Author Interview Podcast

Discussing The Truth of Yoga

A wide-ranging conversation with Raj Balkaran, on the New Books in Hindu Studies podcast. A downloadable audio file is below. Both Raj and I teach courses at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, which summed up our discussion as follows:

“Raj and Daniel are two of our best (and best-liked) tutors so this is of special interest to the OCHS and its students. You can access it here.

In a former life, Daniel was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times and in his book here he uses his prodigious skills at making big stories digestible to some of Hinduism’s biggest stories.

They also talk about the wonders of online learning in the age of covid; different learning and teaching styles; exploring and reconciling the tensions between practice and theory; and (a key OCHS goal) taking the deep thought of the world’s best scholars and making them accessible.

They also talk about our upcoming New Directions in Yoga Studies weekend school at which Daniel will be speaking and which Raj has curated and will be hosting.”