In this episode I sit down with Shuranjeet Singh, founder of Taraki and one of the leading voices on Punjabi mental health in the UK.

We have an open and grounded conversation about masculinity, youth, community trauma and why mainstream mental health systems often fail South Asian communities. Shuranjeet reflects on leaving a career at Oxford, the power of lived experience and how grassroots work can create forms of healing that institutions cannot.

This episode explores stigma, identity and what meaningful, community led mental health support actually looks like. A thoughtful listen for anyone interested in mental health, South Asian experiences and culturally rooted approaches to care.

In this conversation with Harleen Singh — author of The Lost Heer — we dive into the forgotten voices of Punjabi women.

From widowed rulers who stood against invaders and the British, to the folk songs, recipes and textiles that carried memory and resistance through colonial Punjab.

Harleen Singh's work brings these overlooked stories back into the centre of South Asian history.

The Lost Heer challenges how we think about gender, power and the past — and this episode gives you a glimpse of that powerful re-telling.

In 1945, the world celebrated Allied victory in World War II — but across Asia, the war didn’t end. It simply changed shape, sparking new battles for freedom and the end of empire.

In this episode, historian Phil Craig joins Ramblings of a Sikh to discuss his new book, 1945: The Reckoning, the final volume in his acclaimed trilogy on the Second World War. Through the intertwined stories of five people — an Indian nationalist, a loyalist soldier, a nurse in famine-stricken Bengal, a doctor at Belsen, and a POW in Taiwan — Craig shows how “liberation” became a reckoning.

Why did British generals re-arm Japanese troops in Vietnam?

How did two Indian brothers, fighting on opposite sides, embody a nation at war with itself?

And what does it mean to say victory betrayed millions?

From the Bengal famine to the collapse of empire, this conversation explores how 1945 fractured families, toppled empires, and shaped the modern world we live in.

📘 Watch till the end for a discussion on how the promises of freedom made in 1945 still echo in today’s geopolitics.