The One with Shabd

The One with Shabd

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The One with Shabd episodes

  • Bonus Episode - Prabodhchandrodaya with Jvala Singh

    Jvala Singh joins us for a bonus episode about the philosophical play: Prabodhchandrodaya.

    Jvala writes:

    The Prabodhcandrodaya - The Rise of the Moon of Awakening, is a very influential Sanskrit play, written at the end of the 11th century. Rooted in Advaita Vedanta philosophy, the text took numerous forms over the centuries, including a Persian version (17th century), as well as a Braj Bhasha version (18th century) translated by Pandit Gulab Singh, a Nirmala Sikh.

    You can see a video he recorded on the play here: https://youtu.be/eCMJFXW8Fhs

    Follow Jvala on Twitter: @jvalaaa

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    48 min
  • Episode 6 - The Material Realities of Partition with Dr. Guneeta Singh Bhalla
    Guneeta Singh Bhalla has worked for over ten years to crowdsource over 5,000 oral histories of Partition survivors. The insights their stories give are only now coming to light with decades worth of research still to be done to truly understand those fateful events. What begins to emerge is a story not of Hindu or Sikh against Muslim - but of political and ruling elites using mob violence for their partisan benefit.
    1 hr 7 min
  • Episode 5 - Headless Heroics with Jvala Singh
    All Sikhs are familiar with the story of Baba Deep Singh - the brave warrior who led a mission to retake the Golden Temple from Afghan forces in the 18th century. In the traditional story, Baba Deep Singh loses his head in battle but stands back up, retrieves his head, and carries it the rest of the way to the precincts of the temple where he falls having achieved his goal. The story is a potent one that is meant to instill limitless resolve in the face of oppression in those who hear it. We discuss the story and the origins of the headless warrior symbol in Indic thought.
    1 hr 4 min
  • Episode 4 - The Eyes of Asia with Charles Allen
    Charles Allen, one of the great British historians of the Indian Sub-Continent of his generation joins us to discuss Rudyard Kipling's The Eyes of Asia. The new edition from Kashi House brings us the stories of four Indian soldiers writing home from the Western Front of the first World War. These fictionalized letters were created by Kipling through his reading of soldiers' actual letters which he accessed through the military censor at the time.
    59 min
  • Episode 2 - The Quest Continues: Lost Heritage: The Sikh Legacy in Pakistan with Amardeep Singh
    Amardeep Singh left his life in the corporate world to investigate his ancestral history in Pakistan. Little did he know that this would lead him on two trans-Pakistani tours documenting the ancient forts, houses, and places of worship left behind by the Sikhs after India's partition. His work is compiled in two books: Lost Heritage: The Sikh Legacy in Pakistan and The Quest Continues: Lost Heritage: The Sikh Legacy in Pakistan.
    Not only do they show the rich cultural legacy of pre-partition Punjab, but they speak to those people's memories of a society less divided across religious boundaries. We discuss this as well as how and why these divisions were deepened and how they contributed to the fracture of these once coexisting communities.
    1 hr 18 min
  • Episode 1 - 1984: India's Guilty Secret with Pav Singh
    The Sikh genocide of November 1984 is one of the most important moments in recent Sikh history. 8,000 people were killed and thousands more women and girls raped by orchestrated gangs over the course of three nightmarish days in early November.
    Pav Singh, journalist, author, and Community Associate at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London walks us through his new book detailing the historical context, sequence of events, and subsequent coverup the '84 genocide.
    1 hr 14 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.