Prof. Vasant Shinde is internationally renowned archaeologist and former Vice-Chancellor of the Deccan College, Pune. Prof. Shinde has been a pioneer in archaeological research for almost 40 years, specialising in the Protohistory of South Asia as well as Field Archaeology. He has directed a vast number of excavations around the country, from Harappan sites in Gujarat and Haryana to Chalcolithic sites in Madhya Pradesh and the Deccan, to Protohistoric and Early historic Sites in Rajasthan and Ma...
Nov 09, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Harsh Gupta is a public markets focused investor who is "Long India". He was earlier with Ashika Group as chief investment officer, with Bain as a consultant focusing on DDs for PE/HF clients, and with MIT Poverty Action Lab as a research associate. He is an INSEAD MBA and Dartmouth College Economics graduate. A CFA® charter-holder and IIT Delhi dropout, he has coauthored two books: Derivatives (Cambridge University Press) and A New Idea Of India (Westland/Amazon).
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr 19 min
Rajeev Mantri is the founder and managing director of India-focused venture capital firm Navam Capital. Prior to founding Navam, Rajeev worked as a venture capital investor at New York-based Lux Capital, focusing on investments in deep technology ventures. Rajeev is widely published columnist on technology, investing, venture capital and entrepreneurship in India. In 2020, Rajeev authored (with Harsh Madhusudan) A New Idea Of India - Individual Rights In A Civilisational State, a best-selling an...
Nov 01, 2021•54 min
Priya Mishra is India’s leading गांजा activist who has been researching its benefits over the last few years. With the help of doctors and professionals, she has helped get better scores of patients suffering from diseases that are known to respond to consumption of this medicinal plant. Almost a decade back, she cured herself with third stage Tuberculosis and that’s how and where her tryst with गांजा began. Popularly known as Hempvati, many companies in India and abroad have engaged Priya’s exp...
Oct 22, 2021•1 hr 27 min
Dr. Kapil Tiwari is a 2021 Padma Shree awardee in ‘Literature and Education’ field. He received the honour for his stellar contribution over 30 years in studying and documenting oral traditions among various communities in India, especially the tribals. Thanks to him, invaluable part of Bharat’s heritage i.e. oral tradition of folk and tribal communities is preserved in over 50,000 printed pages today. Born in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar, Dr. Tiwari, a PhD in Hindi Literature, has edited scores of bo...
Oct 14, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Ami Ganatra is an alumna of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA). A management professional, she is also a devout yoga practitioner, a certified yoga instructor, and a student of Sanskrit and Indian knowledge systems. Her book “Mahabharata Unravelled: Lesser-Known Facets of a Well-Known History” brings to light fascinating details and aspects of the people and events in the great epic not commonly known, to answer some often-asked questions and clarify prevalent myths.
Oct 09, 2021•1 hr 35 min
Radhavallabh Tripathi is one of the senior-most professors of Sanskrit in the country. Widely acclaimed for his original contributions to the study of Natyashastra and Sahityashastra, he has published 129 books, 187 research papers and critical essays as well as translations of more than 30 Sanskrit plays and some classics from Sanskrit into Hindi. He has received more than 25 national and international awards and honours for his literary contributions. He has been authoritatively referred in va...
Oct 09, 2021•1 hr 55 min
Dr. Anand Ranganathan is a Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi (JNU). He obtained his BSc (Hons) degree in Chemistry from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi after which he left on a Nehru Centenary Scholarship for Cambridge, UK, where he obtained his BA (Tripos) in Natural Sciences, his MA, and his PhD. After a post-doctoral stint at Cambridge, Anand returned to India to join International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Delhi where he ran his lab for 16 years. In 2015 he...
Sep 25, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Major Manik M. Jolly is a former Gurkha veteran with 12 years military service in the infantry and intelligence sectors. He received two gallantry awards in 2001 and 2007 in a counter terrorism role. Major Jolly has been involved in the central organisation for Military Intelligence to enhance and optimise Cyber defence efforts. He is also a qualified ethical hacker and cyber crime investigator. Major Jolly is Alumni of the National Defence Academy and Indian Military Academy, and took premature...
Sep 22, 2021•1 hr 14 min
Dr. Niraj Rai is a senior scientist at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow. He did his PhD from Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad. Dr Niraj was one of authors of consequential paper published in 2019 in one of the world’s most prestigious publication (CELL). It was based on the DNA successfully extracted by Dr Niraj and his team from a 2500 year old woman’s skeletal found in Rakhigarhi, Haryana which was the largest site of Indus-Sarasvati Valley or Harappa Civil...
Sep 17, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Priyank Kanoongo is Chairman of National Commission For Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR). In this conversation, he revealed some startling facts about India’s children homes and orphanages, the NGOs and missionaries that run some of them, their foreign funding and how they are being run - where children are being brainwashed, used for political propaganda, sexually abused and what not. NCPCR is a statutory body under the administrative control of the Ministry of Women & Child Development a...
Sep 17, 2021•47 min
Dr. V. Ramanathan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at IIT-BHU. His areas of interest are Laser Spectroscopy, Raman Spectroscopy and Imaging and Computational chemistry. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from IIT Kanpur and two postdoctoral fellowships from the University of Basel, Switzerland and Seoul National University, South Korea.
Sep 04, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Sanjeev Sanyal is the Principal Economic Advisor to the Government of India. He is not only an internationally acclaimed economist, best-selling author but also a well-known environmentalist and urban theorist. Sanyal’s best-selling books include Land of the Seven Rivers, The Indian Renaissance and The Ocean of Churn, all published by Penguin. In addition, he had published around 200 articles, columns and reports in leading national/international publications. In this conversation, we talked mai...
Sep 04, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Dr. Aditya Kuvalekar is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Economics at the Department of Economics at University of Essex. His broad area of interest is microeconomic theory. Primarily, he works in dynamic games, organizational economics and market design. He received his PhD in Economics from New York University in 2017.
Sep 04, 2021•1 hr 4 min
J. Sai Deepak is an engineer-turned-litigator, practising as an arguing counsel primarily before the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi. he has been part of several landmark matters, such as the ones relating to the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple, the Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple and Basmati Geographical Indications. India, That Is Bharat, his first book in a comprehensive trilogy, explores the influence of European 'colonial consciousness' (or 'coloniality'), in particular its religiou...
Sep 04, 2021•59 min
J. Sai Deepak is an engineer-turned-litigator, practising as an arguing counsel primarily before the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi. he has been part of several landmark matters, such as the ones relating to the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple, the Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple and Basmati Geographical Indications. India, That Is Bharat, his first book in a comprehensive trilogy, explores the influence of European 'colonial consciousness' (or 'coloniality'), in particular its religiou...
Sep 04, 2021•53 min
Jonathan Selvaraj is a sports journalist at ESPN. Earlier, he worked at The Indian Express. With more than a decade of experience in covering non-cricketing sports, Selvaraj has a knack for providing perfect analysis of games and performance of athletes, some of whom he has been covering for years and who have won medals at the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics - Neeraj Chopra, Bajrang Punia, Ravi Dahiya and others. In this conversation, he explains why top class athletes like Vinesh Phogat, Man...
Sep 04, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 5
Shakti Sinha is an ex-IAS officer of 1979 batch who worked closely with former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee during 1996-1999. Now, he has written a memoir of that period titled Vajpayee: The Years That Changed India. Sinha is currently involved in setting up two institutions, one a think tank (Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Policy Research and International Studies, at MS University, Vadodara) and another, an academic Institution of Excellence (Delhi School of Public Policy and Governa...
Sep 04, 2021•53 min•Ep. 4
Abhijit Iyer Mitra is a senior research fellow at New Delhi based think tank ‘institute of Peace and Conflict Studies’ where he focuses on defence issues, specialising in defence economics, technology and procurement, nuclear dynamics, governance issues and non-traditional security threats. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Stimson Center, Washington, DC.
Sep 04, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 3
Rahul Roushan is a serial entrepreneur, media professional and a socio-political commentator. Born and brought up in Patna, he went on to get his journalism diploma from IIMC in New Delhi and MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. Though he started his career as a television journalist but took to entrepreneurship after his MBA. He founded CricStock, a virtual cricket stock exchange, news satire website Faking News (later acquired by Network18) and web media portal OpIndia. Rahul recently wrote a book ‘Sanghi ...
Sep 04, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 2
J. Sai Deepak is an engineer-turned-litigator, practising as an arguing counsel primarily before the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi. he has been part of several landmark matters, such as the ones relating to the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple, the Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple and Basmati Geographical Indications. India, That Is Bharat, his first book in a comprehensive trilogy, explores the influence of European 'colonial consciousness' (or 'coloniality'), in particular its religiou...
Sep 04, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 1
