reverend James Lawson who passed away this year June 9 at the age of 95. James Lawson final m...
The Legacy of the 44th President of United States Barack Obama
India Insight - June 29, 2024 21:00 - 8 minutesIn this podcast, I discuss why the global citizen, constitutional expert, humanitarian, egalitarian, and social reformer President Barack Obama is perhaps the most consequential president of the modern era.
India Election 2024: Meaning and Ramifications Part 1
India Insight - June 19, 2024 20:00 - 32 minutesThe discussion is between Sunny Sharma and his elder cousins Vinni (Abhishek Kasid) and Tinku (Ranjan Wali). The India election took place through 7 phases of voting in different regions respectively in india lasting from April 19, 2025 to June 1, 2024. Is the fact that the BJP won the electio...
India Election 2024: Meaning and Ramifications Part 2
India Insight - June 19, 2024 20:00 - 38 minutesThe discussion is between Sunny Sharma and his elder cousins Vinni (Abhishek Kasid) and Tinku (Ranjan Wali). This is a continuation of the previous podcast concerning the Indian election of 2024. The India election took place through 7 phases of voting in different regions respectively in ind...
Dr. King's 1963 Letter from a Birmingham Jail: Do we need organized religion? w/Abhishek Kasid (Vinni), Ranjan Wali (Tinku), and Sunny Sharma
India Insight - April 02, 2024 17:00 - 37 minutesJoin Sunny Sharma with his elder, insightful, and informative cousins in a discussion around some of the themes highlighted by Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King's most famous piece of writing from 1963 called Letter from a Birmingham Jail. We discuss such ideas as the need to break unjust laws in ...
The 44th President of the United States of America Barack Obama: Social Reformer without Societal Help
India Insight - April 01, 2024 20:00 - 9 minutesWhether it was on the Selma bridge, in Cairo, the stadiums of South Africa, the legislative chambers of England and India, or the executive halls of America, President Obama strove to reshape the mores of a globalized society away from separation, extremism, oppression, and bigotry towards a pol...
Radical Social Democracy Part 2: Government and The People w/Abhishek Kasid (Vinni), Ranjan Wali (Tinku), and Sunny Sharma
India Insight - March 31, 2024 15:00 - 38 minutesReform precedes revolution and in the words of John Adams the only true revolution is that which occurs in the minds of the people. Similarly in the words of the first prime minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru, just as revolution occurs in the mind so does peace as demonstrated by his declaration...
Malcolm X: Radical intelligence in the face of Extreme Oppression
India Insight - March 31, 2024 15:00 - 6 minutesMalcolm X not only reimagined the place of black people in America and around the globe, but he also told the truth about the political mechanisms and techniques in society that denigrated the poor and working class.
The French Revolution: A Revolution by and for the People that gave birth to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen in 1789, a True Explosion of Hope
India Insight - March 31, 2024 15:00 - 6 minutesMarch 31 theme: Social Democracy (Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity) I have released five podcasts on March 31. The primary theme of these podcasts are the legacy of the French Revolution, and more specifically, the Buddha. Whether it was the first law minister of India Babasaheb Ambedkar, Fran...
Insightful quotes from the Enlightenment Era (Age of Reason) and Great Men
India Insight - March 31, 2024 15:00 - 11 minutesQuotation Themes: Primary themes: Truth, risk, liberty and justice, morality, personal responsibility, conscience. Secondary themes: Fragility of democracy, reputation/legacy, service, demanding rights, tyranny, duty and patriotism, societal and common welfare, fundamental rights, legality, ...
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: The Founding Father of India who we must find again
India Insight - March 31, 2024 15:00 - 10 minutesDr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, born in 1891 and died in 1956, was indeed a unique visionary who combined practical advocacy with his education as a Ph.D. in economics and his training as a lawyer. He tested his principals in the fiery chasm of social and political liberty in India through the developme...
Building a Global Anti-War Grassroots Movement in our Backyard: Anti Regime Change Wars and Nuclear Disarming
India Insight - March 21, 2024 19:00 - 4 minutesJust like America served as an example to the world in 1776, America again must be a beacon of hope showing their ability to reform themselves in line with the greater visions of their society. More importantly, we need an antiwar grassroots party and movement to counteract an ever increasingl...
Radical Social Democracy Part 1 with Abhishek Kasid (Vinni), Ranjan Wali (Tinku), and Sunny Sharma
India Insight - March 15, 2024 18:00 - 36 minutesIn this podcast, we discuss what Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, the Dalit (untouchable), illustrious writer of the India Constitution in 1950, lawyer, anthropologist, economist, and political human rights defender, meant by radical social democracy which has its origins from first and foremost Buddhism...
The Caste System in India: Parallels, Dignity, and Inequality with Ranjan Wali (Tinku), Sunita Dhar Sharma (my mom), and Sunny Sharma
India Insight - March 08, 2024 19:00 - 33 minutesIn this podcast, we discuss the nature of the caste system and its inevitable destruction. We highlight, in the words of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, the importance of social democracy to complement political democracy especially for the subaltern (underclass and Dalits). There is a drastic need fo...
Why Mahatma Gandhi was so radical as seen through his time spent in South Africa? Part 2
India Insight - March 06, 2024 23:00 - 8 minutesMahatma Gandhi was not just a peacemaker, he was a trouble maker. Initially, it was his talents as a social reformer through community organizing and law, not his occupation as a saint that built his career as one of the pillars of the Indian community in Natal, South Africa. He fought a paper w...
Why Mahatma Gandhi was so radical as seen through his vegetarian advocacy? Part 1
India Insight - March 06, 2024 22:00 - 10 minutesIn this video I expound upon some insights and quotes from the book Gandhi before India by Ramachandra Guha from Chapter 2: Among the Vegetarians. I discuss why Gandhi carried the ethos of India, was so radical even in his twenties, and was such a radically intelligent social reformer as seen th...
Vive la liberte: Georges Bernanos political thoughts and ideas May 5, 2018
India Insight - February 29, 2024 17:00 - 8 minutesLived from 1888-1948 Christian Writer, Political Agitator, Whistleblower, WWI Soldier, and Human rights defender The French Catholic Novelist and Thinker Georges Bernanos was not just a free man, but he was indeed a man of the people, the greatest representation of France's coinciding spirit of...
Why you should read Georges Bernanos's political thought: Spirit Voice February 20, 2018
India Insight - February 29, 2024 17:00 - 4 minutesGeorges Bernanos voice represented the conscience and spirit of France's coinciding spirit of liberty. As demonstrated by his Christian fiction and political thoughts, Bernanos is certainly one of the greatest writers in human history. He was not just a man of rights, but more importantly was a ...
The Legacy of Malcolm X Part 2 with Ranjan Wali (Tinku) and Sunny Sharma
India Insight - February 29, 2024 17:00 - 39 minutesAs Malcolm X evolved throughout his entire life, he stood for self reliance, black nationalism, dignity, and equality for all human beings. Malcolm X knew the power of solidarity through an international coalition to defeat the evils of imperialism which underlined racist institutions througho...
Georges Bernanos: Politics, imagination, and responsibility June 29, 2018
India Insight - February 29, 2024 17:00 - 4 minutesGeorges Bernanos, like President Barack Obama, has helped me to understand my responsibility, place as a citizen in America and the power of individual agency to transforming our society. Yet, if I strive to be a social reformer, I can indeed heed the words of Bernanos's writing, but I must unde...
Georges Bernanos Plea for Liberty Summary and Examination December 23, 2021
India Insight - February 29, 2024 17:00 - 11 minutesPlea for Liberty was published in 1944 during World War II. In this book, Bernanos makes a scathing criticism of the French bourgeoisie and hopes that free man and women will save Europe and open the door to childhood as he had done throughout his life. Bernanos famously said, "The modern state ...
Cages and Granola Bars: Thoughts on Immigration and the Separation of Families July 6, 2018
India Insight - February 29, 2024 17:00 - 6 minutesThe immigration system has become so entangled with the criminal justice justice system to the point that detainment of families is leading to separation of children from parents. We have a long legacy of our systems of legality and enforcement evolving into greater and more extensive systems of...
Thoughts on education in reference to John Stuart Mill July 22, 2018
India Insight - February 29, 2024 17:00 - 8 minutesJohn Stuart Mill had a mental crisis in his 20s in which he began to question his lifestyle and unique utilitarian education that was predicated on his father's teachings. The ideas of Reason, logic, and efficiency divorced him from the ideas of beauty, aesthetics, and poetry. He came to the con...
The Legacy of Malcolm X Part 1 with Ranjan Wali (Tinku) and Sunny Sharma
India Insight - February 22, 2024 19:00 - 38 minutesIn this podcast, Sunny and Tinku discuss the impact and legacy of one of the greatest intellectuals of common sense, self determination, equality, dignity, and self respect in the 20th century Malcolm X. Malcolm X through the power of persuasion and oratory built the nation of Islam and was at ...
Civil Disobedience in India with Ranjan Wali (Tinku) and Sunny Sharma
India Insight - February 16, 2024 17:00 - 38 minutesCountries such as India and America have a long tradition of Civil Disobedience. This is the primary tool to enact public policy reform and social change in society when complemented by legislative action, judicial reform, and executive decision making. From Henry David Thoreau to Eugene Debs to...
Accountability, Transparency, and Trust For All People in India with Ranjan Wali (Tinku) and Sunny Sharma
India Insight - February 16, 2024 17:00 - 37 minutesI continue my discussion with my cousin Tinku on the need for Awareness of Rights, Accountability, Transparency, and Basic necessities for the common man in India. We also discuss the problem of rampant inequality in India and continue our discussion on the need for a new generation of social r...
Who is Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta?
India Insight - February 15, 2024 18:00 - 11 minutesSaint Mother Teresa of Calcutta Lived: August 27, 1910—September 5, 1997 (aged 87) Career: Catholic nun, humanitarian Mother Teresa was one of the great servants of humanity. “It was a call within my vocation. It was a second calling. It was a vocation to give up even Loreto where I was...
The Legacy of the 2nd President of the United States John Adams
India Insight - February 14, 2024 20:00 - 15 minutesJohn Adams was the most consequential leader and figure when it came to the success and objectives of the American Revolution. Adams spent much of the years 1780-1789 abroad. He helped to conclude the post-war peace treaty with Great Britain, was a Diplomat to Holland and France, and served as ...
The Legacy of Dr. Ambedkar in India with Abhishek Kasid (Vinni), Sunita Dhar Sharma (my mom) and Sunny Sharma
India Insight - February 11, 2024 18:00 - 38 minutesIn this 38 minutes podcast we talk about the importance of Dr. B.R Ambedkar and how he foresaw many of the problems of inequality, propaganda harming freedom of the press, class divide through caste, and untouchability in India. My cousin Vinni provides sharp insight on these problems in Indian...
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