Insights is an interview show featuring members of the ARC community. This week our guest is Shashank Rao, a Hindu theologian-in-progress whose theopoetic work centers on calligraphy and devotional poetry.
Shashank is currently a member of the Sadhana Coalition of Progressive Hindus, a group that seeks to build a progressive, grassroots movement in Hindu communities. His theological work and study centers on the recovery of Hindu resources as a foundation for social justice and meaning-making as a child of the diaspora, focusing particularly on the Asian-American community in a global context. His essays on Medium cover a variety of topics in Hindu theology, ranging from scriptural exegesis to focused explorations of concepts in Hindu traditions, to original works of devotional poetry in various languages. Utilizing a wide variety of traditional and contemporary resources, he seeks to probe the possibilities of Hindu and Asian diasporic religious contemplation.
More information about Shashank is available at https://medium.com/@shashankrao_84497
