Monthly Darbars
Each month, the Bunga hosts a online Darbar. This is a session held for Sangat and members of the Bunga to attend and discuss any topic, answer questions and debate. These are now held publicly, live on Twitter Spaces. You don't need an account to join, but you can follow the Bunga on Twitter/X or Instagram to stay up to date.
Seva Board
There are some Seva Opportunities to get involved in and help Bunga Azaadi. Currently these are mainly unpaid volunteering. In time, I hope to attach “payments” for tasks to help incentivise commitment and reward contributors for their time and effort.
In the meantime we can give you a reference for your CV / Resume if that interests you. Some jobs/projects may also result in an offer to join the Bunga itself and you can skip aspects of the application process. If you are already a Bunga member, taking on any of these will also contribute to your level progression as well.
Collaborate With Us
If you operate a Sikh organisation, project or are just a independent researcher or scholar, we would be honoured to host your Vichaars. The Bunga is a Vichaar aggregator of sorts but curated in specific ways relevant to our purpose and mission. We want to avoid having just a singular opinion, and start collaborating with others and offering multiple perspectives — even ones we may disagree with but feel is valuable for Sangat to consider when informing their own conclusions. Your contributions will be fully credited of course, whatever you submit will be attributed as distinctly your work. Treat the Bunga as a platform for Vichaars, bit like how you may share Vichaars on Substack, Instagram or YouTube currently. Bunga Azaadi, is a Sikh alternative. All content is reviewed before being (re-)published, and organised into specific areas/domains within our Vichaar repo.
Contribute Vichaars
We are seeking to build the best resource for all things related to Sikh, Statecraft and Economics more. Both Miri and Piri perspectives are being sought after. So that, when the Guru Khalsa once again gets to the stage where we are implementing our own experiments in statecraft, we will have a robust knowledge base to draw from.
University Students
Dissertations! So many students put in so much effort to write about something that could be genuinely quite useful for others to know. However, the issue is once they are written and graded, they are usually filed away and forgotten about. Instead, consider submitting them to Bunga Azaadi if you have completed one related to the topics covered by us. We can then work with you to generate summaries in digestible formats that we can share with Sangat, as well as host the full piece itself in our Vichaar Repo. You will be given full credit and can link to any of your pages or social media handles.The same applies for anyone, student or not. If you would like to submit an essay, article or a project to help us with this goal, please get in touch via email.
Become A Member
If you would like to become a formal member of the Bunga, you will be able to engage more closely with the work we are doing behind the scenes. Azadism is just theory, but we want to eventually put it and other ideas we Vichaar on into practice. Therefore, we have developed and are progressing a "Grand Strategy", a long-term roadmap with an ultimate end-goal of true Azaadi (or as close as we can get it). For us, that means a prosperous and just Khalsa Raaj. But this needs the correct foundations, since without it, it will fall like a castle of sand. What we are trying to do is plant seeds of trees that we in our lifetimes may not see all the fruits of. But what would that fruit taste like? That is what Azadism, and Bunga Azaadi's Vichaar Repository is detailing at the moment.
Whilst the specific details of this plan is still mostly Gupt, we are open to support with it if you have the skills and passion for it. Becoming a member of the Bunga requires some proof of competence though.
Not just anyone is allowed to join. Much of this doesn't need to be said in the open, it needs to be shown through actions. In time, our results shall do the talking. We also want to filter out those with little commitment, loyalty to Masandic organisations, and those who simply do not know how to think properly. However, although entry is restricted, applications are open to anyone. We reject credentialism and focus only the quality of the mind presented. Anyone is free to apply no matter your background.
All prospective members of Bunga Azaadi must complete the following steps:
(01) Application Form
The application form will test your ability to commit time and effort to grapple with the subject area. Therefore, as part of the form you will be made to write short summaries of each section of the Azadist Manifesto. You don't have to agree with everything (in fact, disagreement is encouraged!) — but you need to at least prove you have understood the material.
(02) Video Interview
In addition to discussing your summaries, this will be an opportunity to introduce yourself, tell you more about how it all works and discuss what you can get involved in. You can also ask us any questions you would like to know before you decide to officially join as a member.
(03) Offer / Rejection
After this, you will be informed whether you are successful or not. If you are, then you will have some time to formally accept.
Alternatives
If you have read the manifesto but don't currently have time to do these summaries, then if you can show us something equivalent (e.g. dissertations, essays or projects related to Sikhi), we can take that into account instead and just drill you more on Azadism specific questions in the interview to check familiarity with the content. Send us an email evidencing this to contact@azadism.co.uk.
Alternatively, contributing towards any Seva to help the Bunga out can also count towards an application. See what opportunities are available on our Seva Board. There may not be many of you, to begin with (or ever), and this is fine. We are not looking for everyone to join, nor even a lot — just enough. With the calibre of individual we are looking for, each Singh or Kaur is worth 125,000.
Lastly, membership is pretty flexible, you can use the Bunga as a Vichaar Hub or to access and contribute to our various projects and Vichaars. The more you do the more we can bring you in and give you responsibility — its all commitment and engagement based. We have an internal clearance levelling system also based on this. At the lower levels, members are more like a contact list that can be reached out to for specific and valued perspectives on things. Higher levels are those who are more closely working on projects or the Grand Strategy.
Associates / Advisors
If you want to support us in a less committed capacity and also have experience or Gyaan you think could help us, then consider becoming associated with the Bunga in an advisory capacity. This can range from specific advice on development to gathering and feeding us intel.
