Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJeffery D. Long, "Jainism: An Introduction" (I. B. Tauris, 2009)
Episode 131
Jainism evokes images of monks wearing face-masks to protect insects and mico-organisms from being inhaled. Or of Jains sweeping the ground in front …
5 years, 2 months ago
A Conversation with Jacob Kyle, Founder of Embodied Philosophy
Episode 134
Raj Balkaran speaks with Jacob Kyle about the genesis and vision of the online educational platform Embodied Philosophy. Over the course of their ric…
5 years, 2 months ago
Vijaya Nagarajan, "Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India--an Exploration of the Kolam" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Episode 126
Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create a kolam, an ephemeral ritual design made with rice flour, on the t…
5 years, 2 months ago
McComas Taylor, "The Viṣṇu Purāṇa: Ancient Annals of the God with Lotus Eyes" (Australian National UP, 2021)
Episode 125
Listen in as we speak with McComas Taylor (Associate Professor and Reader in Sanskrit, The Australian National University) about his brand-new transl…
5 years, 3 months ago
Robin Derricourt, "Creating God: The Birth and Growth of Major Religions" ( Manchester UP, 2021)
Episode 63
What do we really know about how and where religions began, and how they spread?
Robin Derricourt considers the birth and growth of several major rel…
5 years, 3 months ago
A Conversation with Greg Bailey: Sanskrit Scholar and Novelist
Episode 124
This interview features a candid conversation with Greg Bailey, seasoned scholar of Sanskrit narrative Literature, on his multi-decade work on the Pu…
5 years, 3 months ago
Shankar Nair, "Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia" (U California Press, 2020)
Episode 121
During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hindu and Muslim scholars worked collaboratively to translate a large body of Hindu Sanskrit …
5 years, 3 months ago
Anya P. Foxen and Christa Kuberry, "Is this Yoga?: Concepts, Histories, and the Complexities of Modern Practice" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 130
This book provides a rigorously researched, critically comparative introduction to yoga. Anya P. Foxen and Christa Kuberry's Is this Yoga?: Concepts,…
5 years, 3 months ago
Megan Eaton Robb, "Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 122
In early twentieth century British India, prior to the arrival of digital medias and after the rise of nationalist political movements, a small-town …
5 years, 3 months ago
Zoë Slatoff, "Yogavataranam: The Translation of Yoga" (North Point Press, 2015)
Episode 120
The traditional Indian method of learning Sanskrit is through oral transmission, by first memorizing texts and then learning their meaning. The Weste…
5 years, 4 months ago