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  • How the US-India relationship will fare under Trump 2.0 | Akhil Ramesh

    How the US-India relationship will fare under Trump 2.0 | Akhil Ramesh
    Feb 14 2025
    In this episode Samir Kalra speaks with Akhil Ramesh of the Pacific Forum. They discuss a number of ways the US-India relationship may change under the new Trump administration, on immigration, trade, national security, how China figures into this, the essential unpredictability of the Trump administration, and more.

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    48 min
  • What the modern world can learn from the Dharmic capitalism of South India’s great kingdoms | Sriram Balasubramanian

    What the modern world can learn from the Dharmic capitalism of South India’s great kingdoms | Sriram Balasubramanian
    Feb 13 2025
    In this episode we speak with economist Sriram Balasubramanian about his latest book Dharmanomics: An Indigenous and Sustainable Economic Model. We discuss what makes dharmic capitalism different from other regional varieties of capitalism, how this economic outlook extends back millennia to the kingdoms and empires of southern India and southeast asia, the role of temples in economic activity, the economic effects of the kumbh mela, and more.

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    38 min
  • When will Kashmiri Pandits be able to really return home? | Vijay Sazawal

    When will Kashmiri Pandits be able to really return home? | Vijay Sazawal
    Nov 7 2024

    In this episode Samir Kalra and Rajiv Pandit speak with author Vijay Sazawal about his new book The Kashmir Chronicles, discussing the history of the region, the ethnic cleansing of the Hindu community more than 30 years ago, the corruption in government in the state, the abrogation of the Article 370 and Delhi taking a direct role in governing the region, the largely positive aftermath of that and the changes that have occurred in Kashmir, and when might Kashmiri Pandits be able to return en masse.


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    1 h et 32 min
  • Hindu At Heart: Practicing restorative justice in New York City public schools | Hemanth Venkataraman

    Hindu At Heart: Practicing restorative justice in New York City public schools | Hemanth Venkataraman
    Oct 17 2024

    In this episode, part of Indu Viswanathan’s Hindu at Heart series, she speaks with Hemanth Venkataraman, a New York City-based educator and restorative justice practitioner about his life growing up Hindu in New Jersey in the 1980s and 90s, his time teaching in the NYC public school system and co-founding the Unity Preparatory Charter School in Brooklyn, and how he moved on to consult with schools on implementing restorative justice with School Culture Solutions.


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    1 h et 36 min
  • Equating Hindutva with any kind of Hindu supremacy is just nonsense | Vikram Sampath

    Equating Hindutva with any kind of Hindu supremacy is just nonsense | Vikram Sampath
    Sep 26 2024
    In this episode Suhag Shukla speaks with historian Vikram Sampath (author of the two volume definitive biography of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar) about the origins of Hindutva and misunderstandings about, its relevance for Hindus living outside of India, and more.

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    40 min
  • A conversation about Hindu parenting with psychologist Kavita Pallod Sekhsaria and Suhag Shukla

    A conversation about Hindu parenting with psychologist Kavita Pallod Sekhsaria and Suhag Shukla
    Sep 5 2024
    In this episode HAF Board Member psychologist Dr Kavita Pallod Sekhsaria and HAF Executive Director Suhag Shukla have a wide ranging discussion about parenting as Hindus, the book Bad Therapy, how we can raise resilient children, the differences in parenting across the generations, and more.

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    46 min
  • How Akṣarā is using the visual arts and design to pass on Indian culture | Jayanthi Moorthy

    How Akṣarā is using the visual arts and design to pass on Indian culture | Jayanthi Moorthy
    Aug 15 2024
    In this episode we're speaking with Jayanthi Moorthy, founder of the arts education organization AkṣarāWe talk about the importance of the arts in transmitting Indian culture, the role museums have in this and the limitations they have, issues of cultural appropriation in events such as Color Runs, and how drawing the traditional South Indian art form of kolam has both mental and physical benefits.

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    44 min
  • Hindutva doesn’t start with Savarkar. It starts with the Bengali Renaissance. | Hindol Sengupta

    Hindutva doesn’t start with Savarkar. It starts with the Bengali Renaissance. | Hindol Sengupta
    Jul 25 2024
    In this episode Suhag Shukla speaks with author Hindol Sengupta about the origins of Hindutva as a philosophical concept, its relationship to Hindu nationalism, the inclusiveness of Hindu thought, the future of the BJP, and the US-India relationship.

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    36 min