Ahimsa Conversations

Ahimsa Conversations

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Ahimsa Conversations episodes

  • Episode 8 - David Swanson : Is War Normal and The Struggle for Peace Real?
    In Ep 8 of Ahimsa Conversations Podcast S3, David Swanson, co-founder of the network World Beyond War, draws attention towards attention towards the conflict in Ukraine where people are kneeling or standing before tanks, feeding soldiers and having them call their mothers to say they're coming home. He further unravels the lies that accompany wars.
    17 min
  • Episode 7 - Camilla Brunelli : Why Remembering History is Important
    Knowing and documenting the horrific consequences of violence is one way of honouring its victims and preventing violence in future. In Episode 7 of Ahimsa Conversations Podcast we have Camilla Brunelli, who works on European memory culture and has learnt this first hand from Italian victims of Nazi concentration camps and slave-labour camps.
    27 min
  • Episode 6 - Achin Vanaik : Is an Anti-Nuclear Weapon World Possible?
    सामूहिक विनाश के हथियारों को खारिज करना केवल अस्तित्व की वृत्ति की अभिव्यक्ति नहीं है - यह एक नैतिक मुद्दा है
    Listen to Achin Vanaik, an anti-nuclear weapons activist, talk about why opposition to nuclear weapons is not usually considered a part of non-violence movements in Ep 6 of Ahimsa Conversations Podcast
    27 min
  • Episode 5 : Is Pre-empting A Conflict Possible?
    क्या संघर्ष को पूर्वक्रया करना संभव है?
    Non-violence trainer Jill Carr Harris believes that this is indeed sometimes possible if you bring your non- reactive self to the fore.
    In Ep 5, she talks about her work with village women struggling for their land rights in India with a non-violence frame.
    18 min
  • Episode 4 : Jyotirmaya Sharma - Is Gandhi's Non-Violence Elusive?
    क्या गांधी ने अहिंसा को धर्म में बदलकर इस आदर्श को मायावी बना दिया?
    In Ep 4 of Ahimsa Conversations Podcast S3, Jyotirmaya Sharma reflects on this question based on his extensive study of nationalism, particularly Hindu nationalism and his new book 'Elusive Nonviolence : The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi's Religion of Ahimsa'
    32 min
  • Episode 3 : Sagar Dhara - Is non-violence limited to only humans?
    क्या केवल मनुष्यों के संबंध में अहिंसा के बारे में सोचना एक घातक दोष है?
    In Ep 3 of Ahimsa Conversations Podcast Season 3, Sagar Dhara, an environmental engineer and activist explains how carbon theft by human societies has led to a steady build up of violence. This conversation was recorded soon after Sagar returned from the COP26 gathering in Glasgow. He explains why the current rate of action is insufficient to avoid catastrophic climate chaos.
    28 min
  • Episode 2 : Razia Patel - Your Fatwa Doesn't Apply Here!
    "अगर सौ लोग सांप्रदायिक दंगों में भाग लेते हैं, तो उन लोगों की तलाश करनी चाहिए जिन्होंने 'दूसरे' समुदाय के लोगों के जीवन को बचाने में मदद की, भले ही वे सिर्फ दो व्यक्ति ही क्यों न हों।"
    रज़िया पटेल के सामाजिक और राजनीतिक ज्ञान को इसी ज्ञान से आकार मिला है, और ये उन्होंने अपनी मां से सीखा है।
    अहिंसा कन्वर्सेशन्स पॉडकास्ट सीज़न 3 के एपिसोड 2 में, वह जयप्रकाश नारायण द्वारा स्थापित छात्र युवा संघर्ष वाहिनी संगठन में अपने अनुभव को साझा करती है, कि वह एक "फतवे" का विरोध करने के लिए मुस्लिम महिलाओं के मोर्चे का हिस्सा क्यों बनी, जिस फतवे का उद्देश्य था मुस्लिम महिलाओं को फिल्में देखने से रोकना।
    32 min

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Ahimsa Conversations is a platform for reflections on the possibility of nonviolence and the nature of violence.