India Insight with Sunny Sharma

EXPLORE

Society & Culture

Health & Fitness

© 2024 PodJoint

https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts211/v4/c1/1c/ad/c11cad12-8a2b-5381-8011-eb9240c9f744/mza_12220520946504779514.jpg/600x600bb.jpg

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

Sunny Sharma

97 episodes

4 weeks ago

Send us a text Over the weekend I had my second discussion this year with Professor Subhash Kak on his new book published this year June 12, 2025 Eternal Bharat: Truth, Meaning, and Beauty specifically on its symbolism and insights on India’s grand legacy and tradition of artistic creativity and how it relates to the central focus of the Indian sages (rishis) on consciousness especially as it pertains to the literary genius of the Upanishads and why this focus is becoming increasingly relevan...

Show more...

Religion & Spirituality,

All content for India Insight with Sunny Sharma is the property of Sunny Sharma and is served directly from their servers with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.

Send us a text Over the weekend I had my second discussion this year with Professor Subhash Kak on his new book published this year June 12, 2025 Eternal Bharat: Truth, Meaning, and Beauty specifically on its symbolism and insights on India’s grand legacy and tradition of artistic creativity and how it relates to the central focus of the Indian sages (rishis) on consciousness especially as it pertains to the literary genius of the Upanishads and why this focus is becoming increasingly relevan...

Show more...

Religion & Spirituality,

Episodes (20/97)

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

My discussion with Dr. Subhash Kak Eternal Bharat: Truth, Meaning, and Beauty and the Upanishads

Send us a text Over the weekend I had my second discussion this year with Professor Subhash Kak on his new book published this year June 12, 2025 Eternal Bharat: Truth, Meaning, and Beauty specifically on its symbolism and insights on India’s grand legacy and tradition of artistic creativity and how it relates to the central focus of the Indian sages (rishis) on consciousness especially as it pertains to the literary genius of the Upanishads and why this focus is becoming increasingly relevan...

4 weeks ago

1 hour 28 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

David Meadows Interview: A Well-Informed Georgia Political Organizer

Hello to my friends, family, and audience in America, India, and abroad please stay tuned for a wonderful and eye-opening political discussion from a very involved political organizer who I worked with in the Movement for a People’s Party in Georgia. If you enjoyed this podcast please take a look into my podcast on several platforms called “India Insight with Sunny Sharma.” I will be posting this discussion to that podcast as well as my YouTube channel“SunnySharma@IndiaInsightMovement.” ...

6 months ago

1 hour 20 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

Black History February:Section 4- We Shall Overcome: The Second Reconstruction 1954-1975 Part 1 of 2

If you enjoy these history lessons please follow, like, share, and subscribe for future videos. My YouTube channel is Sunny Sharma‪@IndiaInsightMovement‬ and my podcast is “India Insight with Sunny Sharma” This short era of immense change began with the critical case of Brown vs Board of Education in 1954 that established separate but not equal is unconstitutional. This marked a significant constitutional victory in favor of an integrationist approach which led to the beginning of the Civi...

7 months ago

25 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

Black History Month February- Part 10 Concluding Remarks on Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology

In this podcast I summarize some of the main ideas from my 10 part examination of Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology while describing briefly why America needs a new left or must form a new coalition, like it did in the past, to confront the political and economic crisis it is facing today. If you are interested in a particular period please refer to the 10 part series including an introduction and conclusion remarks in my playlist "Black History Month February 2025- Let...

7 months ago

20 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

February Section 3- The Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, and World War 1915-1954 Part 2 of 2

This period is characterized by an intense push for equal occupational opportunities that would yield economic prosperity for all people. This would be realized after World War II where due to the efforts of a variety of labor organizers, many influenced by Marxist theories, America would enter an era of the pinnacle of its union cooperation which would correspond to a great degree of prosperity. However, there was not just a push for jobs through legal and political protections there were ef...

7 months ago

26 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

Blacks History Section 5- Contemporary African-American Thought, 1975 to the Present Part 1 of 2

The contemporary era of black intellectual thought 1975 to the present is characterized by a growth in black feminist thought, an expansion of rainbow coalitions by prominent black leaders, an explosion of the black middle class and a black bourgeoisie, and an extension of black political, social, and cultural ideas by influential scholars and academics. In opposition to the New Left Movement, there was a significant rise in conservatism not just in America but throughout the globe. This led ...

7 months ago

19 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

Black History February,Section 4- We Shall Overcome: The Second Reconstruction 1954-1975 Part 2 of 2

The rise of such proponents of black nationalism and black power as Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael was seated in deep frustration with the inability to change the fundamental economic conditions of blacks even with the passing of political protections to the vote and legal protections against discrimination. Moreover, there was deep seated opposition to police brutality which resulted in the creation of the Black Panther Party. Along with the rise of Black electoral politics which expressed...

7 months ago

32 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

Black History Section 5- Contemporary African American Thought, 1975 to the Present Part 2 of 2

YouTube channel: Sunny Sharma‪@IndiaInsightMovement‬, podcast: India insight with Sunny Sharma. I briefly discuss President Barack Obama’s legacy at the end! The contemporary era 1975-the present is characterized by an explosion of the black middle class, black electoral politics, the bourgeoisie, and black academic scholarship. Even with the proclivity towards capitalist entrepreneurship and the gospel of wealth of Booker T. Washington gaining precedent in this era, there were still some c...

7 months ago

26 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

February Section 3- The Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, and World War, 1915-1954 Part 1 of 2

In Section 3, I discuss some of the prominent movements and themes occurring in between two World Wars, particularly the Great Migration characterized by the movement of millions of blacks from the rural agricultural south to the urban industrial north as well as highlighting some important proponents of the Harlem Renaissance like Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes (the Shakespeare of Harlem), Paul Laurence Dunbar (who inspired the movement after passing away in 1906) and ot...

7 months ago

23 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

Black History Month Special February LNTUA Section 2- Reconstruction and Reaction: The Aftermath of Slavery and the Dawn of Segregation, 1861-1915

Link to YouTube video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=StdiCf4rIFI&t=56s In this part 2 of a 6 part series including an introduction, I discuss some of the foundational ideas behind the struggle for black liberation, economic involvement, education, and political aspirations. Leaders like Booker T. Washington rose to prominence during this period advocating self help, economic reliance, business development, and racial accomodation. Others more critical of his outlook arose demanding not ju...

8 months ago

31 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

Black History Month Special February: President Abraham Lincoln and LNTUA Section 1- Foundations: Slavery and Abolitionism, 1768-1861

Hello to my audience, friends, and family this is India Insight with Sunny Sharma. If you enjoyed this podcast please follow, share, like, and subscribe for future episodes. Link to YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QukxoY3KSJA My channel is called Sunny Sharma@IndiaInsightMovement In honor of black history month and President Lincoln's birthday today (February 12), I discuss the significance of President Lincoln's legacy from my point of view as well as many of the most importan...

8 months ago

26 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

Black History Month Special February- Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology- Introduction

Youtube video link: https://youtu.be/VD2hV906mP8 In honor of Black History Month in February, I want to share some of the most important insights I have learned from the book Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology (collection of essays and short speeches on black social and political thought primarily pertaining to the black struggle for liberation). This is part one, the intro, and the following 5 parts highlight 5 periods of American history since 1768 around the founding ...

8 months ago

20 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

My Conversation with Dr. Subhash Kak: Quantum Mechanics, Consciousness, Linguistics, History, More

Link to youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UulsDFqqqXQ Hello to my audience, friends, and family this is India Insight with Sunny Sharma. I am super excited to have one of the most prominent Indian intellectuals of the modern era on my podcast As you have must have heard some of my audio podcasts that I have been doing for the past 4 years, I’m privileged today for my first ever video visual podcast to have an intellectual trendsetter in the areas of quantum computing, ling...

9 months ago

1 hour 38 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

Why America and the world need a Multiparty System?

Season 8 Episode 3 The true spirit of industry and capitalism is emblematic of choice and to reflect that idea means there must be a multiparty system in America and the world. The growth of special interests means there must be a counteracting force to serve the interests and grievances of everyday workers and taxpayers. This is the genesis of the need for new parties to come on the seen to serve the many different needs, perspectives, and ideologies of a diverse community of people. There...

9 months ago

14 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

Why did the American Founding Fathers not trust Factions and Political Parties? Part 2

The dangers of political parties, why we are so partisan in the modern era, and potential solutions to the problem. I further extrapolate on what the American founding fathers, especially James Madison, knew about political parties including the costs and benefits and why their 18th century arguments are still relevant today. I also point out that in hindsight that they were not able to predict all of the historical outcomes in American history including the growth of multinational corporati...

9 months ago

15 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

Why did the American Founding Fathers not trust Factions and Political Parties? Part 1

For the first episode of season 8 I explain that despite the fact that the American founding fathers were not party men, the Constitution in many ways facilitates the rise of parties and factions. This was the genius of Madison; creating a system of checks and balances whereby special interests would inevitably develop, but "ambition would counter ambition" ensuring that enterprising men would not take advantage of the majority nor the majority take advantage of the minority. I examine many ...

9 months ago

12 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

The Great Liberator Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 Part 1 of 5: Introduction

Tune in to part 1 of a 5 part series I will be making on the significance of the legacy of Abraham Lincoln the 16th president of the United States who united America during its Civil War, emancipated the slaves, and gave meaning, more so than any American (or even world leader) to America's experiment in self government and humanitarianism. I rely heavily and recommend Doris Kearns Goodwins seminal book on Lincoln called Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. If I reach 20...

10 months ago

6 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

The Relevance of President Barack Obama’s 2024 Democracy Forum on Pluralism

In this season 7 finale episode 10 podcast to close out the New Year and usher in 2025, I want to bring to attention the key ideas President Obama explicated at the Obama Foundation Democracy Forum of 2024 on Pluralism and why they are relevant today. The principal question is can diverse groups of people with different perspectives and ideologies live together in a free, open, and integrated society? I also talk briefly about some of the ideas from the three panelists from this Democracy For...

10 months ago

13 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

The Great Liberator Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 Part 3 of 5: Reconciliation

At the end of the war, President Lincoln, through the establishment of certain stipulations for the Southern Rebels to be brought back into the Confederacy, made the Emancipation of the Slaves the Cornerstone of Reconstruction in the South. Through his determination and personality, Lincoln he had won the affections and popular support of the American people. Moreover, he took a conciliatory route to resolving the war so as to tamper down any vitriol and vengeance on both sides. This was inde...

10 months ago

9 minutes

India Insight with Sunny Sharma

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Most Famous 1942 Declaration: “Educate, Agitate, Organize”

Tune in to hear about Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar's most famous clarion call and slogan declared at the 1942 All India Depressed Class Conference in Nagpur, India to "Educate, Agitate, Organize". This phrase has been a motto of labor organizers throughout the world. Dr. Ambedkar was a true servant to the people (Bodhisattva) with a vision to end systemic discrimination not just in India but throughout the world. He indeed was the greatest social reformer of modern day history in India. To him, o...

10 months ago

9 minutes