India Insight with Sunny Sharma
Join host Sunny Sharma on discussions with his elder, informative, and insightful cousins Abhishek Kasid (Vinni), Ranjan Wali (Tinku), and others with informative conversations on Indian and American history, politics, spirituality, philosophy, news and everything in between. I also do standalone podcasts on various historical and political topics.
Episodes
95 episodes
Black History Month February- Part 10 Concluding Remarks on Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology
In this podcast I summarize some of the main ideas from my 10 part examination of Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology while describing briefly why America needs a new left or must form a new coalition, like it did in the pa...
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Season 8
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Episode 14
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20:24
Black History Section 5- Contemporary African American Thought, 1975 to the Present Part 2 of 2
YouTube channel: Sunny Sharma@IndiaInsightMovement, podcast: India insight with Sunny Sharma.I briefly discuss President Barack Obama’s legacy at the end!The contempo...
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Season 8
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Episode 13
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26:59
Blacks History Section 5- Contemporary African-American Thought, 1975 to the Present Part 1 of 2
The contemporary era of black intellectual thought 1975 to the present is characterized by a growth in black feminist thought, an expansion of rainbow coalitions by prominent black leaders, an explosion of the black middle class and a black bou...
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Season 8
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Episode 12
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19:39
Black History February,Section 4- We Shall Overcome: The Second Reconstruction 1954-1975 Part 2 of 2
The rise of such proponents of black nationalism and black power as Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael was seated in deep frustration with the inability to change the fundamental economic conditions of blacks even with the passing of political pr...
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Season 8
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Episode 11
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32:30
Black History February:Section 4- We Shall Overcome: The Second Reconstruction 1954-1975 Part 1 of 2
If you enjoy these history lessons please follow, like, share, and subscribe for future videos. My YouTube channel is Sunny Sharma@IndiaInsightMovement and my podcast is “Ind...
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Season 8
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Episode 10
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25:38
February Section 3- The Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, and World War 1915-1954 Part 2 of 2
This period is characterized by an intense push for equal occupational opportunities that would yield economic prosperity for all people. This would be realized after World War II where due to the efforts of a variety of labor organizers, many ...
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Season 8
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Episode 9
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26:37
February Section 3- The Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, and World War, 1915-1954 Part 1 of 2
In Section 3, I discuss some of the prominent movements and themes occurring in between two World Wars, particularly the Great Migration characterized by the movement of millions of blacks from the rural agricultural south to the urban industri...
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Season 8
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Episode 8
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23:06
Black History Month Special February LNTUA Section 2- Reconstruction and Reaction: The Aftermath of Slavery and the Dawn of Segregation, 1861-1915
Link to YouTube video:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=StdiCf4rIFI&t=56sIn this part 2 of a 6 part series including an introduction, I discuss some of the foundati...
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Season 8
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Episode 7
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31:12
Black History Month Special February: President Abraham Lincoln and LNTUA Section 1- Foundations: Slavery and Abolitionism, 1768-1861
Hello to my audience, friends, and family this is India Insight with Sunny Sharma. If you enjoyed this podcast please follow, share, like, and subscribe for future episodes.Link to YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu...
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Season 8
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Episode 6
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26:51
Black History Month Special February- Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology- Introduction
Youtube video link: https://youtu.be/VD2hV906mP8In honor of Black History Month in February, I want to share some of the most important insights I have learned from the book Let Nobody Turn ...
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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20:32
My Conversation with Dr. Subhash Kak: Quantum Mechanics, Consciousness, Linguistics, History, More
Link to youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UulsDFqqqXQHello to my audience, friends, and family this is India Insight with Sunny Sharma. I am super excited to have one of the most prominent Indian intellectuals of the ...
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Season 8
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Episode 4
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1:38:15
Why America and the world need a Multiparty System?
Season 8 Episode 3The true spirit of industry and capitalism is emblematic of choice and to reflect that idea means there must be a multiparty system in America and the world.The growth of special interests means there mu...
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Season 8
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Episode 3
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14:41
Why did the American Founding Fathers not trust Factions and Political Parties? Part 2
The dangers of political parties, why we are so partisan in the modern era, and potential solutions to the problem.I further extrapolate on what the American founding fathers, especially James Madison, knew about political parties inclu...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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15:05
Why did the American Founding Fathers not trust Factions and Political Parties? Part 1
For the first episode of season 8 I explain that despite the fact that the American founding fathers were not party men, the Constitution in many ways facilitates the rise of parties and factions. This was the genius of Madison; creating a syst...
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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12:06
The Relevance of President Barack Obama’s 2024 Democracy Forum on Pluralism
In this season 7 finale episode 10 podcast to close out the New Year and usher in 2025, I want to bring to attention the key ideas President Obama explicated at the Obama Foundation Democracy Forum of 2024 on Pluralism and why they are relevant...
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Season 7
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Episode 10
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13:29
Why society needs to be dedicated to Liberty and not Profit?
Exalting upon high the principle of liberty to smash the pedestal upon which the principle of avaricious profit lays.Tune in to hear my case for the need for our society to dedicate itself to the principle of liberty in an era of growin...
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Season 7
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Episode 9
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21:49
Let Nobody Turn Us Around: The Meaning Behind the Ascendency of President Barack Obama and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar to the Subaltern Lower-Class Struggle
President Barack Obama and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar were not just impeccable social reformers, but they were also unprecedented leaders for their time. It is difficult to compare them, but in every regard they were constitutional experts and tren...
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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16:14
My Case for a Politics for the Poor
Please tune in to hear my case for the need for an organized effort against poverty in America. I expound on some of the ideas below.There have been concerted efforts by political, religious, and non profit organization to combat povert...
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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14:52
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Most Famous 1942 Declaration: “Educate, Agitate, Organize”
Tune in to hear about Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar's most famous clarion call and slogan declared at the 1942 All India Depressed Class Conference in Nagpur, India to "Educate, Agitate, Organize".This phrase has been a motto of labor...
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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9:47
The Great Liberator Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 Part 5 of 5: Conclusion
President Lincoln stayed true to himself till his assassination leaving the grandest legacy by any leader in not only the 19th century but perhaps all of the modern era. Through his leadership and moral example, he gave a renewed meaning to dem...
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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6:36
The Great Liberator Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 Part 4 of 5: Mystical Devotion
Over time the legend of President Lincoln has only grown larger. A man, through his very goodness became great by which he represented the true ideals of democratic self government as outlined by the US Constitution and Declaration of Independe...
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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10:52
The Great Liberator Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 Part 3 of 5: Reconciliation
At the end of the war, President Lincoln, through the establishment of certain stipulations for the Southern Rebels to be brought back into the Confederacy, made the Emancipation of the Slaves the Cornerstone of Reconstruction in the South. Thr...
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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9:32
The Great Liberator Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 Part 2 of 5: Shifting the Moral Narrative
The 16th President of the United States of America Abraham Lincoln Shifted the Moral Narrative of Slavery during the Civil War from being merely a political issue to one of social justice and reform. He did so masterfully through the traits he ...
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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11:13
The Great Liberator Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 Part 1 of 5: Introduction
Tune in to part 1 of a 5 part series I will be making on the significance of the legacy of Abraham Lincoln the 16th president of the United States who united America during its Civil War, emancipated the slaves, and gave meaning, more so than a...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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6:23
Radical Social Democracy Part 2: Government and The People w/Abhishek Kasid (Vinni), Ranjan Wali (Tinku), and Sunny Sharma
Reform precedes revolution and in the words of John Adams the only true revolution is that which occurs in the minds of the people. Similarly in the words of the first prime minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru, just as revolution occurs in the m...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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38:54