The One with Shabd

The One with Shabd

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The One with Shabd episodes

  • Episode 17 - Understanding Mental Health with Shuranjeet Singh
    In this episode, Shabd interviews Shuranjeet Singh, about understanding
    mental health and the organisation he founded Taraki, which works alongside
    Panjabi communities to raise awareness around mental health and create
    community structures of support.
    They also talk about Shuranjeet’s experience of mental health as a student,
    mental health in capitalism, the current paradigm of understanding mental
    health, and Taraki’s unique way of approaching it.
    1 hr 13 min
  • Mini-Episode - India's Citizenship Laws with Suchitra Vijayan
    In this episode we’re joined again by Suchitra Vijayan - director and
    founder of the polis project, talking about CAA and NRC - India’s new
    citizenship laws. These laws offer accelerated citizenship for specific
    minorities from specific countries - which might end up fracturing the
    “secular” nature of the Indian democracy, and open the door to the
    establishment of a theocracy - an idea that that underpins the actions of
    India’s ruling party - the BJP.
    25 min
  • Episode 16 - 54 Punjabi Proverbs with Jvala Singh
    In this episode, Shabd interviews Jvala Singh, about his great research
    work and translation of Sikh historical texts. Jvala is the creator of
    Manglacharan which, in his own words,  is a project dedicated to shedding
    light on the treasure trove of knowledge passed down by our ancestors,
    which has not yet been translated into English. For the past ten years,
    Manglacharan has provided translations of passages from important
    theological and historical texts within the Sikh tradition. They discuss
    the Suraj Prakash Granth, one of the most important historical Sikh texts,
    the context for it and how Sikh scholarship has changed through the years.
    Finally, they talk about Jvala’s new book - “54 Punjabi Proverbs” which
    contains 54 Punjabi proverbs transliterated and translated into English,
    and the story behind it.
    1 hr 3 min
  • Episode 12 - Combating Hate with Arjun Sethi
    In this episode, Shabd interviews Arjun Sethi - activist, educator, and
    attorney, about his book “American Hate: Survivors Speak Out”. They discuss
    the book as well as delve deeper into the thesis of his introduction - the
    relationship between white supremacy and the United States’ massively
    unequal economic system, and how the media portrays survivors in a way that
    is often more exploitative that helpful.
    1 hr 1 min
  • Episode 11 - Queerness, Gender, and Intersecting Identities with Prabh Kehal and Smalls

    Today, I speak with two fantastic guests about queerness, gender, and intersectionality as Sikhs. Queerness and gender are taboo topics among Sikhs and queer Sikhs often experience within their own communities. We discuss the nature of this repression and how we can work together to combat those stigma.

    Prabhdeep Kehal is a doctoral student in sociology at Brown University. Their research interests span racial theory, racism, higher education, and organizational theory; their research falls into the tradition of DuBoisian sociology, focusing on how the color line, history, community, and context are critical dimensions for conceptualizing a racialized modernity. Their work is concerned with how prestige is constructed within higher education, and how constructs of prestige and merit serve as mechanisms for maintaining racialized inequality in higher education. Through studying higher education, Prabhdeep is interested in understanding how higher education can serve as a mechanism for structuring inequality. An additional area of personal inquiry pertains to anti-Blackness, anti-queerness, and gender conformity within the Sikh and Sikh-American diaspora and how it manifests itself in political and educational advocacy. @prabhbob on Twitter.

    Smalls is an artist, advocate, and abolitionist working to improve the visibility and representation of coloreds and queers while fighting for the improved quality of life and liberation of all oppressed peoples, with a spotlight on Black mental health, OCD, chronic illness, and invisible disability. @hellaSwankky on Twitter.




    1 hr 31 min
  • Episode 10 - Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory

    "Remnants of a Separation is an Oral History archive focusing on material memory. It is the first and only material study of the Partition of India, taking into consideration those objects that refugees brought with them when they migrated across the border, those objects that were left behind in houses and lastly, those objects that were lost in the midst of the journey of migration."

    Aanchal Malhotra is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and oral historian living in New Delhi, India.
    She received a MFA in Studio Art from Concordia University, Montréal in 2015. Her thesis project, entitled, 'Remnants of a Separation', developed and defended under the guidance of photographer, Raymonde April, is the first and only study of the material remains of the Partition of the India in 1947.

    On today's episode Aanchal Malhotra walks us through some of these memories from her outstanding thesis and now book.

    Follow her at aanchalmalhotra.com

    Support the show at Patreon.com/TheOnePodcast

    1 hr 12 min
  • Episode 9 - The Sikhs of Afghanistan with Asha Sawhney
    Afghan Sikhs are a dwindling minority in their home country. Learn how their unique position in Afghan society made them targets for competing Islamist factions. And how they do not see their oppression as an Islamic problem but a complex political one.
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    1 hr 46 min

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The One with Shabd is a podcast featuring in-depth interviews with leading minds on all things Sikh: religion, culture, philosophy, history, politics, and more.