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"Indifference to truth and falsehood is the first mark of Tyranny in any society."

- Georges Bernanos

The foundation of any good government is a healthy exchange of discourse.

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Part 2: In this episode, join host Sunny Sharma with other Kashmir Pandits, Sunita Dhar Sharma (my mom), Abhishek Kasid (Vinni), and Ranjan Wali (Tinku) to discuss thoughts on the controversial film Kashmir Files, directed by Vivek Agnothri, detailing the Kashmir Genocide and Exodus in India.

We also talk about politics, news, and history in India and Kashmir.

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In this episode, join host Sunny Sharma with other Kashmir Pandits, Sunita Dhar Sharma (my mom), Abhishek Kasid (Vinni), and Ranjan Wali (Tinku) to discuss thoughts on the controversial film Kashmir Files, directed by Vivek Agnothri, detailing the Kashmir Genocide and Exodus in India.

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With my lovely mom, we discuss our ideas and personal thoughts on Kashmiriyat (indigenous secular harmony between diverse religious groups in Kashmir), democracy, fundamentalism,  Kashmir files (movie coming out March 11 depicting the Kashmiri exodus), hajab identity (last 5 minutes), and more. 

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We discuss Kashmiri issues regarding the social and familial life of my mom Sunita Dhar Sharma, a Kashmiri Pandit,  who was born and raised in Srinagar Kashmir. We discuss the Kashmiri exodus, family facts, and more.

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It is evident from Bernanos writing that he has the voracious ability to move minds and shake foundational conventions and presumptions.

We must ask ourselves in times of crisis, greed, propaganda, and war are the "free people's" of the world confusing freedom with peace?

It is past time that institutions can save man. The reality is that first man must come to an understanding by his own soul and then, on the horizon, the miracle of childhood and heroism can save man. For God makes use of the church even when rich prelates cherish the illusion that they are making use of him. I do not mean a renewal or revolt of Christian honor in the religious sense. People, at times, too often that it becomes custom, falsely believe the dictatorship of the proletariat that they are under (or when it comes into place) is theirs when in fact any dictatorship is a dictatorship of the bureaucrats and police.

"I believe I have always been a free man. My fondness for liberty is not merely platonic or sentimental. It is not enough for me that my liberty be proclaimed by law. Beyond this, I wish to know what means the law has at its disposal to defend my liberty."

The freedom of the press is a great constitutional right, but it is corrupted when people use it as an excuse not to think at all, merely to further their own advantage, or worse, use it as a means of conforming ones opinion to the masses of society or to support ones point of view. These malicious versions of freedom of thought becomes "beneficial to swindlers at political rallies."

Bernanos expected free men, who have greatly suffered in their spirit and their souls, would come to teach the Europe and the world an important lesson in liberty that freedom is an inner strength and power of the soul that can't be taught to anyone, it is only manifest by experience. 

Freedom, inadvertently, is seen as something comfortable and easy when in fact it should be the most magnificent and ultimate of risks.

One only blasphemes a thing that they love or believe in. No law can make up for the decay of spirits and hearts. Men, of the unwritten law of justice and the spirit, protect the weak.

The problem doesn't relate to the abuse of power, rather it lies in the Democrats arbitrary use of power (Similar to what Montesquieu says).

A living master of blood not ink to stop the movement of one type of conformism moving to another, one type of dictatorship transitioning to another, and lastly to put an end to the totalitarian herds.

Freedom merely becomes a legal abstraction declared and defined by the lawyers when there is a deficiency in the proportion of free men and women in a given society.

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This is an English recording of a Letter written to FDR in September 1941. 

Georges Bernanos, a Catholic French Novelist, (1888-1948)  was not only able to articulate unseen spiritual evil through his religious writings usually revolving around priests, but he also had profound insight into politics especially the relationship of the individual to the state. His writings are all the more important during a time of trial and tribulation for much of the world's governments against totalitarianism and failing democracies. 

He challenges all complacent thought as a voice of an average citizen and himself being  a non-conformer par excellence. 

In this letter addressed to FDR, but probably never got him, Bernanos raises his concerns about democracy, the place of the church in solving the problems in the tumultuous world of the 1940s WWII, and so much more. Bernanos Plea for Liberty has never been more relevant today as we experiment, debate, and question our institutions and elites, but never give up on the people. This will be either a 3 or 4 part series to cover the entire section as an audio recording. I hope its as elucidating to you as it was to me. 

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Ranjan Wali and Sunny Sharma discuss the philosophy and impact of the 20th century spiritual, psychological, and philosophical teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti

Aldous Huxley wrote the foreword to The first and last freedom by J.K.

Parallels I forgot to mention-

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:

“Beloved community” to Vivekanandas notion of community.

MLKs vision in the importance of “Creative altruism”.

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Hello family and fellow podcast listeners-

Sunny is back with his older brother Sumeet and elder cousins for a discussion about the death of the famous actor Sushant Singh and the role of media in covering this and similar incidents. We also take to opportunity to comment on other Indian issues in general such as the need for reform.