India Insight with Sunny Sharma

Send us Fan Mail Tune in to hear about the historical threat to black people as a voting bloc in America.

Send us Fan Mail I discuss why the formation of any new major political party must prioritize, focus, and centralize the reformation of our broken electoral system along with all the laws and requirements that it encompasses.

Send us Fan Mail What did the founding fathers mean by “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal?” What do they mean by “man” and why were the 18th century Enlightenment ideals so important for posterity particularly when it relates to staking a bet through faith or taking a risk through hope? What does humanity have to do with this? I synthesize and include briefly s...

Send us Fan Mail This video/podcast is my conclusion of the analysis and examination of the 45 documents from the New Left period particularly focusing on writings and speeches from 1968-1973 the highest point of not just serious thought, but also organized labor power, student movements, a rise in black electoralism, and the anti-war movement. Focusing on the major insights in these books, I also...

Send us Fan Mail In this part 1 examination of documents from the New Left period, encompassing the Civil Rights movement as well as several other struggles, I highlight some of the most important insights from speeches and writings particularly from the era of 1957-1967. If you like this part 1 series, I encourage my audience to also watch the part 2 examination of New Left documents highlighting...

Send us Fan Mail This Movement of the New Left, 1950-1975 was linked and characterized especially by young people advocating for individual dignity as it relates to the realization of full citizenship for all Americans in a variety of struggles centered around Civil Rights, Black Power, Women and Gay Liberation, and most emphatically the anti-Vietnam War Movement. Is this perhaps the most critical...

Send us Fan Mail May 28 Thursday Homework for Final DSA 201 Session: Big Idea to Real Practice Brainstorm A Problem you want to work on in the Atlanta DSA Chapter: Electoral Reform Capstone Project: General Broad Philosophical Principles of Electoral Reform In this closing project, I distill some of the pressing electoral questions when it comes to electoral reform, the signs of tyranny in a socie...

Send us Fan Mail Why was President Obama such a pivotal political figure? What precedents did he set through the reforms he made? What political barriers did he believe needed to be changed? What rhetoric did he utilize and how was this rhetoric inspired by passed historical movements and literary traditions? How did he balance traditionalism with social justice as a center left leader? 

Send us Fan Mail Some say Democrats are primed and ready to win majorities in the House and Senate nationally and locally in the 2026 November Midterm elections over the Republican Party, but how true is that? I outline here why we can’t be politically complacent and how the reelection of Georgian Senator Jon Ossoff and other American progressives will be crucial not just for economic justice, but...

Send us Fan Mail What is May Day (International Workers Day May 1), why do we commemorate it, and what did it foreshadow? How did this event inspire socialist and a larger coalition with anarchists towards “One Big Union?” What were the resounding literary and labor imagination of an era of intense labor organization from such luminaries as Eugene Debs and why was Debs so radical? What was the lar...

Send us Fan Mail Today April 27 is the First Day of Early Voting in Georgia for Primary Elections. I provide historical background and reasons to vote especially in local elections.

Send us Fan Mail This is part 2 of my discussion on why voting is so important!

Send us Fan Mail Over the weekend I had my second discussion this year with Professor Subhash Kak on his new book published this year June 12, 2025 Eternal Bharat: Truth, Meaning, and Beauty specifically on its symbolism and insights on India’s grand legacy and tradition of artistic creativity and how it relates to the central focus of the Indian sages (rishis) on consciousness especially as it pe...

Send us Fan Mail Hello to my friends, family, and audience in America, India, and abroad please stay tuned for a wonderful and eye-opening political discussion from a very involved political organizer who I worked with in the Movement for a People’s Party in Georgia. If you enjoyed this podcast please take a look into my podcast on several platforms called “India Insight with Sunny Sharma.” I will...

Send us Fan Mail In Section 3, I discuss some of the prominent movements and themes occurring in between two World Wars, particularly the Great Migration characterized by the movement of millions of blacks from the rural agricultural south to the urban industrial north as well as highlighting some important proponents of the Harlem Renaissance like Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Langston Hugh...

Send us Fan Mail This period is characterized by an intense push for equal occupational opportunities that would yield economic prosperity for all people. This would be realized after World War II where due to the efforts of a variety of labor organizers, many influenced by Marxist theories, America would enter an era of the pinnacle of its union cooperation which would correspond to a great degre...

Send us Fan Mail If you enjoy these history lessons please follow, like, share, and subscribe for future videos. My YouTube channel is Sunny Sharma ‪@IndiaInsightMovement‬ and my podcast is “India Insight with Sunny Sharma” This short era of immense change began with the critical case of Brown vs Board of Education in 1954 that established separate but not equal is unconstitutional. This marked a...

Send us Fan Mail The rise of such proponents of black nationalism and black power as Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael was seated in deep frustration with the inability to change the fundamental economic conditions of blacks even with the passing of political protections to the vote and legal protections against discrimination. Moreover, there was deep seated opposition to police brutality which re...

Send us Fan Mail The contemporary era of black intellectual thought 1975 to the present is characterized by a growth in black feminist thought, an expansion of rainbow coalitions by prominent black leaders, an explosion of the black middle class and a black bourgeoisie, and an extension of black political, social, and cultural ideas by influential scholars and academics. In opposition to the New L...

Send us Fan Mail YouTube channel: Sunny Sharma ‪@IndiaInsightMovement‬ , podcast: India insight with Sunny Sharma. I briefly discuss President Barack Obama’s legacy at the end! The contemporary era 1975-the present is characterized by an explosion of the black middle class, black electoral politics, the bourgeoisie, and black academic scholarship. Even with the proclivity towards capitalist entrep...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast I summarize some of the main ideas from my 10 part examination of Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology while describing briefly why America needs a new left or must form a new coalition, like it did in the past, to confront the political and economic crisis it is facing today. If you are interested in a particular period please refer to the 10 p...

Send us Fan Mail Link to YouTube video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=StdiCf4rIFI&t=56s In this part 2 of a 6 part series including an introduction, I discuss some of the foundational ideas behind the struggle for black liberation, economic involvement, education, and political aspirations. Leaders like Booker T. Washington rose to prominence during this period advocating self help, economic r...

Send us Fan Mail Hello to my audience, friends, and family this is India Insight with Sunny Sharma. If you enjoyed this podcast please follow, share, like, and subscribe for future episodes. Link to YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QukxoY3KSJA My channel is called Sunny Sharma@IndiaInsightMovement In honor of black history month and President Lincoln's birthday today (February 1...

Send us Fan Mail Youtube video link: https://youtu.be/VD2hV906mP8 In honor of Black History Month in February, I want to share some of the most important insights I have learned from the book Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology (collection of essays and short speeches on black social and political thought primarily pertaining to the black struggle for liberation). This is part...

Send us Fan Mail Link to youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UulsDFqqqXQ Hello to my audience, friends, and family this is India Insight with Sunny Sharma. I am super excited to have one of the most prominent Indian intellectuals of the modern era on my podcast  As you have must have heard some of my audio podcasts that I have been doing for the past 4 years, I’m privileged today for my...