Satish Kumar

We interviewed long-time editor of Resurgence magazine, Satish Kumar as a “big-thinker” for our Standing on Sacred Ground film series. Born in India in 1936, Satish Kumar joined a Jain monastery when he was 9-years-old. Mahatma Ghandi was assassinated when he was 11 and at 18 the young monk left the monastery to become a student of one of Ghandi’s disciples. In 1962, at the age of 25, Satish made a two-year anti-nuclear pilgrimage, walking to the capital cities of the four nations with nuclear weapons—Moscow, Paris, London and Washington D.C. Satish moved to England in 1973, where he eventually became the London-based editor of Resurgence magazine. Our interview was conducted in 2007 at Green Gulch Zen Center in northern California.

This episode was produced and written by Callie Shanafelt Wong and Toby McLeod.

Our film interview with Satish Kumar was recorded by Andy Black and Dave Wendlinger, along with co-producers Jessica Abbe and Jennifer Huang. Our theme music was composed and performed by Stefan Smith and Charles Johnson.

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