Podcasts about baisakhi

Fluent Fiction - Hindi: Rajeev's Journey: Unveiling Secrets of an Ancient Temple Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hi/episode/2025-04-15-22-34-02-hi Story Transcript:Hi: वसंत ऋतु की नर्म धूप में, राजीव के हाथ में एक पुराना नक्शा लहरा रहा था।En: In the soft sunlight of spring, Rajeev's hand held an old map swaying in the breeze.Hi: यह नक्शा उसके दादा के सामान से मिला था।En: This map was found among his grandfather's belongings.Hi: नक्शा एक प्राचीन मंदिर की ओर इशारा करता था, जिसे जंगल ने अपनी हरियाली में छुपा लिया था।En: The map pointed towards an ancient temple, which the forest had concealed in its greenery.Hi: आज वैसाखी का पर्व था, और यही दिन राजीव ने मंदिर की उस गूढ़ यात्रा के लिए चुना।En: Today was the festival of Baisakhi, and this was the day Rajeev chose for that mysterious journey to the temple.Hi: राजीव के साथ उसकी बचपन की दोस्त मीरा और एक रहस्यमय आदमी संदीप था।En: Accompanying Rajeev was his childhood friend Meera, and a mysterious man, Sandeep.Hi: संदीप एक ऐसा मार्गदर्शक था, जिसे लोग हर तरह की अफवाहों से जोड़ते थे।En: Sandeep was a guide associated with all sorts of rumors.Hi: राजीव को संदीप के इरादों पर थोड़ा संदेह था, पर कहानी की तलाश में उसने संदीप को साथ ले जाना उचित समझा।En: Rajeev had some doubts about Sandeep's intentions, but in search of the story, he thought it appropriate to take Sandeep along.Hi: मंदिर की ओर बढ़ते हुए, रास्ते में हरे-भरे पेड़ और जंगली फूलों की खुशबू ने उनका स्वागत किया।En: As they moved towards the temple, lush green trees and the fragrance of wildflowers welcomed them.Hi: मंदिर के पास पहुँचते ही, उन्हें पत्थर की नक़्क़ाशी और रहस्यमय मूर्तियों का सामना करना पड़ा।En: Upon reaching near the temple, they encountered stone carvings and mysterious statues.Hi: भीतर जाते ही, उन्हें महसूस हुआ कि मंदिर भीतर से किसी भूलभुलैया की तरह था।En: Upon entering, they felt that the temple was akin to a labyrinth inside.Hi: हर कोने पर जटिल मार्ग और छिपे हुए जाल थे।En: At every corner, there were complex paths and hidden traps.Hi: जैसे ही उन्होंने पहला जाल पार किया, संदीप ने एक गुप्त मार्ग की ओर इशारा किया।En: As soon as they crossed the first trap, Sandeep pointed towards a secret path.Hi: "यही सही रास्ता है," उसने कहा।En: "This is the right way," he said.Hi: लेकिन मीरा की आँखों में संदेह था, उसने राजीव को दूसरी दिशा में बढ़ने का इशारा किया।En: But doubt was visible in Meera's eyes, and she signaled Rajeev to move in another direction.Hi: तभी, एक तेज़ आवाज़ के साथ दरवाजा बंद हो गया।En: Just then, with a loud noise, the door shut.Hi: अब उन्हें लगा कि वे फँस गए हैं।En: Now it felt like they were trapped.Hi: राजीव और मीरा को संदीप की नीयत पर शक होने लगा।En: Rajeev and Meera began to have doubts about Sandeep's intentions.Hi: आखिरकार, राजीव ने निर्णय लिया कि वह अब अपनी और मीरा की सूझ-बूझ पर भरोसा करेगा।En: Eventually, Rajeev decided that he would now rely on his and Meera's intuition.Hi: जैसे ही वे आगे बढ़े, उन्होंने संदीप को हर बार एक गलत दिशा में जाते देखते रहे।En: As they moved ahead, they kept seeing Sandeep go in the wrong direction each time.Hi: कुछ समय बाद, एक छोटे से कक्ष में उन्होंने एक चमकदार खजाना पाया।En: After some time, in a small chamber, they found a gleaming treasure.Hi: लेकिन खजाने की संरचना देख कर उन्हें समझ आया कि इसे कई हिस्सों में बाँटकर सजाया गया था।En: But upon examining the treasure's arrangement, they realized it was decorated in several parts.Hi: यह महसूस करके कि खजाना व्यक्तिगत लाभ के लिए नहीं बल्कि साझेदारी के लिए था, उन्होंने उसे साझा करने का निश्चय किया।En: Recognizing that the treasure was meant not for personal gain but for partnership, they decided to share it.Hi: आखिरकार, संदीप ने भी अपनी वास्तविकता कबूल की।En: Finally, Sandeep also confessed his reality.Hi: उसने बताया कि उसके पूर्वजों ने मंदिर की रक्षा का संकल्प लिया था।En: He revealed that his ancestors had vowed to protect the temple.Hi: राजीव ने संदीप को क्षमा किया और साथ मिलकर खजाने का उपयोग गाँव के विकास के लिए करने की योजना बनाई।En: Rajeev forgave Sandeep and together they planned to use the treasure for the village's development.Hi: राजीव ने सीखा कि सच्ची सफलता अकेले हासिल नहीं की जा सकती।En: Rajeev learned that true success cannot be achieved alone.Hi: टीम की ताकत और विश्वास महत्व रखता है।En: The strength and trust of a team matter.Hi: वे तीनों वापस गाँव में लौटे, उनके हाथों में खजाना नहीं, बल्कि आत्मीयता और नई दोस्ती का अनमोल उपहार।En: The three of them returned to the village, not with treasure in their hands, but with the priceless gift of camaraderie and new friendship. Vocabulary Words:sunlight: धूपmap: नक्शाbreeze: हवाconcealed: छुपाmysterious: रहस्यमयjourney: यात्राguide: मार्गदर्शकrumors: अफवाहोंintentions: इरादोंwildflowers: जंगली फूलlabyrinth: भूलभुलैयाcomplex: जटिलtraps: जालsecret: गुप्तsignal: इशाराtrapped: फँसेintuition: सुझ-बूझchamber: कक्षgleaming: चमकदारarrangement: संरचनाdecorated: सजायाpersonal: व्यक्तिगतgain: लाभpartnership: साझेदारीconfessed: कबूलvowed: संकल्प लियाforgave: क्षमा कियाdevelopment: विकासcamaraderie: आत्मीयताfriendship: दोस्ती

Fluent Fiction - Hindi: Mango Mania: Anika's Sweet Journey to Food Critique Dreams Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hi/episode/2025-04-14-22-34-02-hi Story Transcript:Hi: लखनऊ के शरदोत्सव ग्राउंड में अंतरराष्ट्रीय आम महोत्सव का माहौल बेहद रंगीन था।En: The atmosphere at the International Mango Festival in Sharadotsav Grounds, Lucknow, was incredibly vibrant.Hi: हर तरफ आम की मिठास और महक फैली हुई थी।En: The sweetness and aroma of mangoes filled the air everywhere.Hi: अनिका और उसके दोस्त रोहन भी इस महोत्सव का हिस्सा बने।En: Anika and her friend Rohan were also part of the festival.Hi: अनिका हमेशा से खाने की शौकीन रही है।En: Anika has always been a foodie.Hi: मन ही मन, वह ख्वाहिश रखती थी कि वह एक फूड क्रिटिक बने, जो अलग-अलग खाने चखकर उनके बारे में लिखे।En: Deep down, she wished to become a food critic, who would taste various dishes and write about them.Hi: दूसरी तरफ, रोहन हमेशा उसका साथ देने वाला, लेकिन शरारती भी था।En: On the other hand, Rohan was always there to support her while being mischievous.Hi: बासाखी का त्यौहार था, और मौसम भी सुहावना था।En: It was the festival of Baisakhi, and the weather was pleasant.Hi: अनिका की निगाहें अलग-अलग किस्म के आमों पर टिकी थीं।En: Anika's eyes were fixed on the different varieties of mangoes.Hi: उन्होंने तय किया कि वो यहां हर किस्म का आम चखेंगी।En: She decided that she would taste every variety there.Hi: रोहन ने चारों ओर देखा और देखा कि आम खाने की एक प्रतियोगिता चल रही है।En: Rohan looked around and saw that there was a mango-eating competition going on.Hi: अनिका और रोहन ने इसे मजाक समझा और पास आकर खड़े हो गए।En: Anika and Rohan took it as a joke and stood nearby.Hi: लेकिन अचानक उन्हें पता चला कि वे गलती से इस प्रतियोगिता का हिस्सा बन गए हैं।En: But suddenly they realized they accidentally became part of the competition.Hi: अनिका के अंदर हल्की सी घबराहट थी, लेकिन उसने सोचा, "क्यों न मजे ले?"En: Anika felt a slight nervousness inside her but thought, "Why not have some fun?"Hi: रोहन ने हंसते हुए कहा, "चलो, देखते हैं कौन ज्यादा आम खा सकता है!"En: Rohan laughed and said, "Come on, let's see who can eat more mangoes!"Hi: जैसे ही प्रतियोगिता शुरू हुई, हंसी-खुशी का माहौल और भी बढ़ गया।En: As soon as the competition began, the atmosphere of laughter and joy intensified.Hi: रोहन ने अनिका को चिढ़ाना शुरू किया, और कहते, "देखो, अगर हम जीत गए तो क्या कहोगी?"En: Rohan started teasing Anika, saying, "Look, what will you say if we win?"Hi: प्रतियोगिता चल रही थी और आवाजें सब तरफ गूंज रही थीं।En: The competition was underway and voices echoed all around.Hi: अनिका अपने स्वाद के लिए हर आम को चखना चाहती थी, जबकि रोहन मस्ती में मग्न था।En: Anika wanted to taste each mango for its flavor, while Rohan was engrossed in the fun.Hi: अंत में, दोनों को फाइनलिस्ट घोषित किया गया।En: Eventually, both were announced as finalists.Hi: अब उन्हें दुनिया के सबसे बड़े और कठिन आम को छीलकर खाना था।En: Now they had to peel and eat the world's largest and most difficult mango.Hi: अनिका और रोहन ने पूरी लगन से प्रयास किया।En: Anika and Rohan put in their best effort.Hi: उन्होंने देखा कि उस बड़े आम को छीलना कितना कठिन था।En: They saw how challenging it was to peel that big mango.Hi: तमाम कोशिशों के बाद भी, वे मुस्कुराते रहे।En: Despite all their attempts, they kept smiling.Hi: हार बनाम जीत की भावना से बेख़बर, उन्हें हंसी आ रही थी।En: Unaware of the feeling of winning or losing, they couldn't help but laugh.Hi: आखिरकार, प्रतियोगिता खत्म हुई और दोनों हंसते हुए आपस में बातें करने लगे कि इस मजेदार अनुभव को कैसे लिखा जाए।En: Finally, the competition ended, and the two laughed and talked about how to write about this fun experience.Hi: अनिका ने सोचा, "ये अनुभव कागज पर उतारने लायक है।"En: Anika thought, "This experience is worth putting on paper."Hi: महोत्सव की इस घटना ने अनिका के आत्मविश्वास को बढ़ा दिया।En: This event at the festival boosted Anika's confidence.Hi: वह अब तैयार थी अपने फूड ब्लॉग की शुरुआत करने के लिए। और इस शानदार दिन को अपनी पहली पोस्ट के लिए चुना।En: She was now ready to start her food blog and chose this fantastic day as her first post.Hi: लखनऊ का ये आम महोत्सव अब अनिका के लिए मिठास के साथ-साथ नए सपनों के बीज भी लेकर आया था।En: This mango festival in Lucknow brought not just sweetness to Anika but also sowed seeds of new dreams.Hi: इस अनुभव के बाद अनिका ने यह समझा कि जिंदगी के हर पल में नई संभावनाएं छुपी होती हैं।En: After this experience, Anika realized that every moment in life hides new possibilities. Vocabulary Words:atmosphere: माहौलvibrant: रंगीनsweetness: मिठासaroma: महकfoodie: खाने की शौकीनcritic: फूड क्रिटिकcritique: निंदा करनाmischievous: शरारतीpleasant: सुहावनाvarieties: किस्मेंcompetition: प्रतियोगिताnervousness: घबराहटengrossed: मग्नfinalists: फाइनलिस्टpeel: छीलनाeffort: प्रयासchallenging: कठिनlaugh: हंसीunaware: बेख़बरconfidence: आत्मविश्वासblog: ब्लॉगsowed: लिए थेdreams: सपनेpossibilities: संभावनाएं

El 13 de abril de 1919 soldados británicos acordonaron el jardín y dispararon contra miles de hombres, mujeres y niños desarmados, que estaban reunidos para festejar el Baisakhi, una fiesta de los monzones celebrada en el norte de India.

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Dans le nord de l'Inde, à Amritsar, en 1919, le calme apparent du jardin de Jallianwala Bagh cache l'ombre imminente d'un drame. 20 000 Indiens, venus célébrer le festival du Baisakhi, sont réunis dans une atmosphère paisible, loin de se douter du destin tragique qui les attend. Le général Dyer, accompagné de ses troupes, fait irruption dans ce lieu de sérénité, ordonnant un tir aveugle sur la foule sans sommation. À 17 heures, le 13 avril 1919, l'histoire bascule, marquant un tournant crucial dans la lutte pour l'indépendance indienne. Les balles fusent, et avec elles, naît un profond sentiment de révolte contre la domination britannique. Merci pour votre écoute Retrouvez l'ensemble des épisodes de l'Heure H sur notre plateforme Auvio.be : https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/22750 Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

On 24th February, A Baisakhi Challenge of INR 25 lakhs was thrown on behalf of Puneet Sahani for McSikhs/SGPC to prove that Gurus prescribed Panj Kakkar (5 Ks) from original publications/Manuscripts from pre-1880s. No one came forward with a valid Claim. Puneet Sahani joins Sanjay Dixit this Baisakhi to completely debunk the McSikh narrative and shows how they vandalised and edited the original scriptures to build their current narrative of being separate from Sanatana roots.

A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. This Thursday APEX Express proudly presents “South Asians and The Labor Justice Movement.” This episode highlights Sandhya Jha, a pastor, founder and former Executive Director of the Oakland Peace Center, and racial, housing, and labor justice activist. In the first half of the episode, we discuss Sandhya's life, their path into organizing, and what they're up to now. The second half is dedicated to their recent project with the South Asian American Digital Archive's Archival Creators Fellowship Program. This episode was interviewed, produced, and edited by Swati Rayasam Follow @Sandhya Jha on Facebook and check out Sandhya's website https://sandhyajha.com/    APEX Express is a weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. Listen to the episode live on KPFA 94.1 in San Francisco, 89.3 in Berkeley, and online at KPFA.org.  References throughout the Show and Links: Without Fear Consulting Interfaith Alliance Oakland Peace Center Book – Blueprint for a Revolution Book – The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad Podcast – Bending Toward Justice: Avatar the Last Airbender for the Global Majority The Alliance of South Asians Taking Action – ASATA Bay Area Solidarity Summer South Asian American Digital Archive Archival Creators Fellowship Program Sandhya Jha's project, you can listen to all of the oral histories here. Solidarity Forever Online Exhibit Arab Resource and Organizing Center Block the Boat No Tech for Apartheid  University of California Labor Center Equality Labs California Trade Justice Coalition NAFCON – National Alliance for Filipino Concerns Filipino Community Center Madhvi Trivedi Patak Transcript: South Asians and Labor Justice  [00:00:00]  [00:00:00] Swati Rayasam: Good evening everyone and Happy Thursday, my name is Swati Rayasam. While I'm usually in the background of APEX Express editing, this week I'm honored to bring you a piece from a dear friend of mine Sandhya Jha. We explore Sandhya's background as a mixed race kid, a housing, labor, and racial justice organizer, and a faith leader.  [00:00:50] Swati Rayasam: And then we dive into an amazing project, Sandhya did for the South Asian American Digital Archive's Archival Creators Fellowship program. Stay locked in.[00:01:00]  [00:01:00] Swati Rayasam: I'm really excited actually today to talk to Sandhya Jha, who is a really close friend of mine. Hi Sandhya. Hi there. Sandhya is, a Pastor is a consultant and has been working on this really amazing project with the South Asian American Digital Archive that will get into later in the episode. But yeah, Sandhya I'm just really excited to learn more about you and to hear more of your story and, let's just dive in. [00:01:26] Swati Rayasam: Absolutely.  [00:01:27] Swati Rayasam: We should first talk a little bit about how we know each other, you have this long organizing background. I've been in the Bay Area for the past seven years and I would be totally lying if I said I have not historically been, or I'm not even currently an active fangirl of yours. You are literally a pastor. You are a movement worker, how did you get involved in organizing? [00:01:53] Sandhya Jha: Yeah. So I am the product of my parents who were generous, compassionate [00:02:00] people who thought about the world beyond themselves, but were never involved in organizing or activism or anything like that. I think for anybody who comes from immigrant backgrounds, it's hard to tell our stories without naming who we come from. Right. And so my father was Sunil Kumar Jha from the village of Tildanga in West Bengal. My mother, who is still alive is Jeanette Campbell Jha. She is from Glasgow. So I come from a mixed religion and mixed race home. My parents chose not to name me Sandhya Campbell Jha not to give me that kind of grounding, but I was called Sandhya Rani Jha, which is a lot to live up to, well, yes, Rani does mean Queen. But it was actually handed down to me, part of the reason they wanted that middle name was it was my aunt's name, Durga Rani Upadhyay and she was the one who really [00:03:00] brokered my mother's acceptance into the Indian family and I think that there was something about being accepted on the Indian side of the family and not for many, many years on the Scottish side. That caused my parents and particularly my mother to double down on making sure I knew who I came from and who I came from was my people in the village of Tildanga. [00:03:23] Sandhya Jha: I grew up in Akron, Ohio, so we immigrated to this country when I was a toddler, in the late 1970s, which was a complicated time for Asian immigrants to be in the Midwest because it was a time that the rust belt was rusting and there was a growing sense that we were the reason. But also I grew up alongside folks who were trying to figure out how to put food on the table. So I think that landscape shaped me in a lot of ways. And I also come from people who grew up in poor working communities. And[00:04:00] when I went off to college, there was an organizing campaign. The board of directors of the university had created a for-profit corporation with the exact same board.  [00:04:15] Swati Rayasam: Oh wow.  [00:04:16] Sandhya Jha: So that the universities could subcontract all of their catering, all of their custodial work to this… basically Shell corporation.  [00:04:28] Swati Rayasam: Are we telling on the university?  [00:04:29] Sandhya Jha: Mm, Yeah. Why not? It was Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and I think that's relevant because the tension between Black communities next to Johns Hopkins Medical School and the school itself were very real because this was part of a very long history of exploiting community members. So the workers were organizing, and you know, I had read about activism, I cared about it. I paid as much attention as I could for a high school student. But when I got to college, this organizing [00:05:00] campaign was going, and the workers were really clear, Hey, college kids who are excited about this, we do have a role for you. It's to fill the crowd. It's to cheer us on. It's to when we ask you communicate to the university that our well-being matters to you because they will listen to you in different ways. But the campaign centered the workers and was really clear with us about what our role was because we were the folks with all the privilege by getting to be there, right? We had tons of privilege and it was a really good lesson for me. I am so grateful. The first organizing campaign I was a part of was a labor campaign that understood what it meant to center the people who were the most impacted by injustice and I think that shaped the rest of my career.  [00:05:46] Swati Rayasam: And that's so special too because I think for many people who come into organizing, and I will definitely cop to this myself, like coming up and organizing through high school and college level organizing. When you are a student, nobody ever [00:06:00] tells you that actually you are the least useful kind of organizer that exists. Right. You are in this incredibly enclaved community. Your oppressor, the university, all they have to do is wait for you to graduate institutional memory will not keep you. Yeah. Right. And I think that it is, it's this perfect storm of, you have actually sometimes cool ideas, sometimes very rudimentary ideas, but you also have this turnover issue and you have this sense of self import, which often comes with your teens, early twenties. Yep. As you're just figuring all of that out. So Yeah, self differentiation, right? It's a narcissistic phase in our development. .  [00:06:46] Swati Rayasam: It absolutely is and I think that's so important, and I can't imagine how my life would be shaped if I didn't have to spend a lot of time unlearning the self import and narcissism that I had gained through student [00:07:00] organizing. [00:07:00] Sandhya Jha: Yeah. No, I am really, really grateful for it.  [00:07:02] Sandhya Jha: My first job outta college was working for a member of Congress, which sounds super fancy and pretentious, but, a member of congress from Akron, Ohio. So put that all in perspective. His name, believe it or not, was Tom Sawyer. Oh, wow. What I loved about Tom was back in those days, he believed very strongly that 80% of legislation was nonpartisan and that was the part that he spent most of his time on. He would weigh in with his party, when they were dealing with that 20% pretty consistently. But he was more interested in the stuff that everybody could agree on and I remember for about 15 years after I worked for him, I looked back and found myself thinking that was so naive. How did he not understand where we were about to head with the divisions between the political parties? But at this point in my life, I realize the people I respect most in organizing work keep pointing out that the binary of [00:08:00] left and right actually doesn't serve us very well. One of my biggest heroes in the movement right now is the Reverend Dr. William Barber,  [00:08:07] Swati Rayasam: Hometown hero of mine. Yes.  [00:08:09] Sandhya Jha: Poor People's campaign from North Carolina. And he always talks about how it's not about right and left. It's about right and wrong. And it turns out that when we engage in organizing with the awareness that there are huge swaths of things that most of us are well served by, we can do better organizing. And that was actually how Tom was legislating. And at a certain point I realized that my deep passion was around racial justice, but the distinct experience I had in a multi religious household was an awareness of how religion was being used as a weapon. I had an obsession. Every paper in college I wrote was about the Christian coalition, this right wing, organizing body in the nineties. So a friend of mine [00:09:00] said, You know, there's an interfaith organization working against the Christian Coalition. And it was called the Interfaith Alliance. Her mom had been a superintendent in Washington state in eastern Washington and was a pretty conservative person by my standards. [00:09:18] Sandhya Jha: But, Dr. Chow believed in multiculturalism and believed in teaching evolution. And the Christian coalition had organized to push her out of her position as superintendent and the Interfaith Alliance of Washington State had supported her in that time. [00:09:38] Sandhya Jha: And so Liz said, you know, they've got a national chapter, a national office. And that's where I ended up, cutting my adult organizing teeth which was great because talk about learning lessons for our current moment where religion is being weaponized in ways that are anti-trans, that are anti-queer, that are anti-women, that [00:10:00] are anti reproductive rights, that are anti-immigrant and refugee. I am really grateful to have experienced the power of multi-faith organizing, around a lot of those same issues. So that was what I did in the early two thousands and then I went to seminary and public policy school, and then I ended up out here pastoring a congregation of 10 people in a building of 40,000 square feet. [00:10:29] Sandhya Jha: And long story short, that's how the Oakland Peace Center was born, was out of this dream of cultivating deeper collaboration among nonprofits who were dedicated to a shared cause. The Oakland Peace Center, which is a collective of 40 different nonprofits committed to dismantling the root causes of violence in our community. I was the founder of that organization and it was when I was pastoring First Christian Church of Oakland that I asked the handful of folks who were members of that church, what they wanted to [00:11:00] contribute to the community, and they said they wanted to contribute peace in the midst of violence. And for a dozen folks to have given birth to a space that in non pandemic years, saw over a hundred thousand people do things like the Lawyers for Black Lives Conference and to do Kingian non-violence training and to be a part of food and clothing distribution, to participate in all the very diverse ways that we can create peace is pretty impressive.  [00:11:30] Sandhya Jha: And a couple of years ago, I left the Oakland Peace Center because a colleague of mine said, Anybody can run a non-profit. We need you to do what you're actually good at, and what she meant by that was we need more people of color doing diversity, equity, and inclusion work that is actually grounded in power analysis. That isn't just how do we be nicer to each other in the workplace, but how do we recognize the ways that systems of white supremacy [00:12:00] unconsciously often shape the culture of our workplaces? And what do we do to dismantle that white supremacy culture so that we can be building nonprofits and institutions of higher education and faith organizations, and even corporations that are dedicated to our full liberation, our liberation, the lands liberation. [00:12:23] Swati Rayasam: I mean coming, especially from the place that you come in grassroots organizing and in faith based organizing, what is it actually to transition into this kind of consulting space around racial justice and really interface with a lot of people that I feel like as organizers, we don't really talk to? [00:12:42] Sandhya Jha: One of my favorite things about this shift in my work is I love getting to work with folks who don't think of themselves as organizers, who, it turns out are organizers, Right. I think we sometimes create a cult of here's what an organizer looks like, you [00:13:00] have to be a Martin Luther King or a Cesar Chavez and what I love is getting to work with moms and with teenagers and with folks who think of themselves as caring, compassionate, individuals, and when I go into an organization and work with their handful of folks who care about this issue, the DEI team, I get to teach them how to strategically organize. I get to teach them how do you create culture shift over time? I get to teach them how do you figure out who your allies are? How do you figure out how to move people who are neutral? It turns out that there are a lot more organizers out there than we realize if we don't create one definition of what an organizer needs to look like.  [00:13:45] Swati Rayasam: I have been reading this political scholar Eqbal Ahmed, who really talks about the way the burden is on those of us who are deeply committed to movement work, narrow definition people, the burden is really on us to try and [00:14:00] create a liberatory future that feels both achievable. Mm-hmm. and safe for everybody. Because when people engage in mass struggle and in revolution, there are people who are a hundred percent willing to put their lives on the line. People who are willing to die for the cause. And we absolutely need those people. And there are many people along the spectrum who, if you can create a future that feels like it's within their grasp, they will come with you.  [00:14:30] Sandhya Jha: Yep. I teach a lot of organizing classes and have gotten a chance to teach alongside my beloved colleague BK Woodson at Allen Temple Baptist Church, they have a leadership institute there. And one of the books we use is Blueprint for a Revolution by Srđa Popović. And I feel like I learned a lot as we read that book together and thought about how to apply it to the work we're doing in Oakland. They talked about how by engaging in nonviolent direct action, [00:15:00] they created space for elders to be a part of their work and youth to be a part of their work and families to be a part of their work. By making the movement playful. They gave people hope and gave people courage because dictators are terrified of being mocked.  [00:15:17] Swati Rayasam: Yeah, exactly. And I think by being really restrictive or narrow about who we view as actually valuable organizers. And I think labor movements teach us this a lot, right? We really cut ourselves off at the knees on our ability to build a network or to be in touch with the general population, many of whom are more connected than we ever give them credit for.  [00:15:41] Sandhya Jha: Yeah. Yep. it's part of why I love labor organizing. I talk with a lot of people who are disenchanted with organizing who ask me how I can have stayed involved for the past 25 years. And why I've been able to stay in it is cuz I'm organizing alongside workers and they have [00:16:00] full lives. And the work that they're doing in the movement is so that they can live their full lives. And there's something about having that perspective and recognizing the why all the time instead of getting lost in the weeds of the what. Is so important in this work. I think that has been a big theme of my organizing life is how do we build to the greatest common denominator? As my friend BK often says how do we build towards those shared values that often get erased when we are engaged in the right versus left debate. [00:16:39] Swati Rayasam: Yeah. I think that it is so important and I also think that it's really hard in this moment of what feels like constant trauma and re trauma. [00:16:51] Swati Rayasam: And to some extent especially when we're talking about the left right dichotomy there are real concerns [00:17:00] about safety. Yep. And there are real concerns about security and who you are in community with and who you can find even the smallest level of acceptance from to ensure that you won't have violence visited upon you. And I think that these conversations of united front organizing, Right. trying to bridge across difference mm-hmm. for a shared goal, for a shared liberatory future Yep. Are really important. And they feel kind of impossible to achieve right now.  [00:17:31] Sandhya Jha: It's interesting cuz I think that in many ways that is true. There are a lot of conversations that I think people with privilege expect, people who are marginalized to engage in. And those expectations are unfair, what I found very frustrating was the number of people with a lot of privilege who would be like, Ugh, I just can't talk to those people. And I'm like, Then who's going to? Exactly. and so I do think that some of this is about being willing to have [00:18:00] hard conversations in the places where we have privilege and recognizing who's at actual risk and showing up in ways that are protective of who is at risk. But that doesn't mean walking away from people who aren't where we are. Right. Because the fact of the matter is everybody's on a journey. And I have watched at the same time some of the disposability culture in movements write off people without giving them any way to address harm, repair harm, and find a pathway back into community. [00:18:41] Swati Rayasam: Yeah. And I think that's why, at least I am feeling really hopeful about, what I've seen over the past couple of years, this really important track into transformative justice and restorative justice, to acknowledge that there is harm that has happened, there are harms that happen every day between people. [00:19:00] And also we are all on our own journey to unlearn the things that we have been taught either directly or indirectly by our upbringing, by our environment and that you cannot easily dispose of people and that people are able to come back into community. Now that comes with a very important caveat that like they recognize the harm. Mm-hmm. that. They have done or how they've been party to it, that they acknowledge that there is healing work that needs to be done both with the person that they harmed and also probably in internally.  [00:19:35] Sandhya Jha: Well, and the community, folks who don't do RJ on a regular basis tend to skip the community aspect. Yeah. That there is actually repair that needs to be done with community and there's work community needs to do to figure out how to re-embrace reabsorb people who have done harm in ways that still protect the person who's been harmed. [00:19:55] Swati Rayasam: Exactly. In ways that do not erase the harm that has happened, but [00:20:00] acknowledge, contextualize it and say, Okay, we are patching this and we are working to move forward in step with each other. Absolutely.  [00:20:09] Sandhya Jha: Can I just say that one of the other things that I think you and I have in common is a real passion for bringing joy back into the work of Justice I quote Fabiana Rodriguez a lot on this particular thing, because I was at an event she was doing eons ago, and she looked out at us and most of us were activists and she said, Listen, y ‘all you keep inviting people to a struggle. I'm on your side and I don't wanna join a struggle. I want to join a party. And that was like a call to arms for me when I heard her say that. I was like, Oh my gosh, you're right. We are so much more fun. Like, I've hung out with people who are anti-trans and anti queer and anti-immigrant and anti refugee. They are not fun people. No, no. We have all of the best parties. So I don't know why we don't [00:21:00] capitalize on that more. So I think the role of joy and justice is so important. And this is why I was so excited to have you on the podcast that I launched recently. [00:21:11] Sandhya Jha: Right. Bending Towards Justice Avatar the last Airbender for the Global Majority.  [00:21:15] Swati Rayasam: So literally like bringing it together. Two of my favorite things right, is like TV shows, wholesome TV shows like Avatar, The Last Airbender that I deeply love and organizing. Yes. All the work that I love. And I think it's true You know, what is actually really the important work is to work to build toward a future that is desirable Yep. That people want to be a part of. Yeah. That people can see happen. Yeah. And I think that is a lot of the difficulty that I have seen in some organizing circles. We are so well versed in what we are against and all of the things that are bad that so many people have a really hard time seeing or visioning or communicating [00:22:00] what it is that we are fighting for. Yeah. Right. And it's not enough to say, I'm fighting for a world where we can all be safe. Right. Yeah. I'm not, I'm fighting for a world where we can all take long naps in the middle of the day if we'd like to do that. Right. Yeah. But like really building and visioning that future of like, in this world in which we are all safe, there will be harm that happens. How do we deal with that? Yeah. What do we do with that? How do we make sure that it is able to keep everybody safe and also able to account for the times in which it is not able to keep everybody safe. [00:22:38] Sandhya Jha: Visionary does not have to mean naive. And we need it to be visionary. And sometimes I forget to do the visionary stuff. I've got a colleague, Dave Bell, he's a farmer who is also an anti-racism trainer and we do a lot of work together. He's a white guy who lives in White Swan, Washington, on the reservation and I remember being at a training with him and I [00:23:00] was all fired up and I was so excited about the conversations we were having and the people were really ready to do the hard work and roll up their sleeves. And Dave says to them, I would like to not have to do this work. And I'm like, What is he talking about? This is amazing. We're doing such good work. And he says, I would like for us not to have to talk about racism all the time. I would rather be farming. I would rather be, taking care of the cows in my field. [00:23:26] Sandhya Jha: I would rather be talking about my pottery work that I'm doing badly but learning how to do, I would rather be doing anything than have this conversation. But I don't get to be on the farm with the wheat, with the cows, with my bad pottery until we figured out how to do this anti-racism work. And it was a really humbling moment for me because I also get into that like I'm an organizer, that's my identity space. And it was this reminder of Dave's doing this. So he gets to live in a world where he gets to hang out in the fields and he [00:24:00] gets to, love on the cows. There's something about being reminded that we're doing this so that eventually we don't have to do it. That I think is actually visionary in its own way and it's important.  [00:24:12] Swati Rayasam: Moving into a little bit more of the grit of like why I asked you to be on the show today. I met you originally when I moved to the Bay Area when you were the executive director of the Oakland Peace Center because At that time I was doing organizing work with the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, which is a 20 year old bay area based organization, that was really founded around the Laki Reddy Bali Reddy sex trafficking. Yep. Caste and labor exploitation case that happened in Berkeley in 1999. And I was just so thrilled to be around and have in community so many rad desis. And you also did work with ASATA, right. Historically and are actively doing work with us.  [00:24:56] Sandhya Jha: Absolutely. One of the places I think I invested the most [00:25:00] energy in where we got to spend a lot of quality time in the kitchen was one of the projects, Bay Area Solidarity Summer, an organizing institute, camp, however you wanna refer to it. [00:25:10] Swati Rayasam: Political education, Summer camp.  [00:25:12] Swati Rayasam: Yeah, exactly. For young South Asian Americans who are committed to activism. What I think was the most beautiful part of that program when I was involved in it, and it's still the case today, is for young South Asians who think that they're the only ones who care about justice issues, who haven't met other people, who are South Asian, and identify as justice seekers first to meet each other and realize that there are people just like them. Then to look around and realize that those of us who are usually 10, 15, 20 years older than them are also committed to the work and have been doing it for decades. And then for them to get exposed to the long history of radical visionary organizing and activism of South [00:26:00] Asians here in the US and also in the homelands of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and diasporic countries all over the world. [00:26:13] Sandhya Jha: There's something about realizing, Oh, you have contemporaries, oh, you have elders, oh, you have ancestors. Mm-hmm. Especially in the face of the model minority lie that so many of us have had imposed on us, this lie that all we are all we're supposed to be is cogs in this larger capitalist machine that are non disruptive, which is why we're allowed to survive. And if we are non disruptive enough, we might even be able to be comfortable. And to discover that there's more to our story than that is so exciting and I love, love, love being a part of that.  [00:26:52] Swati Rayasam: Yeah. I think that is like fundamentally one of the most important kind of activities that [00:27:00] happens in the ASATA universe, I was a kid who also grew up thinking that there were no other South Asians like me, or there were no other folks who were interested in justice. I spent a lot of time doing, reproductive and queer justice in the south; I always think about what would it have meant if I came in, BASS for 18 to 24 year olds. Yep. what would it have meant if I had come in at a fresh 18 and been able to basically be apprised of the fact that I have this history Yeah. That it's not just me. And that actually, immigration and white supremacy and neo-colonial culture has created this project of assimilation that all of our parents have been in on, in a way to survive Yeah. And to be safe. And I tell my, I tell my mom that a lot because she's always a little surprised about the organizing work that I do. And I was just like, Your job was to survive. My job is to liberate. Yeah. [00:28:00] You know? Yeah. And I could not do that if you were not so focused on creating that environment for me. [00:28:07] Swati Rayasam: I love that.  [00:28:07] Swati Rayasam: we'll drop in the show notes, but, BASS – Bay Area Solidarity Summer is solidaritysummer.org. So we'll put that in the show notes as well as ASATA, the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action is ASATA.org. And yeah, I think that is a really good segue into how we got involved in this amazing project.  [00:28:31] Swati Rayasam: You're tuned in to APEX express at 94.1 KPFA and 89.3, KPFB in Berkeley. And online@kpfa.org.  [00:28:43] Swati Rayasam: I think it was Fall 2021 that you and I were talking. Yep. And you were telling me that you were involved in this amazing archival fellowship project. Is run by the South Asian American Digital Archive and [00:29:00] that you were going to do your project about labor. Mm-hmm. and South Asians. Yep. And my immediate, incredibly naive response was, how many South Asians are there in labor?  [00:29:12] Sandhya Jha: Exactly. And it's not naive. It's interesting cuz I think that this project actually emerged out of my favorite part of BASS, which was when the young adults would ask what their opportunities were in the world of justice. And I would say, you know, there's a place for us in labor justice. It had never crossed most of their minds. Right. We don't think of ourselves as having a role especially in formalized unions. And so SAADA, the South Asian American Digital Archives has an archival fellows project. And the whole purpose of it is to diversify their archives and collect the stories that are usually overlooked in the telling of South Asian American stories. [00:29:56] Sandhya Jha: And they have done a great job over the years of collecting the [00:30:00] stories of informal organizing, like the Punjabi Taxi Drivers campaign, the Bangladeshi Nail Workers Campaign. Those were informal labor organizing campaigns. That have been really well archived and they're amazing stories. I wanted to make sure that the next generation of South Asian activists knew about the South Asians who were actually part of the formal organized labor movement. [00:30:30] Sandhya Jha: And so I spent this past year interviewing, maybe a half a dozen or so South Asian American workers. Generally, not always, but mostly what would be classified as low wage workers who found a pathway into formal organizing bodies, unite here or the building trades or any number of the formal unions that keep [00:31:00] the labor movement alive across the country today. And I'm really proud of the fact that we do have South Asian workers who have moved up the ranks to be official organizers or to be at negotiating tables. And so that's part of the story I thought it was worth us telling. [00:31:19] Swati Rayasam: And I am, I'm so excited that we get to dive deeper into this project and I really love your framing too, around the three large bins that you have, solidarity, spirit and struggle. [00:31:34] Swati Rayasam: Right? Yeah. Yeah.  [00:31:35] Sandhya Jha: I started out with certain assumptions about what I was going to learn, partly because I've been doing labor solidarity work for 25 years at this point. I really thought I knew what I was gonna hear. And what I discovered was there were these consistent themes across, the interviews. that there were these notions of, Oh, what's meaningful to me is [00:32:00] getting to organize across cultures, getting to organize with people who, on the surface and even deep down are very different than me, but we share this vision of what our lives can be. And so that solidarity message I found really powerful. Also, and admittedly because I come out of a spiritual background, was probably looking for it. I was really struck by how many of the interviews ended up talking about the role of spirituality and shaping people's values. And in a couple of instances, organizers said, what my religion taught me was that religion needs to be challenged. And building up that muscle was what helped me challenge systems of injustice in other places. But others said that their journey with their faith tradition was what guided them into the work of labor organizing. [00:32:52] Sandhya Jha: And then that third bucket of struggle, I think is the lived experience of how [00:33:00] hard it is to take on oppressive systems of capitalism, how hard it is to take on decks that are stacked against us and what it means to have somewhere to turn in the midst of those struggles. I will say there were also a couple of lessons I was surprised by because my South Asian identity is so central to my organizing work, I was expecting to collect stories of people who were proud South Asians, who were also proud to be involved in the labor movement. And I assumed that they would see connections between those things because I certainly do. But what I discovered is for the most part, they were like, Yeah, I'm South Asian. I'm not saying that doesn't matter, but it's not super relevant to my organizing work. My organizing work is about [00:34:00] our cross-cultural solidarity. And that was something I hadn't been expecting that emerged as I did those interviews. Interesting. And I'm really grateful that the South Asian American Digital Archives likes telling all of the stories because I think I promised them that what they were going to get was, we're proud to be South Asian organizers. And what I got was, yeah, we're South Asian, we're proud to be organizers. And the that SAADA is like, yeah, that's part of our story too.  [00:34:28] Swati Rayasam: Yeah. And I think that's, that I think is incredibly important. We have this really, amazing series of audio clips from your SAADA interviews that really represent a lot of the themes that you were highlighting about solidarity, spirit, and struggle. And I'm just really excited to play them as we talk through these larger themes in your larger project and the experience of South Asian labor organizers. [00:34:55] Swati Rayasam: This clip is from somebody that you and I both know, which [00:35:00] is Prem Pariyar. I was so thrilled that Prem was a part of your project. I think Prem is an incredible organizer, so yeah tell our listeners a little bit about Prem. Prem  [00:35:09] Sandhya Jha: It was pretty exciting to get to work with him you know, he moved here from Nepal and in Nepal he had been a Dalit activist and he came to the United States and had this notion that in the United States there is no caste and he was disabused of that notion very quickly as a restaurant worker dealing with anti Nepali bias in Indian restaurants, dealing with caste bias in Nepali restaurants, well dealing with Caste bias in all the restaurants.  [00:35:35] Swati Rayasam: Hey, everyone, Narrator Swati here, I just wanted to put in an explanatory comma, a la W Kamau Bell and Hari Kondabolu to talk about some terms you just heard. Sandhya referenced that Prem was a Dalit activist and also talked about Caste bias. For those of you who don't know, Caste is a violent system of oppression and exclusion, which governs social status in many south Asian countries, although it is [00:36:00] most commonly associated with India. It works on an axis of purity and pollution, and it's hereditary. At the top of the caste system are Brahmins, by the way Sandhya and I are both Brahmin, and not even at the bottom, but completely outside of the system are Dalits who were previously referred to by the slur untouchable and Adivasis who are indigenous to South Asia.  [00:36:25] Swati Rayasam: Despite being “illegal” Caste bias, Caste Oppression, Caste apartheid, are still prevalent, both in South Asia and as Sandhya references, in the United States. It manifests in many ways that people experience racial injustice, via socioeconomic inequality, systemic and interpersonal violence, occupation, and through the determination of marriage and other relationships. You can learn more at EqualityLabs.org and APEX currently has a show in the works that delves into this more deeply. Now. Back to Sandhya  [00:36:58] Sandhya Jha: What is [00:37:00] delightful to me is Prem went on to get an MSW and is building out amazing mental health resources for Dalit communities for the Nepali community. Seeking to build out a program where there are more and more people in Nepal who are trained with MSW skills.  [00:37:21] Sandhya Jha: I met with one of his professors from CSU East Bay where he got his degree and she said, You know, that the entire Cal State system is adding caste to its anti-discrimination policies thanks to the work he started at CSU East Bay. And it was really beautiful to hear that because the focus of my conversations with him were more around how his experiences in the restaurants led him into the solidarity work with nail salon workers. [00:37:53] Swati Rayasam: To just, kick back to the caste abolition work that Prem has been doing, that caste abolition work [00:38:00] at CSU East Bay has been such critical work in these ongoing conversations around caste that have been in the South Asian community primarily, but have been percolating elsewhere. [00:38:13] Swati Rayasam: You know, the state of California filed a lawsuit against Cisco systems Yep. For caste discrimination in their workplace and there have been all these conversations around caste and tech work and interplay that with the no tech for apartheid work. Right. That has been happening in Palestinian liberation circles. Yeah. And really building that solidarity movement. So I think that Prem is an absolute powerhouse Yeah. In that regard. But yeah, let's listen to this clip.  [00:38:42] Prem: During that time, I got connected with other community organizer, like workers group. I got connected and so I was connected with nail salon workers, who were exploited at their workplace and with them, [00:39:00] I got to go to the capital in Sacramento. And so I thought I need to advocate for the restaurant workers. that was my first experience, like working with other workers and with the assembly members and like other other policy makers I shared what is happening what kinds of discrimination happening at the workplace. So I advocated for the restaurant workers at that time. I shared my stories and I supported the rights of nail salon workers. I was there to support them and they supported me as well, and it was wonderful. And finally that advocacy worked. And the bill was drafted and it was passed finally. And so it was huge achievement at that time.  [00:39:49] Swati Rayasam: I love that. I think that is such a perfect story of when you win, we all win.  [00:39:56] Sandhya Jha: And what I also love about it is he goes on [00:40:00] to talk about how he has remained in relationship with those nail salon workers. That they show up for each other, that they take each other food, that they show up to each other's baby showers and birthday parties, and there's this sense of community that emerges out of this shared struggle. And so that's a cross-cultural campaign. They were mostly Vietnamese. There were some Bangladeshi nail salon workers, but it was mostly people from a different culture than his. [00:40:27] Sandhya Jha: But somebody at the Asian Health Services program that he was at, saw his gifts, saw his passion, and he really responded to that in exactly, the most powerful way. I can imagine. [00:40:38] Swati Rayasam: And I think one of the nice things as well about that is that person at Asian Health Services connected Prem in and the Nail Salon Worker group, California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative, Prem came from Nepal, I'm not sure, but the extent to which his organizing background and how comfortable he was in the US organizing space around labor [00:41:00] issues was probably significantly less that worker group took it upon themselves when they saw Prem come in to say, Oh, you are advocating on behalf of restaurant workers. Great. Why don't you join us? Let's help support and so the nail salon workers saw Prem, saw solidarity with Prem and said, It is our responsibility mm-hmm to bring you into this space to connect you in and to move in, struggle together. Yeah. Toward our shared goals of safety, of health, of rights. Yep.  [00:41:35] Sandhya Jha: Exactly.  [00:41:36] Swati Rayasam: So, we have this clip from Daljit, tell me a little bit about Daljit. Daljit [00:41:42] Sandhya Jha: Yeah. Daljit was an attorney who now reads tarot for people because she needed a break from the toxicity of that career and how it was taking her away from her family. Daljit is a deeply spiritual person and, [00:42:00] as I mentioned before, this theme of spirit showed up in some really beautiful ways in some of the interviews. I loved the way she understood her Sikh tradition as foundationally being connected with the land and foundationally connected with the people who work the land. [00:42:15] Daljit: Agriculture is our culture and the religion that I was born into, Siki, the founder of that faith was a farmer. And so a lot of the scripture, the analogies, the metaphors, the poetry, the music, the songs, the boon, the traditional folk songs, that can be taunting and teasing banter, all that stuff the land is the framework for that. And my most favorite line from the Guru Granth Sahib, our holy book, is, [speaks Punjabi] and that basically means that, the waters our guru, the airs our father, but our mother is Earth. And that's the greatest of all , and that's adherence to ecosystem. That's the [00:43:00] indigenous Cosmo vision that should be paramount. And that's what I try to teach my children. And so I think that's what I was taught as a kid without necessarily being able to pinpoint it, but it was just infused throughout our songs, our music, our food, the Harvest, there's two times a year that our celebrations, whether it Baisakhi or Lohri. It's so connected to the harvest and what is coming out of the soil or not. And you're connected to the cycles of nature. [00:43:28] Swati Rayasam: The connection between nature land, spirituality the way that it shows up in so many faith backgrounds and so many faith organizers, I think is really, really beautiful.  [00:43:41] Sandhya Jha: And I love that Daljit Kaursoni who was raised in this tradition, has found her way to Buddhism and is raising her kids with those connections, but without ever losing this grounding in the liberation of the land, the liberation of the [00:44:00] people. [00:44:00] Sandhya Jha: And for that to be a key element of her spirituality, even as her spirituality evolves, I think it's pretty powerful.  Tafadar [00:44:08] Sandhya Jha: One of the other people I got to interview ,Tafadar, he's a Bangladeshi American in the building trades and is a deeply committed Marxist. For me, this was a particularly exciting interview because I'm Bengali, so from West Bengal, before partition, Bangladesh and what's now West Bengal, were one state. And so it was fun to get to talk with him and to say, Hey, this is our legacy as Bengalis is radical worker organizing. [00:44:40] Sandhya Jha: And I remember saying to him, Some people in the building trades are not super excited to be working with brown people. And some people in the building trades are a little biased against women. And as a very, very progressive South Asian? How do you navigate that [00:45:00] space? [00:45:00] Sandhya Jha: And he said, Here's the thing is, yeah, I organize alongside some moderate to conservative white folks from New Jersey and he said, but in the building trades, if that moderate to conservative white guy from New Jersey decides he doesn't like my feminist politics, or he doesn't like my brown skin, if he decides that's a reason not to train me, he might die. And it was really interesting because even though I've been doing labor justice work for a long time, it was one of those moments I was like, Oh, right. Your work is very dangerous and you all have to rely on each other whether you like each other or not. That is the magic of organizing that no one ever talks about. This is why we can do cross class, cross-cultural work because literally you have to trust each other with your lives. Right. That was a really clarifying moment for me. And it was one of those interesting moments where I was like, [00:46:00] Solidarity is not a romantic thing. Uh, it is very much a matter of life and death. [00:46:05] Sandhya Jha: And I think that is really important and that exact thing that you brought up, you don't even have to necessarily trust somebody. Right. But you do need them. Yep. Right. And like that really clear understanding that like your fates are intertwined and it is truly in everybody's best interest. If you are trained well, irrespective of whether or not at lunch, I'm interested in sitting anywhere near you. I think that's really great. [00:46:32] Sandhya Jha: One of the things that was really exciting about talking with Tafadar was the reminder that labor organizing and formal union organizing at its best can be in solidarity with other movements really worker justice and housing justice and racial justice are inseparable, on some level. And so, one of the most inspiring stories I got to hear across all of these interviews [00:47:00] was a campaign that brought together folks across the anti- gentrification, the immigrant rights, and the labor justice movement. [00:47:14] Tafadar: It's ironic, building affordable housing with deadly exploitation. And, um, to do this, the de blassio administration, they embark on massive major rezonings of poor areas to relax the local zoning laws to be able to bring in these developments. And a couple of years ago, my, my union in local 79's. Took a very sharp turn towards a community organizing approach because labor can't win on our own, and that's the perspective that all of labor should adopt. In order to fight against the sweatshops in our industry. We united with a lot of community organizations in the South Bronx. [00:47:53] Tafadar: We formed the South Bronx, Safe Southern Boulevard Coalition. And along with these groups, we [00:48:00] protested and did a whole lot of activism, lobbying, community organizing to stop the rezoning of Southern Boulevard, which is a massive stretch in the South Bronx, while the De Blassio administration had succeeded in another part of the Bronx where there's like massive displacement still underway right now. And we were determined to stop it there. And it was a beautiful thing that we can unite because on our end as labor, we had to prevent all these trash companies from coming in and exploiting workers. And we were working with these tenants who are afraid of being displaced. And people generally, we do need revitalization of our neighborhoods. We do need investment. We do need things to be changed and made better. For us. If it's not for us, if it's done without us, then eventually we're not even gonna be here anymore. So we had that alliance going on and not only did we manage to stop that rezoning, we also educated the local city councilman on why his position was wrong and supporting the rezoning. And he eventually completely flipped this [00:49:00] position. And now chairs the land use committee of the city council from the perspective that we educated him on, which it's just been a very interesting dynamic. But, there's a lot of rezoning battles all over the city that's like the main front of anti gentrification struggles. And I've been watching those kinds of campaigns go on since I began organizing about 15, 16. I've seen very different approaches to them, but I've never seen any model really work until that one kicked in where Labor and the community came together. So that was one of my favorite campaigns because of that lesson that we were able to concretely put into practice and set as an example for not only for community movements all over New York City, but also for Labor. [00:49:43] Sandhya Jha: I think this hit me in particular because I've done so much work around antis displacement in Oakland, and my experience has been. [00:49:53] Sandhya Jha: That while for most of us on the ground, the connection between housing justice and labor justice is really clear. When you [00:50:00] start getting into the technical policy issues and the funding issues, the folks who are running labor and housing justice or affordable housing, struggle to find ways to collaborate. And it's been one of my consistent heartbreaks for at least a decade at this point because I work at the intersection of those things and sometimes I despair of us being able to find ways to move forward together. And so to hear a story like this one and to be reminded at core, those justice issues can and must be we already knew, must be, but actually can function together to build a better community. That was actually really life giving for me to hear.  [00:50:45] Swati Rayasam: Yeah. I a hundred percent agree. And I think the point that Tafadar as well brings in the clip of just saying we knew that we could do this, but we knew we couldn't do this without community organizing. Right? Yeah. That labor couldn't do this alone. Yeah. [00:51:00] And I think that is a lot of what, when we talk about solidarity politics, it's not just a backdoor way of inclusion for inclusion's sake, we have to all do this. Actually, it is integral that all of us are involved in any of these campaigns because it impacts all of us. And because we are not going to win with only a single constituency and in the very same way that, Tafadar was identifying that labor couldn't do that alone. in community organizing spaces that you and I have been in mm-hmm. , like we are constantly talking about how we cannot do any of this without labor. Yep. And I think a beautiful example of that is the Block the Boat campaign yeah that the Arab Resource Organizing Center, started back in 2014 and then again during 2021 to block the Zim ship from the port of Oakland. And like this community organization [00:52:00] AROC could not do that without working with the longshoreman to collaborate with the port workers. And I think that when we see the marriage of community organizing and labor organizing, that is when we get the power of grassroots organizing. [00:52:16] Sandhya Jha: Something I wanna mention about the SAADA Fellowship that I was really grateful for: two things. First off, they did a really good job of making sure we got trained in grassroots oral history. So they took really seriously what it meant for this to be justice work. And they made sure we had exposure to methodology that was gonna lift up and honor and foster the voices of people whose stories don't get heard often enough. And that was a really big deal to me. The other thing is they made sure that we had an advisory board, people who are in this [00:53:00] work who could help us, figure out who to talk with, who could help us build out an event strategy. And you helped me build out my advisory committee. Anibel Ferris-Comelo who is with the University of California Labor Center,  [00:53:14] Swati Rayasam: Prem Pariyar, a Nepali Dalit restaurant worker, organizer pushing for Caste as a protected category with Equality Labs, a Dalit feminist organization, and a social worker supporting the mental health needs of his and many other South Asian communities in Alameda county.  [00:53:31] Swati Rayasam: Will Jamil Wiltchko with the California Trade Justice Coalition, Terry Valen who I did a lot of organizing with at the beginning of the pandemic, around the struggles that seafarers were facing with the onset of COVID-19. And he's the organizational director of the Filipino Community Center in San Francisco. The president of NAFCON which is the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns and just an all in all amazing organizer [00:53:57] Sandhya Jha: the last thing I wanna mention [00:54:00] is SAADA also helped me set up a digital exhibit with Art by Madhvi Trivedi Patak and I wanted to give them a shoutout because they're an incredible artist, but also they grew up in a working class family and didn't get exposed to what it looks like to do labor justice. And so as they developed the artwork to go with the digital exhibit, they got to experience the possibilities of labor solidarity that they hadn't gotten to experience as a child. And so I really loved that Madhvi was a part of this project as well [00:54:38] Swati Rayasam: All of the clips that you shared really identifying, again, these like huge fundamental pillars of solidarity and spirit and struggle. these clips were amazing. They are so rich and so layered with all of these people's varying and different experiences. Really showing in [00:55:00] all of these different walks of life at all of these ages with all of these experiences, that all of these people have this unified and shared identity in struggle, in spirit, and in solidarity for liberation. [00:55:14] Sandhya Jha: And one of the things that I think is worth celebrating is whether they see it as part of their South Asian identity or not. People who do identify as South Asian now have this resource that says there's a home for you in the labor movement. Yes, there are. There is a value to your voice. There is a value to your wisdom, there's a value to your experience in the labor movement. [00:55:36] Swati Rayasam: I think it's a beautiful project. Sandhya, I think it has been an amazing amount of work I've watched you do over the past year. These stories are so wonderful. I really encourage people to check it out. Where can they find your project? [00:55:49] Sandhya Jha: The website's www.saada.org/acfp [00:56:00] /exhibit/solidarity-forever. We'll put that in the notes. We'll definitely put that in the show notes. [00:56:05] Swati Rayasam: I just wanna make sure that we replug your podcast Bending Toward Justice Avatar, The Last Air Bender for the Global Majority and you can find that at tinyurl.com slash ATLA podcast, Capital P (tinyurl.com/ATLAPodcast). And then the last thing that I also wanna make sure that we plug is Without Fear Consulting. [00:56:27] Sandhya Jha: I love working with folks who know that their organization could be a little more liberative, and are, just not quite sure where to start. I love working with a team of folks who want to be about the work of incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion into the DNA of their organization and I love setting them up so that they can keep doing that long after I'm working with them. So please do find me withoutfearconsulting.com. If you're interested in that.  [00:56:58] Swati Rayasam: Amazing. Sandhya [00:57:00] Jha, Pastor, Racial Justice consultant, podcast host, archivist, singer songwriter, amazing cook. You can do it all. I think you deserve a nap. it has been amazing talking to you. I am so glad to be able to hear about your project and also to hear a lot more about your life.  [00:57:23] Sandhya Jha: Yay. Thank you so much. [00:57:25]  Miko Lee: Please check out our website, kpfa.org backslash program, backslash apex express to find out more about the show tonight and to find out how you can take direct action. We thank all of you listeners out there. Keep resisting, keep organizing, keep creating and sharing your visions with the world. Your voices are important. Apex express is produced by Miko Lee Jalena Keane-Lee and Paige Chung and special editing by Swati Rayasam. Thank you so much to the KPFA staff for their support have a great night.  The post APEX Express 1.5.23 South Asians and The Labor Justice Movement appeared first on KPFA.

Episode 97: Aseem Chhabra, Namrata Joshi and Aditya Shrikrishna join Baisakhi and Aparita for a TIFF 2022 round-up.

In 1634, on Baisakhi day, a Sikh hunting party set their hawk or Baaz upon the royal Baaz of the Mughals. The Sikh Baaz prevailed, and the Mughal Baaz was captured. Angered by this action, Emperor Shah Jahan from Lahore sent 7,000 soldiers under Mukhlis Khan to attack. The outcome of the war shaped the history of the Sikhs. In 2016, the Bollywood film Udta Punjab took a penetrating look at the drug problem of Punjab, where seven out of every ten college going students are into substance abuse. But how are these two possibly connected? This week, we travel backwards in time from modern-day Punjab and Nagaland to the times of Mahabharat and uncover the role of indigenous knowledge in possibly slowing down or even halting the extinction of birds central to Indian religions.Till then Check out the other episodes of "Ireland Untravelled"Lost Treasures, Dynamite and the Irish Nation : https://ivm.today/3okwxm5Gaelic and the stunning decline of the Irish Language : https://ivm.today/3zmhE9iTrinity Long Room and the Soul of the Irish Nation : https://ivm.today/3PnZkSEU2, Body Snatching and the Irish Way of Death : https://ivm.today/3IQ6fl3Bombay, Paris and the improbable victory for LGBTQ+ rights in Ireland : https://ivm.today/3AJLa9BIrish roads that go nowhere, Houses no one lives in : https://ivm.today/3PGG95XTitanic, Mosul and the Global shame of Western Museums : https://ivm.today/3R9uBceThree Irish Women, Emigration and India's National Anthem : https://ivm.today/3KfZdqzYou can check previous episodes of 'Podcasts from Nowhere' on IVM Podcasts websitehttps://ivm.today/3xuayw9You can reach out to our host Utsav on Instagram: @whywetravel42(https://www.instagram.com/whywetravel42)You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Baisakhi Parade remains one of the most colorful parades in the Big Apple, embracing diversity and understanding the relevance of a philosophy of the Sikh religion to our contemporary living. Harpreet Singh Toor is the Chairman of Public Policy & External Affairs at The Sikh Cultural Society Inc. This episode is made possible by the Foreign Press Foundation. In Conversation with FPA's Sarab Zavaleta. foreignpressassociation.org Join us for the FPA Arts and Culture Podcast presented each month on your favorite podcast platforms.

Baisakhi or Vaisakhi, the harvest festival, is observed in most of India to mark the start of the new spring season. Baisakhi is particularly significant in Punjab and Haryana due to the large Sikh population, which celebrates the festival with zeal and enthusiasm. The festival became closely associated with Sikhism at the end of the 17th century, when Guru Gobind Singh, the Sikh leader, chose the date of the festival to establish the Khalsa Panth. ‘Rongali Bihu' in Assam, ‘Naba Barsha' in West Bengal, ‘Vaishakha' in Bihar, ‘Vishu' in Kerala, and ‘Puthandu' in Tamil Nadu are some of the names given to the festival of Baisakhi. This day is commemorated in Punjab as the birthday of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru. To know more about Vaisakhi listen to the podcast! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/chimesradio See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

By Inder Raj Ahluwalia. His entire life a saga of selfless sacrifice, nobleness of thoughts and actions, and supreme belief in justice and dharma, Guru Gobind Singh was a guru and apostle. In his life span of merely forty-odd years, the Guru left behind a priceless legacy of beliefs and principles that have shaped Sikh thinking and behaviour and are of great relevance today. Guru Gobind Singh's life was one big struggle. His father, Guru Tegh Bahadur, was martyred in Delhi to save Kashmiri pandits, and he had the mortification of seeing all four of his sons killed, the elder two in battle, and the younger two bricked alive. Almost his entire life was spent fighting off the intrigues of the hill chiefs of north India and the ruling sultans. He lived on the edge yet continued undaunted in his quest for dharma.With martial considerations in mind, and to promote the cause of dharma, the Guru created the Khalsa, pure, on Baisakhi day in 1699. This was a new order of followers, a spiritual and social entity rather than a politically dynamic force. Calling the Khalsa pure and his very own, he thus gave a form to the concept of the ‘warrior saint', which he had championed all his life. The Khalsa were ordained to believe in one God, shun rituals and superstitions, seek respect for women, and consider everyone equal. The Guru's overall message was that one should look upon all persons as deserving of kind treatment, having a license to lead a peaceful and dignified existence. These virtues propagated by the Guru are precisely the beliefs the world needs today. Despite his turbulent life, the Guru was a great patron of the arts. At Paonta Sahib, he meditated, composed poetry and wrote much of the ‘Dasam Granth'. At Anandpur Sahib, he created the Khalsa. The Guru has inspired millions to look beyond their own, limited vision. As human beings, we tend to ‘take'. The Guru taught us to ‘give' rather than ‘take'. Because that is precisely what he always did. His presence keeps us going. Whenever one feels lonely, one only has to think of how he might have felt losing his entire family, and all loneliness tends to disappear. When tense or depressed, just think of all the problems he faced. Yearning for homely comforts, you just have to recall how he managed in his harsh surroundings, and suddenly your home starts to appear more comfortable. Guru Gobind Singh left us with a great gift – the ‘Guru Granth Sahib' – which he designated our ‘eternal Guru'. This ensures blessings for humanity at any Gurdwara in the world.He wasn't just a Guru for the Sikhs but also a saviour of other communities, instilling in them a sense of pride and dignity. His new order was a mission to ‘do right'. He did it right till the end and paid for his beliefs and ideals with his life, and that of his family. Four of the five Sikh ‘Takhts', thrones, commemorate Guru Gobind Singh, for if ever anyone deserved a throne, it is him. January 9 is Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti.

Why do so many cultures celebrate the New Year on Jan. 1? Do you know the year change was not always celebrated on the first day of the Gregorian calendar? Historians estimate civilizations around the world have been commemorating the New Year for about 4,000 years. Humans developed increasingly sophisticated calendars, typically pinning the first day of the year to an agricultural or astronomical event. The Babylonians, for example, heralded the start of a new year on the day in late March with an equal amount of sunlight and darkness, the equinox. Ancient Greeks began their new year with the new moon after June 21, and in many European countries during the Middle Ages the new year began on March 25, the day of the Feast of the Annunciation. Much of the current day Western way of counting years has to do with the Roman empire’s customs. Originally, the Roman calendar had only 10 months and the first was named March, after Mars, the god of war. It is Numa Pompilius (715–673 B.C.) who added Februarius and Januarius, named after Janus, the Roman god of all beginnings. Julius Caesar introduced the new Julian calendar in 46 B.C. instituting Jan. 1 as the first day of the year for the first time. Still, many cultures continue to celebrate the New Year on different days. Are you familiar with these? The Russian Orthodox Church observes the New Year according to its Julian calendar, which places the day on Jan. 14. In Thailand, Songkran, the Buddhists’ celebration of the new year is a special three-day water festival in the middle of April that features parades with huge statues of Buddha. People tie strings around each other’s wrists to show their respect. A person can have dozens of strings on one wrist, each from a different person. The strings are supposed to be left on until they fall off naturally. In Vietnam, the new year celebrations, called Tet Nguyen Dan, usually begin in February. In China, the current year of the Ox will run until Jan. 31, 2022. Next year with be a year of the Tiger. Each of the 12 years in the Chinese lunar calendar is named after an animal. According to legend, before Lord Buddha left earth 12 animals came to wish him farewell, and as a reward a year was named after each. Rosh Hashanah, literally meaning “head of the year,” is the Jewish New Year and will be celebrated on Sunday, Sept. 25. It is marked by the blowing of the shofar and begins ten days of penitence culminating in Yom Kippur. The Sikh New Year, Baisakhi, will come on April 14 and is one of the most popular harvest festivals in India. As of Aug. 10, 2021, the current Islamic year is 1443 AH and will run to July 28, 2022. The first year of the Islamic calendar began in 622 when the Prophet Muhammad and his followers migrated from Mecca to Medina. This migration is called the “Hijrah.” The Pacific island of Tonga will be the first to ring in the New Year and celebrate at 10 a.m. GMT on December 31, making the tiny island nation the first to head into 2022. How and where did you celebrate the New Year? ***** This is an audio production of an article originally published by MultiLingual Media. If you’d like to know more about the topics we cover, subscribe to our monthly print magazine, sign up for our free newsletter, or read the insightful articles at multilingual.com.

"Somewhere in the air, something whizzed past.  I looked up to see Daar ji's kurta turn into  a gorgeous crimson flower, with a small black pinpoint center."   This poem is about what happens when a young child goes to Jallianwala Bagh with his grandfather on that fateful day in 1919.   The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on 13 April 1919. A large but peaceful crowd had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab to celebrate the important Hindu and Sikh festival of Baisakhi, and peacefully protest the arrest of two national leaders, Satyapal and Saifuddin Kitchlew.   In response to the public gathering, the British Brigadier-General R. E. H. Dyer surrounded the Bagh with his soldiers. The Jallianwala Bagh could only be exited on one side, as its other three sides were enclosed by buildings. After blocking the exit with his troops, he ordered them to shoot at the crowd, continuing to fire even as protestors tried to flee. The troops kept on firing until their ammunition was exhausted Estimates of those killed run into 1000s with over 1,200 other people injured.   Apart from the many deaths directly from the shooting, a number of people died of crushing in the stampedes at the narrow gates or by jumping into the solitary well on the compound to escape the shooting.  120 bodies were removed from the well. The wounded could not be moved from where they had fallen, as a curfew was declared, and more who had been injured then died during the night.   The level of casual brutality, and lack of any accountability, stunned the entire nation. The ineffective inquiry, together with the initial accolades for Dyer, fuelled great widespread anger against the British among the Indian populace, leading to the non-cooperation movement of 1920–22.  Some historians consider the episode a decisive step towards the end of British rule in India.   Britain never formally apologized for the massacre but expressed "regret" in 2019.   If you liked this poem, consider listening to these other poems which talk of tragedies we all face in our lives -  The Final Goodbye (or Why Lovers Decide to Die Together) Chemo: As I Battle Myself Love's Night of the Long Knives Find other magical things, like a lovely free chapbook of poems, and other resources here.   Uncut Poetry has started a new Podcast called Red River Sessions (on Spotify, iTunes, Pocket Casts, etc), where we will talk to published poets, about their poetry, their craft and what haunts them. It is brought to you by Red River, which is the premier independent publisher of poetry books, and Uncut Poetry.    I am Sunil Bhandari.   I am a poet based out of India. My book of poetry 'Of Love and Other Abandonments' was an Amazon bestseller. My second book is 'Of Journeys & Other Ways to Get Lost'. Both are available on Amazon. Follow me on Instagram at @sunilgivesup. Get in touch with me on uncutpoetrynow@gmail.com   The details of the music used in this episode are as follows - On Fire by Sascha Ende® Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5147-on-fire License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  

The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre is a story every India knows. On April 13, 1919, a crowd that had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar to protest against the arrest of Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlu and Dr. Satya Pal, was fired upon by soldiers led by Brigadier General REH Dyer. As the crowd tried to exit from this one solitary path open that day, hundreds of people were killed and the estimated now are said to be anywhere between 400 to 1000 people who were killed in the massacre. Over 1200 people were injured. The Bagh, since the, has become a memorial. a very simple one, to replicate what happened on that particular day in 1919, with bullet holes very much visible, and the narrow exit still looks the same, giving visitors a chilling idea of what it must have been like to be trapped in. Now, the central government in its wisdom has redesigned the path with phases of all kinds of Punjab scenes, including Baisakhi celebrations. This has drawn widespread condemnation.On this episode, host Sidharth Bhatia is joined by KBS Sidhu, a retired IAS officer who served for 37 years, and is among those opposed to this redesign of the Jallianwala Bagh. KBS Sidhu commented on Twitter about the matter, "I'm literally heartbroken!"Having served as Deputy Commissioner of Amritsar from 1992 to 1996, this has not been an easy thing for Mr. Sidhu to accept. Tune in for an eye-opening and important conversation on this episode of The Wire Talks.Follow KBS Sidhu on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kbssidhu1961Follow Sidharth Bhatia on Twitter and Instagram @bombaywallahbombaywallah and https://instagram.com/bombaywallahYou can listen to this show on The Wire's website, the IVM Podcasts website, app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.

Most of us have experienced the joy of watching vibrant kites soaring in the sky, if not flying one. Come spring, the Indian sky is often dotted with colourful kites of all shapes and sizes, and one can occasionally find a kite runner or two dangerously dashing through the gullies collecting the ones cut. While, over the years, this popular pastime and sport might have lost mass popularity, on occasions such as Makar Sankranti, Baisakhi and Independence Day, kids and adults continue to indulge in it with fervour and passion.

खूनी इतिहास से लज़ीज़ खाने तक का सफर: जालियांवाला बाग़ और अमृतसर एक ऐसा बाग़ जहाँ आज भी उन गोलियों के निशान हैं जो सौ साल पहले चली थीं और जिन्होंने इंसानियत का खून किया था। एक ऐसा नरसंहार जो आज भी अँगरेज़ सत्ता के मुँह पर दाग की तरह है। लेकिन उसी ख़ूनी इतिहास के चारों और आज वो खुशनुमा ज़िन्दगी है जिसके लिए पंजाबी जाने जाते हैं। और वो ख़ुशी उनके ज़ायके दार खाने में सबसे ज़्यादा छलकती है। A garden that still bears the scars of the bullets fired hundred years ago and mortally wounded humanity. A massacre most foul that still casts an ugly shadow on the British as the most disgraceful of their acts in the 20th century. However, just around the garden is life throbbing in all its glory - A trademark Punjabi trait. And it's most visible in their cuisines. You can follow Keshav Chaturvedi on social media:Facebook: ( https://www.facebook.com/keshav.chaturvedi.37/ )Linkedin: ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/keshavchaturvedi/ )Instagram:( https://www.instagram.com/keshavchaturvedi9/ )Twitter: ( https://twitter.com/keshavchat )You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app

Jallianwala Bagh,a name that evokes painful memories in our history, a reminder of the brutality of the British rule. 1500 massacred here on April 13,1919 on the orders Gen Reginald Dyer, on a Baisakhi Day.

ਭੰਗੜੇ ਦੇ ਬਿਨਾਂ ਹਰ ਵਆਂਹ, ਹਰ ਮੇਲੇ ਦੀ ਰੌਣਕ ਅਧੂਰੀ ਹੈ। ਕੈਨੇਡਾ, ਅਮਰੀਕਾ, ਲੰਡਨ ਜਾਂ ਆਸਟ੍ਰੇਲੀਆ, ਜਿੱਥੇ-ਜਿੱਥੇ ਵੀ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵੱਸਦੇ ਹਨ ਉੱਥੇ-ਉੱਥੇ ਭੰਗੜਾ ਪੈਂਦਾ ਹੈ। ਭੰਗੜਾ ਮੇਲਿਆਂ, ਤਿਓਹਾਰਾਂ ਅਤੇ ਵਿਆਹ ਸ਼ਾਦੀਆਂ ਤੇ ਪਾਇਆ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ। ਸਭਿਆਚਾਰਕ ਰੰਗ ਨਾਲ ਭਰਪੂਰ ਇਹ ਵਿਰਸਾ ਬੜਾ ਹੀ ਅਨਮੋਲ ਹੈ। ਆਓ ਸੁਣੀਏ ਨਵਜੋਤ ਨੂਰ ਦੁਆਰਾ ਭੰਗੜੇ 'ਤੇ ਇਕ ਵਿਸ਼ੇਸ਼ ਪੇਸ਼ਕਾਰੀ।

Jallianwala Bagh is a historical place in the city of Amritsar, State of Punjab, India. It is preserved in the memory of those wounded and killed in the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre that occurred on the site on the festival of Baisakhi, 13 April 1919. Compiled & Presented by : Abdul Credits, Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay

En este episodio Baisakhi, autora de libros místicos y conferencista de la india, nos cuenta cómo es la vida en Costa Rica, cuáles son sus retos y del significado de los números. Contáctala en : https://baisakhisaha.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHTjI3r0kwVUgSRV18ggGbQ Women Abroad Podcast is a podcast, part of the section Women Who Inspire. The aim is to facilitate the life of female expats through interviews with successful entrepreneurs and executives overseas. These women will share with us their own stories and experiences regarding a specific country, in addition to tips, useful resources, and secrets that nobody is willing to tell you. This podcast is bilingual, some episodes will be in English and others in Spanish. Contact Editor Lizet Esquivel for further information: inspire@welum.com . Visit welum.com Music by https://audionautix.com/

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Episode 81: Baisakhi and Aparita are back, and catch up on films and shows they watched.

On April 13, 1919, thousands of Indians gathered in Amritsar, Punjab to celebrate Baisakhi - a religious holiday. Such gatherings had been banned by the British colonial government, but the people gathered anyway to celebrate and to protest British imperialism. What followed was the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre; British General Reginald Dyer ordered his troops to open fire without warning on the crowd of unarmed protesters. They fired until they ran out of ammunition, killing 379 and wounding more than a thousand people (though the final death toll has been disputed over the years.) The massacre is considered a turning point that sparked anti-British resistance for many Indians, including Gandhi. It was one of the deadliest acts of colonial aggression in Britain’s history, but for many historians, it exemplifies the kind of violence Britain relied on to maintain its colonial power. UnTextbooked producer Hassan Javed grew up hearing stories from his grandparents about what it was like growing up in British India. They told him about how humiliation and degradation were a part of daily life for many Indians in British India. But when Hassan learned about British imperialism in school, he was shocked that his curriculum portrayed Britain as a “modernizing” force for good. He wanted more context, and his research brought him to The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire by historian John Newsinger. The book contends that all empires are inherently criminal, and that Britain’s was one of the worst.Book: The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British EmpireGuest: John NewsingerProducer: Hassan JavedMusic: Silas Bohen and Coleman HamiltonEditors: Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman

Jallianwala Bagh is a public garden in Amritsar in the State of Punjab and houses a memorial of national importance, established in 1951by the Government of India, to commemorate the massacre by British occupying forces of peaceful celebrators including unarmed women and children, on the occasion of the Punjabi New Year on April 13, 1919. At 9:00 on the morning of 13 April 1919, the traditional festival of Baisakhi. Reginald Dyer, the acting military commander for Amritsar and its environs, proceeded through the city with several city officials, announcing the implementation of a pass system to enter or leave Amritsar, a curfew beginning at 20:00 that night and a ban on all processions and public meetings of four or more persons. The proclamation was read and explained in English, Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi, but few paid it any heed or appear to have learned of it later.Meanwhile, local police had received intelligence of the planned meeting in the Jallianwala Bagh through word of mouth and plainclothes detectives in the crowds. At 12:40, Dyer was informed of the meeting and returned to his base at around 13:30 to decide how to handle it. Background music Credit: Liam Seagrave Youtube link for background music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipNqY9wHPqg --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/abhishek-tiwari007/message

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Let's know about the festival of Baisakhi through the story behind it and how it became one of the most important festivals for Sikhs. Here's the story of Baisakhi.

Episode 68: To ring in the New Year, Aparita and Baisakhi each choose a film they'd want to re-watch on their TV screens.

Episode 60: Aparita and Baisakhi are at TIFF 2019, and give you an update on films they have watched so far.

Episode 33: We are back to our regular programming! In this episode, inspired by the Netflix hit To All The Boys I Loved Before, Aparita and Baisakhi pick their favourite contemporary Bollywood romcom aimed at young people.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai we welcome Aparita Bhandari and Baisakhi Roy of the Khabardaar Podcast to reminisce and evaluate how the film holds up to today’s standards. Show Notes: * Welcome to [Aparita](https://twitter.com/aparita) and [Baisakhi](https://twitter.com/baisakhi) of the [Khabardaar Podcast](https://khabardaarpodcast.com/)! * TIFF 2018 * [Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota or The Man Who Feels No Pain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mard_Ko_Dard_Nahi_Hota), [Reason or Vivek](https://www.tiff.net/tiff/reason/), and [Bulbul Can Sing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulbul_Can_Sing) * Indian films at festivals and Indian genre cinema * Streaming services and South Indian and regional cinema * The missing market of Hindi podcasts * [Kuch Kuch Hota Hai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuch_Kuch_Hota_Hai) * The affection for 90s Bollywood * [Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Jeeta_Wohi_Sikandar), [Rockford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockford_(film)), [Student of the Year](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_of_the_Year), and [3 Idiots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Idiots) * [Karan Johar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karan_Johar) * [Twinkle Khanna](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkle_Khanna) * [Beverly Hills, 90210](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills,_90210) and [Archie comics](http://archiecomics.com/) * [Koochie Koochie Hota Hai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koochie_Koochie_Hota_Hai) (INTERVAL ("[Kuch Kuch Hota Hai](https://youtu.be/S9DsCP9Th7Y)" from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai) * Matt shames Erin for her love of “[Dil Tu Bataa](https://youtu.be/Hievfejv90c)” * Does anyone working in Bollywood know how to play basketball? * Rani Mukerji has very small writing * [A one kid, one grandma Parent Trap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parent_Trap_(1961_film)) * [The Neelam Show](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neelam_Kothari) * So much summer camp * Matt thinks all of the suits are too big * KKHH then and now * SRK’s worst flirting techniques * [Negging](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negging) * Traditional ideals in a modern package * “Only death can save you from Ranbir Kapoor” * Karan Johar’s version of summer camp * [Parzaan Dastur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parzaan_Dastur) * The origin of the [Dharma Productions logo](https://youtu.be/ZradJKsPZB8) music * The SRK-Kajol jodi NEXT TIME: our 4th annual Hindi Horror Halloween episode Bollywood is For Lovers is a member of the [Alberta Podcast Network](https://www.albertapodcastnetwork.com/) powered by [ATB](https://www.atb.com/listen/Pages/default.aspx) Check out [We Are Alberta](https://www.atb.com/learn/podcast/Pages/we-are-alberta.aspx?utm_source=Publicate&utm_medium=embed&utm_content=We+Are+Alberta+Podcast+%7C+ATB+Financial&utm_campaign=Copy+of+AFFILIATES+) Listen to [Otherwise](https://otherwiseshow.com/) Find us on [Apple Podcasts](https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/bollywood-is-for-lovers/id1036988030?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4)! and [Stitcher](https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/matt-bowes/bollywood-is-for-lovers)! and [audioBoom](https://audioboom.com/channel/bollywood-is-for-lovers)! and [iHeartRadio](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/270-bollywood-is-for-lovers-28344928/)! and [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/1m38Hxx8ZFxTJzadsVk5U3)! and [Google Podcasts](https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hdWRpb2Jvb20uY29tL2NoYW5uZWxzLzQ2OTg2OTAucnNz)! Follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/BollywoodPod)! Like us on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/BollywoodIsForLovers)! #KuchKuchHotaHai, #KaranJohar, #ShahRukhKhan, #Kajol, #SalmanKhan, #SanaSaeed, #FaridaJalal, #AnupamKher, #JohnnyLever, #Bollywood, #RaniMukerji, #KKHH

Episode 13: Are Luv Ranjan films such as Pyaar Ka Punchnama and Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety misogynistic? Aparita and Baisakhi debate in two episodes.

In this episode of food podcast Dakaar we talk to Masterchef India 2 contestant Chef Jyoti Arora about her Amritsari Food Festival held at Sofitel Bkc on Baisakhi  #JustPressplay #PodcastingIndia #womenpodcasters #foodpodcast #Amritsarfood #masterchef #Sofitelmumbai

Episode 12: Are Luv Ranjan films such as Pyaar Ka Punchnama and Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety misogynistic? Aparita and Baisakhi debate in two episodes.

Episode 8: Irrfan Khan’s latest film Blackmail has been billed as a dark comedy. Early reviews also called it a satire on marriage. Aparita and Baisakhi discuss whether the movie truly lives up to the potential of its premise.

Not long ago in Amritsar, there was a group of people called the 'Nirankaaris'. They did great insults to the Guru like putting a man above the Guru that they said is the living Guru. Some Khalsa marched in protest to them carrying this man in a Palki at Baisakhi. The Nirankaaris shot at these men and many of them died. They died fearlessly and they never forgot the Guru.https://www.sikhnet.com/stories/audio/martyrs-amritsar (read more) Support this podcast