Rami Niranjan Desai is a North East India Specialist, as founding director of the North East Policy Institute, Guwahati she worked extensively in the area publishing on Insurgency and conflict, religion & social movements. She is presently Director of Pathfinder India Consultancy, an organisation that undertakes research and analysis. She has completed her higher education from King’ College in Theology and Anthropology of Religion.
Jun 10, 2023•1 hr 19 min
Rajarshi Ranjan Nandy is an upasaka, speaker, and columnist, who also guides people interested in the practice of sadhana. His book 'Adhyatmikta' has been re-published with a new publication house 'Blue One Ink'. Order your copy here: https://amzn.eu/d/bhUFvRj...
Jun 08, 2023•3 hr 8 min
Duvvuri Subrahmanyam is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), where he leads the Turbulent Shear Flow Physics and Engineering Laboratory (TSFPEL). His research interests are broadly in the area of aero/fluid dynamics, with a focus on turbulent shear flows in both incompressible (subsonic) and compressible (supersonic, hypersonic) regimes. Both fundamental and applied aspects of these subjects are of interest to him. During the Covid-19 crisis,...
Jun 08, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Dr Aloke Kumar is an Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He did his B.Tech and M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur. He also has a Ph.D. from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, USA, an Assistant Professor at University of Alberta, Canada and Staff Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. You can know more about Dr Aloke Kumar, his work and his lab's work here: www.kumarlab....
May 23, 2023•39 min
Anusha and Vishali Shetty are full-timers at Aarsha Vidya Samajam. Established in 1999 by Yogacharya Sri K R Manoj ji , Aarsha Vidya Samajam has been successful in influencing and inculcating a sense of Sanathana Dharma in tens of thousands of people, and returning more than 7000 people, both men and women from dangerous ideologies, saving several lives and their families.
May 23, 2023•51 min
Arihant Pawariya is host of Vaad. Rohit Pathania is an author, analyst and observer with varied interests in politics, history and environment. Nishant Dahiya is a Haryanvi Researcher and host of The Haryanvi Podcast. In this episode we discuss with him the evolution of Haryanvi Identity and diversity of Haryanvi Language.
May 22, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Nishant Dahiya is a Haryanvi Researcher and host of The Haryanvi Podcast. In this episode, we discuss with him the evolution of Haryanvi Identity and diversity of Haryanvi Language.
Apr 27, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Jay Vardhan Singh is currently doing his PhD in Ancient Indian History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. His area of interest includes the Ancient and early medieval history of the Indian subcontinent.
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 19 min
Monika Halan’s career spans across media, public policy and financial education. She is the Founder of Dhan Chakra Financial Education and Author of the bestselling book, Let’s Talk Money. She has public policy experience and has served on several high-profile government of India and SEBI committees. She has worked across various media organisations in India, including Mint, The Economic Times and The Indian Express, and was Editor Outlook Money. She has run four successful TV series around pers...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Anshul Jubli is an Indian mixed martial artist from Uttarakhand who currently signed to the lightweight division of Ultimate Fighting Championship, where he became the second person from India after Bharat Kandare, to get an UFC contract, as well as first person from India to win an UFC match.
Apr 21, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Kuljinder Dhillon is a common man from the Majha region in Punjab. Like tens of thousands of youth, he also got swept away by the Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale-led Khalistan movement in late 1970s and early 1980s. He was inside the Golden Temple when the Indian Army launched a military operation codenamed 'Blue Star' to take control of the holy complex back from Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who was using the Sikhism's holiest site as a launchpad for his terrorism and anti-India activities. Kuljinder...
Apr 03, 2023•1 hr 37 min
R. Jagannathan has been at the forefront of Indian journalism for well over four and a half decades. Currently the Editorial Director of Swarajya magazine, he has been part of many launch teams, including Business Today, DNA and Firstpost.com. He headed and revamped many business publications, such as Financial Express, Indian Management, Business World and Forbes India. He started his career with Financial Express in Mumbai. His recent focus has been on digital commentary and journalism, includ...
Apr 01, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Prakhar Shrivastava is a popular and acclaimed media professional with over 2 decades of TV journalism in Bharat (or India) with mainstream media channels like India TV, Zee News, आज तक Aaj Tak (India Today), NDTV and News 24. Currently, he is Senior Consulting Editor, DD News.
Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 34 min
Dinkar P. Srivastava joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1978. In 1993-94, as Director (UNP), he was part of successful Indian lobbying efforts against four Pakistani attempts to have resolutions on J&K adopted in UN General Assembly and UN Commission on Human Rights. He was involved in the drafting of National Human Rights Commission statute. As Joint Secretary (UNP), he participated in Indian lobbying efforts to contain the diplomatic fallout of the Pokhran II nuclear tests and prevent th...
Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Jay Vardhan Singh is currently doing his PhD in Ancient Indian History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. His area of interest includes the Ancient and early medieval history of the Indian subcontinent.
Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 35 min
Meenakshi Jain is a historian interested in cultural and religious developments in ancient and medieval India. Her recent publications include Vasudeva Krishna and Mathura (2021); Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples (2019); The Battle for Rama: Case of the Temple at Ayodhya (2017); Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse (2016); and Rama and Ayodhya (2013). In 2020, she was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. Her latest book 'The Hindus o...
Mar 11, 2023•1 hr 28 min
Rohit Pathania is an author, analyst and observer with varied interests in politics, history and environment.
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Colonel Hunny Bakshi is a decorated retired Indian army officer who led the Technical Support Division (TSD), a covert intelligence counter terror ops unit.
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 33 min
Subedar Major and Honorary Captain Yogendra Singh Yadav PVC is a retired commissioned officer in the Indian Army, who was awarded the highest Indian wartime gallantry decoration, the Param Vir Chakra, for his actions during the Kargil War. He is the youngest recipient of the Param Vir Chakra to date, having received it at the age of 19. He has written a detailed account of the battles he fought during the Kargil war in his autobiography 'The Hero Of Tiger Hill'.
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Prakash Singh is retired IPS officer with an excellent track record of combating terrorism/insurgency in the most turbulent theaters of the country - Nagaland, Assam, Punjab, J&K, and (in the Terai area of) UP. He was Police Chief of two of the largest states of India – Uttar Pradesh and Assam, and also commanded India’s Border Security Force (BSF). The Government of India, in recognition of his contribution to national security, awarded him the Padma Shri in 1991. A prolific writer, he has ...
Feb 14, 2023•1 hr 22 min
Dr Rishi Rajpopat was born and brought up in Mumbai and pursued his undergraduate degree in economics at St. Xavier's Mumbai. He earned a masters in oriental studies with a focus on Pāṇini grammar at Oxford before going on to pursue a PhD in the same field at Cambridge.
Feb 09, 2023•1 hr 37 min
Vaibhav Singh is founder of Defensive Offence and Co-founder of DO Politics.
Feb 09, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Jay Vardhan Singh is currently doing his PhD in Ancient Indian History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. His area of interest includes the Ancient and early medieval history of the Indian subcontinent. Follow Jay’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JayVardhanSingh
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 31 min
Since 1999, Vikas Manhas has been visiting families of soldiers of the Indian Armed Forces who have given ultimate sacrifice for the nation. Every year, he devotes a significant amount of time traveling across the country and visiting and revisiting the families of our immortals. He has visited over 500 families of so far and built long lasting familial relationships with them.
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 30 min
Rohit Pathania is an author, analyst and observer with varied interests in politics, history and environment.
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Aashish Chandorkar works as counsellor at the Permanent Mission of India to the World Trade Organization in Geneva. He is a lateral entrant to the government, having spent more than two decades in the management consulting and financial services industries working around the world. He has been writing on public policy in the domestic and international media for several years. His writings have focussed on the positive India stories and the possibilities that lie ahead for the country. His book '...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Vaibhav Singh, founder of Defensive Offence, DO Politics & DO News, and Arihant Pawariya of Vaad interview Pratap Somvanshi, Hindustan Hindi daily newspaper's executive editor who has 32 years of experience in journalism.
Jan 04, 2023•58 min
Sanjay Kumar is Professor and Co-Director of Lokniti, a Research Programme at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. His core area of research is Electoral Politics, but using survey method as research tool he has been engaged in conducting research on very wide range of themes-Indian Youth, State of Democracy in South Asia, State of Indian Farmers, Slums of Delhi and Electoral Violence. He has published widely, written several books, edited volumes, contributed chapters for several e...
Jan 04, 2023•58 min
Krzysztof Iwanek is a South Asia expert. From 2014 to 2016, he taught Hindi at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea. He holds two MA degrees: in History and in South Asian Studies, and a PhD in Cultural Studies. His main area of interest is contemporary Indian politics and political ideologies. He has also co-authored a book titled Indie. Od kolonii do mocarstwa.1857-2013 (“India. From a Colony to a Power. 1857-2013″) with Adam Burakowski.
Jan 04, 2023•57 min
Aravindan Neelakandan is a co-author of the hugely successful and bestseller book, Breaking India. He has done a Cultural Economics project from the Junior Research Fellowship from Department of Culture, Government of India on the ruins of Kanyakumari district and has field experience of culture conservation. His best seller book, ‘Breaking India’ explores the historical development of fabricated fault lines threatening the unity of India. Other books authored by him in Tamil explore culture, hi...
Jan 03, 2023•1 hr 26 min
