Abhinav Chhikara is the founder of10K Designers, a cohort-based design education platform on a mission to make 10 thousand designers. To support this mission he founded booklets.io a book summary blog catering to designers and UI Sources, a website to find design references from real apps. He also co-authored a bestseller book on freelancing called Pyjama Profit.
Prakhar was invited to speak at SVC, Delhi University
Neer is an entrepreneur, product person, and all-around creative. Neer Sharma is the co-founder of HaikuJAM, a mobile game that promotes self-care through collaborative writing. The app is used by 1M people across 163 countries. Before then, he was an investment banker working in Mergers and Acquisitions. After leaving HaikuJAM, Neer started a newsletter called Patent Drop that summarizes 3 new big tech patents every week for 200,000 people. He is also advising 3 early-stage startups working at ...
Ronnie and Barty are filmmakers and YouTubers based out of Manali, Himachal Pradesh. They make video content for the Internet and TV, in and around the Himalayas primarily. They have been working for the last 8 years in the mainstream film and Television industry in Mumbai. They also make addictive vlogs.
Mudit Yadav is the founder of MY Success Coach and a keynote speaker. He has spoken to more than 415,000 people from more than 48 countries and also at multiple TEDx events about leadership and success. He is also the author of the book: Be Invincible - The mindset, skills and habits for sustainable growth and success.
Nitish Rajput is an Indian Digital Social Activist, Entrepreneur, and YouTuber. His popularity grew by his unique approach to political awareness which he achieves through videos on undiscussed things like lies, facts, corruption, education systems, injustice, and propaganda
Ankur Warikoo is an Internet entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and angel investor based in India. He was the co-founder of Nearbuy. Warikoo was previously the CEO of Groupon India. He is an active angel investor and invests in early-stage tech startups and mentors the founders on Product-Market-Fit, Talent hiring & retention, and the founder mindset.
Time Stamps: Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction 00:27 - Provocative nature of Twitter 01:35 - What is “String”? 07:56 - The state of political discourse and nationalism 11:00 - How “An open letters” political leaning evolved 14:35 - Has the Godi media always existed in India? 24:20 - Need for reducing government intervention 32:30 - Discussing Rinku Sharma murder controversy 41:12 - The legacy media and rational voice 49:18 - Where did the name “An open letter” come from? 52:40 - How to go about fa...
Tirthak Saha is a Business Strategy Consultant. He has been working as a solo consultant for several pre-series A global startups to help founding teams develop their GTM strategies and build data-driven MVPs. He was also the co-founder of Trolysis – an American clean energy startup developing innovative solutions to the world's Energy and Climate Change problems. Previously to this, He lead a program to design a multi-million-dollar portfolio of Smart Grid technology projects at American Electr...
Nikin Tharan believes in using technology and leveraging existing resources to challenge the status quo and impact lives. He is currently the CEO and co-founder of Medsix, a medical device startup based in Boston. Growing up in India, Nikin discovered he had a talent for electronics and started working at a lab affiliated with the Border Security Force at 9 y/o and secured a scholarship to study university in the US at 16 y/o. After graduating, he worked at a startup building novel radiation det...
Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and author. As of 2019, he is a member of the board of India's Central Board of Film Certification.
Neeraj Arora is a famous Chartered Accountant and teacher by passion. He runs multiple YouTube channels with hundreds and thousands of subscribers. He is also the co-founder of Fin Learn Club and EDU 91.
Prakhar was invited to speak about what it's like to be an internet entrepreneur and the future of modern media entrepreneurship in India.
Ruchir Sharma is an award-winning public policy and political advocacy professional with experience in police reform, counterterrorism, and climate change at the intergovernmental level and campaign strategy at the party-level. With an academic background in Marxist theory, the history of terrorism, and Cold War geopolitics, he has also worked as an advisor to a major political party and in recent years, he has been making waves with his piercing articles on history, culture, and international p...
Amish Tripathi is the Director of the Nehru Centre in London and a columnist, and author. He is very well known for his books The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of the Nagas, The Oath of the Vayuputras, Scion of Ikshvaku, Sita: Warrior of Mithila, Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta and Legend of Suheldev: The King Who Saved India. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:12 The Indic Storytelling Style 05:28 Being open to many truths - Indian Liberalism 12:13 The complexity of Dharma 16:37 Liberalism and Infighting ...
Abhijit Iyer-Mitra is a defense analyst and a cultural-political commentator. ### Timestamps 00:10 India GDP vs Bangladesh's GDP 13:36 India mai ‘Chalta Hai’ 18:26 Tanishq Ekatvam Ad 22:43 The Future of Hindu-Muslim relationship in India 40:29 Politics, Society and Culture of Central Asia 49:58 China, Taiwan and what should India do 59:41 Pakistan Civil war? You can also watch this episode on youtube.com/pgradio
Tavleen Singh is an Indian columnist, political reporter, and writer. Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 00:58 The Sushant Singh Rajput Political Fiasco 04:55 What does Bollywood stand for in the Indian culture 10:50 The forgotten wounds of Indian history 15:05 Tavleen Discusses Modi's Report card 24:04 "What do you think about politicians is wrong" 33:32 The modern Media situation alarms Tavleen Singh 37:15 The perfect educational specimen for India 43:09 What happened to 'Messiah Modi'? You can als...
Wendell Wallach is a consultant, ethicist, and scholar at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and a senior advisor to The Hastings Center. He is also a fellow at the Center for Law, Science & Innovation at the Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law (Arizona State University) and a fellow at the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technology. Mr. Wallach has an international reputation as an expert on the ethical and governance concerns posed by emerging technologies, particu...
Kushal is the founder of Indian Defence Research Advancements INDRA You can also watch this episode on [Youtube.com/pgradio](https://youtu.be/YbVBcbLJlYI) Kushal is the founder of Indian Defence Research Advancements INDRA. Kushal Sinha, 21, is currently an undergrad student in International Relations and Criminology. He started off his journey with an aim to become a diplomat only to later find his passion in Criminology. Soon after, he developed a keen interest in Policing. Kushal now keeps a ...
Sattvik is the CEO and co-founder of Scoopwhoop, India's biggest online media company. Sattvik was an early mover in the alternate media playing field in India, when he and his co-founders moonlighted with writing small articles on the internet while working for an Ad Agency. Now Scoopwhoop is a global phenomenon in terms of content and influence. 0:00 Start 3:31 What should new creators create? 10:41 Scoopwhoop unscripted's niche and Indian Journalism 17:57 Twitter, Rhea Chakrabarty, Marijuana ...
Raj Shamani is an entreprenuer, marketing strategist and keynote speaker. A native of Indore, India, Raj has represented India in United Nations, Vienna, Austria and travels across the world for his speeches. Timestamps 00:00 How did Raj start reading? 03:50 Identifying your current problem 08:10 How did Raj start out? 14:31 Starting a business at 16 26:59 Dealing with self doubt 33:00 Initial days as an entrepreneur 45:15 Raj's first big moment 56:30 Meeting Gary Vaynerchuk 1:03:55 Building "Th...
Aatish Ali Taseer is an American writer and journalist. In 2019, he wrote the article ‘Divider in Chief’ criticizing Modi and the BJP Government in India for Time Magazine. Taseer has also written for the Time, Prospect, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times, amongst many, He has also authored several books including Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands (2009), His part memoir-part travelogue, has been translated into more than 14 languages and hailed as a...
Aarti Tikoo Singh is a New Delhi based journalist. She is the Foreign & Strategic Affairs Editor at Indo-Asian News Service. She has been a reporter and editor for the last 15 years. Her areas of interest are international relations, Indian politics, economic and foreign policy. She also focuses on conflict, war, and terror. Earlier, she reported from the conflict-ridden state of Jammu and Kashmir for almost seven years, covering politics, violence, governance and human stories for India’s t...
Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and author. As of 2019, he is a member of the board of India's Central Board of Film Certification. Watch clips from episodes on Instagram: https://instagram.com/pgradio.live Timestamps: 00:00 The Bollywood of the 80s-90s 09:04 Page 3 and the Charm of Bollywood 13:00 Filmmaking is a "dirty" business 18:05 Stardom and the celebrity culture 26:16 The Influence of money in films 33:10 Vivek on the Sushant Singh Rajput Situation 43:20 ...
Anand Gandhi is an Indian filmmaker, entrepreneur, media producer, innovator and systems researcher. He is also the founder/CEO of the Goa-based new media studio and systems think tank Memesys Culture Lab Timestamps 0:00 Who is Anand Gandhi? 2:44 Is art a prescription or a representation? 12:29 "Art precedes and succeeds science" 21:45 How do we go about achieving a non-predatory future? 35:21 What audience does Anand attract? 41:02 Bollywood vs Indian Cinema as a whole 44:50 what kind of filmma...
Abhijit Iyer-Mitra is a defense analyst and a cultural-political commentator. 0:00 Intro 2:15 Episode starts 3:46 Abhijit doesn't appreciate "Third-Ratedness" 8:20 The hypocrisy of the Islamist and the Liberal side 15:08 Do we need economic narratives over culturally identitarian narratives in Indian Politics? (w.r.t Modi's Gujarat Model) 22:20 "Godhra was a tragedy of omission not a crime of commission" 26:57 Would federalism work in India? 30:25 The problems with Indian Education System 38:29 ...
You can also watch this episode on Youtube.com/pgradio Connect with Anwesh Twitter: anwesh_satpathy Anwesh's Blog medium.com/@anweshsatpathy Buy Anwesh's book The Impatient Atheist Art of Conversation Learns to have better conversations with anyone. Taught by Prakhar himself artofconversation.in Connect with us online pgradio.com @pgradio.live on Instagram Get in touch: email: asim@pgradio.com...
Sudhir Kakar is an Indian psychoanalyst, novelist and author in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion. A leading figure in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion, as well as a novelist, Dr. Kakar’s person and work have been profiled in The New York Times, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Neue Zuricher Zeitung, Die Zeit and Le Nouvel Observateur, which listed him as one of the world's 25 major thinkers while the German weekly Die Zeit portraye...
J. Sai Deepak is an engineer-turned- lawyer practising as an arguing counsel primarily before the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court. Sai has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Anna University (2002-06) and a bachelor’s degree in law from IIT Kharagpur (2006-09). In over a decade’s practice since 2009, Sai has carved a niche for himself in Civil Commercial litigation, Intellectual Property litigation, Constitutional law and Competition law and has been part of several landmar...
Kushal Mehra is the host of the Carvaka Podcast. On this episode of the podcast, Kushal and Prakhar opine about Indian politics, Social Justice movements and the meta aspects of podcasting.
