Enjoy the full conversation with the creator of Shadow Realm and the Arya Chronicle series, Reenita Malhotra, and the editor of Sanctuary Magazine and founder of the Sanctuary Nature Foundation, Bittu Sahgal, about the nature of the Ramayana, and what it has to teach us about the world and ourselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc…

Arya, Saara, and Kamaal stumble upon a mysterious fruit tree, but can they trust it? What seem like small choices propel Arya into chaos and his past. Will Arya escape the depths of his fear to save his friends or be consumed by the weight of the unknown? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Arya reunites with Saara, and he sees her and the journey in a whole new light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Mo's magnetic pull leads Arya down a dark path, where reality blurs and trust wavers. Where will Arya's choices lead him? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Something dark still haunts Saara and Pa; without Arya's protection, there's still more chaos yet to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Enjoy the first part of this conversation with the creator of Shadow Realm and the Arya Chronicle series, Reenita Malhotra, and the editor of Sanctuary Magazine and founder of the Sanctuary Nature Foundation, Bittu Sahgal, about the nature of the Ramayana, and what it has to teach us about the world and ourselves. Learn more about your ad choices. …

Arya protects Kaamal from Pataal Lok's many dangers, but can he save himself? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Get a dive deep into the rich mythology that inspired 'Shadow Realm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Loyalty is strong enough to bring a familiar face to Arya in Pataal Lok, but can it help them understand his destiny? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Get a dive deep into the rich mythology that inspired 'Shadow Realm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Arya follows Mahabali straight into a different plane of existence. Can he trust the path ahead? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Get a dive deep into the rich mythology that inspired 'Shadow Realm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Arya returns to Onam. He finds out how much is at stake if the story of Onam changes. If the line between villain and hero blurs, then who can say what is order and what is chaos? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Get a dive deep into the rich mythology that inspired 'Shadow Realm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Nature leads Arya right to the Medicine Woman, but Arya learns that his journey and obstacles are his own to decipher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Get a dive deep into the rich mythology that inspired 'Shadow Realm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Arya finds himself in the middle of a vibrant celebration. Will he find his anarchist in the crowds? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

On this bonus, get a dive deep into the rich mythology that inspired 'Shadow Realm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Arya picks his anarchist and follows their trail to a whole new plane. Will he find what he's looking for? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Get a dive deep into the rich mythology that inspired 'Shadow Realm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Arya can't escape the visions of that angry, ax-wielding man. He needs to know this man's story and why it felt so tethered to his own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

In this bonus, get a dive deep into the rich mythology that inspired 'Shadow Realm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Rishi-ji takes Arya on the wave of time to show him the way. Can Arya find answers between the order and chaos? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

In this bonus episode, get a dive deep into the rich mythology that inspired 'Shadow Realm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Arya tries to find space to think in the Marin Headlands, but he can't seem to stay in the moment. Who will show him the way? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

In this bonus episode, get a dive deep into the rich mythology that inspired 'Shadow Realm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Arya visits Hamid in the police station to see if he holds the key to understanding the ominous black flowers, but will he figure it out in time to protect Saara? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Arya and Saara try to take a tranquil row boat ride in Golden State Park, but Arya can’t get the mark of Vishnu out of his mind, and it turns out danger isn’t far behind them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Arya's desperate search for answers pushes him to break the rules of his power. Will it be worth it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Arya comforts Saara at the hospital while they wait to hear about Taa's condition. Overcome with guilt, Saara confides in Arya that what happened today wasn't the first sign of danger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Arya cheers Saara on as she runs Bay to Breakers, but with every mile she runs, Arya gets closer to the start of a dangerous journey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Want a refresher on Season 1 of Shadow Realm before jumping into Arya's newest journey? Listen to this quick recap of the last season from the show's creator Reenita Malhotra. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Arya's journey continues on 9/26. Will he overcome the divine's challenges or lose himself and his loved ones to the space between order and chaos? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Reenita Malhotra Hora | SpokenLayer

Arya has changed, seemingly overnight, as he returns to school the next day. He stands up to his bullies, no longer afraid or affected by their taunting. Pa is astounded at his son’s maturity, especially as they prepare to remove Ma from life support. Arya knows she is at peace in the backwaters, but Pa feels only emptiness and sadness. Arya knows …

With a new understanding of the power of the Ramayana, Arya finds closure as he says goodbye to his new friends in the Wild Woods and prepares to go home. He finds himself back in his home in San Francisco where he returns the Ramayana to its rightful place in Ma’s prayer room. As he lays in bed that night, he is at peace with whatever the next day…

With Ravana defeated, Arya goes to visit the Medicine Woman one last time. He realizes it is Ma as her True Self. As they talk, many things become clear. The reason for his journey to the backwaters wasn’t to find Deep Medicine but to see his Ma, not as a helpless woman on life support, but here guiding him. The Deep Medicine he sought, was in the …

In a final fight, Arya comes face to face with the demon king, Ravana. Its’ 10 menacing heads manifest as demons from Arya’s life, and one appears as a mirror image of Arya himself. Shocked and confused, Arya is momentarily stunned. The demon continues to terrorize Arya as he stares at the Rakshasas-filled reflection of himself. But for the first t…

At first light, Arya and the vanaras begin their descent to the dark side. They reach the place where Arya has to plavang — jump, leap and fly, to get to the Ramayana. He is terrified but with the Rakshasas closing in he doesn’t have a choice. He digs deep into his being, seeking energy from Brahman Shakti, and before his own eyes, he is transforme…

We interrupt our regularly scheduled Shadow Realm podcast to introduce you to my other podcast, True Fiction Project which is a podcast that explores the origins of fiction. This episode interview is with Dr. Kanniks Kannikeswaran, the composer and conductor of the Shadow Realm soundtrack. He is an internationally renowned music composer, educator,…

Arya wakes to find his friends, the vanaras, surrounding him. There is an army of monkeys with them, ready to fight the Rakshasas and save the Ramayana before it is destroyed, erasing the history that good ever existed. Arya and Chimpu form a Shakespearean plan inspired by Macbeth to distract the Rakshasas while Arya sneaks into the canyon to retri…

Arya was sure that he had failed his quest when he watched the Ramayana fall into the vast darkness. However, when Rishiji appears, Arya learns that all hope is not lost. Rishiji leads Arya into the sky and shows him a deep canyon filled with Rakshasas and much to Arya’s surprise, he sees the Ramayana intact perched on Ravana’s throne. With Rishiji…

Arya is stumbling through the dark forest trying to find his friends, having just escaped the sinister vines that threatened to silence him. The moonlight reveals a silhouetted image of the Medicine Woman but her words are interrupted by an avalanche of rakshasas barrelling down a hillside towards Arya. He is outnumbered. With only a single arrow l…

Arya wanders through the Coconut Grove looking for the non-medicinal plant as instructed by Medicine Woman. A beautiful spotted deer appears and Arya begins to follow it, thinking it has lost its mother. Arya follows it further and further into the dark forest and realizes too late that the fawn is a shape-shifting rakshasa sent by Ravana to stop h…

Upon reaching the edge of the forest, Arya and his friends find themselves surrounded by a series of waterfalls. The sun glistens off the water and they see a woman standing near the edge of the stream. It’s the Medicine Woman. Arya is drawn magnetically towards her as if they have met before, though he can’t seem to place where or how. Arya is con…

The aftermath of Arya’s recklessness leaves the vanaras homeless and Pandu badly burned. His wounds need Deep Medicine that is made by a mysterious Medicine Woman who lives further South on the outskirts of the Dark Side of the forest. Her exact location is unknown and dangerous. Desperate to help, Arya looks to the Ramayana to try to find the way.…

With his new weapon in hand, Arya is eager to fight but soon learns he may not be as ready as he thinks. While walking through the forest helping the vanaras search for food, Arya and his friends meet the hideous and evil Baalachorni. As she begins to threaten to harm a baby vanar, Arya becomes angry and retaliates. His reckless actions create deva…

Rishiji appears once more to instruct Arya in the ancient customs and history of their world. For many years, Rishiji and the vanaras have waited for a descendant of the Arya race to come and protect the Wild Woods from Ravana’s plot to erase their history. A detail in Arya’s family lineage confirms their prophecy and his name reveals his role in t…

Arya’s head spins with what he just heard: Ravana is alive? It can’t be! From the time he was a young boy, he had read stories of this demon’s defeat in the Ramayana. Yet the vanara tribe who have been threatened to near extinction and Rishiji, the wise sage he met earlier in the Wild Woods, all confirm it as the truth. For years, Ravana lay dorman…

Arya discovers that he has landed in the Wild Woods, the mythical jungles described in the Ramayana. But how this came to be, is a mystery to him. Soon after Arya arrives, he meets a forest hermit known as the Rishiji, who speaks in riddles. He sets Arya forward on a journey through the Wild Woods to accomplish urgent tasks before he can go home to…

Unable to sleep, Arya is startled when his bed begins to violently shake and the floorboards tilt and crack. Arya is used to earthquakes but this was no ordinary quake. Suddenly, a large fault opens in the middle of his room and he can’t resist the strong magnetic force that keeps pulling him further and further into a black unfamiliar abyss. Arya …