Send us a text In honor of Indian Independence Day August 15, 2024. Tune in to hear about the founding fathers of India (lost generation) that set the constitutional and institutional foundation for India. These men and women set the foundation for future generations yearning for democratic aspirations and maintaining the pillars of democracy in their society. These men born from 1869 to 1897 called the lost generation included Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Ne...
Aug 14, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 11
Send us a text Please 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 life.
Jul 03, 2024•38 min•Season 6Ep. 10
Send us a text Please 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 message to the world was "We need the Constitution to come alive" if we are to honor the legacy of John Lewis. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the Reverend Lawson “ the leading theorist and s...
Jul 03, 2024•33 min•Season 6Ep. 9
Send us a text The 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 india lasting from April 19, 2025 to June 1, 2024. How important and difficult is it for our political leaders and others to give real value to the people in the way of economic opportunity, soci...
Jun 19, 2024•38 min•Season 6Ep. 7
Send us a text The 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 election but reduced its seat number to 240 a sign of a referendum on either the BJP, Hindutva, or Modi? Was this a consequence of a changing tide in the youth vote where the average age of young pe...
Jun 19, 2024•32 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Send us a text Whether 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 politic that stood for not only human rights, but also an understanding that rights can only be fostered through a sort of collective understanding of agency and responsibility that opened the...
Apr 01, 2024•9 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Send us a text Malcolm 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.
Mar 31, 2024•7 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Send us a text Dr. 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 development of political parties and the testing of his academic scholarship. We have his principals in the Constitution of India and his legacy and experience of starting political parties for the ...
Mar 31, 2024•11 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Send us a text Quotation 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, reform, individual and collective agency or action, and constitutional liberties. In this 11-minute podcast, I highlight informative and insightful quotes by Enlightenment men as well as from G...
Mar 31, 2024•12 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Send us a text March 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, France grassroots reform from the left Jacobins, President John Adams, President Barack Obama, or Malcolm X, all these individuals, through constitutional precedent and social reform sought to m...
Mar 31, 2024•6 min•Season 5Ep. 13
Send us a text Just 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 increasingly dangerous world where war becomes more hazardous every day as nations are positioning themselves for a potential global conflict in line with what could only be characterized as a World War...
Mar 21, 2024•4 min•Season 5Ep. 11
Send us a text In 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 and secondarily from the Enlightenment era specifically the French revolution (liberty, equality, and fraternity). Moreover, we highlight the institutional barriers to social democracy, pr...
Mar 15, 2024•37 min•Season 5Ep. 10
Send us a text Mahatma 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 war through petitions and new correspondence to highlight the inequities of Indians with the majority white South Africans. Gandhi was pivotal in reshaping the viewpoints and imagination of ...
Mar 06, 2024•8 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Send us a text In 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 through his early community organizing, job as lawyer, and being a dedicated student of principles of world religion and compassion in London, South Africa, and subsequently India....
Mar 06, 2024•11 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Send us a text John 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 conclusion that the pleasure pain principle of utilitarianism had to be subjugated under the principle of individuality, society must foster free thinking persons and individualism. In this po...
Feb 29, 2024•9 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Send us a text The 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 control that no single individual could have predicted. Today that system is the Immigration Customs and Enforcement agency, an organization that has introduced wide scale electronic surve...
Feb 29, 2024•6 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Send us a text Plea 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 only recognizes rights, it no longer recognizes duty." Bernanos felt in his heart that the power of heroism, faith, and childhood once consecrated by the church would once again come about ...
Feb 29, 2024•12 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Send us a text Georges 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 man of responsibility, duty, and love. Bernanos questioned all complacent ways of thinking making one to questions whether he fits anywhere ideologically. Truly he was a Catholic man agains...
Feb 29, 2024•4 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Send us a text Georges 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 understand that Bernanos in no way lays out the blue print for change in society. Yet he knew the next generations, through creativity and imagination would organize a political and spiritual f...
Feb 29, 2024•4 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Send us a text Lived 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 liberty. For Bernanos, writing was indeed a transformative process for him and was emblematic of "individualism without selfishness," a value he wanted to proliferate among his entire audie...
Feb 29, 2024•9 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Send us a text As 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 throughout the world. He sought to bridge the psychological gap that the underclass, especially black people, needed to overcome to take ownership of their future and transcend their second class sta...
Feb 29, 2024•39 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Send us a text In 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 the pinnacle of forming an international coalition of African and Middle Eastern nations to transform the issue of civil rights into human rights by bringing the issue of segregation/second ...
Feb 22, 2024•39 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Send us a text I 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 reformers in our society like Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and Vinobe Bhave. Moreover we discuss the need for trust among Indians of different class, caste, religions, language, and gender in order...
Feb 16, 2024•38 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Send us a text Countries 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 those group of exceptional leaders led by Mahatma Gandhi and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Civil Disobedience is the medium by which society speaks its conscience to the rest of the wor...
Feb 16, 2024•38 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Send us a text Saint 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 very happy and to go out into the streets to serve the poorest of the poor. It was in that train, I heard the call to give up all and to follow Him into the slums—to serve Him in the poorest of the...
Feb 15, 2024•11 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Send us a text John 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 first United States Ambassador to Great Britain. The Constitution of 1780, drafted by John Adams, is the oldest written constitution in the world still in effect. This Constitution, prim...
Feb 14, 2024•15 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Send us a text In 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 society while my mom interrogates the place of Ambedkar and hope for the future of young people in India. Is there an erosion of public trust in main stream media and so called democratic i...
Feb 11, 2024•38 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Send us a text Season 4 Episode 5 In this 16 minute podcast I highlight the legacy of Malcolm X by describing some of his most important ideas, his background, one of his most famous speeches "the Ballot or the Bullet" (1964), and articulating 10 of his most important quotes. Malcolm X was one of the greatest intellectuals of the 20th century, but was indeed a contradiction. Through his efforts to form a local and international coalition he was a paragon for brotherhood of the underclass, but al...
Jan 30, 2024•16 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Send us a text In this 8 minute podcast I describe the legacy of one of the Founding Fathers of India, greatest social reformer, and one of the primary drafters of the Indian constitution Babasaheb Ambedkar. Likened to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King and President Barack Obama, B.R. Ambedkar rose from what would be normally a life of obscurity, neglect, poverty, and disempowerment to be a shining example of educational transformation as well as a life dedicated to transforming the underclass in ...
Jan 28, 2024•8 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Send us a text In this podcast, I summarize the lives of two of the most influential figures to the fight for Indian independence, the depressed classes, and diversity. We stand on the shoulders of Babasaheb Ambedkar and Abul Kalam Azad, men who were erudite and impeccable leaders of India's constituent assembly and the movement for human rights. I also talk about the reality of censorship during the British Raj....
Nov 03, 2023•16 min•Season 4Ep. 3
