Podcasts about Bangalore

In this episode of Out of the Clouds, host Anne Mühlethaler welcomes Kulsum Shadab Wahab, a Bangalore-based philanthropist and social entrepreneur, Executive Director of the Hothur Foundation and founder of Ara Lumiere. Kulsum has dedicated her life to empowering women who have survived acid attacks. Through Ara Lumiere, she creates sustainable livelihoods through handcrafted garments and accessories that not only foster economic independence but also restore dignity, confidence and purpose.Ara Lumiere champions a new vision of social responsibility within the fashion industry, one that merges artistry with advocacy. This commitment was honoured in 2022, when the brand received the Social Impact Award at the Sustainable Fashion Awards of the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (CNMI), Italy's national chamber of fashion.Kulsum speaks with Anne from the heart of that work, and about its cost: what it means to witness such trauma day after day, and how she holds feeling strong one hour and breaking the next.Kulsum shares with Anne how as a little girl, she felt deeply affected whenever someone was excluded from a group, and what an influence her grandfather was when it came to giving and sharing resources. She reflects on the gap between feeling for someone and acting for them (she was born with empathy, she says, but action is something she learnt much later). She also explains why, when it comes to her work with Ara Lumiere and the Hothur Foundation's support of those women survivors, survival is only ever the beginning.Later, Anne and Kulsum explore the meaning of healing when someone's lost their identities, the work that lies after the surgeries, and Kulsum explains how her background in psychology shapes the way she listens to each woman, rather than deciding for her what she needs (the foundation, she says, is not rehabilitating a case but a person, a story). The pair also discuss skin banking, a cause close to Kulsum's heart, and why pledging your skin matters (see resources below).Of course, Kulsum also tells Anne how Ara Lumiere came to be, a story of doors opening where no one imagined there was a door. She recalls how a therapeutic workshop at the foundation led her and women survivors all the way to Milan Fashion Week. She also describes what it meant for them, not least to have their creativity seen and celebrated before their pain: a victory over violence, and pain transformed into power.Kulsum shares updates about Ara Pret, where each garment becomes a story of resilience, beauty and renewal. She affirms her refusal to build a brand on sympathy, choosing courage instead, along with timelessness over trends and slow, steady growth. She also offers an exciting glimpse of what's ahead, with an upcoming collaboration with her friend, the artist Raghava KK. And she speaks about The Phoenix Circle, the community she created to uplift survivors of acid attacks and female genital mutilation, striving for a world free from such violence.Along the way, Kulsum's rebel streak shines through. A moving, fierce and warm-hearted conversation about dignity, identity and the courage it takes to rebuild a life. Happy listening!Selected links from episodeYou can connect with Kulsum and Ara Lumiere:Ara Lumiere website: https://aralumiere.com/Kulsum Shadab Wahab on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kulsumshadabwahab/Ara Lumiere on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ara.lumiere/Hothur Foundation on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hothurfoundation/On skin and tissue donation:Swisstransplant - Tissue donation explained in simple language (in French) Donate Life America - Register as an organ, eye and tissue donor in the US - NHS Blood and Transplant - Tissue donation in the UKMOHAN FoundationOther links:Raghava KK - Artist collaborating with the women of Ara Lumiere"Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield - Song that represents KulsumStory is The Strategy - Anne's 2h on-demand masterclassWebsite: https://outoftheclouds.com/Subscribe to The Mettā View: https://annevmuhlethaler.com/the-metta-viewFollow Anne on IG: https://www.instagram.com/annvi/BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/annvi.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-v-muhlethaler Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fundamentally, the rules of the game have changed for startup investors in India. Archana Balasubramanian, founding partner at Agama Law Associates, breaks down exactly how and why, drawing from data across 1,115 private transactions in the first half of 2026.Rarely has a market pivoted this sharply. Institutional investors are now pouring capital into late-stage, highly compliant software enterprises in Mumbai and Bangalore, steering clear of the early-stage speculative bets that once defined the ecosystem. High-profile failures like Go Mechanic and Byju's left investors nursing serious losses, and SEBI has responded by becoming aggressively proactive about enforcement, stress-testing valuations and scrutinizing IPO filings through technology.What does this mean for the next generation of Indian founders? The honest answer is complicated. Compliance is no longer optional, it is the price of admission. Yet the opportunity here is real: professionals who can guide companies through India's demanding multi-regulator environment are more valuable than ever. Cautionary tales like Paytm and Coffee Day remind us that even strong products cannot survive poor governance. (The council's role, Balasparanian notes, has expanded significantly in this environment.)Clearly, this shift is both a warning and an invitation.Our GuestArchana BalasubramanianArchana Balasubramanian is a Partner at Agama Law Associates with over 17 years of experience in corporate, commercial and transactions law, advising clients across sectors including manufacturing, logistics, media, pharmaceuticals, financial services, real estate and technology. She is known for a result-oriented, commercially-minded approach, and her practice spans corporate advisory, M&A, dispute strategy, data protection, and private client work — including succession planning and advisory for HNIs, entrepreneurs and family offices. Her M&A practice, built over nearly two decades, covers investments, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and structural collaborations, and she has been recognised as one of India's top lawyers by Forbes Legal Powerlist, India Business Law Journal and Legal Era. She is also a frequent commentator in outlets such as the Economic Times, Mint and Business Standard on topics ranging from IPOs and venture capital to regulatory and dealmaking trends.Our HostAjay ShamdasaniAjay Shamdasani is a veteran writer, editor and researcher based in Hong Kong. He holds an AB in history and government from Ripon College, JD and MIPCT degrees from the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce Law School, and an LLM in financial regulation from the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law.His 15-year long career as a financial and legal journalist began as deputy editor of A Plus magazine – the journal of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. From there, he assumed the helm of Macau Business magazine as its editor-in-chief, and later, joined Asialaw magazine as its deputy editor.More recently, he spent close to seven years as a senior correspondent with Thomson Reuters' subscription-based trade-wire service Regulatory Intelligence/Compliance Complete (previously called Complinet) in Hong Kong. While there, he covered regulatory developments in that city, as well as Singapore, India and South Korea.

Derek Sivers, author, entrepreneur, TED speaker, and founder of CD Baby, joins Jim O'Shaughnessy on Infinite Loops to talk about parenting a teenager who is ready to leave home, why he moves countries on purpose and plans to live in Bangalore and Shanghai next, the certainty slider, and how AI can make you less dependent on big tech, not more. It is his first podcast after more than a year of saying no to every request. Show Notes Derek Sivers & Jim O'Shaughnessy Derek Sivers: Author, entrepreneur, and TED speaker, and founder of CD Baby, once the largest seller of independent music online. Derek's website Derek on X: Where Derek shares his writing. Follow Derek on X Derek's TED talks: Including "How to Start a Movement," his most popular talk. Watch Derek's talks Jim O'Shaughnessy: Host of Infinite Loops, founder and CEO of O'Shaughnessy Ventures, and author of the New York Times bestseller What Works on Wall Street. Follow Jim on X Full transcripts: Transcripts and highlights from every Infinite Loops conversation. OSV newsletter Derek's Books & Projects Useful Not True: Derek's book on skepticism and choosing beliefs because they are useful, not because they are true. Useful Not True How to Live: 27 conflicting answers on how to live, which Derek calls his masterpiece. How to Live Hell Yeah or No: Simple mental models for deciding what's worth doing. Hell Yeah or No Anything You Want: Derek's bestselling book of 40 lessons from starting, building, and selling CD Baby. Anything You Want Tech Independence: Step-by-step instructions and a setup script for running your own server and email instead of depending on big tech. Tech Independence Books & Ideas Mentioned Personal Development for Smart People by Steve Pavlina: The book whose idea about seeking surprise sent Derek around the world. Derek's notes China's World View by David Daokui Li: Derek's pick for understanding the Chinese government's point of view. Derek's notes Maverick by Ricardo Semler: The book behind Derek's short-lived profit-sharing plan at CD Baby. Maverick Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned by Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman: Jim's reference on why new vantage points change where you want to go. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch: The book Jim calls a definitive look at how he sees the world. The Beginning of Infinity Nothing & Everything by Val N. Tine: The book on nihilism Derek recommends, with his advice to read only the first half. Derek's notes  

Rohini Chakravarthy, Managing Partner at NewBuild Venture Capital, shares her journey from engineering in Silicon Valley to more than two decades of venture investing at Intel Capital, NEA and NGP Capital. She explains why she and her partners created NewBuild around the transformation of the physical enterprise—from procurement and manufacturing to logistics and delivery. Rohini also explains what NewBuild looks for at the earliest stages, expounding on the difference between proof of value and proof of market.In this episode, you'll learn:[01:43] How Rohini went from engineering in Bangalore and Silicon Valley to venture capital, including her experience at Intel Capital, NEA and NGP Capital.[07:06] Building NewBuild around the transformation of the physical enterprise and supply chain.[13:18] What "proof of value" means at the earliest stages—and why NewBuild wants to see evidence of customer utility before significant revenue.[15:48] Three pieces of advice for founders: start with a burning problem, examine founder-market fit and deliberately de-risk the company one stage at a time.[20:50] How investors actually build conviction through conversations, research, validation and back-and-forth with founders.[25:48] Why investors and founders need the right network of partners and experts[27:16] The opportunities and challenges Rohini sees in the US-India startup ecosystem.[31:01] Why Rohini believes computer science remains valuable in the AI era—and why combining computer science with another domain could be especially useful.The nonprofit organizations Rohini is passionate about: IIT Madras Foundation, NeythriAbout Rohini ChakravarthyRohini Chakravarthy is the Managing Partner of NewBuild Venture Capital, where she invests in early-stage companies focused on supply chain and the physical enterprise. She has more than 20 years of venture investing experience, including roles at NGP Capital, NEA and Intel Capital. Before entering venture capital, she worked as a hardware design engineer at Bay Networks.Rohini holds a B.Tech from IIT Madras, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from MIT Sloan.About NewBuild Venture CapitalNewBuild Venture Capital is an early-stage venture firm focused on supply-chain application and infrastructure, physical enterprise and agentic AI. The firm's thesis centers on the transformation of the physical enterprise through technologies including cloud, data, AI and robotics. Portfolio companies include: Lyric, Freehand, Drumkit, Precursory, Manifold Freight, Cognichip, Pull Logic and others.Subscribe to our podcast and stay tuned for our next episode.

IANR 2637 091226 Line Up4-6pm INTERVIEWS (Guest host Gautam Sinha in for Sanchali)Here's the guest line-up for Sat, September 12, 2026 from 4 to 6pm CST on Indo American News Radio (www.IndoAmerican-news.com), a production of Indo American News. We are on 98.7 FM and you can also listen on the masalaradio app.By Monday, hear the recorded show on Podcast uploaded on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radio Public and Breaker or go to our website and click on the IANR link. Our Podcast has been rated #2 among 100 Podcasts in Houston by feedspot.com and rated in the Top 20 Apple Podcasts in 13countries by Podstatus.com. In 6 years and with over 1,000 Podcasts, we get thousands of hits each day.TO SUPPORT THE SHOW, SELECT FOLLOW ON OUR FREE PODCAST CHANNEL AND YOU'LL BE NOTIFIED OF NEW UPDATES.4:20 pm Each month, we feature eminent immigration attorney George Willy to discuss issues that may affect many of our listeners and each time we have to deal with another new and insidious executive order from President Trumpwhich further solidifies his desire to limit entrance by foreign nationals into this country, a sort of ethnic cleansing by the Christian White Right wing. George will deal with the latest of the bizarre orders-du-jour and discuss the new regulations on visas.4:50 pm Two weeks ago, the world looked on in horror as a falling glacier unleashed a torrent of lake water to cascade through a Himalayan valley and ultimately kill thousands of people. Many speculate that this is the result of a warming climate which caused the glacier to melt, just as others aredoing all over the world. According to a recent UN Climate report, the world will  cross the critical 1.5°C global warmingthreshold in the coming years, increasing the danger of irreversible tipping points like ice sheet destabilization, Amazon rainforest degradation, and disruption of ocean currents. We turn to Dr Ganesh Thakur, a DistinguishedProfessor of Petroleum, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Houston and an expert on climate change to share his thoughts ofthe future of weather.5:20 pm Yesterday, the nation remembered the 25thanniversary of 911, even as the US celebrates 250 years of Independence while India has celebrated its 80th Independence Day. It makes you wonder about the power of the number 5 and its multiples. So, we turned to our favorite psychic, Miss Renu, from Bangalore to explain to us the lure ofthe number 5 in Eastern society, in numerology and how it is experienced in the West. We turn to her again today to guide us about the power of numbers.Also stay tuned in for news roundup, views, sports and movie reviews.TO BE FEATURED ON THE SHOW, OR TO ADVERTISE, PLEASE CONTACT US AT 713-789-NEWS or 6397 or at indoamericannews@yahoo.comPlease pick up the print edition of Indo American News which is available all across town at grocery stores. Also visit our website indoamerican-news.com which gets 90,000+ hits to track all current stories.And remember to visit our digital archives from over 18 years. Plus, our entire 45 years of hard copy archives are available in the Fondren Library at Rice University

UPI gaslighting tax, BRICS veg menu & Bangalore sanitation controversy. Not a great week in vishwaguru-land!For an extra show (more intimate, unfiltered) & access to monthly zoom meeting of the Buffalo herd, do consider taking the paid tier membership. Links below:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/BuffaloIntellectualYouTube (via 'Join' option): https://www.youtube.com/@BuffaloIntellectual

This week on Catalyst, Tammy is joined by Rita Soni, a social entrepreneur and one of the leading voices on impact sourcing, an intentional, inclusive talent strategy she's helped shape since the term was coined during her time as CEO of Nasscom Foundation. She later brought that expertise to Everest Group as a principal analyst, and is now building Grand Resolve, a nonprofit that's co-creating standards to make digital services more responsible and inclusive. Tammy and Rita dig into what impact sourcing actually looks like on the ground, from Televerde's outbound call centers inside a women's prison to Vindhya Info Media in Bangalore, where a workforce built around people with disabilities has outpaced expectations on retention and quality. The throughline: "good for people" and "good for business" aren't competing goals. Please note that the views expressed may not necessarily be those of NTT DATALinks: Rita SoniNasscom Foundation Everest Group's Impact SourcingLearn more about Launch by NTT DATASee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

My guest today is Dr. Kishore Reddy, co-founder of & Chief Strategy Officer at ProHance.Conversation highlights:Background & Early Life:Kishore grew up across India—moving from Gujarat to Delhi and eventually settling in Bangalore, which he considers his home.Medical Career & Transition to IT:Completed his MBBS from Bangalore Medical College with plans to pursue neurology residency in the US, inspired by family members.After facing US visa denials (under section 214B), his brother Kiran suggested exploring the booming IT field around 1998–1999.Approached Sudhir Sharma at Network Solutions to learn IT on the job without demanding a salary.Leveraged his medical background's intensive reading habits to quickly master IT manuals.Early IT Experience & Growth:Had early exposure to computers during childhood thanks to his father and brother, including learning GW-BASIC.Worked on a World Bank-funded Health Information System (HIS) / Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) project for the Government of Karnataka.Mentored by DVN Sarma, gaining early exposure to data analytics and statistics.Network Solutions was acquired by IBM in 2005, leading to Kishore working at IBM for four and a half years.Founding Jamocha Tech:Decided to start his own venture in October 2008 and teamed up with Rajesh (his former colleague from Network Solutions).Received early mentorship and backing from Sudhir Sharma.Named the company Jammocha Tech over coffee at Barista, driven by their passion for Java technology.Evolution to ProHance:Initially built multiple products (e.g., network management, energy management) before streamlining focus.Shifted roles based on advice: Kishore transitioned to sales/technology head, while Rajesh handled delivery and support.Coined the name ProHance from "Productivity Enhancement" ("Pro" + "Hance").Rebranded completely to Prohands to avoid market confusion between the company and product names.Formally established ProHance India Private Limited in 2020, with ChrysCapital taking a majority stake in 2023.Key Entrepreneurial Takeaways:Adaptability: Expect the journey not to be a straight line and remain flexible.Team Building: Recognize that while founders start the journey, the team drives the company's ultimate success.Brand Focus: Avoid confusing customers with too many entity/product names; stick to one strong identity.https://www.linkedin.com/in/kishore-r-2a37aa5/Experienced Chief Technology Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Strong product engineering skills. Built and rolled out several large enterprise class products across various domains. 

Om du kunde få reda när du ska du, skulle du då vilja veta det? Lars Hermansson ställs inför ett svårt val. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna.Under arbetet med en essäbok om meditation förde jag under en tid regelbundna samtal med en lokal guru utanför Bangalore i södra Indien. Vi träffades i hans mottagningsrum, inte olikt hur man i väst kan sitta hos en terapeut eller analytiker några dagar i veckan. Helt opåkallat, som jag minns det, berättar han för mig om en meditativ praktik där man får kunskap om sin framtida död, inklusive, om inte dödsdatum, så i alla fall dödsår.Jag ska snart berätta hur man gör, så om du som lyssnar inte vill utsätta dig för frestelsen att få reda på saker om din framtida död, bör du stänga av radion nu.Gurun sade: ställ dig utomhus med ryggen mot solen och slut ögonen, andas, stå så i minst tjugofyra minuter, vänd dig om och öppna ögonen mot solen, blunda igen: i den efterbild som uppstår bakom dina ögonlock får du kunskap om när du ska dö.Som god västerlänning skolad i upplysningens tradition (upplysning betyder som bekant något annat i Indien, Nirvana snarare än fortsatt affektfri reflexion) tvivlade jag på hans ord. Men eftersom jag lärt mig att man ska tvivla också på sina tvivel, övervägde jag att pröva, för att, förhoppningsvis, kunna vederlägga metoden. Men om det inte gick, om jag faktiskt skulle få kunskap om min dödsdag genom att stå där i solen och andas. Jag vågade inte prova. Då. Och inte nu heller. Jag vill inte veta.Det vill inte passagerarna i flygplanet i Liane Moriartys bästsäljande roman Ena stunden här heller. En äldre dam reser sig plötsligt upp i planet, pekar på sina medpassagerare, en efter en, och säger sådant som ”Jag förväntar mig hjärtfel, 84 års ålder.” Eller: ”Arbetsplatsolycka. 43 års ålder.” Leo, som får den senare förutsägelsen, ska snart fylla 43, men fäster, enligt berättaren, lika lite avseende vid profetian som vid en lyckokaka eller ett horoskop. Men han känner ändå ”en liten stöt”, som ska växa sig starkare.Det är förstås skillnad på att få veta att man ska dö om trettio år eller tre månader. I ena änden tänker jag mig fullständig panik, i den andra fortsatt prokrastinering av dödsförberedelserna, ännu inte dags att börja dödsstäda och gå i kyrkan, fast ändå bra att var lite förberedd. Just dödstädning ser jag som ett sunt sätt att förbereda sig: du får kontakt med ditt förflutna genom att slänga sådant du samlat på dig, och lär dig samtidigt acceptera tanken att det till slut är den din egen avlagda kropp som ska brinna eller grävas ner. Frågan är förstås när man ska börja. När man redan fått sitt cancerbesked eller innan? Hur långt innan? Inte redan i fyrtioårsåldern väl? Jo, men kanske. Om man vet att man ska dö vid fyrtiotre.Jag tror inte min guru i Bangalore var särskilt upptagen av döden. Han berättade om metoden att nå kunskap om den nästan som ett partytrick. Om det är nåt man vill ha kunskap om som dedicerad hindu, så är hur många återfödslar man har kvar. Idealet är förstås noll. Jag träffade en gång i skräddare i Kolkata som hade räknat ut att han kunde bli av med över sexhundra återfödslar om han inte sov, utan mediterade hela nätterna. På dagarna var han ju tvungen att jobba. Han var rödögd och såg sliten ut. Hans vilja till optimering av sin andliga status påminner om en inverterad version av de där tech-miljardärernas försök att undvika åldrande genom att bland annat injicera sin barns blodplasma. Samma besatthet, olika mål. För tech-miljardärerna handlar det om att optimera sin kropp som biologisk förutsägbar massa, och i motsvarande grad, tycks det, minimera det vi kallar själ. Idealet tycks vara paradisets lallande dåre med låg vilopuls och aktieportfölj. Skräddaren i Kolkata skulle ha betraktat dem som barbarer.Han skulle möjligen haft lite större förståelse för en av 1400-talets bästsäljande böcker, Ars moriendi, alltså Döendets konst, en bilderbok tillika handbok i konsten att dö, ibland med text av den franske teologen Jean Gerson, ibland av anonyma munkar inspirerade av Gerson. Här är kroppen en bisak och själen allt. Eller mer specifikt: själens löfte till Gud att dö ”gott, glatt och frivilligt.” som det står på ett ställe. Ars Moriendi är egentligen inte en bok, snarare en på den tiden populär genre. De olika utgåvorna innehåller reproduktioner av kända träsnitt, ofta färglagda, föreställande olika män på dödsbädden, aldrig en kvinna, och runt bädden representanter för de bägge krafter som strider om hans själ: djävulens anhang å ena sidan, änglar och helgon å den andra. Relationen framställs som närmast kontraktuell, juristen var en yrkeskategori på modet. I kontraktet, som ofta finns avbildat, ibland lite hånfullt förevisat av en smådjävul, ingår förstås att man dör när Gud så vill, att försöka ta reda på tidpunkt vore högmod och en säker biljett till helvetet.I den norske poeten Georg Johannesens egenartade diktsamling från 1965 med samma titel, alltså Ars Moriendi, är döendets konst speglad i de sju dödssynderna, vilka förstås var centrala även i originalet från 1400-talet. Men här är det upp till läsaren om hen vill uppfatta synderna som framtida dödsorsaker att försöka undvika eller oundvikliga existentiella villkor. Eller både och. Rätt många dikter handlar på olika sätt om tid. Till exempel den där en son säger till sin far i den avslutande strofen: I din historia är jag en kort historiaI vår historia är jag ett knappt århundradeI min historia är jag all tid som finns Dikten återfinns i avdelningen ägnad kardinalsynden Girighet. Sista radens påstående – I min historia är jag all tid som finns – kan framstå som ett uttryck för girighet, eller kanske inskränkthet, men också faktiskt ett slags andlig strävan.Man brukar säga att när sekulariseringen stängde portarna till himmel och helvete blev historien ett slags halvgud, tydligast kanske i den tyske filosofen Hegels tankar om en så kallad världsande, som utvecklades från sämre till bättre i en dialektisk process. Den överblick över människans strävanden på jorden som tidigare tillerkändes prästerskapet blev nu historikerna av skråets bord. Hegel var långt ifrån ensam om att tänka att historien hade ett slags gudomlig mening.Något som slår många som passerat femtio, och alltså har levt ett halvt sekel, är att ett sekel inte låter som en så oerhört lång tidsrymd längre, man har ju själv levt ett halvt, och det gick på ett kick. Efter femtio, i mitt fall dröjde det till närmare sextio, är det som att man får en helt ny känslomässig relation till historien, eftersom man själv är ett stycke historia. Murens fall, de jugoslaviska krigen, oljekrisen 74: jag levde då. Andra världskriget: bara femton år innan jag föddes. Femton år. Det är ingenting. Så där kan man hålla på. Till slut känns punken och franska revolutionen nästan samtida. ”I min historia är jag all tid som finns.” säger sonen i Georg Johannesen dikt. Kanske är det det som är Nirvana, att känna sig hemma i alla tider. Jag är inte där än, men redan nu framstår den där hemkänslan i historien, som en helt okej kompensation för att vara lite stel i kroppen och inte kunna stå på händer längre. Men än så länge kan jag stå upp i tjugofyra minuter, med slutna ögon och ryggen mot solen.Lars Hermanssonkritiker och författare.

The city and nature do not need to be at odds with each other; and dreamers can be doers. Harini Nagendra joins Amit Varma in episode 452 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss her work in ecology, urban sustainability, detective fiction and the art of managing multitudes. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Harini Nagendra at LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Google Scholar, Amazon, Substack, Azim Premji University and her own website. 2. Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities -- Harini Nagendra & Seema Mundoli. 3. Shades of Blue: Connecting the Drops in India's Cities -- Harini Nagendra & Seema Mundoli. 4. Nature in the City -- Harini Nagendra. 5. The Bangalore Detectives Club -- Harini Nagendra. 6. Insights on linking forests, trees, and people from the air, on the ground, and in the laboratory -- Elinor Ostrom & Harini Nagendra. 7. Polycentric governance of multifunctional forested landscapes -- Harini Nagendra & Elinor Ostrom. 8. Tree diversity, distribution, history and change in urban parks: studies in Bangalore, India -- Harini Nagendra & Divya Gopal. 9. From Bangalore's Lakes to Detective Mysteries -- Harini Nagendra interviewed on the Expressions Podcast. 10. If a city forgets itself, what lies ahead? -- Harini Nagendra interviewed on From the Marginlands. 11. Thinking ecologically about our urban future -- A talk by Harini Nagendra. 12. Our Cities are Designed For Men, By Men -- Harini Nagendra & Amrita Sen. 13. Where Have All the Women Gone? -- Episode 1 of Watching the Wheels. 14. Safety First: Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women — Girija Borker. 15. The Life and Music of Shubha Mudgal — Episode 426 of The Seen and the Unseen. 16. The Incredible Curiosities of Mukulika Banerjee — Episode 276 of The Seen and the Unseen. 17. The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande — Episode 263 of The Seen and the Unseen. 18. Elinor Ostrom at Wikipedia, Google Scholar and Econlib. 19. The Overcoat -- Nikolai Gogol. 20. The Age of the Partial Outsider — Janan Ganesh. 21. Earwitness to Place — Bernie Krause interviewed by Erin Robinsong. 22. What Our Genes and Phones Tell Us -- Episode 117 of Everything is Everything (on alternative data). 23. Silent Spring -- Rachel Carson. 24. Tragedy of the Commons -- Garrett Hardin. 25. The Logic of Collective Action -- Mancur Olson. 26. India Awakes -- The documentary presented by Johan Norberg about, among other things, the Forest Rights Act. 27. Barun Mitra, Philosopher and Practitioner — Episode 264 of The Seen and the Unseen. 28. The Hidden Life of Trees — Peter Wohlleben. 29. Ideas of India -- Shruti Rajagopalan's podcast. 30. Robin Hobb on Amazon. 31. Folktales From India -- Selected and edited by AK Ramanujan. 32. A Flowering Tree --And Other Oral Tales from India -- AK Ramanujan. 33. Mookajjiya Kanasugalu -- K Shivaram Karanth. Amit Varma, Shruti Rajagopalan and Pranay Kotasthane have just started a new YouTube Show called Watching the Wheels. You must watch it. You must! You simply must!! It's mast!!! Amit Varma runs a course called Life Lessons, which aims to be a launchpad towards learning essential life skills all of you need. For more details, and to sign up, click here. And have you read Amit's newsletter? It's madly active right now! Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It's free! Also check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. Episode art: 'My City' by Simahina.

I had a blast chatting with Jithendra Vepa, CTO and Co-founder of Observe.AI, on The Ravit Show at MongoDB.local Bangalore. Jithendra has a PhD in speech technology and has spent years deep in speech recognition, NLP, and voice AI. He is not someone who got into AI because it became trendy. He has been building domain-specific AI systems long before the current wave, and it shows in how he thinks about the problem.Here is what we got into.-- We started with Observe.AI itself. What they are building, what problem they set out to solve, and why it matters for enterprises dealing with customer conversations at scale. Observe.AI is a contact center AI platform that helps businesses analyze customer interactions, coach agents in real time, and improve performance across support and sales. More than 300 organizations use it. They process millions of support touchpoints daily.-- That volume is where the database conversation gets real. I asked Jithendra what specifically made MongoDB the right fit for that kind of AI and data workload. When you are running models on millions of unstructured conversations every day, the database decision is not theoretical. His answer was practical and specific.We talked about what changes as enterprises move from AI pilots to real deployment. What MongoDB made easier for the Observe.AI team and for their customers that would have been much harder otherwise. This part is useful for anyone trying to figure out the gap between a working demo and a working product.-- We got into the wins and patterns that have stood out as Observe.AI has scaled. Customer outcomes, operational improvements, how teams are actually using the product once it is embedded. The patterns here tell you a lot about where enterprise AI is actually delivering value versus where it is still a slide deck.-- Jithendra gave the keynote at the event. I asked him what the biggest takeaway he wanted the room to leave with was. His answer came from someone who has built a 40 billion parameter contact center LLM and trains domain-specific models instead of relying on generic ones. That distinction matters more than most people realize.-- We closed on the signal versus hype question. His advice for founders and enterprise teams trying to decide where to place their bets right now was grounded in years of shipping, not months of experimenting.A few things stayed with me.Generic AI is not enough for enterprise. Domain-specific models built on domain-specific data is where the real moat lives.The companies winning in AI are not the ones with the most models. They are the ones with the most structured access to the right data at the right moment.Contact centers are one of the first places where AI is delivering measurable ROI at scale. What is happening there is a preview of what is coming for the rest of the enterprise.#data #ai #mongodb #mongodblocal #theravitshow

Sat down with Mukund Jha, Founder and CEO of Emergent, on The Ravit Show at MongoDB.local Bangalore. Mukund is not new to building. He was part of the team that built Dunzo, founded startups before that, and has deep technical roots in ML and NLP. What he is doing now with Emergent is one of the most interesting vibe-coding stories happening right now. The company recently crossed $100 million in ARR, raised close to $200 million from Creaegis, Amazon, Ranjan Pai's Claypond, and others, and the numbers underneath are just as real as the funding.Here is what we got into.We started from the beginning. What Emergent actually is, the problem that made him want to start the company, and what it looks like in practice today. You describe what you want in plain English, and autonomous AI agents build, test, and deploy the full-stack app for you. Frontend, backend, database, hosting. All handled.The scale is hard to ignore. 10 million apps built across 190 countries. Deployment rates doubled in three months. Two thirds of power users are now taking complex apps live. This is not a demo product. This is a company that hit $100 million ARR eight months after public launch.We got into the database decision. Emergent tested PostgreSQL early on and ran into schema migration loops as agents tried to adapt apps while users kept changing requirements in real time. Mukund walked me through why MongoDB Atlas became the default for every app on the platform, and why the flexible document model maps naturally to how agents actually work.We talked about what is happening as more of these apps move from prototype to production. What MongoDB made easier that would have been much harder otherwise. And the patterns emerging in what people are building, which tell you something about where software is headed.Mukund gave the keynote at the event. I asked him what the one thing he wanted the room to walk away with was. His answer was clear and specific, and worth hearing from a founder who has already shipped at this scale.We closed on India. What the Indian builder community means to him, and why.A few things stayed with me.- The vibe-coding wave is not a toy. When your platform has 10 million apps live and the company just crossed $100 million ARR, the conversation shifts from whether this works to how it scales.- Schema flexibility is not a nice-to-have for AI-native products. It is the reason the agents can actually function when users change their minds every five minutes.- Some of the most interesting software being built right now is being built by people who do not call themselves developers. That changes things.#data #ai #mongodb #mongodblocal #theravitshow

What does it actually take to build AI products at scale in India? That was the focus of my conversation with Shrey Batra, Head of Engineering, Platforms at HROne and Founder of Cosmocloud, during MongoDB.local Bangalore.We started with the latest MongoDB announcements, including voyage-context-4, Hybrid Search, Native Reranking, and the expansion of Search and Vector Search. But the discussion quickly moved beyond product launches.Shrey shared what it looks like to build and run production systems in India, the infrastructure challenges that most teams underestimate, and why getting the data layer right matters long before AI agents enter the picture.We also talked about:-- Building Cosmocloud and the lessons from running it in production-- Why Indian AI founders have a unique opportunity right now-- What being a MongoDB Champion really means-- Why developers should join MongoDB User Groups-- How HROne and Cosmocloud use MongoDB today-- Where AI agents are headed-- One technology trend that's overhyped and another that's not getting enough attentionIt was a practical conversation with someone who is building every day, not just talking about AI.#data #ai #mongodb #mongodblocal #theravitshow

Neuro Energy & Focus is available on Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy Instamart and Amazon. Or order at a discount on - https://neurogumindia.com/collections/all-productsGet your Neo1 here: https://neosapien.ai/shop?utm_source=dostcast&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=dostcast_podcast&utm_content=video_descriptionFull episode summary powered by Neosapien: https://dostcast.notion.site/Vishal-Bhargava-Episode-Notes-3ce36616963e80e3ab4cdaa776572c52?source=copy_link================================Subscribe to Dostcast Clips:https://www.youtube.com/@dostcastclips?sub_confirmation=1Listen to Dostcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/70vrbHeSvrcXyOeISTyBSy?si=be05dbdd564245d9Join the Dostcast Janta Party on WhatsApp for regular updates: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbAZwo5D8SDs5kf94N3TWant to suggest a guest?Fill this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ft_-1QDs7XpsSWnaPOeF21yUlhk9bzKvwHSyh4hHfBU/edit?usp=drivesdk=============================================Vishal Bhargava is a real estate educator and former journalist who left banking to say what property brokers won't. He breaks down what homes in Mumbai, Gurgaon and Bangalore are actually worth on YouTube and X, and called Gurgaon a "house of cards" a year before its brokers turned bearish. He treats real estate as due diligence, not broker slogans.In this episode, Vinamre and Vishal discuss:Bandra's scarcity premium and crumbling infrastructureHow DLF, Hiranandani and Prestige became your municipalityBuilding a city from scratch and India's missing town squaresKilling a city (Kolkata's unions) and why Thane could overtake MumbaiMarine Drive's rent-controlled flats and Parsi colonies as planning masterclassMagarpatta's farmer-owned city and "creator zones"Rigged real estate content and brokers turning bearish on Gurgaon after himFollow Vishal Bhargava on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vishalbhargava5400IG: https://www.instagram.com/vishal.bhargava.710/Timestamps:00:00:00 – Land Owners Control Everything00:03:20 – Scarcity Premium, Bandra Truth00:07:05 – Why Youth Avoid Property00:09:15 – Real Estate Rewards Sophistication00:10:27 – Replace Your Coffee With This00:11:34 – Cities Crumbling: Water, Sewage00:13:35 – Migration Alone Drives Prices00:14:27 – DLF, Hiranandani, Prestige Playbook00:18:01 – Making Indian Cities Livable00:20:28 – Adani, Ambani Reshaping Mumbai00:22:50 – Why Town Planners Fail00:26:02 – Mumbai's Vanishing Open Spaces00:28:09 – Roleplay: Design A City00:29:37 – The New City Formula00:31:53 – Sectors, Symbols, Town Squares00:35:43 – Pay To Sit In Parks00:40:32 – Define Your City's Identity00:43:59 – Killing A City: Kolkata00:45:55 – Thane Could Overtake Mumbai00:46:45 – Navi Mumbai Beats Gurgaon00:48:39 – Bangalore's Unbeatable Value00:51:11 – Real Estate Nationalism Trap00:53:04 – Marine Drive's ₹500 Rents00:55:37 – Parsi Colonies Planning Masterclass00:58:25 – India's Affordable Housing Failure01:02:48 – When Two Cities Merge01:05:21 – Magarpatta: City Built By Farmers01:08:47 – Communal, Senior, Farm Living01:15:23 – Special Creator Zones Idea01:23:50 – Can't Criticise Real Estate01:25:55 – Conclusion===========================Vinamre Kasanaa is a writer at heart, podcaster and entrepreneur by craft.He spends a significant part of his time reading and researching.With over 500 podcasts under his belt, he's interviewed everyone—from HNIs and industry leaders to everyday superheroes.Follow Vinamre:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinamre-kasanaa-b8524496/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinamrekasanaa/Twitter: https://twitter.com/VinamreKasanaaDostcast: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dostcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/dostcast=========================Contact Us:For business inquiries: dostcast@egiplay.com

Standing in the spring of 1792 with a halved kingdom and two sons held hostage in Madras, what choices remained for Tipu Sultan? In this episode, Ramjee Chandran explores the state of mind of the Mysorean monarch. Refusing to become a British vassal or bow to foreign oversight, Tipu paid his massive debt ahead of schedule and pivoted his state toward rapid industrialization, scientific innovation, and global naval ambitions. Key Details from the Script: The Immediate Aftermath (Spring 1792): Allied armies departed, leaving Srirangapatna intact but Tipu surrounded on all sides by enemies (British, Marathas, Nizam). Mysore retained the dry interior plateau, Bangalore, Mangalore, and an army in the field, but owed two-thirds of the 3.3 crore ransom with two young princes held hostage in Madras. Rejecting the Vassal State Trap: Tipu had three paths: accept permanent defeat, buy British protection at the cost of independence (subsidiary alliance/vassalage like Arcot or Awadh), or rebuild and fight. Examples like Nawab Muhammad Ali Khan Walajah of Arcot (trapped in debt to Company servants) and Awadh (forced to pay for British military garrisons) illustrated how "protection" eroded sovereignty. Tipu paid his dues rapidly to ensure no British Resident stayed in Srirangapatna, bringing his sons home by 1794. Understanding British Power: Tipu recognized that British military dominance was built on money, trade, and industrial manufacturing rather than sheer cavalry numbers. He realized co-existence as equals was impossible given three British wars against Mysore in 25 years. Pivoting to an Industrial State: With high-revenue commercial ports gone, Tipu turned inward to transform Mysore into a modern manufacturing and technology-driven economy. Implemented state trading operations, developed the Channapatna manufacturing belt, and established the sericulture/silk industry by sending emissaries to China for silkworms and expert cultivators. Scientific Curiosity & The Taramandalapete Experiment: An account by Englishman William Smith (1794) describes Tipu demonstrating a Mysorean condensing water engine at Taramandalapete in Bangalore that out-performed its European counterpart. Tipu experimented with a Leyden jar (a capacitor storing static electricity) and playfully shocked his ministers holding hands in a circle. The 1796 Naval Ordinance: Tipu established a Naval Board in 1796 to build a war fleet despite holding only a non-commercial coastline. The naval strategy relied on a anticipated alliance with the French Navy to challenge British maritime hegemony and reclaim trade corridors. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Prestige Group, that makes this podcast possible. Follow The History Of Bangalore on social, here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historyofbangalore/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfBangalore Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistoryOfBLR YouTube: https://youtube.com/@HistoryOfBangalore?si=mnH3BsYfI4BUU234 iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1323-the-history-of-bangalore-163453722/ Follow Ramjee Chandran on Instagram and Twitter: @ramjeechandran The theme music for the show was composed by German-Indian Koln based percussionist, Ramesh Shotham. Ramjee Chandran's photos by Asha Thadani. RESEARCH AND SOURCES: All our episodes are based on published research and archive records. To request information about our sources, write to hob@explocity.com. Let us know if you are a researcher (either institutional or independent) and also provide some information about why you need this information. Researchers will get priority. We only have time to engage serious, academic queries so please understand if we do not respond to casual requests.

Are you prepared for the dream God has placed within you? David Menezes points out four lessons on dreams and greatness from the life of Joseph.David is the lead pastor of Christ City Church in Bangalore, India. 

Last week at MongoDB.local Bangalore, I sat down with Basavadarshan G N, or Darshan as most people know him, Senior Academia Partnership Manager for APAC at MongoDB, on The Ravit Show. Darshan sits at the intersection of two things I care a lot about. Developer education, and India's push to actually build for the AI era instead of just consuming it. His work with MongoDB for Academia is quietly one of the more important programs happening in Indian tech right now.Here is what we got into.- We started with the basics. What MongoDB for Academia actually is, who it reaches, and how it fits into the broader Indian developer landscape. If you have not looked at this program closely yet, this part is worth the time- We talked about the 650,000 students the program has already reached since 2023. That is not a small number. Darshan walked me through what has been driving the momentum, and why this moment felt right to double down and go bigger- We went into the big announcement from the event. MongoDB committing to upskill two million Indian builders by 2030. New curriculum in Kannada, Hindi, and Tamil. 1,500 plus institutions. 5,000 educators. I asked him what the actual roadmap to that number looks like, because two million is a promise that has to be earned, and he was clear about how they plan to get there- We spent real time on the language piece. Building curriculum in Kannada, Hindi, and Tamil is not a marketing move. It is an access move. Darshan's view on how big a barrier language has been for students outside the metros, and what opens up for them when that barrier drops, was one of the more grounded moments of the conversation.- We talked about foundational data skills too. The buzz right now is that AI is going to make technical skills more accessible. That may be true. But data skills are still the layer everything sits on, and Darshan made the case for why they are more important now, not less.- We got into the AICTE Virtual Internship Programme. What a student actually experiences, what they walk away with, and what they should be able to build after finishing it.A few things stayed with me.MongoDB is behind half of India's top 100 companies and 50 plus unicorns. Students trained on this stack are being prepared for the exact environment they will walk into on day one.The India AI story cannot be told without the education story. You cannot build two million careers on English-only curriculum. This is the real inclusion play.Two million by 2030 is not a slide. It is a plan with partners, institutions, languages, and a delivery model behind it. Worth watching.Full interview live now!!!!#data #ai #mongodb #mongodblocal #theravitshow

In this episode, Monika looks at why insurance in India needs to move from a “push” model to a “pull” model. Life and health insurance are financial seat belts, yet the industry continues to rely heavily on commissions and aggressive selling, while insurance penetration remains low and complaints continue to rise. She examines whether the real problem is that Indians do not want insurance, or that insurance is being sold badly.She explains what needs to change for consumers to actively seek out insurance: simpler products, underwriting at the point of sale, greater accountability for sellers, useful disclosures and better ratings of the distribution chain. Monika also looks at how the mutual fund industry's “Mutual Fund Sahi Hai” campaign offers a useful model for insurance, arguing that the industry must first fix products and incentives before asking consumers to buy more. The goal is to build trust and make insurance something people understand and want, rather than something that is pushed on them.In the listener questions, SK from Bangalore asks whether he should sell a low-yielding rental property, repay the outstanding loan and redeploy the money into mutual funds and other investments. Anahita Mistry from Dubai asks how she should invest her savings in the UAE while continuing her existing Indian investments and managing currency risk. Ritwik Bhuyan asks Monika for her views on Bitcoin and whether cryptocurrency can really serve as a hedge against inflation and currency debasement.Chapters:(00:00 – 00:00) The Best Product May Not Be The Best Decision(00:00 – 00:00) Why Simple Beats Optimal In Personal Finance(00:00 – 00:00) Should I Sell My Investment Property?(00:00 – 00:00) How Should An NRI Invest Globally?(00:00 – 00:00) Is Bitcoin A Good Investment?If you have financial questions that you'd like answers for, please email us at ⁠mailme@monikahalan.com⁠ Monika's book on basic money management⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.monikahalan.com/lets-talk-money-english/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Monika's book on mutual funds⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.monikahalan.com/lets-talk-mutual-funds/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Monika's workbook on recording your financial life⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.monikahalan.com/lets-talk-legacy/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Calculators⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://investor.sebi.gov.in/calculators/index.html⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠You can find Monika on her social media @monikahalan. Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@MonikaHalan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@MonikaHalan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@MonikaHalan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@MonikaHalan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Production House: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.inoutcreatives.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Production Assistant:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Anshika Gogoi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

This week, Thomas Spiteri speaks with Dr Jahnavi Phalkey, historian of science and technology, filmmaker, and Founding Director of Science Gallery Bengaluru. Phalkey is the author of Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth Century India, and producer-director of the documentary film Cyclotron (2020) – a film about the world's oldest functional particle accelerator and the people who keep it running today. Her writing spans the history of science, technology, and the state in twentieth-century India.The conversation traces Phalkey's route into the history of science by way of political sociology, silent cinema, and a chance funded place at Georgia Tech under John Krige, and her eventual return to studying India after finding its absence conspicuous in accounts of twentieth-century science. She discusses how Atomic State pushes back against two dominant framings in the historiography of science in India: the "tools of empire" argument for the imperial period, and the scarcity of histories of Indian science after independence. Drawing on the early efforts to build particle accelerators in Kolkata and Bangalore, and the eventual rise of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and the Department of Atomic Energy, she describes how the demands of a single, resource-intensive field reshaped the relationship between Indian science and the Indian state — and how that "big science" model went on to marginalise both university research and smaller-scale inquiry.The discussion broadens into Phalkey's work reframing India and China as "conceptual sites" rather than deviant "cases" measured against a European norm, and closes with her current thinking on critique in the history and philosophy of science, informed in part by Bruno Latour, and on what it means for historians of science to help the public make meaning of research in an age of climate change, AI, and new gene technologies.In this episode, Phalkey:Describes her winding path into history of scienceExplains what drew her back to studying science in India specifically, after finding it missing from standard histories of twentieth-century scienceOutlines the two historiographical tendencies Atomic State argues against: the "tools of empire" framework and the neglect of post-independence scienceDiscusses the concept of India and China as "conceptual sites," against the limits of a Europe-benchmarked history of scienceTraces the early, fragile efforts to build particle accelerators in Kolkata and Bangalore, and the wartime origins of the Tata Institute of Fundamental ResearchReflects on how the everyday bureaucracy of running a national laboratory shaped the entangled relationship between Indian science and the postcolonial stateDiscusses her documentary Cyclotron and the material, practical difficulties of building and maintaining a particle accelerator in a resource-constrained settingConsiders how the "big science" model, centred on the Department of Atomic Energy, drew resources and people away from Indian universities and small-scale researchCalls for a connected rather than a difference-based history of science in the Global South, and reflects on reconstituting the meaning of critique in history and philosophy of scienceRelevant LinksAtomic State: Big Science in Twentieth Century India — Permanent BlackCyclotron (2020) — documentary directed and produced by Jahnavi PhalkeyScience Gallery BengaluruScience of GiantsDevi Prize – for promoting "public engagement with science" (2024)Infosys Prize, Humanities ( 2023)Mentioned scholarshipDavid Arnold, Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India (Cambridge History of India)Bruno Latour, "Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam?" (2004)Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump (1985)Note: This conversation was recorded in May, 2026Thanks for listening to The HPS Podcast. You can find more about us on our website, Bluesky, Instagram and Facebook feeds.  This podcast would not be possible without the support of School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne and the Hansen Little Public Humanities Grant scheme.Music by ComaStudio. Website HPS Podcast | hpsunimelb.org

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Nathan Maharaj spoke with Anita Rau Badami, author of novels including the Commonwealth Prize winning The Hero's Walk. Her new book is Asha in Her Garden. It's the story of a woman named Asha, who lives now in Montreal, but left Bangalore, India many years ago. We learn about her childhood, her children, her friends, and the life she's made for herself.  Anita Rau Badami on writing a character who can't stop wounding the people she loves

The Business of Laughs! Today I sit down with Ankur Nigam a Stand-up & Improv Comedian and Storytelling Coach dedicated to helping teams communicate with clarity, confidence, and a bit of humor.   Ankur shares his incredible journey of leaving a stable consulting career to chase the spotlight, the brutal reality of his first on-stage failure, and how a life-altering open-heart surgery at age 35 completely shifted his perspective on legacy and living in the moment.  He talks about adapting to the digital age, dealing with hecklers, and the unique comedy ecosystems of Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore, why Delhi audiences are ruthless, taking risks, AI in comedy and the AI slop button on Linkedin, future goals, creative discipline and some Confucius chat! Whether you are an entrepreneur looking to nail your next investor pitch, a corporate leader wanting to communicate with more confidence, or just someone who loves a great comeback story, this episode is packed with actionable insights. Ankur breaks down the exact frameworks he uses to captivate crowds and teaches you how to inject humor and structured storytelling into your professional life. Key Takeaways: The LCM (Lowest Common Multiple) Theory: How to connect deeply with any audience by tapping into shared human experiences. The PQRS Framework: A practical guide to navigating sensitive topics in comedy and public speaking. How becoming a new dad influences his jokes. How he taught himself comedy. The Business of Laughs Pixar's Storytelling Framework: A simple 7-step structure to organize your narratives for maximum impact without writing from scratch. The Power of Consistency: Why writing every single day—even from a hospital bed—is the ultimate secret to creative success. And much more Links Search for "Ankur Nigam Comedy" to find his latest courses, updates, and content on Google. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankurnigamstandupcomedy/   Hosted And Produced by Neil Patel https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/neilpatel2 Enjoyed this episode? Don't forget to subscribe and leave us a review! Share this episode with your friends. Listen and Subscribe to More Episodeshttps://www.indianstartupshow.com/ Music by Punch Deck.https://open.spotify.com/artist/7kdduxAVaFnbHJyNxl7FWV

What if the restaurant you love eating at is one of the 90% quietly fighting to survive?In this episode of The Mohua Show, Mohua sits down with Anirudh Kheny, restaurateur and founder of 1Q1 Kitchen and Bar, to unpack what it actually takes to build and survive in the restaurant business in India. From leaving a KPMG consulting career to betting everything on hospitality, Anirudh walks through the real, unglamorous mechanics behind a restaurant that works, the 9 to 12 month process of building a concept, the systems and checklists that separate the businesses that last from the ones that shut down within a year.The conversation goes deep into the moments that tested him most, the discretionary spend collapse during COVID that forced him to pivot 1Q1 into Suzy Q, the gas crisis and GST battles that disrupted operations overnight, and the role industry bodies like the NRAI play in fighting for restaurateurs. Anirudh also reflects on how Bangalore's nightlife has evolved, how social media and food for the gram culture have reshaped diner expectations, and whether Zomato and Swiggy are a lifeline or a threat to restaurant margins.If you've ever wondered how to start a restaurant in India and actually make it work, or what really separates a viral restaurant from a sustainable one, this conversation is the real playbook.About the GuestAnirudh Kheny is a restaurateur and the founder of 1Q1 Kitchen and Bar, a Japanese-Peruvian concept that became one of Bangalore's most talked-about dining destinations. A former KPMG consultant, he moved into hospitality driven by a passion for building experiences from the ground up, and later led the pivot of his business into Suzy Q through the pandemic. He remains a vocal voice on the operational and policy challenges facing India's F&B industry.-----------------------------------------------------------✅ Subscribe To Our Channel: www.youtube.com/c/TheMohuaShow Stay updated!

Episode subtitle: Intro:Jithu Gopal is a fintech product leader based in Bangalore, with 18+ years across engineering, consulting, and product. He is AVP Product at Scripbox and currently owns the charter of building the advisory experience that'll help a million families make confident choices about their portfolios.Before Scripbox he co-founded Nilenso, a boutique technology consulting firm, where he built a social network, rewrote the checkout experience for a ticketing platform, and took on a few other projects.He is curious about what creates habits and what motivates people.Shownotes:In this conversation, Jithu Gopal and Chitra Gurjar explore -Working as a software engineer and an early observer of the cost of quality in workActive community-based learning from Java and Ruby user groups in early careerBuilding a social network , learning the “ethics” of software engineering, recognizing and applying design patterns Work at Nilenso, an employee-owned cooperative-like company, applying functional programming principlesLiving the principles of “being agile”, using Test-Driven-Development to shape a problem and approach it from the outside, rather than just build, staying in the problem spaceThe versions of software engineering, 1.0 and 2.0Indispensable systems thinkingShifts in Product Management, building strong foundations of working with engineering using high agency and trust AI Mavens, followers, the power and tools to leverage knowledge and do way moreExamining AI in layers for any organization or system How we organize ourselves differently in the age of machinesKeeping the “Why” in focus with organization memory and problem memoryWhat “post AI” looks like - awakening consciousness and invoking agency, AI cycles bringing more value addSocial bonding as a key to young people's future of work and lifeBooks that have had a powerful influence on him.For aspiring software engineers to keep building and asking about what “good” looks like:Few conversations flow back and forth in time, not unlike when you meet friends from childhood. In this episode of the Software People Stories podcast, I found myself having tremendous deja-vu moments as Jithu Gopal shared his flow of thoughts across various aspects of software engineering through his 18 plus years of work, how his interests and ways of connecting what he reads, experiences and works with have significance and relevance in the AI whorl that seems to be sweeping us with it and what habits and disciplines can hold us through as we begin to figure out new ways of working, learning and what the future might hold for our children and aspiring engineers. Listen on.

Scotland and Netherlands say the ICC's plans to shrink the men's 2027 Cricket World Cup to 12 teams will make it harder for associate nations to qualify. Alison Mitchell, Charu Sharma and Brett Sprigg discuss the impact this will have on the sport. Three Test series get underway this week with Bangladesh in Australia, India travel to Sri Lanka and England host Pakistan. Brett says the Tigers deserve their chance to play against Australia and Charu believes spin will play a big role in the sub-continent if the monsoon rains stay away. Meanwhile, Alison can't pick a clear favourite in the England v Pakistan series. And move over Cristiano Ronaldo, Madeira and Portugal has a new sporting icon. We hear from Moises Henriques on why he swapped the Aussie gold and green for Portugal's red and green as he hopes to get them qualified for the next T20 World Cup.Photo: BANGALORE, INDIA - NOVEMBER 12: Roelof van der Merwe of Netherlands reacts during the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup India 2023 between India and Netherlands at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on November 12, 2023 in Bangalore, India. (Photo by Matt Roberts-ICC/ICC via Getty Images)HOBART, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 14: Matt Machan of Scotland looks dejected after being dismissed by Pat Cummins of Australia during the 2015 Cricket World Cup match between Australia and Scotland at Bellerive Oval on March 14, 2015 in Hobart, Australia. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)

Dans ce deuxième épisode de notre série « vivre en ville », direction Bangalore, en Inde. Mégalopole de 14 millions d'habitants, Bangalore est souvent présentée comme la Sillicon Valley indienne.   Dans les années 1990, la ville fonde sa stratégie de développement sur les technologies de l'information. Grâce à ses coûts de main-d'œuvre plus faibles, elle attire des entreprises informatiques comme Dell ou IBM. Très vite suivront Apple, Microsoft, Intel... des géants de la tech qui génèrent plus de 22 milliards de dollars de revenus annuels.   Mais la transformation de la ville n'est pas que technologique, elle est aussi urbaine. À l'origine, simple garnison militaire anglaise au XIXème siècle, connue pour ses parcs et ses lacs, Bangalore a grandi trop vite. En 20 ans, elle a vu sa population tripler mais les infrastructures de la ville peinent à suivre, comme en témoigne son périphérique extérieur, Outer Ring Road, avec ses nids de poule et son trafic au ralenti. Bangalore subit aussi une crise de l'eau. Pour répondre à la demande, elle épuise ses nappes phréatiques.   Profondément ancrée dans sa culture sud-indienne, tournée vers l'intelligence artificielle, inégalitaire aussi, à l'image de l'Inde, Bangalore est une ville hybride.   Avec :   Côme Bastin, journaliste, correspondante de RFI à Bangalore en Inde.   En fin d'émission, Ville contre ville, la chronique qui explore les rivalités urbaines. Aujourd'hui Juliette Brault explore l'Afrique du Sud pour un match entre Johannesburg, sa cité « d'or » et Le Cap, sa cité « mère ».   Programmation musicale : ► Tagaru - Shiva Rajkumar, Dhananjay, Manvitha | Charanraj ► Kantara Varaha Roopam - Rishab Shetty Ajanees.

Dans ce deuxième épisode de notre série « vivre en ville », direction Bangalore, en Inde. Mégalopole de 14 millions d'habitants, Bangalore est souvent présentée comme la Sillicon Valley indienne.   Dans les années 1990, la ville fonde sa stratégie de développement sur les technologies de l'information. Grâce à ses coûts de main-d'œuvre plus faibles, elle attire des entreprises informatiques comme Dell ou IBM. Très vite suivront Apple, Microsoft, Intel... des géants de la tech qui génèrent plus de 22 milliards de dollars de revenus annuels.   Mais la transformation de la ville n'est pas que technologique, elle est aussi urbaine. À l'origine, simple garnison militaire anglaise au XIXème siècle, connue pour ses parcs et ses lacs, Bangalore a grandi trop vite. En 20 ans, elle a vu sa population tripler mais les infrastructures de la ville peinent à suivre, comme en témoigne son périphérique extérieur, Outer Ring Road, avec ses nids de poule et son trafic au ralenti. Bangalore subit aussi une crise de l'eau. Pour répondre à la demande, elle épuise ses nappes phréatiques.   Profondément ancrée dans sa culture sud-indienne, tournée vers l'intelligence artificielle, inégalitaire aussi, à l'image de l'Inde, Bangalore est une ville hybride.   Avec :   Côme Bastin, journaliste, correspondante de RFI à Bangalore en Inde.   En fin d'émission, Ville contre ville, la chronique qui explore les rivalités urbaines. Aujourd'hui Juliette Brault explore l'Afrique du Sud pour un match entre Johannesburg, sa cité « d'or » et Le Cap, sa cité « mère ».   Programmation musicale : ► Tagaru - Shiva Rajkumar, Dhananjay, Manvitha | Charanraj ► Kantara Varaha Roopam - Rishab Shetty Ajanees.

Cette semaine, nous vous proposons une nouvelle saison de notre série spéciale « Vivre en ville ». 8 milliards de voisins vous emmène dans ses valises à la découverte de Kiev, Bangalore, Buenos Aires, Kobe et Detroit. Urbanisme, société, économie, transports, loisirs : les correspondants de RFI et nos invités présentent la vie quotidienne de nos voisins. Dans ce premier épisode de notre série « Vivre en ville », direction Kiev, en Ukraine. Depuis le 24 février 2022 et l'invasion russe, le sort de la capitale ukrainienne est suspendu à l'évolution de la guerre. Bombardements, pertes humaines, destructions font désormais partie du quotidien. Les habitants vivent au rythme des sirènes d'alerte aérienne, des couvre-feux imposés, des coupures d'électricité et de chauffage. Ainsi, en janvier 2026, près de la moitié des immeubles d'habitations de la ville ont été privés de chauffage à cause d'attaques russes sur les infrastructures, le maire Vitali Klitschko invitant ceux qui le pouvaient à quitter la ville pendant cette période de haute tension. Mais Kiev n'est pas que la guerre. Avant l'invasion russe, la ville était l'un des épicentres de la techno européenne. Aujourd'hui, la fête a repris en s'adaptant à cette nouvelle réalité. En créant des communautés, des festivals, des expositions, la jeunesse de Kiev tente de s'éloigner comme elle peut de la guerre. La démocratie continue aussi de vivre : suite à la décision du président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky de remanier son gouvernement début juillet, les manifestations se multiplient dans la capitale du pays. Avec : • Emmanuelle Chaze, journaliste, correspondante de RFI à Kiev en Ukraine • Justine Perry, DJ et productrice de musique française basée à Berlin. Elle mixait à Kiev en mars 2026.   En fin d'émission, Ville contre ville, la chronique qui explore les rivalités urbaines avec Juliette Brault.  Aujourd'hui, direction les États-Unis et le Texas pour un match entre Austin et Dallas : La tech contre le pétrole.   Programmation musicale :  ► Cherkashchyna - Latexfauna ► Liubila - Boombox ► Ocobistyi Rai - Adam.  

On a Tuesday evening in early July, Anushka Ahuja, a dentist in Gurgaon, India, opens the door for the house help she booked ten minutes ago on Pronto, an app that provides instant professional cleaning services like sweeping, mopping and laundry across 11 cities in India. A woman clad in a crisp uniform greets her with a polite smile, then asks: Can she strap a small camera onto her head to record her work?  Ahuja isn't surprised to see the camera. In fact, she paid an extra nine rupees (about nine cents) so her cleaner would record everything from her elbows to her fingertips. Now she'll receive a video recording a few hours later, giving her peace of mind that her house was cleaned properly and nothing was stolen or broken in her absence.  Despite disclosures in the consent form she signed, Ahuja initially didn't realize that there's another purpose to the camera footage: AI training data. After a cleaning session, the video is stripped of personally identifiable information like personal documents and people's faces and then sold to American AI companies.  Bangalore-based Pronto launched the video recording service, called Pronto Verified, in May, stirring widespread backlash in India and government scrutiny over privacy concerns. Customers consent to the recording and workers are paid double for Pronto Verified bookings, CEO Anjali Sardana says.  “Trillions of dollars are going into AI capex every year. All the money in the world is getting invested in AI, but your blue-collar worker in India is not capturing any of that,” Sardana, 24, tells Forbes. “And there is an opportunity to actually redistribute that capital.” By Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes Staff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cette semaine, nous vous proposons une nouvelle saison de notre série spéciale « Vivre en ville ». 8 milliards de voisins vous emmène dans ses valises à la découverte de Kiev, Bangalore, Buenos Aires, Kobe et Detroit. Urbanisme, société, économie, transports, loisirs : les correspondants de RFI et nos invités présentent la vie quotidienne de nos voisins. Dans ce premier épisode de notre série « Vivre en ville », direction Kiev, en Ukraine. Depuis le 24 février 2022 et l'invasion russe, le sort de la capitale ukrainienne est suspendu à l'évolution de la guerre. Bombardements, pertes humaines, destructions font désormais partie du quotidien. Les habitants vivent au rythme des sirènes d'alerte aérienne, des couvre-feux imposés, des coupures d'électricité et de chauffage. Ainsi, en janvier 2026, près de la moitié des immeubles d'habitations de la ville ont été privés de chauffage à cause d'attaques russes sur les infrastructures, le maire Vitali Klitschko invitant ceux qui le pouvaient à quitter la ville pendant cette période de haute tension. Mais Kiev n'est pas que la guerre. Avant l'invasion russe, la ville était l'un des épicentres de la techno européenne. Aujourd'hui, la fête a repris en s'adaptant à cette nouvelle réalité. En créant des communautés, des festivals, des expositions, la jeunesse de Kiev tente de s'éloigner comme elle peut de la guerre. La démocratie continue aussi de vivre : suite à la décision du président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky de remanier son gouvernement début juillet, les manifestations se multiplient dans la capitale du pays. Avec : • Emmanuelle Chaze, journaliste, correspondante de RFI à Kiev en Ukraine • Justine Perry, DJ et productrice de musique française basée à Berlin. Elle mixait à Kiev en mars 2026.   En fin d'émission, Ville contre ville, la chronique qui explore les rivalités urbaines avec Juliette Brault.  Aujourd'hui, direction les États-Unis et le Texas pour un match entre Austin et Dallas : La tech contre le pétrole.   Programmation musicale :  ► Cherkashchyna - Latexfauna ► Liubila - Boombox ► Ocobistyi Rai - Adam.  

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‘In the process of attachment, there is pain. To avoid that pain, we try to cultivate detachment. And so we keep up this circle, which is always painful.' This episode on Detachment has three sections. The first extract (2:42) is from Krishnamurti's fifth talk in Saanen 1982, and is titled: Detachment Is Just an Idea. The second extract (21:35) is from the first talk in Bangalore 1971, and is titled: The Pursuit of Detachment. The final extract in this episode (43:21) is from the first talk in Ojai 1949, and is titled: Where There Is Love, There Is No Question of Attachment or Detachment. The Krishnamurti Podcast features carefully selected extracts from Krishnamurti's recorded talks. Each episode highlights his different approaches to universal and timeless subjects that affect our everyday lives, the state of the world and the future of humanity. This episode's theme is Detachment. Upcoming themes are Harmony, plus many more in Season 8. This is a podcast from Krishnamurti Foundation Trust, based at Brockwood Park in the UK, which is also home to The Krishnamurti Centre. The Centre offers a variety of group retreats, including for young adults. There is also a volunteer programme. The atmosphere at the Centre is one of openness and friendliness, with a sense of freedom to inquire with others and alone. Please visit krishnamurticentre.org.uk for more information. You can also find our regular Krishnamurti quotes and videos on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook at Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a review or rating on your podcast app.

1 · SummaryPart 2 of 2. Part 1 laid out the bet: a fund built only for Indian consumer brands, back when the idea sounded absurd, and the anti-power-law machine Kanwal Singh built to make it work. This half is the person. The near-decade at Hindustan Lever that gave him his love of consumer, the Intel years, and the Paper Boat conviction that taught him to back the founder over the idea. Then the man himself: parents who came to India as refugees from Pakistan, a father who kept collecting degrees while feeding the family, the coach he started seeing in his sixties and what separates coaching from therapy, and how he reads a founder by meeting their family. He turned down twice the money he could have raised. He rates his life a 10.2 · Chapters0:00 Part 2 intro 1:22 The Hindustan Lever decade that started it all 2:25 Intel Inside, and bringing the inside out 4:22 The Paper Boat conviction: backing the founder 6:38 What he adds as Fireside's "CEO," and value of good 17:53 Capping the fund: turning down 2x the money 20:24 Hiring: read the person, meet the family 27:01 Refugees, and a father who never stopped studying 30:39 Three words, and a 100%-locked calendar 33:30 Motivating through the down days 34:51 The coach, and coaching vs therapy 43:40 How he learns, and consumer vs tech founders 51:27 Rating his life a 10, and success redefined 52:47 Cotswolds, golf, and the empty nest refilled3 · Pull-quotes[17:56] "I could have raised 2x of this. Genuinely, we could have raised 2x of this."[23:55] "You cannot build to sell. You build for sustenance, you build for good."[27:04] "Both my parents were refugees from Pakistan."[51:34] "A 10." (asked how happy he is with his life)4 · Frameworks & mental modelsFounder assessment through the family: read a founder by their story and support system, often over a meal with their spouse, on the belief that no one survives a decade-long build without one.Build for sustenance, not to sell: the best businesses are bought, not sold; you build for the long run and treat a sale as a business decision along the way.Value of good ("do good to do well"): founder first, planet first, one Fireside, with goodness as the foundation of doing well.Coaching vs therapy: therapy addresses a medical issue; coaching is vulnerability and honesty in a business context, and only works once you have the self-awareness to accept there's a problem.This episode was produced by Rohin Dharmakumar and mixed and mastered by Rajiv CN.Write to us at fp@the-ken.com with your feedback, suggestions, and guests you would want to see on First Principles.If you enjoyed this episode, please help us spread the word by sharing and gifting it to your friends and family.

What happens when an organization gets so focused on results that it forgets why it exists? Andrew Stotz and Balaji Reddie dig into the first of Deming's 14 Points, constancy of purpose, using stories like Harvard's answer to Deming's challenge to define a business and Indian manufacturers who pivoted to build PPE during the pandemic. This conversation may change how you think about success, profit, and the real aim of a business. TRANSCRIPT 0:00:02.4 Andrew Stotz: My name is Andrew Stotz and I'll be your host as we dive deeper into the teachings of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Today I'm continuing my discussion with Balaji Reddie, an educator and trainer in the teachings of Dr. Deming and quality management generally. I'm really excited for today's topic, which is the 14 Points. Take it away, Balaji.   0:00:27.5 Balaji Reddie: Thank you. Thank you, Andrew. So the last time we spoke, we had discussed all the four sciences that Dr. Deming put together. In a nutshell, we said his words, appreciation for a system. That means appreciating that there are no events, there are eventualities, and there is a huge myriad or a huge system of myriad components that create these outcomes. So we need to understand that. We need to appreciate the fact that these are all interconnected, interdependent, these components. Right. And we saw some other attributes that when they interact with each other, the cause and effect are not closely related in time or space. Seemingly disconnected events then turn out to be connected. There exist synergistic relationships. So you can't just straightaway say, "I know." You can say, "From what I understand or what knowledge I have right now about the system, I think."   0:01:34.7 Balaji Reddie: And you always dig deeper. Right. And that gave us the next thing, that the performance of any system, the outcomes are subject to Variation. You will never get the same outcome every single time. It keeps on fluctuating. And then we realize there is a difference between normal and abnormal fluctuations. The typical term that Walter Shewhart said was Variation, and Deming took that forward. He said, "Understand Variation." I would say learn how to think statistically. Right? And statistical thinking is about knowing when to act and when to leave a process alone. Okay. So we said understand the Variation, and you should know when to... There's that normal fluctuation, you would need to work on it continually. But abnormal fluctuation is a little easier to understand, isolate, and take immediate action. So the low-hanging fruit comes from the abnormal fluctuation, what he called as special causes or assignable causes, as Walter Shewhart said.   0:02:41.0 Balaji Reddie: And once you work on them, then your long-term work on the process continues. That never stops because it helps you understand the process much, much better. Right? But there you are faced with the dilemma sometimes. There's so many complications there, and you just need to understand them if you want to know completely what happens in a system. And that's why he said the complete knowledge is never... Is unknown and unknowable. But he said there's a way of doing that, and that's where the Theory of Knowledge came in. We needed to understand that we build upon what we have right now. We start asking questions, and you begin with theories. "I think, I believe." And once you start doing that, you start unraveling the mysteries of the system under study. And last bit here is all this, of course, he was speaking about man-made systems, organizational systems, which all this work is being done by people.   0:03:38.0 Balaji Reddie: And he said that's where the best part comes in. You can never do things all by yourself. You need to cooperate with others. Each one comes with their own theories, and each one has their own system of learning, their own way of thinking. So we need to understand that, whether you are employees inside a company, whether you are people outside the company contributing in the sense of suppliers, or people who are recipients of this in terms of consumers. So everyone, you need to understand people, that they're a part of this entire system. And that's where Psychology comes in. Of course, I used the word empathy. I said understanding them and on. And on a lighter note, I ended by saying that if you really want to sharpen your empathetic skills, you need to either understand your pet or a baby, because these are people who can't express what they want and you just have to have your own theories and then understand them better.   0:04:34.9 Balaji Reddie: But that's what we saw last time. Now we're gonna get to, funnily, what he espoused as his philosophy [chuckle] when he first presented it in the United States in a structured form, right? These were the 14 Points. Now, first of all, the 14 Points are not his philosophy, but they're 14 consequences of his philosophy. You can never really set out to say, "I'm gonna do these 14 Points." But when you start, how do I say, asking the right questions and want to gain Profound Knowledge of what's happening and start looking at things differently and start asking questions, the right kind of questions, just like I said, "What is the purpose of the system? What are the components? How are they connected? How do they work? What is happening right now? Does this normally happen? Is this abnormal?" And then, of course, what are better ways of explaining or expressing what I'm seeing right now?   0:05:43.9 Balaji Reddie: And then finally, taking help from everybody else and bringing their thought processes. When you start asking these questions and start structuring and understanding the organization much better, you eventually see the 14 Points. So they are consequences of his philosophy. They are not his philosophy. You end up with the 14 Points, you don't start with them. Right? Having said that, does that mean we just go through this and be done with it? I said, "No." Now let's understand how he structured these and why he structured it the way he did. Now, they are in no order of preference. In fact, I remember speaking to Bill Bellows about this, and he said when he asked Deming, "Which of the 14 Points are the most important ones? Where do I start?" and he said, "All of them." He said, "Where do I start?" "Start anywhere," he said. You could start anywhere, eventually they're all connected.   0:06:40.7 Balaji Reddie: So the 14 Points are a system themselves. They are all connected to each other. You could start anywhere and you end up with the 14 Points in any case. But since we have to follow a kind of the sequence in which he wrote them, which he presented them, I'm following that sequence to begin with. Now, I'm gonna start with the 1986 edition of the 14 Points, which are there in his book, Out of the Crisis. But in 1990, he updated the wordings of the 14 Points. So I shall pull up my document right here so that I can read out the 1990 edition. Just give me a minute.   0:07:36.0 Andrew Stotz: Just for the audience, go out there and get yours in your hand. Get ready. I'm just going through and getting mine ready.   0:07:42.8 Balaji Reddie: Yes, so. Okay, so here it goes. Let's get to the 14 Points. So here we are. Right. And in what I normally say here, that he often said too, that when you apply Profound Knowledge, the 14 Points help you apply this in the most structured manner. So here we go. So the first is the 1986 edition, point number one, where he says, "Create constancy of purpose toward improvement of product and service with the aim to become competitive and to stay in business and to provide jobs." I think this is an amazing set of words which he's brought here, especially saying to provide jobs, where he said that quality is a ways and means of really contributing to society and not sucking the worst 10%, but adding something more to it to provide more jobs. Now in the 1990 edition, right, now the commentary for this, if you read Out of the Crisis, I've taken an excerpt from there, "Management must demonstrate unshakable commitment to quality, productivity and continual improvement.   0:09:09.8 Balaji Reddie: Your customers, your suppliers, your employees need your statement of constancy of purpose, your intention to stay in business by providing product and service that will help man to live better and which will have a market." So this was his definition of quality. A product or a service possesses quality if it helps someone live better in every way and enjoys a large and sustainable market. So for him, quality had two aspects. One, it must make someone's life better. Whatever you do, whether it's a product or a service, service being an activity. Right. So it should add value to the customer's life. It should make that person's life better. But it should be at a price the customer is willing to pay. Right? So that's the way he looked at it.   0:09:55.2 Balaji Reddie: Now, he changed this in 1990 to this, "Create and publish to all concerned a statement of the aims and purposes of the company or other organization. Management must demonstrate constantly their commitment to this statement." Now he says to publish the statement. And he says not just purpose, but aim. So aim, I think this came from his definition of a system, where he says that a system must have an aim. Without an aim, there is no system. So the aim provides a direction and purpose provides the reason why the system exists. So they go hand in hand. You can't separate these two. But now the commentary for this is, "A system must create something of value, in other words, results. The intended results, along with consideration of recipients and of cost, mold the aim of the system. It is thus management's task to determine those aims, to manage the whole organization towards accomplishment of those aims.   0:11:07.1 Balaji Reddie: It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone. The aim precedes the organizational system and those that work in it." So...   0:11:23.4 Andrew Stotz: What was that part? "It's important that it's not" what?   0:11:27.2 Balaji Reddie: Yeah, that it's not an activity or a product. It should be something broader than that. It's about adding value to someone's life. Now, you can't go into the other extreme and come up with a motherhood statement like "I want to boil the ocean" or "I want to solve the world's poverty problems," alright? But it must translate into something doable, alright? And it should tell where the organization is heading. But the key word here is "publish it," right? And he says, "and other organization," that means "of the company or other organization." So I believe he started envisioning that in the future it's not gonna be one company, but a family of companies working together, which very simply today we use the term "supply chain" to express that. And I think, I think I mentioned this before in one of my earlier chats that I don't like that term because. It falls woefully short to explain what actually is happening there.   0:12:29.2 Balaji Reddie: I like to use the word provider network. Right? It's a network. It's not just a chain. Chain is more linear. Network is more lateral, all over the place. And these are not just suppliers. These are providers. So, right, he talked about a supply chain in those days. And he also says publishing, that means it should exist in some hard form, right, so that people see it, read it. Okay. Now this kind of, I thought was quite amazing because if you know about, for those who are into ISO 9000, the standard, of course, the latest one which is coming out this year, I'm not well-versed with what they've written or what they've changed in it, but up until 2015, the ISO insisted that companies have a documented statement of their policies, right, a quality policy and objectives. It should be written down. So to say that they could have got this idea from here is not fair, but I guess that you can see the parallel in what he was saying.   0:13:44.8 Balaji Reddie: So publishing. Now, in 2007, this is what I wrote after talking to many, like I said, who attended or helped Dr. Deming in his seminars till the day he passed on, right? And they said, of course, because I was quite intrigued, initially his four-day seminar had a perfect structure and everyone knows who attended that on the second day after lunch you had the red beads experiment. So that never changed even after Profound Knowledge came in. So anyway, coming back to what I was just saying, so initially he spoke a lot about the 14 Points, but after he professed Profound Knowledge, the stress on the 14 Points came down, but it did not disappear altogether. And this I heard from many of those and I asked what he would speak of. So based on that, I just came up with these words. The words are all Dr. Deming's, I've just edited and put it together.   0:14:50.1 Balaji Reddie: So create a statement of the aim and purpose of the organizational system. It must bring out the long-term vision of the organization, preferably stating how it intends to stay in business by making life better for all those impacted in any way. So there could be a direct or an indirect impact. Stakeholders is the term we use right now, right? So purpose describes why you exist. And if you go deeper to find out why a company exists, it has to last beyond the founding father's vision, right? So the statement of purpose must be very clear. Like Walt Disney, we spoke about this, he said, "I'll do anything to make a child smile." That was his purpose, and that's how everything stemmed from that, right? So if you start looking deep, why are we here? Why do we exist?   0:15:46.3 Balaji Reddie: Then once the company starts growing, you don't forget why you set up the company in the first place. You go back to your roots and the statement of purpose is like a North Star. It reminds you of where you're supposed to be, where you started, what you had in mind, right? So it's not that companies don't have it, but we need to revisit it from time to time. And sometimes you need to, it may undergo a change because things don't remain the same, right? Systems keep changing and if everything keeps changing, then you have to revisit the purpose. You don't do it every day though, because it's something that you spoke about and you say that it took me time to come out with this statement of purpose. So I was trying to understand even Apple's statement of purpose where Steve Jobs said making technology accessible, making technology simple, making technology productive is what we are supposed to do here as a company. Right.   0:16:46.4 Balaji Reddie: So he always believed in simplicity. He believed in seeing that people are more productive with the work, the software, or the products that they offer. Right. And it should be something that at times goes beyond just what the customer expects so that that one part is always there. So that's point number one, the statement of purpose.   0:17:11.3 Andrew Stotz: Can I ask a couple questions about that?   0:17:14.2 Balaji Reddie: Yeah, sure, sure, sure.   0:17:15.3 Andrew Stotz: Before we go on, I'm assuming you're gonna go on to number two.   0:17:18.4 Balaji Reddie: Yes.   0:17:20.5 Andrew Stotz: So a couple of things. First thing is about aim. You know that statement, "the purpose of a system is what it does," meaning that ultimately every system, there's an aim. It just may not be the aim that you think it is or that you want it to be. So part of this idea is recognizing that we have to state the aim or else people just, they're gonna just do things the way they've done them. Am I correct in saying that?   0:17:51.2 Balaji Reddie: Yeah. And it brings clarity to whatever you are doing. You start realizing, okay, I thought that we were actually doing this when we should be doing something else. For example, in Out of the Crisis, he gives that example of that trucking company. And he said when that gentleman took Dr. Deming's four-day seminar and then went back to his company and asked his employees, "What business do you think we are in?" Because that's what he used to ask, "What business are you in?" He used to ask that question, right, to the audience. "Any CEOs here? What business are you in? What business do you need to be in? What are you gonna be doing five years from now, ten years from now?" Right. So these are questions which I think you need to look at. If you want a list of questions, then in Out of the Crisis, there is a chapter on just the questions. Right.   0:18:57.0 Balaji Reddie: And that's, if I believe, let me just check. It comes after chapter seven. Is that where it comes in? No, I think... Yeah. Diseases and Obstacles. Okay. It's chapter five, "Questions to Help Managers." So you can find a host of questions there. These are rhetorical questions, most of them, telling you to focus on the job you have on hand. Right. And helps you define your purpose and your aim, both. And it gives clarity. Like I said, sometimes it gives clarity to yourself. What exactly am I doing here? All right. You always begin by saying that. I mean, if you ask people who set up businesses, they'll start by saying, "I did this because I was good at it," and the money came, but "I was good at doing this." And why did you do that? What do you mean by good? "Well, when I did this, I saw people feel happy." Right. And that's why I wanted to do this.   0:20:06.8 Balaji Reddie: And I thought this is the best way for me to earn my money, but the purpose was mainly to make them happy. Right. And then the money came. So that should be the focus. I think I mentioned this once when 1983 was when Harvard Business School was celebrating 75 years of existence. And everyone knew at that time, because Deming had just been rediscovered in America, and he was hot property. But everyone knew his ideas about Harvard. [chuckle] He was scathing. He said they prepared managers for the past and not for the future, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He was very angry. But when they sent him a letter saying that we are making a souvenir of sorts, so can you pen a few words for us? So he was quite lavish in his comments and in his praise. He said, "It's not easy to run a business school and y'all have done it for 75 years. So all credit to you." But he said, "I have just one question for you.   0:21:18.7 Balaji Reddie: In these last two, three years that I have come back into American industry, I see with pain that many people do not understand the purpose of their business. And I see that Harvard has not defined the purpose of a business. Could you define the purpose of a business?" And Harvard came out with an answer which went, "The purpose of a business is to create value at a profit." So the sequence of the words is so beautiful. Create value at a profit. Right? And for a business, you need both. If you're only creating value and no profits, that's not a business. That's social service. And if you only want profits but no value, then that's not a business either. Then you might as well go loot a bank, get 100% profit and no value. And I remember Myron Tribus writing about this at the Kobe shipyard in Japan, right? And this was before Deming landed there, apparently, because there was someone sitting at Kobe who later on had taken Deming's lectures on statistical quality.   0:22:39.4 Balaji Reddie: And then of course, the leadership thing, right, where Deming spoke about the flow diagram. And he said that, he said the light bulb went on because they had a statement there at the Kobe shipyard, "We shall make good ships. At a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but we shall make good ships." And later on, apparently some American gentlemen came to take over and they changed that and they said, "No, no, no, remove all that profit and loss and just say, 'We shall make good ships.' That's it." So there were times when things started going wrong, right? They went in the wrong direction because they were not looking at it in the clear manner. When they had problems, they said, "No, just make the ship. Just ship it out. It's good." And things went wrong. So they had to reassess and come back. So that was the kind of the idea that we're looking at, the aim and the purpose, and that could change. Right?   0:23:45.6 Andrew Stotz: And I want to add for the listeners out there, in the world of finance, profit is, we also call it cash flow. The cash flow is the numerator in the calculation of value. The denominator is risk. So when we think about what's the objective of a person running a business, it's to maximize value, which many people think means maximize profit, which it does not. It means maximize risk-adjusted profit. So, for instance, if you were breaking the law and doing bad things or mistreating your people ultimately you're raising the risk. Though your cash flow or your profit may be strong, you're raising the risk of that profit or cash flow. And so that's a distinction I like to help people understand, because there are people that just think that the objective of business is maximize profit. No, it's to maximize value. And mathematically we can prove that in the world of finance.   0:24:57.2 Balaji Reddie: Yeah. So I'd just like to paraphrase, when I said that what Harvard said is purpose of a business is to create value at a profit, I'd just like to add something more to that. Create value at a profit in the most ethical way, right? We have to be very ethical about it, because if you're doing wrong things to get your profits and add value, it won't last long. You won't last long as a company. It'll always catch up to you.   0:25:27.4 Andrew Stotz: And I use the word sustainably. That's a kind of a nonsense word these days because everybody talks about sustainability and all.   0:25:34.5 Balaji Reddie: Yeah, they talk in terms about, in a very different context.   0:25:37.8 Andrew Stotz: But the point is, is that are we generating profit in a sustainable fashion? Now the other, I had one more question on this one, and that is if we go back to the words, he talked about the create constancy of purpose for improvement of product and services. And my question to you is, when he talks about aim, sometimes people can get confused, including myself sometimes. And for instance, Clifford Norman and David Williams have been on the show talking about their book Quality as an Organizational Strategy. And so as I've looked at his teachings over time, I've had a question in my mind of is what he's saying that the aim is to improve the business through this focus on quality? In other words, quality is the aim? Or is the aim whatever a company says, "We want to do this, our aim is that"? I'm just curious how you understand those things.   0:26:52.8 Balaji Reddie: I would say quality, but his definition of quality, right? Help someone live better and there must be a market, right? And it must be sold at the right price. So he's been practical, if you look at it. He says that if what you're doing is not making anybody's lives better, then why do it at all? Right? So you need to... You need to look at it from his viewpoint of quality, if I may put it that way. Not that narrow focus on quality of product in terms of free from deficiencies, [chuckle]   0:27:28.9 Andrew Stotz: Yeah.   0:27:30.1 Balaji Reddie: But in a very broad sense what he thought quality is. And also, I found something on the internet, so I'd like to again add that in, that the entire thing is his whole thing is to have happier people. Happy customers... And he doesn't say satisfied, he says happy. So happy customers, happy employees, happy suppliers, society being happy, and the owners. Okay. So what the Japanese interpreted this as, which they call as total quality, is owners, employees, customers, suppliers, and society. When all five are simultaneously satisfied, we call it as total quality. Whereas if you look at it from Deming's point of view, when all five are happy simultaneously, then you attained constancy of purpose. And the longer you can do it, the better it is. So that's his constancy. So the aim and the purpose should be about that. It should be about happier people at work, happier people in the market, consumers, customers, the suppliers, because they should feel a sense of pride...   0:28:56.9 Balaji Reddie: That they're learning something from this company, that growth is happening. Society should feel that this company not only serves their targeted audience, but does not cause harm or is also adding some kind of oblique value to all of us here. We all feel happy interacting with these people in some form or the other. Not necessarily being philanthropic or something, but in a very different sense. We're not getting harmed by these guys. So that, I think, in the broadest sense is what Deming was trying to say to run a company based on constancy of purpose.   0:29:35.4 Andrew Stotz: And the reason why I'm asking is because one of the lessons I've learned just in life in general, certainly from the teachings of Dr. Deming, but just in general, is that if you pick a particular thing or area and you decide that I'm gonna improve this and I'm gonna keep working on improving this, you're gonna end up with something incredible that nobody else has as long as you stick with it. And so that's where this idea of, and if you know what quality means, which is the five groups and things being happy, more jobs, create opportunity, all of that, once you understand that, then quality is driving toward that better outcome. I guess what I'm also thinking about is could a person who's never heard of Dr. Deming just say, "That's my aim right there. I'm gonna take it straight out of what he said, constancy of purpose in relation to improving the product and service with the understanding [chuckle] that that improvement means that." That's it. It's not the aim of "We want to provide transportation vehicles" or something like that. That's more of kind of a corporate communication or. That's where I really want to hear your thoughts on that.   0:30:53.3 Balaji Reddie: Yeah. So when you say that "I want to do this through this product that I am giving," and right now my understanding is that this is the best way to do it, but as the world evolves, obviously there could be many different other ways of doing it and I need to keep revisiting this. As long as my purpose is perfect, I know I'll be able to adapt and adopt very quickly. Right. Otherwise you'll be left behind. What exactly am I here for? Many of the people set up businesses, ancillary units here in my hometown, Pune. They set up, they were basically employees in the parent company and then they saw an opportunity. They saw they were good at this. "I can make this better." So they set up the company to serve the parent company, not realizing that suddenly there could be somebody else coming in. Right. And they were preferred because they understood what the parent company wanted.   0:31:53.5 Balaji Reddie: But if they had just set up by saying, "No, why am I setting up this business? Because I see an opportunity. I can do this well." Okay, then can I do anything else well? What else can I? Why just this product? Why not any other product? Right? I think during the pandemic, many of the manufacturing companies realized that. They said, "We are very good at assembly, so why don't we start assembling PPE kits?" here in India, because PPE kits used to be imported. And I know this firsthand. My student was working in one such logistical company and he said we were importing. 300,000 PPE kits per annum. That was the requirement.   0:32:38.8 Andrew Stotz: What's PPE?   0:32:40.2 Balaji Reddie: Personal protection equipment, which you have to wear, the doctors, et cetera, the health workers during the pandemic. They had to wear that and serve, because we didn't know what was happening. So instead of just masks, just protect themselves completely. In labs, doctors, nurses, they all wore that. Right. So this personal protection equipment, we were importing 300,000 such kits per annum from, I think somewhere in Belgium. And because that was the requirement, but during the pandemic, the requirement went up. And so many of the companies, automotive manufacturing companies, decided that, let's get into this because we know how to do these things, right? We know how to assemble. And within a matter of 45 to 50 days, they built capacity. And imagine this, we were consuming, I am not joking, at the rate of 200,000 kits per day.   0:33:39.4 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. Then you can become a global supplier.   0:33:46.5 Balaji Reddie: And so they had to. But now, see, they did it for that much time because they said, our core business is something else, but we understood our purpose, so let's contribute in a very different way. The other one which they did was many of the manufacturing companies started assembling ventilators. And some of them which were running without electricity, they ran on a mechanical device so that the need for power, et cetera, et cetera, be superfluous. So when you know your purpose, then you can always adapt and adopt very quickly. And I think the pandemic gave us that opportunity to see how many of the companies responded in a very positive sense. In one way to look at it is, "Oh my God, this is it, this is my fate, and we're gonna shut down, we have nothing to do." But the other way is, "No, wait, why are we here? And let's use our expertise in a very different sense. So let's get to action."   0:34:41.3 Andrew Stotz: Interesting. I feel like we can spend a whole episode talking just about one of the 14 Points.   0:34:46.9 Balaji Reddie: That's why I said two episodes for the 14 Points. [laughter] If you don't mind, three also. Because many of the points have been either not discussed in detail or misinterpreted. And there have been changes. Deming himself brought a change in the wordings. That's why I wanted to keep this section, this session separate.   0:35:07.9 Andrew Stotz: Okay.   0:35:12.5 Balaji Reddie: Now you can see why, because I was just setting the scene for the 14 Points. If you want to ask me, it's all profound, very, very profound. [chuckle]   0:35:16.9 Andrew Stotz: Yeah, and I have a lot of questions, so that's good. I've got some clarity now for point one. I think the listeners and the viewers will also get some of that clarity, so that's great.   0:35:26.4 Balaji Reddie: Thank you. And I have been, I still, I just scratch my head about many of the things that he said. Because if people are reading Out of the Crisis, oh my God, you gotta read the text for point one. It's brilliant. I mean, I can't just, you can't just read it out right now. [chuckle] It'll take three episodes just to. But just, many people just say he did give us a method. I think I told you this two episodes ago. He was very clear. We didn't see it. We didn't see it. And he's so clear about what he wanted in innovation. That, of course, I thought that there was a slight difference, I think we spoke about this, invention and innovation. So invention is something new and innovate is to use something differently. Right. So that innovation, I think he confused the two terms, if I may say so. Too brave to make a statement like that. But anyway, he says here that you have to keep improving, innovating, and this obligation never ceases.   0:36:36.6 Balaji Reddie: It's that very clear. And if you see here, there's one, there's a paragraph here, he says, "It's a mistake to suppose that efficient production of product and service can, with certainty, keep an organization solvent and ahead of its competition. It is possible and, in fact, fairly easy for an organization to go downhill and out of business making the wrong product or offering the wrong type of service, even though everyone in the organization performs with devotion, employing statistical methods and every other aid that can boost efficiency." So I think he was highlighting the limitation of the statistical methods, that 97% versus 3% thing, that we are only trying to improve this, but the whole thing comes from the top, that are you providing the right product? I mean, you can't set up a company today making the best typewriters in the world. [chuckle]   0:37:35.4 Andrew Stotz: That's true.   0:37:41.5 Balaji Reddie: So he keeps saying this again and again, that you should publish a resolution that no one will lose his job for contribution to quality and productivity. So I think what we're coming to the end of this session today, we just discussed point one. [laughter] That's the best part. I heard from Henry Neave once that they all formed a kind of a team. Henry had come down to America and they started, they decided to meet Myron Tribus and just about everyone, Nida Backaitis, Barbara Lawton, the gang, and they were so happy to, the stars, right? Gipsie Ranney, I forget the other names, but they were all together and then they decided, let's discuss the 14 Points. And then point one, and it went on beyond lunchtime. They started in the morning. [laughter]   0:38:36.6 Andrew Stotz: That's great.   0:38:46.1 Balaji Reddie: It seems Dr. Deming was so happy. He was just sitting back and just listening and listening and listening. Then they met again the following day and the next day, and then they only came to point number four. And then finally, Brian Joiner, I think, said, "I think we're wasting too much time here. Let's just stop this." And it seems Deming was so upset because he said that Brian Joiner said, "Let's give ourselves 45 minutes for this point and that's it." [laughter]Deming said, "Don't set a target." [laughter]   0:39:22.9 Andrew Stotz: That reminds me of Bill Scherkenbach showing a picture of Deming at the, I don't know, National Education Committee meeting. And he said that they met all day or for two days and they still couldn't come up with the aim of what education, the aim of education in America was at the time. So, yeah.   0:39:42.9 Balaji Reddie: Yeah, I had this problem. It happened at a seminar here in Pune. It was Education for the Future or something like that, Engineering Education: The Next Five Years, blah, blah, blah, I don't know what it was. And there was this one gentleman making a presentation from a school in a city called Bangalore in India. And his topic was Six Sigma in education. And when he came to present, he started by saying, "Six Sigma is 3.4 errors in a million." And I said, "Oh, no." Anyway, then he went on to say, "Okay, so we decided our 10th, grade 10 is a public exam in India. It's a very big deal for a child to sit for that exam, right?" And he said that, "We want to have flawless results. And we've had flawless results for the last eight years. We have so many students, so many, so many students every year, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." And so if you multiply and all that, and then, "So how do we get this?" Now here came the best part. He said, "In grade nine, all..."   0:40:48.9 Balaji Reddie: All those who had failed or had not reached a certain grade, we threw them out. And so we had flawless results. And I could see people squirming in their chairs because they were all sitting in the audience were teachers. They were squirming in their chairs and then one guy could take it no more. He put his hand up. And I was chairing that session, by the way. You can imagine what was happening to me. Anyway, this gentleman put his hands up and he says, "How can you say that? How can you say that?" He was very agitated. And I could realize, I just stood up and I said, "Okay, Professor so-and-so, please sit down. I get your, I get your sentiment, but we need to do this differently." So I turned to this... And he was a principal, this gentleman... I said, "What is the aim and the purpose of an educational institution?" And this man said, "Results."   0:41:42.4 Andrew Stotz: Yeah.   0:41:45.8 Balaji Reddie: Then I said, "Let's throw this question open to everyone." And I said, "Let's stop." I asked the people organizing the seminar that could we take a small detour here? Let's just stop. Let's not stick to your timetable because I know you're here on a leash. So they said, with permission from the chair and the host college... They were sitting there, the main people... They said, "No, we want this question answered now. What is the purpose of an educational institution?" And there was a lot of goading. I was bringing in Profound Knowledge and I was throwing up questions. And finally we came to the conclusion that the aim of any educational institution is to create a well-rounded individual that contributes positively to society.   0:43:33.9 Andrew Stotz: All right, so on behalf of everyone listening, I want to thank you again for the discussion. And for listeners, remember to go to deming.org and jump into DemingNext to continue your journey. This is your host, Andrew Stotz, and I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Dr. Deming, and that is, "People are entitled to joy in work." As we're talking about how do we build that for the future.

Discover what's possible when constraint unlocks opportunity.  How do perceptions of autism vary across India?  If you're curious about the role that family, culture, and community play in autism support, you'll want to listen to this throwback episode with Jayashree Ramesh. Jayashree is the Founder and Director of the Academy for Severe Handicaps and Autism, ASHA for short, in Bangalore, India.  The Global Autism Project partnered with ASHA in 2018 and we've since sent four volunteer teams to their center through our SkillCorps® volunteer program. SkillCorps® is an opportunity for autism service providers and self-advocates to travel to our international partner sites and collaborate with their local teachers and therapists on clinical, administrative and leadership goals. We are currently accepting SkillCorps® applications for travel in 2027. Begin your journey today at globalautismproject.org/skillcorps. As a listener of our show, take advantage of the coupon code AUTISMPODCAST (no space and all caps) to waive the application fee. In part 1 of this conversation, originally released in July of 2021, we discuss: The varying perspectives of autism across India How Indian mothers and fathers accept autism differently What Jayashree loves about working with the autistic population Barriers she's had to overcome to develop her center How to engage families in supporting their autistic loved ones Cultural perspectives on community support To learn more about Jayashree and ASHA, please visit ashaforautism.com. ----more---- We appreciate your time. If you enjoy this podcast and you'd like to support our mission, please take just a few seconds to share it with one person who you think will find value in it too.  Follow us on Instagram: @autismpodcast Join our community on Mighty Networks: Global Autism Community Subscribe to our YouTube channel: Global Autism Project We would love to hear your feedback about the show. Please fill out this short survey to let us know your thoughts: Listener Survey 

Discover what's possible when constraint unlocks opportunity.  How do perceptions of autism vary across India?  If you're curious about the role that family, culture, and community play in autism support, you'll want to listen to this throwback episode with Jayashree Ramesh. Jayashree is the Founder and Director of the Academy for Severe Handicaps and Autism, ASHA for short, in Bangalore, India.  The Global Autism Project partnered with ASHA in 2018 and we've since sent four volunteer teams to their center through our SkillCorps® volunteer program. SkillCorps® is an opportunity for autism service providers and self-advocates to travel to our international partner sites and collaborate with their local teachers and therapists on clinical, administrative and leadership goals. We are currently accepting SkillCorps® applications for travel in 2027. Begin your journey today at globalautismproject.org/skillcorps. As a listener of our show, take advantage of the coupon code AUTISMPODCAST (no space and all caps) to waive the application fee.   In part 1 of this conversation, originally released in July of 2021, we discuss: The varying perspectives of autism across India How Indian mothers and fathers accept autism differently What Jayashree loves about working with the autistic population Barriers she's had to overcome to develop her center How to engage families in supporting their autistic loved ones Cultural perspectives on community support To learn more about Jayashree and ASHA, please visit ashaforautism.com. ----more---- We appreciate your time. If you enjoy this podcast and you'd like to support our mission, please take just a few seconds to share it with one person who you think will find value in it too. Follow us on Instagram: @autismpodcast Join our community on Mighty Networks: Global Autism Community Subscribe to our YouTube channel: Global Autism Project We would love to hear your feedback about the show. Please fill out this short survey to let us know your thoughts: Listener Survey. 

Sanjeev Krishnan spent thirty years arriving at one conclusion: the clean economy's binding constraint isn't technology, it's capital structure. He watched brilliant technologies, brilliant people and brilliant visions get broken on the wheel of misaligned capital — not because the science failed, but because the financing never fit what they were trying to build.That gap is the heart of this episode of SRI360. His core belief is simple: the thing holding back the clean economy is not technology. It is capital structure. Get the financing right, and the building can follow.I'm joined by Sanjeev Krishnan, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of S2G Investments, a nearly $3 billion platform across eight funds, investing at the seams of food, energy, and ocean systems. S2G has backed more than 120 companies. Sanjeev has spent his whole career on one question: how do you change an economic system using markets?Sanjeev was born in Bangalore in pre-liberalization India and moved to Grosse Pointe, Michigan, at age nine — his first time ever on a plane. He studied development economics, transferred to the London School of Economics, and joined JPMorgan just in time to watch the dot-com boom collapse from the inside. His team in Europe went from 120 people to 15. He was one of the 15 who kept their job.What came next taught him how capital really works in the physical world: building mobile networks across Africa, cutting the cost of a Hepatitis B vaccine by roughly 80–90% at the World Bank's IFC, and five hard years inside “clean tech 1.0,” watching good companies fail for reasons that had nothing to do with their technology. In 2014, he co-founded S2G with Lukas Walton.Today Sanjeev invests at the seams — the gaps between asset classes and between sectors that most investors overlook. In this conversation we cover why capital structure is the real constraint, how he thinks about the wave of AI and energy demand, and why he is betting on the oceans, the part of the planet we have barely measured.In this episode we discuss:Why capital structure, not technology, is what really holds back the clean economyThe “missing middle” — too big for venture, too small for private equity, and where good companies get strandedWhat “investing at the seams” of food, energy, and ocean systems actually meansFit-for-purpose capital, and why biotech figured it out but climate has notThe five forces behind his “Age of Adaptation” thesisWhy he reframes climate as a 10,000-year economic megatrend, not a moral crusadeHis bet on the oceans, and the company measuring water almost no one else canFeatured guest:Sanjeev Krishnan, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at S2G InvestmentsListen Next:AgTech Profits Meet Planet: Where Climate Impact and VC Returns AlignDiscover More from SRI360°:Explore all episodes of the SRI360° PodcastSign up for the free weekly email updateKey Takeaways:Capital structure is the constraint, not technology. Across thirty years, Sanjeev watched good companies with real products fail because the money backing them was shaped wrong for what they were building.The missing middle is where good companies get stranded. A business with real revenue and real profits can still be too capital-intensive for venture and too small for private equity control. Venture wants a power law. These companies just grow steadily. So nobody funds them. In May, S2G closed a billion-dollar fund built for exactly this gap.Fit-for-purpose capital means matching the money to the reality. US biotech built a system that can take an unproven, clinical-stage company public and attract hundreds of millions. Climate has never built its equivalent. That, Sanjeev argues, is the real gap.Every great transition needed a financial invention first. The joint stock company made oceanic trade possible. Bond syndicates built the railroads. The venture partnership funded the microchip. In each case someone built the financial container before the future arrived.Impact does not have to be concessionary. At the IFC, his team helped cut the cost of a Hepatitis B vaccine by roughly 80–90% — from $2.50 a vial — while margins stayed above 60–70%. Cheaper, faster, better, and profitable at the same time.Invest at the seams. The best opportunities sit between asset classes and between sectors, where a typical energy investor would dismiss it and a food investor would call it something else — so nobody underwrites it.Climate is a 10,000-year economic megatrend, not a moral crusade. Humans take useful energy and turn it into useful materials — fire, agriculture, fossil fuels. And the next chapter will still be extractive: it needs copper, cobalt, nickel, lithium.Busts are where the returns are made. You learn more in the bust cycles than the boom cycles. Markets overshoot both ways, and the companies that survive get forced into product-market fit and a real P&L.The oceans are the least measured part of the planet. We know more about space. Sanjeev co-founded Apeiron Labs in 2022 to close a data gap between 6 and 200 meters — data that matters for weather, offshore wind, insurance, and defense.Additional ResourcesSanjeev Krishnan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjeev-krishnan-0b1148/Sanjeev Krishnan at S2G: https://www.s2ginvestments.com/team/sanjeev-krishnanS2G Investments: https://www.s2ginvestments.com/S2G “Financing Reality” report: https://www.s2ginvestments.com/insights/report-financing-realityBuilders Vision: https://www.buildersvision.com/Connect with SRI360°:Sign up for the free weekly email update: https://sri360.com/newsletter/Visit the SRI360° PODCAST: https://sri360.com/podcast/Visit the SRI360° WEBSITE: https://sri360.com/Follow SRI360° on X: https://twitter.com/SRI360Growth/Follow SRI360° on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/SRI360Growth/

In this week's First $1,000 segment, we hear from Priya in Bangalore. She has a side hustle helping men with their dating profiles—and she keeps busy!Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.Show notes: SideHustleSchool.comEmail: team@sidehustleschool.comBe on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questionsConnect on Instagram: @193countriesVisit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.comRead A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.comIf you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes.

“Judas Kiss: The Traveling Clairvoyant of Tipton Mountain” — A hermit who claims he can watch distant events from inside a hollow pine tree becomes convinced the woman renting the cabin above his is a murderer — and only he knows what she's done.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Judas Kiss” (March 23, 1978) ***WD00:45:48.210 = Tales From The Tomb, “Spirit Calling” (1960s)00:50:20.385 = Two Thousand Plus, “World's Apart” (November 29, 1950) ***WD01:19:02.978 = The Unexpected, “Heat Wave” (1947-1948)01:31:11.637 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Indian Fakir” (February 17, 1944) ***WD01:44:47.860 = Dark Venture, “Elizabeth Is Frightened” (July 22, 1947)02:14:43.934 = The Weird Circle, “Haunted Hotel” (May 13, 1945)02:42:15.220 = The Whistler, “Murder Will Shout” (March 19, 1945)03:11:41.385 = Strange Wills, “Emily” (August 31, 1946)03:41:20.826 = Witch's Tale, “Statue of Thor” (May 22, 1933)04:04:13.136 = X Minus One, “Honeymoon In Hell” (December 26, 1956)04:33:07.327 = ABC Mystery Time, “Murder In Haste” (1957) ***WD04:56:48.877 = Strange Adventure, “Death Rides The Carousel” (1945) ***WD05:00:05.724 = Show Close(ADU) = Air Date Unknown(LQ) = Low Quality***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0712Weird Darkness presents Retro Radio, a night of classic dark radio drama spanning three decades of murder, madness, and the supernatural.It opens with the CBS Radio Mystery Theater's "The Judas Kiss," in which Oscar Absecker, a solitary handyman living on a dying mountain outside the village of Tipton, believes a big black dog barks three times whenever someone dies — and believes he can watch distant events unfold by standing inside a lightning-struck, hollow pine tree. When Deputy Luke Marbury rents the cabin above his to a woman named Enid Grant, Oscar becomes convinced that she is destroying the much younger man who joins her there, and his visions show him one killing after another. Fred Gwynne stars, with E.G. Marshall hosting.From there comes "Spirit Calling" from Tales From The Tomb, a short piece about a nine-year-old girl named Amy, alone in the house during a violent summer storm after her uncle Stanley's death, and the telephone call that comes through on a dead line.Next is Two Thousand Plus and "World's Apart," in which rocket engineer Jim Granger talks his way onto Flight 17, the first crewed voyage to Neptune, only for the spaceship Phoenix to be dragged off course by an uncharted comet. Crippled and lost, the ship limps to a landing at a place called Green Valley, where Commander Dijkstra can hear heartbeats across a room, the milk is green, and gravity does not behave the way it should.The Unexpected follows with "Heat Wave," starring Barry Sullivan as Whitey Malone, a fugitive sweating out a 110-degree heat wave in a fifth-floor garret while the police close in — and burning to settle accounts with the woman he thinks tipped them off.Then Unsolved Mysteries brings "Indian Fakir," a story told at the United Services Club in Simla, where a colonel recounts what happened when his young English bride, alone in their Bangalore bungalow, tried to outsmart a fakir who demanded a strand of her hair — and handed him threads pulled from a Chinese rug instead.Dark Venture presents "Elizabeth Is Frightened," with Joan Banks as a wealthy woman who marries Philip Bailey, a widower fascinated by the power of one mind to dominate another. As the whole town starts believing Elizabeth is ill and suicidal, only her housekeeper Flora and Dr. Davis suspect what her husband is really doing.The Weird Circle offers "Haunted Hotel," in which Henry Westwick travels to Venice and takes room fourteen at a converted castle to learn how his brother Philip died weeks after marrying the mysterious Countess Narona — and finds the answers coming to him in dreams.The Whistler tells "Murder Will Shout," the story of garage owner George Kramer, buried in debt to a man named Albion, and the small-time racketeer Peanut Marola who offers a black-market car racket, a partnership, and a solution to the Albion problem that goes very wrong on Miller Highway.Strange Wills, starring Warren William, tells "Emily," tracing a violin built by Antonio Stradivarius in Cremona in 1732 through the hands of gypsies, Niccolò Paganini, and the Heller family of Vienna, until it turns up at a barn dance in the Tennessee hills as a GI's war souvenir.The Witch's Tale delivers "Statue of Thor," in which sculptor Neil Redding, bored and cruel, mocks his enormous Swedish model Olaf, seduces Olaf's fiancée Hedwig, and takes the big man to the foundry to watch the statue of Thor cast in bronze — a casting that comes out of the mold wearing a face Redding never sculpted.X Minus One presents "Honeymoon In Hell," set in the late 1960s, when male births stop worldwide and the cybernetics machine known as Junior recommends sending a married couple to the moon. Rocket pilot Ray Carmody is wed to Eastern Alliance pilot Anya Borisovna hours before launch, and on the lunar surface they find an unidentified craft that does not belong to either alliance.ABC Mystery Time offers "Murder In Haste," in which Elbert Taylor kills his wife Ellen, flees Miami by train under an assumed name, and — after a derailment in Georgia — steals the identity of a dead mystery writer named Leslie Jameson, only to have Jameson's wife walk into his New York hotel room.The episode closes with Strange Adventure and "Death Rides The Carousel," where a lawyer named Jeffrey Ford is found stabbed through the heart on a merry-go-round chariot at a village carnival in Merrimack, and Inspector Jonathan Hawke spots the flaw in the ticket taker's account.

In SheThePeople's signature style, this is a session of wit and grace. Bangalore Raani is a vibrant celebration placing female voices precisely where they've always belonged: centerstage. Unapologetic and electric, this dialogue brings together women whose presence, choices, and courage bring Bengaluru to life. In this edition, Shaili Chopra is joined by mother and daughter, Yasmin and Kubbra Sait. Through candid storytelling that moves from ambition to reinvention, relationships to those small everyday rebellions that shift culture, the conversation flows freely: sometimes hilarious, always real. Relatable yet aspirational, intimate yet energizing, this is the rare space where women's stories don't just resonate, but reverberate through lingering conversations, lasting inspiration and undeniable connection as a result of being deeply, and truly, seen. In collaboration with: Shethepeople In this episode of BIC Talks, Kubbra Sait and Yasmin Sait will be in conversation with Shaili Chopra. This is an excerpt from a conversation that took place in the BIC premises in Feb 2026. Subscribe to the BIC Talks Podcast on your favourite podcast app! BIC Talks is available everywhere, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Overcast, Audible, and Amazon Music.

In this episode of Hunger for Wholeness, Ilia Delio continues her conversation with Robert Geraci on the ethical future of technology, the possibility of a global mind, and the stories we need to tell if civilization is to flourish. Together, they ask how AI might help us build shared spaces of learning, dialogue, and human connection rather than deepen division, surveillance, and algorithmic isolation.Ilia imagines noospheric classrooms and a global heart, where technology becomes a medium for shared values across cultures, religions, and planetary communities. Geraci reflects on the need for humility, public goods, meaningful work, and stories that draw us toward a better future rather than trap us in conflict, wealth, and power.Later in the episode, Geraci discusses his book Future-Proofing Humanity, exploring existential risk, technological culture, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the importance of civilization as an unfinished project. Rather than fearing technology itself, Ilia and Robert invite us to ask what kind of humanity our technologies are calling us to become.ABOUT ROBERT GERACIRobert M Geraci is the Knight Distinguished Chair for the Study of Religion & Culture at Knox College. His research explores religion, science and technology in the contemporary world. He is the author of Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality (Oxford 2010), Virtually Sacred: Myths and Meaning in World of Warcraft and Second Life (Oxford 2014), Temples of Modernity: Nationalism, Hinduism, and Transhumanism in South Indian Science (Lexington 2018), Futures of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from India and the U.S. (Oxford 2022), and Futureproofing Humanity: Existential Risk and the Technomyths of Human Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Future among the Stars (self 2026). He has been a visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, the Indian Institute of Science and the National Institute for Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India. His research has been supported by the US National Science Foundation, the Republic of Korea National Research Foundation, the American Academy of Religion and two Fulbright-Nehru research awards. He enjoys kayaking, hiking, videogames, and Dungeons & Dragons but doesn't really have time for any of it. Join us for the Center's 10th Anniversary Conference, November 9–11 in Villanova, Pennsylvania, with a virtual option available. In a time of deep political, social, ecological, and spiritual division, this gathering explores how love can become a compass for transformation. Learn more and register at christogenesis.org/conference. We are currently in the midst of our summer fundraiser, From Fear to Hope: Change and the Perpetual Growth of Life. As the Center marks its tenth anniversary, your support sustains our conferences, webinars, publications, and emerging global learning platform. Please consider making a generous contribution at christogenesis.org/donate.Support the showA huge thank you to all of you who subscribe and support our show! Support for A Hunger for Wholeness comes from the Fetzer Institute. Fetzer supports a movement of organizations who are applying spiritual solutions to society's toughest problems. Get involved at fetzer.org.Visit the Center for Christogenesis' website at christogenesis.org/podcast to browse all Hunger for Wholeness episodes and read more from Ilia Delio.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for episode releases and other updates.

Pankaj Rai | Group Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Aditya Birla Management Corporation Pvt LtdPankaj Rai, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Aditya Birla Group, has been enabling the analytics maturity journey across group companies by solving problems leveraging Data Science, creating horizontal data platforms and developing people capabilities.He completed his graduation from IIT Delhi and Post Graduate Programme in Management from IIM Ahmedabad. He went on to spearhead teams across diverse portfolios including consulting, credit, six-sigma, strategy, analytics and digital across financial services and offshoring.During his career, he has been associated with companies like GE Capital, ICICI Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and Feedback Ventures. He has served as Director (Strategy) at Dell, Bangalore for their offshore business and built the internal Analytics team. He also led Wells Fargo's Global Delivery Strategy as Senior Vice President. He is a speaker in various leading platforms including TEDx.  

This is the final episode of our special series on the India AI Impact Summit, examining the conversations, decisions, and debates that are shaping global AI governance. This episode explores: India has a clear North Star in Viksit Bharat 2047, but what will it actually take to get there and what role does AI play? Should India focus on diffusing AI or building its own frontier research capability, and is that even the right way to frame the question? What did the working group on AI for Economic Growth and Social Good set out to do, and what is the Global AI Impact Commons designed to deliver? From skilling to last mile delivery, what stands between a great AI solution built in Bangalore and the farmer or district hospital that could benefit from it? Debjani pushes back early on one of the most debated questions in India's AI conversation. The framing of frontier research versus diffusion, she says, is simply the wrong debate. India needs to do both. Without the machinery to convert its own data into intelligence, India would be diffusing imported intelligence, with no guarantee that the channel will always remain open. Building that machinery, while simultaneously deploying AI at scale, is not a choice. It is a necessity. On the working group, the most important conversation was not about technology at all. It was about the human being. Every country in the room was still trying to figure out how to unlock AI's impact at population scale, and the group's key insight was that the world does not yet have a common standard for what impact even means. The Global AI Impact Commons, launched at the summit with over 80 stories from more than 30 countries, is designed to change that, giving countries a shared repository of real world success stories to learn from and replicate. Her advice for getting AI to the last mile draws directly from India's DPI experience. None of the platforms that reached population scale, not Aadhaar, not UPI, started with the technology. They started with the problem. The best AI, she says, is the AI that is invisible. People should not have to think about it. And that principle, starting grassroots up, keeping it simple, and keeping the human at the center, is what India's AI builders need to take forward. Every two weeks, Interpreting India brings you diverse voices from India and around the world to explore the critical questions shaping the nation's future. We delve into how technology, the economy, and foreign policy intertwine to influence India's relationship with the global stage.As a Carnegie India production, hosted by Carnegie scholars, Interpreting India, a Carnegie India production, provides insightful perspectives and cutting-edge by tackling the defining questions that chart India's course through the next decade.Stay tuned for thought-provoking discussions, expert insights, and a deeper understanding of India's place in the world.Don't forget to subscribe, share, and leave a review to join the conversation and be part of Interpreting India's journey.

My guests today are Gavin Uberti and Rob Wachen, the founders of Etched.  A few years ago, when they set out to build a better AI chip than the largest companies in the world, almost everyone I called told me it could not be done. They have since done it, taping out a working chip on their first attempt and becoming the first hardware company founded after ChatGPT to do so. They already have more than a billion dollars of customer demand for their first product, and have raised eight hundred million dollars to build it.  Etched builds chips and systems designed to run AI models faster and at lower cost. They started the company in 2023, and that product is a complete rack for inference, the chip along with the boards, the power delivery, the interconnects, and the manufacturing to produce it all. We talk about the technical bets behind their architecture, how they hired industry legends and paired them with elite 22 year-olds, and why they believe inference will become one of the largest markets in the world. I think you will find the story of what they have built hard to forget. Please enjoy my conversation with Gavin and Rob. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content, check out the episode page ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.  ----- Become a Colossus member to get our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe at ⁠colossus.com/subscribe⁠. ----- ⁠Ramp's⁠ mission is to help companies manage their spend in a way that reduces expenses and frees up time for teams to work on more valuable projects. Go to⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ramp.com/invest⁠⁠ to sign up for free and get a $250 welcome bonus. ----- Trusted by thousands of businesses, ⁠Vanta⁠ continuously monitors your security posture and streamlines audits so you can win enterprise deals and build customer trust without the traditional overhead. Invest Like the Best listeners get a special offer of $1,000 off Vanta when you go to ⁠vanta.com/invest⁠.  ----- WorkOS⁠ is the infrastructure B2B and AI-native companies use to sell to enterprise. It covers everything enterprise security requires: SSO, SCIM, RBAC, Audit Logs, AI governance, and more. Trusted by 2,000+ fast-growing companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and Vercel. ----- Rogo is the AI platform for finance. They're building agents for Wall Street that are trained to understand how bankers and investors actually do work: from diligence and modeling, to turning analysis into deliverables. To learn more, visit rogo.ai/invest. ----- ⁠Ridgeline⁠ has built a complete, real-time, modern operating system for investment managers. It handles trading, portfolio management, compliance, customer reporting, and much more through an all-in-one real-time cloud platform. Visit⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ridgelineapps.com⁠. ----- Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant. Timestamps: (00:00:00) Welcome to Invest Like The Best (00:02:07) Gavin Uberti and Rob Wachen (00:03:54) Two 21-Year-Olds Taking on NVIDIA (00:07:52) The Two Technical Bets Behind Their Architecture (00:14:15) Why Inference Becomes the Biggest Market (00:20:23) Rob and Gavin's Origins Stories (00:28:38) How They Recruit Industry Legends (00:36:30) Moving a Dozen Engineers to Bangalore for Six Months (00:38:01) Speed Wins (00:43:58) Getting More Concurrency Out of Every Megawatt (00:52:44) Vertical Integration (00:57:43) Hardest Obstacles to Overcome (01:01:09) Raising The Largest AI Chip Series A Ever (01:06:29) TSMC (01:13:20) Designing Gen 2 for Gigawatt-Scale Production (01:16:42) Why Machines Don't Think Like People (01:20:03) A Year of Compute Compressed Into a Month (01:23:44) The Trillion-Dollar Data Center (01:26:19) The Kindest Thing

Akshata Murthy, entrepreneur, philanthropist and wife of the former Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, is our guest today. And it's particularly interesting to listen to this episode in light of the resignation of Keir Starmer yesterday (Monday 22 June 2026): what is it really like to be married to a prime minister? What are Akshata's memories of the day, in the pouring rain, that Rishi Sunak announced the fateful 2024 election? Did she feel she sacrificed her own life and career to make way for Rishi's ambitions? Plus, this episode opens with some topical chat from Gyles and Harriet - move over, Rest is Politics!But this episode is really about Akshata's own life and times - her unusual childhood, in which she was raised until the age of five by her maternal grandparents in a small, dusty town, eating mangoes straight from the tree, while her parents worked hard to build their company. She talks of the pain and confusion of missing her parents, and of the conflicting emotions that brings up. Akshata talks about her parents' vision and commitment to giving back to India - to "compassionate capitalism" and philanthropy. She talks about moving to Bangalore, her school life and her first crush. She talks about college in California and meeting Rishi.This is an interesting, unexpected conversation. With many thanks to Akshata Murthy. Enjoy this. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Hunger for Wholeness, Ilia Delio speaks with scholar Robert Geraci about apocalyptic AI, robotics, transhumanist hope, and the religious stories embedded in technological imagination. Geraci traces how his study of robotics led him to notice strikingly religious themes in the writings of engineers and futurists: immortality, resurrection, salvation, and the future transformation of humanity.Together, Ilia and Robert explore the mid-20th-century roots of computer intelligence, the shadow of world war, and the deep eschatological hopes and fears that shaped early conversations about machines, minds, and human destiny. They consider how figures such as Hans Moravec, Ray Kurzweil, J. B. S. Haldane, Julian Huxley, Norbert Wiener, and Alan Turing reveal the religious imagination at work within technological culture.Later in the episode, the conversation turns toward technology, ecology, and responsibility. Rather than treating technology as the enemy, Ilia and Robert ask how human beings might reclaim the deeper narratives, values, and forms of belonging needed to guide technological development toward the flourishing of the whole Earth community.ABOUT ROBERT GERACIRobert M Geraci is the Knight Distinguished Chair for the Study of Religion & Culture at Knox College. His research explores religion, science and technology in the contemporary world. He is the author of Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality (Oxford 2010), Virtually Sacred: Myths and Meaning in World of Warcraft and Second Life (Oxford 2014), Temples of Modernity: Nationalism, Hinduism, and Transhumanism in South Indian Science (Lexington 2018), Futures of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from India and the U.S. (Oxford 2022), and Futureproofing Humanity: Existential Risk and the Technomyths of Human Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Future among the Stars (self 2026). He has been a visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, the Indian Institute of Science and the National Institute for Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India. His research has been supported by the US National Science Foundation, the Republic of Korea National Research Foundation, the American Academy of Religion and two Fulbright-Nehru research awards. He enjoys kayaking, hiking, videogames, and Dungeons & Dragons but doesn't really have time for any of it. Join us for the Center's 10th Anniversary Conference, November 9–11 in Villanova, Pennsylvania, with a virtual option available. In a time of deep political, social, ecological, and spiritual division, this gathering explores how love can become a compass for transformation. Learn more and register at christogenesis.org/conference. We are currently in the midst of our summer fundraiser, From Fear to Hope: Change and the Perpetual Growth of Life. As the Center marks its tenth anniversary, your support sustains our conferences, webinars, publications, and emerging global learning platform. Please consider making a generous contribution at christogenesis.org/donate.Support the showA huge thank you to all of you who subscribe and support our show! Support for A Hunger for Wholeness comes from the Fetzer Institute. Fetzer supports a movement of organizations who are applying spiritual solutions to society's toughest problems. Get involved at fetzer.org.Visit the Center for Christogenesis' website at christogenesis.org/podcast to browse all Hunger for Wholeness episodes and read more from Ilia Delio.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for episode releases and other updates.

She Asked Her CIO for a New Challenge at Lunch. Got a "Poison Chalice" Role. Flew to Japan in December 2019. Beat COVID by Three Weeks. PVH VP Shatabdi on Small Acts of Courage With Big Consequences. At a lunch with her CIO, she asked a simple question: "Is there a specific role where you need help? I'm ready to take a new challenge, even change my domain completely." The answer was an invitation to lead PVH's global SAP/ERP transformation across Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and North America. She had no team in Asia Pacific. She had less than two months to build one remotely from the United States. People in the room called it a poison chalice. She flew to Japan in December 2019, got the team in place, flew home in January 2020. COVID hit weeks later. She had made it by the skin of her teeth. That is one story. But Shatabdi, VP of Global Application Engineering Services at PVH Corp — home of Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein — believes the more important stories are the small ones. The under-60-second moments. The ones that most senior leaders stay quiet through. In this episode, she shares both kinds. You'll learn: A woman in a meeting quietly mentioned her son kept missing his classes because someone kept scheduling meetings after 5 PM. Shatabdi backed her up in under a minute. That intervention spread into a best practice across PVH's global time zones including Hong Kong and Bangalore. Why she credits a single direct ask at a CIO lunch for the entire trajectory of her VP career, and what she said that made the difference between getting an opportunity and being overlooked. How she heard people call her new role a "poison chalice" and responded by using their doubt as fuel: "If my leaders believe in me, I should believe in myself." What happened when a co-op intern named Christopher walked into her office and told her the access request process could be simplified to save significant man hours — and added that an AI solution could auto-fill the whole thing. She was amazed. She calls it reverse mentorship. The moment her longtime colleague Brian McGrath introduced her in a room by saying "if she's in the meeting, I know it's going to go positive" — and why that kind of public acknowledgment primes an entire room to actually listen to you. The "we vs. I" leadership model she uses: collaborative "we" language for collective goals, firm "I" language for deadlines and deliverables. And why learning when to use which one took her longer than developing either. How she structures team communication across three levels — broad town halls, staff meetings that start with "how's your family?", and one-on-ones where she opens up first about her own week — to build the kind of trust that makes honest feedback land well in both directions. About Shatabdi: Vice President of Global Application Engineering Services at PVH Corp, the fashion company behind Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein. Shatabdi leads a global team across North America, Europe, Hong Kong, and Bangalore. She previously led e-commerce at Hitachi Consulting and at PVH before pivoting into global ERP transformation leadership.

What does it take to start over and build a life in wine? In this episode, Namratha Stanley shares her extraordinary journey from Bangalore to Bordeaux, where she built her own wine brand, Solicantus, from scratch. Alongside her powerful personal story, she breaks down Bordeaux Wine 101 – grapes, regions, and how to actually enjoy wine without intimidation. This is a conversation about reinvention, resilience, and what happens when you trust yourself enough to begin again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kunal Bhatia is originally from India, but moved to the Bay Area to start building his company. He admits there is quite a contrast between the two places, but originally he was from Bangalore, which is like the Silicon Valley of India - so the professional transition felt familiar. He's worked in AI For 12 years, and is on his 3rd company in the AI space. Outside of tech, he is married with a 3 year old daughter. He and his family love to go on hikes and be outdoors.Kunal and his team have been researching AI technologies within their current venture. In particular, they were focused on building self improving AI. Beyond that, they have started building and thinking about how to build the AI platform that builds all other technology.This is the creation story of Hexo Labs.SponsorsUnblockedTECH DomainsMezmoBraingrid.aiLinkshttps://hexolabs.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/kunalbhatia91/Our Sponsors:* Check out Cash App and use my code CASHAPP10 for a great deal: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/mt82fpxl #CashAppPod. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App's bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. See terms and conditions at https://cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement. Cash App Green, overdraft coverage, borrow, cash back offers and promotions provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit http://cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures.* Check out Plaud AI and use my code CODESTORY for a great deal: https://plaud.aiAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy