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Born Svetha Yallapragada Rao in California to Telugu parents, Raja Kumari (Sanskrit for “Daughter of the King”) blends her Indian heritage with hip-hop to create her signature “BollyHood” sound. Trained in Kuchipudi, Kathak, and Bharatanatyam from age 5, she debuted at 7 before Ravi Shankar and later pivoted to hip-hop, inspired by Fugees. A Grammy-nominated songwriter, she penned hits for Fall Out Boy (“Centuries”) and Iggy Azalea (“Change Your Life”) before launching her solo career with EPs like The Come Up (2018) and HBIC (2022). Her music fuses classical Indian riffs, Hindi-English lyrics, and themes of empowerment, collaborating with icons like A.R. Rahman, Divine, and Gwen Stefani. Founding Godmother Records (2022) for creative freedom, she champions female artists while balancing global fame. A cultural ambassador, her tracks feature in films (Jawan, Pagglait) and she judges MTV’s Hustle. Honored with BMI Pop Awards, ELLE Awards, and MTV EMA nods, she funds healthcare and education via the Vegesna Foundation and UNICEF. Raja Kumari’s journey—from classical prodigy to hip-hop powerhouse—cements her as a bridge between Bollywood and Hollywood, inspiring a generation to embrace dual identities.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we'll be learning and practising some new and classic tongue twisters that will have your mouth moving in all sorts of ways. These tricky phrases are not just fun to say but can also help improve your speech and pronunciation. So, come join us and get ready to twist your tongue like never before!

IAN UNPLUGGED 2351 122323 Line Up The studio is alive with Christmas carolers from the Indian Pentecostal Church of God Hebron as Blessy Chacko, Shibu Daniel and Stafin Jacob sing carols in Hindi and English and Jensen Lukose accompanies them on the synthesizer. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/indo-american-news-radio/support

सौंदर्य लहरी श्लोक ३९ : with interpretation in Hindi & English : Soundaryalahari is an Adi Shankaracharya कृत तंत्रग्रंथ तव स्वातिष्ठाने हुतवहमधिष्ठाय निरतं तमीडे संवर्तं जननी महतीं तां च समयाम्। यदालोके लोकान् दहति  महति क्रोधकालिते दयार्द्रा या दृष्टिः  शिशिरमुपचारं रचयति॥ “O! Parāśakti! I deeply adore Śiva, who causes the fire of annihilation in Your svātiṣṭhāna chakra. I adore You, the great one as Samaya. When His glance burns the universe, Your glance, full of compassion renders chilliness, as treatment.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kavita-sings-india-u092du/message

Soundarya Lahari Shlok 38 _ समुन्मीलत्संवित्कमल मकरन्दैकरसिकं with interpretation in Hindi & English --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kavita-sings-india-u092du/message

Having only started performing comedy in the UK in 2021, Joshua was crowned winner of So You Think You Are Funny in 2022 and bagged another win at London Comedy Store gong show. He was finalist at BBC New Comedy Award 2022 and nominated as Best Newcomer by Chortle. The Southern India's native came to the UK for a corporate job and he only took up a comedy course to get better at communication doing his corporate job, These achievements and credits were unintended. Equally unintended is his understated, still and measured stage delivery. Joshua claims he is just trying to remember his lines! This episode inevitably covers a few big topics as our chilled and composed guest is incredibly intelligent and eloquent. Joshua explains the opening line about his accent he dislikes and how he has had to go the extra mile to convince others that some Indian boys really are called Joshua.---------------------------------Follow Joshua on Instagram and YoutubeJoshua's work=in=progress show at Top Secret Comedy Club in London on 17 July 2023 - ticketsFollow your host Kuan-wen on Instagram and Twitter---------------------------------00:38 Intro02:43 Why is Joshua named Joshua? Anglo Indians or Indians who converted to Christianity?07:49 Joking about his Indian accent he didn't think he has;========= a school that focuses on English education11:02 To “perfect” one's accent?12:09 The “Bank support accent” joke15:00 “Sorry my name is not brown enough for you”18:47 Joshua's languages20:14 Languages in South India20:52 North v South in India21:59 Colourism; racism without the race24:44 Joshua on colonialism30:11 A subdued, still style of comedy delivery (that is unintended)34:25 Not staging a fake Indian accent35:56 Joshua's upcoming shows and social media----------------------------------If you like the episode, please share it and leave a review. For any comments or suggestions, please contact us on Instagram or email comedywithanaccent@gmail.com----------------------------------Podcast intro music by @Taigenkawabe

Welcome back to Catwalk Through Life!  This is definitely one of my favorite episodes! In this episode, I interview Kimi Verma - famous Punjabi, Hindi & English film actress, successful designer, a former Mrs. India USA, President of Miss Punjaban USA & Miss NRI India USA, Certified Nutritionalist from Stanford University AND a toddler mom! Kimi is brilliant! And she shares her brilliance with us today on Catwalk Through Life! Have a listen to her inspirational story of how she came from a village in India to the United States and created so much success starting from her mindset. Kimi shares her words of wisdom on many things; advice for actors and actresses starting out, how to be confident, awesome health tips and so SO much more! Being a Mompreneur myself, I connect with so much of what she shared in this episode. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! And if you're looking for a royal arrival, Cinderella carriages, Indian baraat horses or a horse & carriage for your wedding or important event, do please contact https://www.cindycinderellacarriages.com for amazing service at a great cost! Enjoy!

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India Policy Watch #1: Winning The Long GameInsights on current policy issues in India — RSJMany moons ago I sat down for lunch with someone who is often referred to in the media as a ‘doyen of the industry'. Among other things, I asked him the single most important advice he would give to anyone who is at the start of their career. I didn't have any burning desire to succeed in the corporate rat race. So, I wasn't looking for a life-changing insight. I asked it because custom demanded you ask such questions of doyens like him over a meal. Also, even back then I was aware that I should fill my pitaara with such stories because sometime in future I could use them to make myself appear interesting. Anyway, he squinted at me and with something that appeared close to conviction told me, “always defer gratification”. I nodded and pronged a moody forkful of Aglio e Olio. Instant gratification.Over the years I have come to appreciate that piece of advice. Running a successful business over the long term is all about how well you trade off short-term gains with doing what's right for long-term sustainability. The odds are stacked against you because most of your shareholders, the analysts and the media are measuring you on quarterly performance. You can put out a convincing long-term story that will deliver a big, deferred outcome but how can anyone be sure you're headed that way? Any short-term wobble can have people question you. It is tough to live a life of deferred gratification. I haven't followed it to any meaningful extent in my life. Nor do I think even the doyen has done so since that meeting. But having understood how difficult deferring gratification could be, I appreciate how important it is for long-term success in any field of human endeavour. And, of course, that includes public policy in case you are wondering why am I channelling my inner Deepak Chopra and inflicting random truisms on you. OPS versus NPSThis problem of grasping short-term gains while jeopardising the long-term has been running on my mind for the past few months as I see the spectre of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) returning as a key election promise in the manifestos of Congress and AAP in state elections. There are two issues that I have been thinking about. First, what drives a political party to make a bonfire of the future for a questionable short-term electoral gain? And I'm picking on the OPS issue and these two parties only to illustrate this point. Every party in India has done this in the past. The abandoning of the farm laws was an instance of this. So, the question is what prompts a political party to do this and, importantly, why does the average voter get seduced by this? The other question is what can be done to change the incentives of the parties to do this? In other words, how can we make sure political parties learn to defer gratification? But before I get into them, let me give you a short overview of what's happening with the demand for OPS and the problem with states returning to it while abandoning the New pension Scheme (NPS). The Congress governments in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh have already gone back to OPS and it has promised the same in its manifesto in Himachal and Gujarat. Not to be outdone, AAP plans to return to OPS in Punjab and might make it a plank in Gujarat. Nothing catches the imagination of our politicians like a bad economic idea, so we now have the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, the RSS-affiliated trade union wing of the ruling BJP, demanding the same from the FM. As Business Standard reports:“National General Secretary of BMS, Ravindra Himte told IANS that during the meeting with Sitharaman, the organisation has urged the Finance Minister to restore the old pension system, increase the amount of minimum pension from Rs 1,000 to Rs 5,000 and to provide better health facilities to retired people under the Ayushman Bharat scheme.The BMS has also urged the Finance Minister to strengthen the social security scheme for workers and to take various other steps to protect the interests of the weaker section of the society.”For context, there are nine state elections scheduled for 2023. Pension of state government workers is a state subject. They can claim they have the mandate of the people to change this if they win using this as one of their key poll planks. Pension is a way to provide social security to workers following their retirement. A simple way to design a pension scheme is for an organisation to promise workers: upon retirement, we will continue paying, say 50 per cent, of your last drawn salary till you die. This is simple and intuitive. The worker has served the organisation for long and you reciprocate that loyalty by taking care of them after retirement. A few years of this scheme and you will soon have a reasonable request from the retired workers. The pension provided isn't keeping up with the inflation. The last drawn wage about a decade back is hardly worth anything now and a pension indexed to that is unfair to the worker. What do you do as a welfare-minded employer? You offer to index the wage to the revised pay scale that's prevalent now. So, the pension drawn by a worker is no longer 50 per cent of their wage when they were last working in the organisation. It is now 50 per cent of the wage of anyone doing the same job now to keep up with inflation. This is all good though a bit onerous. However, if you fast-forward this by a couple of decades, you will reach an uncomfortable scenario. The number of people who have retired from the organisation is now, say, equal to the number of people who are currently working. Those who have retired are drawing a pension that's 50 per cent of the existing pay scale. Simply put, if the total wages paid to working employees is Rs. 100, the pension paid to retired employees is Rs. 50. A third of the total wage bill is allocated to pension. Another decade and you might have two-thirds of the wage bill being taken up by pension. This is a problem in many ways. First, the working employee is continuing to take additional burden to pay for the ever-increasing number of retired employees. The incentive to be productive for the current employee keeps going down when they know the lion's share of any productivity gain will go to the retired pool. The organization continues to be weighed down by the pension bill. It finds it difficult to attract new talent because it cannot match market wage rates offered by newer companies that don't have such a pension bill. It also cannot invest in new products and innovations because the pension bill keeps rising. Unless the employer is the State, in which case, it can print money, increase its debt and keep paying for pension, there's really only one end state to this. The organization will go bankrupt because of its pension burden. This is not a hypothetical scenario. A whole generation of great American companies went down this path including the giant automakers of Detroit. The OPS that is being revived in many states in India is exactly this scheme. In 2004, the Union government introduced a New Pension Scheme (NPS) to avoid exactly this fate. The NPS model is quite simple. It is what is called a defined contribution model. The worker sets aside a small percentage of their salary every year towards a pension fund. The government matches that amount by making its own contribution from its coffers. This means there's an additional wage burden for the government during that year. This amount goes into a pension fund which is managed by professional fund houses regulated by the PFRDA. The fund houses have fairly rigid investment rules that prohibit them from investing in speculative assets. This ‘accumulation phase' continues till the employee retires. At the time of retirement, there's a nice little corpus that's built up. The employee can then take out, say 40 per cent of the corpus for their immediate need, the remaining amount moves into an annuity product where a fixed amount is paid out every year like a salary. Over the years the NPS scheme has been taken up by all Union government employees and gradually all state governments adopted it too. The professional fund houses that manage the NPS funds report annualised returns that have always been better than the Provident Fund (managed by the government) returns or even the best of mutual fund managers. And the first generation of retirees who use the NPS can vouch that the annuity they get has kept pace with inflation without having to wage-index their pension to the revised pay scale. This a beautiful solution that frees up the government from having a pension burden on its balance sheet after the retirement of the worker. No longer are current employees paying for the pension of the previous generation. In fact, we have often quoted the transition to NPS as one of the more successful public policy examples in India.Now, we want to undo it. There's really never been a clamour for OPS. But if you go around telling retired or near-to-retirement employees that we will give you a higher-paying pension scheme by taking you back to OPS, you might find some traction. Even if the numbers don't bear you out. Few voters will ask you how will you foot the bill. If the current and future employees don't see that eventually, they will be paying for this largesse, you might be able to convince every working employee that this will work better for them. I don't think we are there yet but I never bet against the popularity of a bad economic policy. They have tremendous seductive appeal. The Difficulty In Choosing Deferred GratificationThis is just another example where there are short-term pains in implementing a policy that will yield outsized long-term benefits. We could do that by implementing the NPS in 2004. Now, we are on the reverse. We want to implement a policy that might have short-term gains for a few but huge long-term costs for everyone. There are other similar policy questions in a democracy. How should we think about climate change? Should we take costly actions now by punishing polluting industries and impacting job creation while waiting for the benefits of these actions to pan out over decades? Or, how about increasing taxes today to rebuild roads and public infrastructure that will benefit society thirty years later? How should a political party think about these issues when their incentive is to win elections that happen every four or five years? Are democracies doomed to pick policies that are good in the short run but damaging in the long term because of this flaw?This intertemporal trade-off between maximizing societal welfare now and investing for the future is a vexing issue for political parties in a democracy. What I want to do is to understand the reasons for this trade-off being skewed in favour of short-term value maximisation and see if there's a way to engineer a choice architecture for the public that redresses it. I can think of four reasons why the skew exists.Firstly, there's the commitment problem among political parties. People are never convinced that a political party will stay the course on a particular policy. This is borne out of experience. Parties are less guided by economic ideology these days. The same set of politicians who might advocate a higher tax today and ask you to tighten your belts may change their tune tomorrow when they sense a change in the air. Also, politicians aren't permanent. There is turnover among them within a party itself. And the newer set might renege on previous commitments. So, for the citizens, paying short-term costs because you believe in the political commitment of a party now is fraught with risks.Secondly, forecasting is difficult. There's the fog of uncertainty and lack of adequate information to accurately predict these benefits. It is easier for a voter to use past performance as a guide to the future than predict it based on the impact of a new policy. The average voter anyway has only limited cognitive mind space for public policy. They might be able to think only about present outcomes with some clarity. This encourages politicians to think of policies that are typically myopic. Further, this information challenge means even if voters and the government say they care about the future, their actions will continue to be shortsighted. Separately, even those who are trained in public policy to think about the intertemporal trade-off can struggle to make accurate assumptions about the future. We live in a world that's more volatile and ambiguous than before. To predict the future and the societal context that will emerge then is a risky proposition. For the policymaker, it is optimal to maximise a more certain near-term than go out on a limb for the distant future. Thirdly, we have the old problem of concentrated benefits and diffused costs. It is natural for a smaller group for whom the benefits of a policy are concentrated to organise themselves and demand its implementation. The converse of this is also true. Any policy action where the short-term costs are to be borne by a small but organised group while the benefits will emerge over time for the wider society will get scuttled by this group. The repeal of the farm laws was an example of this. Even if the short-term pain and the long-term gains both accrue to this small group, they will oppose it. Because a better alternative for them is to redistribute the short-term pain to everyone while securing the long-term benefits for themselves. Or, to continue with the status quo.Finally, we have the problem of political parties that have either run out of ideas or who want to make a dent in new electoral terrain. To them getting a foothold through the aid of a myopic policy is worth the price. After all, they have many other policies that are better for society, which they might rationalise. Or, it is a question of survival and how does long-term matter if you will cease to exist then. This is what explains the actions of AAP and Congress on OPS. Is There A Way Out?So how does a policymaker counter these? I have a few suggestions, some of which might seem Machiavellian.First, there are ways to take the sting out of short-term costs. A deft policymaker can obfuscate some of the costs by making their calculations more complex (say, in the design of an auction or a tax) that is difficult for the voter to understand. The idea is to reduce the overt display of the cost to be paid in the short-term. The other option is to impose the short-term costs in a phased manner or in specific cohorts (‘grandfathering' certain beneficiaries for some time). There is a whole field of behavioural economics that can be used to nudge the voter towards a certain action like loss avoidance. The other way to do this is to diffuse the responsibility of who is imposing the short-term costs among many agents of the state including the government, independent regulators, corporates, local bodies or international treaties. This fragmentation of power and diffusion of the blame can make it easier to take difficult calls. They can take the sting out of the costs to be paid for future benefits. Second, there are ways in which the long-term gains can be crystallised into something more tangible in the present. There are ways in which some of the future payoffs can be advanced through well-choreographed pilots. This is particularly true for infrastructure investments where the example of a few recent successes can be talked up and few well-timed benefits early on in the investment process can convince the citizens of the long-term benefits. The other way to think about it is to play up the huge long-term consequences of not acting now with any small evidence in the present being used to project a terrible future. This is how climate change activists are playing the game today where any minor aberration in weather patterns anywhere in the world is used to proclaim ‘climate change is real'. You might disagree with them on principle but their approach to building public support is right. Third, we come to making political commitments sticky for the future so that voters are more willing to support taking short-term pain. The way to go about is to make any reversal of course difficult by making a policy difficult to dismantle. This can be achieved by placing exit barriers while implementing a policy that could include multiple players and steps whose consent would be needed to roll back a policy. They could have veto powers to stop such rollbacks. The more the institutional fragmentation, the higher the barrier to exit. Other means could be adopted too like making an amendment to the law or constitution or setting up a new independent authority to institutionalise a policy. By having such players whose incentives are aligned with long-term benefits promised in the policy, one can create a significant hurdle. The costs of reneging on a commitment go up significantly. Lastly, how do we counter the small but organised interests that might scuttle a policy because they don't want to take the short-term pain? In most cases, the problem here is how do we mobilise the larger group for whom the benefits are diffused and in the long-term to counter the smaller but highly motivated group? One of the ways to think about this is to choose a smaller subset from the larger group whose benefits (or costs in case the policy isn't chosen) might have greater salience for the group. For instance, talking about children and the future of our planet makes it easier to focus on the costs of not making climate change investments today. The ability to show with clarity that the redistribution of benefits of a policy that imposes costs on current beneficiaries and favours a future group is crucial in winning the battle of minds. The benefits are often spoken in abstract terms over a larger group than making it very specific for a focused smaller group. If that's done well, you get a countervailing force against the small, organised group that wants to retain the status quo.The intertemporal policy choice is crucial to ensure democracies don't lapse into the most shortsighted policy recommendations because that's what gets instant mass approval. The wise man who told me to ‘always defer gratification' gave me the best career advice. Unfortunately, he didn't tell me how to do it. I suspect he didn't know it too. Because it is tough.    For more on the Pension issue, check these editions:* Pension Tension in edition #174* Pension Troubles are Back in edition#162* A Framework a Week: Understanding Cognitive Maps in edition #62Thanks for reading Anticipating the Unintended! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work.India Policy Watch #2: The Cats See Through the Monkey's TrickInsights on domestic policy issues— Pranay KotasthaneIn edition #131, I wrote that India's fiscal federalism resembles the monkey and the two cats fable. While states fight amongst each other to corner a higher share of the total money devolved to them, the Union government can go scot-free even as it appropriates nearly 60 per cent of the divisible pool resources, raises new cesses, and uses a part of these funds to run its own centrally sponsored schemes. This focus on horizontal devolution (the formula used for sharing resources between states) masks the far more serious problems of vertical devolution (how money is split between the Union government and all states as a whole).Given this starting point, one news item from the past week caught my attention. State Finance Ministers (FMs) in the pre-budget consultation meeting with the Union FM highlighted the problems with the vertical devolution regime. Their criticisms and suggestions can be summarised as follows:* Increase states' share in goods and services tax (GST) to 60 per cent from 50 per cent at present. * Merge cesses and surcharges with the existing taxes so that states are not deprived of their share, and* Rationalise the expenditure under centrally sponsored schemes. The Tamil Nadu FM said that "All states, irrespective of political parties, expressed a common theme -- states' fiscal autonomy is greatly constrained by the extent of centrally sponsored schemes, by the extent of changing ratios of funding of such schemes”.Let's focus on the first suggestion, which seems to be a reform pathway for India's fiscal federalism. What should we make of it? First up, a clarification. The 50 per cent share that the state FMs highlighted refers to the rate of taxation and not the share of total GST collections. If you check any bill, the GST is split equally into two halves — SGST (which remains with the states) and IGST (which goes into the total divisible pool to be split between Union and state governments). Since 42 per cent of IGST is again devolved to states using the Finance Commission formula for vertical devolution, states already get about 70 per cent of the total GST collections. If the proposed change were to be made, the states' share in GST will further rise to 76.8 per cent, according to former J&K Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu. Keeping this important clarification aside, the suggestion to increase the share of SGST by 10 per cent is excellent. As I have argued earlier, any fiscal reform that increases general purpose transfers to states increases their autonomy and allows them to decide their own priorities. In a country where the GSDP per capita of the richest state (Goa) is nearly ten times that of the poorest (Bihar), one-size-fits-all schemes run from Delhi can hardly be expected to be effective. However, the proposed reform in its current form will be dead on arrival. There's nothing in it that would motivate the Union government to change its stance, and nor are states promising anything at their end in return. With some conditionalities, this reform can be made to work in the overall interest of citizens.One, states should commit to sharing a fixed percentage of their increased SGST share with local governments. State governments cannot always play victims. They are simultaneously culpable in strangling the finances of local governments. An increase in the SGST share can act as a useful incentive mechanism to fix this crucial flaw in our fiscal federalism.Two, states should commit to a fixed increase in capital expenditure. The increased fiscal space can easily be frittered away by states. Three states switching back to the costly Old Pension System that burdens future generations is a case in point. Hence, an increase in the states' GST share should be made conditional on improving the quality of expenditure.Three, the increased SGST share should be accompanied by a sunsetting of centrally sponsored schemes. This will create fiscal space for the Union government to focus on higher-level functions: defence, trade, manufacturing competitiveness, higher education, and R&D. Admittedly, this change would be the toughest part of the bargain. The Union government runs so many centrally sponsored schemes precisely because it is politically beneficial for parties to portray that our day-to-day requirements are solved directly only by the largesse of the occupant of the 7, Lok Kalyan Marg. A move away from this low-level equilibrium would need immense political capital. To make this idea palatable, a move to the 60:40 sharing can be made optional. Only states that agree to the above three conditions can transition to the new regime. The rest can continue to be stuck with the older compromise. In sum, the proposed reform merits serious discussion. Advertisement: Here's an awesome opportunity for mid-career professionals who missed out on learning the liberal arts.Global Policy Watch: Myth-busting Reservations About Global Supply ChainsInsights on global issues relevant to India— Pranay KotasthaneGeopolitics is trumping geoeconomics the world over. The good old days when international trade was unapologetically perceived as a positive-sum game are past us. Countries are pursuing expensive industrial policies across sectors, by labelling everything from the display screen of your phone to the apps on it as “strategic”. In this worldview, one constant villain is Global Supply Chains (GSCs). The dominant narrative seems to be that shorter and more domestic GSCs are more reliable, and hence government intervention to snip these GSCs is desirable.But what does the evidence suggest? A few recent papers inject some sense into the ongoing debate. In this section, I will summarise key insights from them, and link out to more readings on GSCs.The one economist to read on GSCs is Richard Baldwin. His 2012 paper Global supply chains: why they emerged, why they matter, and where they are going covers the foundational concepts lucidly. It delivers one insight after another, busting many myths in the process. Sample this:“Globalisation is often viewed as driven by the gradual lowering of natural and man-made trade costs. This is a serious misunderstanding. Globalisation has been driven by advances in two very different types of ‘connective' technologies: transportation and transmission.” …In Balwin's view, the first unbundling of globalisation was made possible by steam and made profitable by scale economies and comparative-advantage-led separation. The second unbundling was made possible by information communication technologies and made profitable by wage differences. There's a lot more in the paper that I'm still processing. Do give it a read.Meanwhile, his latest paper with Rebecca Freeman investigates if the current structure of GSCs is too “risky”. They acknowledge that the recent challenges—COVID-19, climate change and geopolitical tussles—are of a global scale and will likely reshape GSCs. They add that all firms make a risk-reward trade-off. Recent events have already driven firms to invest more in building resilience. Thus, there are just two cases where a government intervention makes sense. First, when the social evaluation of this trade-off puts greater stress on the “risk” compared to the firm's evaluation of this trade-off, there's a case for market failure. The higher the gap between these two perceptions, the higher the likelihood of government intervention. From an Indian perspective, China's recent actions have widened this gap.Second, the complexity of GSCs might make firms (especially the smaller ones) underestimate the true risks involved. This lack of information can be another justification for government action in the form of mapping and making this information public. On the issue of which interventions might actually reshape GSCs, they suggest: Locational equilibriums are unlikely to shift unless firms perceive a permanent shock and governments commit to substantial, long-term production subsidies (as with agriculture), massive regulation (as in banking), or massive state-lead interventions (as in defense). Policies on essential medical supplies and semiconductors may well prove to be more durable and effective given their critical nature. Arguments that these sectors are part of today's national defense, broadly defined, are more credible, and thus more likely to endure long enough to reshape production structures. Going beyond government interventions, they identify a trend that's of importance to us in India. Given the improvements in industrial automation and AI, future manufacturing GVCs might become shorter. At the same time, future services GVCs might become longer and more widespread, given the multilateral agreements on services trade, which are far less protectionist than those in manufacturing trade. From an Indian perspective, these propositions mean that India (or any other country) is not likely to displace China in the manufacturing of goods which are not considered “strategic”. Instead, it is automation that's more likely to reduce other countries' dependence on China. On the other hand, India's opportunity lies in the services trade. Policies such as data localisation or restrictions on human capital movements will only dampen India's chances. Perhaps, the far more important lesson from the US export controls on China is not that the US might do something similar to India, but how difficult it is to displace a country of China's size once it's embedded itself in GVCs. India's strategy should therefore be to embed itself in services GVCs. HomeWorkReading and listening recommendations on public policy matters* [Podcast] DO NOT MISS this Puliyabaazi with Ajay Shah in Hindi/English on state capacity and public policy. While you are there, subscribe to our channel :). * [Report] The State of State Finances report by Saket Surya and Tushar Chakrabarty of PRS is useful reference material for anyone interested in contemporary Indian public policy.* [Twitter Thread] For a simple explanation of the central issue in India's fiscal federalism, read Pranay's thread. * [Explainer] This Trade Deficit-101 is worth your time. It asks: What is a trade deficit and how does it affect the economy? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit publicpolicy.substack.com

Our many partners will be logging on with us and participating. This will be a bilingual service of Hindi/English. Come and expect to have an encounter with the Lord as we join with our ministry partners. We are a "glocal" church and this is a great oppurtunity to participate in this exceptional anointing on our house. Pastor Lynn speaks about the New Wine, referring to the Holy Spirit's infilling into a renewed believer and follower of Christ! Listen and receive!

In this Audio we are going to learn about the Types of Leasing Finance in details. Following topics have been covered in this Audio: - Introduction to leasing - What is Direct Lease? - What is Bipartite Lease? - What is Tripartite Lease? - What is Sales & Lease back? - What is Leverage lease?

There's a lot that a smile can say, and there's a lot that it can hide. विविध रूपों में हुआ साकार, रंगो में सुरंजित, मृत्तिका का यह नहीं संसार, उसकी विकलता है। - आकुल अंतर - हरिवंशराय बच्चन The shapes, the lines, the colors; they twist and turn, leap and dance; but the world of art isn't what it appears to be, it's the agony of the artist that defines his art. #hindipoetry #hindi #art #artist #bachchan Click/Tap here to record your viewpoint, and send it in as a message. Elsewhere on the web: http://tabseabtak.com http://instagram.com/tabseabtak About the Tab Se Ab Tak Podcast: This show tells stories from the World Mythology (mostly Hindu, Greek, Egyptian, Sumerian, and far-eastern mythologies,) and World History (mostly Indian, European, American,) and shares the folklore from around the world. This podcast, which is hosted by writer, speaker, and story-teller Shafali Anand, is mostly in Hindi with a sprinkling of English, (but the "Little Nothings" episodes are in Hinglish,) and it deals with several dimensions of motivation, inspiration, and also touches upon spirituality. It covers topics such as life and death, love and heartbreaks, personal relationships, pursuit of happiness, success and failure etc. If you want to lose yourself into a world of mythological, historical, and sometimes fictional stories, interpreted to answer the questions you find yourself wrestling with...and you know Hindi, put your headphones on, and step in. Show Host: Shafali Anand (Artist, Writer, Speaker, Storyteller) Become Part of the Tab Se Ab Tak Show - आपका message, आपकी आवाज़! Click here to record your message and send it to The Tab Se Ab Tak Show --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tabseabtak/message

But really, this matter is about over 3000 hours and the future PM has spoken that much already. Dig. This has components from a call with Hansika mentioned on E 4. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/preseedvoice/message

Reema started daydreaming with the pail of milk on her head. Lets find out what happens next.Listening to stories help children create curiosity, imagination and better communication. It also increases their way of expression and makes it easy for them to communicate their inner feelings. It creates a whole new world for the kids as they learn more about life and all its aspects. They start developing new ideas and creative modes for daily activities. Why should you listen to my podcast?+Helps in reducing Screen Time.+Builds visualizing power.+Creates moral values and understandings.+Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip:You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories.Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.comwww.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

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Lets find out what happens when a teacher meets a boatman.Listening to stories help children create curiosity, imagination and better communication. It also increases their way of expression and makes it easy for them to communicate their inner feelings. It creates a whole new world for the kids as they learn more about life and all its aspects. They start developing new ideas and creative modes for daily activities. Why should you listen to my podcast?+Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip:You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories. Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

A dog Tunnu, meets a cunning crocodile near the river. Lets find out what happens next.Listening to stories help children create curiosity, imagination and better communication. It also increases their way of expression and makes it easy for them to communicate their inner feelings. It creates a whole new world for the kids as they learn more about life and all its aspects. They start developing new ideas and creative modes for daily activities. Why should you listen to my podcast?+Helps in reducing Screen Time.+Builds visualizing power.+Creates moral values and understandings.+Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip:You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories.Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.comwww.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

Two best friends, Sara & Savita get separated in their childhood. Lets find out what happens next.Listening to stories help children create curiosity, imagination and better communication. It also increases their way of expression and makes it easy for them to communicate their inner feelings. It creates a whole new world for the kids as they learn more about life and all its aspects. They start developing new ideas and creative modes for daily activities. Why should you listen to my podcast?+Helps in reducing Screen Time.+Builds visualizing power.+Creates moral values and understandings.+Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip:You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories.Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.comwww.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

A Lazy king meets a lazy tortoise.Lets find out what happens next.Listening to stories help children create curiosity, imagination and better communication. It also increases their way of expression and makes it easy for them to communicate their inner feelings. It creates a whole new world for the kids as they learn more about life and all its aspects. They start developing new ideas and creative modes for daily activities. Why should you listen to my podcast?+Helps in reducing Screen Time.+Builds visualizing power.+Creates moral values and understandings.+Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip:You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories.Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.comwww.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

Cyberpolitik: Invasion and Infektion— Prateek WaghreIn a recent edition of The Information Ecologist, I had referred to the activity around the IStandWithRussia and IStandWithPutin hashtags that seemed to include a number of accounts associated with India.The second India subplot is the presence of seemingly India-associated accounts in Twitter trends such as ‘IStandWithRussia’ and ‘IStandwithPutin’. See this thread by @NovelSci and these threads by (1,2) by @MarcOwenJones.Since then, we’ve had more investigations looking into this aspect. A DFR Lab investigation observed [Jean Le Roux - DFRLab]:The Top 12 most retweeted tweets belonged to accounts with low follower counts. Despite this, they seemed to gain very few followers. In some cases, accounts started sharing some of these tweets within minutes of their creation (an example in Jean Le Roux’s post references an account that shared 3 of the top 12 tweets within 2 minutes of being created) even though they didn’t follow any of these accounts. If you head over to the post and look at the collage of these tweets, many of the handles appear to have ‘Indian-sounding’ names.“A large portion of the sampled accounts appeared to originate in India”. How? (one should bear in mind that OSINT analysis often requires making a lot of educated guesses)Language cues, tweets about local sports and politics, early follows (likely region-based suggestions), and the time zone in which the accounts were most active all pointed towards India as the origin of many of the accounts in the network.And that a “large proportion” of the accounts were created this year, and Feb 24th and Mar 2nd were the dates on which the most accounts were created. Let’s revisit the ‘appeared to originate in India’ aspect.While Marc Owen Jones’ sample of 20000 tweets referenced India as a frequently appearing user-reported location (though, in that sample, it wasn’t right on top), he cautions that just because a location is reported does not mean it is accurate. Last week, the New York Times published an investigation based on data from Marc Owen Jones (I assume more data was collected since the article mentions a 2-week period) [Kate Conger, Suhasini Raj - NYTimes]. (emphasis added, I also wish there were fewer blues, it was hard to differentiate between the other countries)Users who said they were from India made up nearly 11 percent of the hashtag trend in the two weeks after the invasion. Just 0.3 percent were from Russia and 1.6 percent from the United States during that time.Around the time Technopolitik 21 went out, Carl Miller posted a network map which indicated that many replies/mentions were directed at accounts in India (if you zoom in, you’ll see accounts of some minsters, Indian embassies, opposition figures and media houses). Worth noting that this map appeared to be account-specific and not hashtag-specific. Aside 1: One of the network maps on Jean Le Roux’s post did mention Indian and Russian diplomatic accounts (image link).About 10 days later, Carl Miller posted a map that sub-categorised them based on language clusters, followed by a white paper on March 25th.Aside 2: If you’re wondering why I was sketching out a timeline, it is because there was a minor subplot developing. Both the tweets I’ve included here reference an information operation. However, researchers like Shelby Grossman (tweet) and Emerson Brooking (replies) pointed out that they provide no evidence of a coordinated information operation.The white paper, when it came out, didn’t call it a single information operation, either. However, it did make for an interesting analysis. It also highlighted that the information ecosystem is a couple of degrees more complex than we assume and that the way we answer questions like ‘who is winning the information war?’ are influenced heavily by who is asking and what part of it they’re looking at (like the parable about the visually challenged people and the elephant).While I can’t speak authoritatively about the research methodology and the clustering of accounts based on linguistic similarities, I’ve included an image with some of my notes from the white paper. Two dates pop up frequently, 24th February (the day the invasion began) and 2nd March (the date of the UN General Assembly vote and ultimately a resolution which “demand[ed] that Russia ‘immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders.’” [UN.org])Here’s what the white paper said about the mixed Hindi/English cluster.We also observe that Russia-related message decreases sharply after the UN vote, but overall volumes of messaging does not. Our speculation is that many of the RED accounts are members of a ‘paid to engage’ spam network that can be rented to supply amplification to a number of different clients, and has over our time of study been used to amplify BJP politics, a commercial cinema release and also the invasion of Ukraine.This is not surprising. It still doesn’t answer the question of who paid, of course, which would require a tremendous amount of investigative work to establish a clear money trail.Do friends target friends with information operations?While we may never find who paid for the Indian-language clusters’ amplification of pro-invasion messaging, it is worth taking a queue from Mike Caulfied’s tweet thread and looking at history.Chapter 22 of Thomas Rid’s Active Measures references a Soviet Active Measure trying to create the narrative that AIDS was a bio-weapon created by the US (that should sound familiar for many reasons) that had an Indian connection. As per the source material he cites, it was, at some point, code-named Operation INFEKTION by the HVA (the foreign intelligence branch of East Germany’s Ministry for State Security).“AIDS may invade India: mystery disease caused by U.S. lab experiments.” So read the sensational first-page headline in Patriot, an Indian newspaper, on July 16, 1983. Patriot, under a picture of five smiling girls, printed an anonymous letter from a “well-known American scientist and anthropologist.” There was no name in the byline, only “New York.”The Patriot letter was a masterfully executed disinformation operation: comprising about 20 percent forgery and 80 percent fact, truth and lies woven together, it was an eloquent, well-researched piece that gently led the reader, through convincing detail, to his or her own conclusion.He points out that The Patriot had been funded by the Soviet Union, when it opened in 1962, “for the explicit purpose of circulating Soviet-friendly stories and publishing disinformation”. And while the article did not seem to have any direct impact (Rid notes that neither was it picked up in India, nor was it noticed in Europe and the US), it did play a role later:In KGB's efforts to further a narrative in coordination with partners code-named Denver (in 1985).The point of departure of the planned active measures campaign, as the KGB told its Soviet bloc partners, was the “factual” article published in Patriot. The KGB then instructed its partners to help spread the theory that AIDS was U.S.-made to “party, parliamentary, social-political, and journalistic circles in Western countries and the developing world.” The “facts” published in the Indian press offered the blueprintIn October 1985 - it was attributed as a source in another article that, as per Rid, would prove to be consequential in the future.On October 30, Literaturnaya Gazeta ran the headline “Panic in the West: or, What Is Hiding Behind the Sensation Surrounding AIDS.”23 The paper was the KGB’s “prime conduit in the Soviet press for propaganda and disinformation,” according to Oleg Kalugin. The piece that relaunched the DENVER campaign closely mirrored the earlier measure in the Indian press. Its author, Vitaly Zapevalov, accurately cited details about the new disease and its spread in American cities over the past two years, basing his analysis on authoritative U.S. news reports.“Why,” he asked ominously, would AIDS “appear in the USA and start spreading above all in towns along the East Coast?” Next, the Gazeta piece outlined several covert American biological warfare programs, again based on verifiable public sources. Zapevalov also cited accurate details about Fort Detrick. The author then referred to the two-year-old Patriot forgery to connect the dots. “All of this information, taken together with the AIDS mystery, leads to serious considerations. The solid newspaper Patriot, published in India, for instance, openly expressed an assumption that AIDS is the result of similar inhuman Washington experiments.”I’ve just quoted specific sections here, I recommend reading the complete chapter (and perhaps the whole book).So, do friends target friends with information operations? As my colleagues Nitin Pai and Pranay Kotasthane will tell you - there are no friends in international relations, only interests.Antariksh Matters: Russia, Ukraine & Space Entanglement— Aditya RamanathanRussia’s war with Ukraine is testing a key feature of any state’s military space strategy: entanglement. Entanglement or intertwining is the act of relying on domestic or foreign civilian space assets to conduct military operations. Days after the war broke out, Ukraine pleaded with commercial satellite operators to share their imagery, especially those from synthetic aperture radars (SAR). In a letter later made public, Ukraine’s minister for digital transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, wrote that his country “badly needed the opportunity to watch the movement of Russian troops, especially at night”. The minister’s letter made four specific requests:“Provide high-resolution satellite imagery in the real time to Armed Forces of Ukraine; Provide data from synthetic aperture radar, or SAR, satellites in the [sic] real time to Armed Forces of Ukraine; Cooperate with EOS Data Analytics and Max Polyakov as our representative for data processing and analytics; Stop other types of activities that may support military operations of Russian and Belarus government.” According to later reporting by The Washington Post, five private companies have already begun sharing such data.A more stark example of entanglement comes from SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet constellation. Following a tweet from Fedorov, SpaceX’s Elon Musk made arrangements for Starlink to go live in Ukraine and began supplying the country with thousands of antennas. It has since emerged that Ukrainian forces are using Starlink to facilitate communications and coordinate attacks against Russian forces. As The Telegraph of London reported: “Drone teams in the field, sometimes in badly connected rural areas, are able to use Starlink to connect them to targeters and intelligence on their battlefield database. They can direct the drones to drop anti-tank munitions, sometimes flying up silently to Russian forces at night as they sleep in their vehicles.”For Russia, Starlink embodies the dilemmas of entanglement. If this civilian satellite-based communication system is being used for military purposes, does it become a legitimate target? After all, it’s reasonable to argue that, in this case, Ukrainian forces have failed to separate themselves from civilian infrastructure.  There are, of course, practical reasons for Russia not to target Starlink. It is obviously not going to use kinetic weapons such as ASAT missiles against a US-owned target. Even lower-order options like cyber capabilities may either not be feasible, may take weeks or months to develop, or contain escalatory potential that Russia seeks to avoid. For the moment at least, Russia is apparently limiting itself to jamming Starlink signals where possible. In the years to come, other states may face Russia’s entanglement dilemma, perhaps in starker form. If the Russia-Ukraine war sets a precedent of impunity - essentially leaving space alone as some sort of ‘sanctuary’ - it could encourage other spacefaring states to deepen their own entanglements and share those capabilities with other states at war. If you enjoy the contents of this newsletter, please consider signing up for Takshashila’s Graduate Certificate in Public Policy(GCPP) Programmes.Click here to know moreMatsyanyaaya: Can Crafty Fintech help De-Dollarise— Aditya PareekUnprecedented sanctions, restrictions and export controls are inflicting enormous costs on Russia’s economy in the wake of the ongoing conflict. As many large Russian banks have been cut off from SWIFT and conducting business in the US dollar, there is a lot of buzz around the prospects of a new de-Dollarising nexus emerging between Russia and China. In a recent research note, Anupam Manur and I explored the question if Central Bank Digital Currencies(CBDC)s can help them circumvent and cushion the blow of US sanctions.Russia and China have both sought to ban and discourage the use and mining of private cryptocurrencies, citing both financial stability and security concerns. The two have instead chosen to adopt blockchain technologies for their central bank-issued-and-regulated digital currencies. These Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)s have no inherent advantage compared to electronically transferred denominated sums in paper fiat currency counterparts as far as international trade is concerned. As a tool to circumvent sanctions, CBDCs could be theoretically effective in avoiding the US banking system. However,the willingness of another party to accept the CBDC may not always be certain. The value of a currency,whether it be digital or paper,comes from it being widely accepted, which is an uncertain variable at this juncture.Furthermore, holding CBDCs issued by an isolated and sanctioned nation may not be a desirable prospect. The pariah status of the sanctioned states limits the holder of the CBDC to only conducting transactions with either the issuing states or a small number of other states who might also accept it.  Depending on the international political environment, the holders and accommodators of the pariah nation’s CBDCs could also be at the receiving end of secondary sanctions by the international community, further reducing their desirability. The exchange rate volatility and other associated risks will still apply to Russian and Chinese or any other CBDCs, thus, they make little sense in revolutionising the paradigm of international trade in their current form. The CBDCs could be used to settle a limited set of transactions, for instance,India’s defence deals with Russia, which are not a regular day on day or month on month feature.Furthermore, even if fintech solutions and alternatives exist to some problems, cooperation between Russia and China has always been lopsided, benefiting China above and beyond.A clear example of this lopsided cooperation is the adoption rate of China’s payments messaging service Cross Border Interbank Payments System (CIPS),to which over 23 Russian banks have subscribed. Meanwhile, only one Chinese bank has signed up for Russia’s equivalent System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS). China is also likely to insist on conducting the transactions and any financing predominantly in the Yuan, as a key strategic goal for China is to make Renminbi a reserve currency alongside the US Dollar.To know more about how a de-dollarising nexus between Russia and China may be a mirage, check out the full text of the research note here.Our Reading Menu[Report] Secure World Foundation’s Annual Global Counterspace Capabilities Report[Report] CSIS’s Space Threat Assessment 2022 report[Report] Arms control in outer space: Status, timeline, and analysis By Jessica West and Lauren Vyse[Opinion] Charting a course for India’s Arctic engagement by Aditya Pareek and Ruturaj Gowaikar who are also contributors to this newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hightechir.substack.com

Billu is always hungry and enters a dovecot.Lets find out what happens next.Listening to stories help children create curiosity, imagination and better communication. It also increases their way of expression and makes it easy for them to communicate their inner feelings. It creates a whole new world for the kids as they learn more about life and all its aspects. They start developing new ideas and creative modes for daily activities. Why should you listen to my podcast?+Helps in reducing Screen Time.+Builds visualizing power.+Creates moral values and understandings.+Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip:You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories.Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.comwww.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

As Ukraine fights to retain its independence and sovereignty, it teaches us a very important lesson in life…that words mustn't be taken on their face-value. यूक्रेन और रूस की इस लड़ाई में एक बात उभर कर आती है, वह यह कि, क्या अपने शुभचिंतकों की बातों को ज्यों का त्यों मान लेना ठीक है? #ukraine #ukrainewar #putin #zelenski #politics Click/Tap here to record your viewpoint, and send it in as a message. Elsewhere on the web: http://tabseabtak.com http://instagram.com/tabseabtak About the Tab Se Ab Tak Podcast: This show tells stories from the World Mythology (mostly Hindu, Greek, Egyptian, Sumerian, and far-eastern mythologies,) and World History (mostly Indian, European, American,) and shares the folklore from around the world. This podcast, which is hosted by writer, speaker, and story-teller Shafali Anand, is mostly in Hindi with a sprinkling of English, (but the "Little Nothings" episodes are in Hinglish,) and it deals with several dimensions of motivation, inspiration, and also touches upon spirituality. It covers topics such as life and death, love and heartbreaks, personal relationships, pursuit of happiness, success and failure etc. If you want to lose yourself into a world of mythological, historical, and sometimes fictional stories, interpreted to answer the questions you find yourself wrestling with...and you know Hindi, put your headphones on, and step in. Show Host: Shafali Anand (Artist, Writer, Speaker, Storyteller) Become Part of the Tab Se Ab Tak Show - आपका message, आपकी आवाज़! Click here to record your message and send it to The Tab Se Ab Tak Show --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tabseabtak/message

Mithya becomes invisible?Lets find out what happens next.Listening to stories help children create curiosity, imagination and better communication. It also increases their way of expression and makes it easy for them to communicate their inner feelings. It creates a whole new world for the kids as they learn more about life and all its aspects. They start developing new ideas and creative modes for daily activities. Why should you listen to my podcast?+Helps in reducing Screen Time.+Builds visualizing power.+Creates moral values and understandings.+Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip:You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories.Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.comwww.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

Dr Sumer Sethi in conversation with Ankita Jindal from Amritsar addresses this important question

Lets find out what happens when a monkey meets parrot.Listening to stories help children create curiosity, imagination and better communication. It also increases their way of expression and makes it easy for them to communicate their inner feelings. It creates a whole new world for the kids as they learn more about life and all its aspects. They start developing new ideas and creative modes for daily activities. Why should you listen to my podcast?+Helps in reducing Screen Time.+Builds visualizing power.+Creates moral values and understandings.+Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip:You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories.Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.comwww.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

Lets find out what happens when Mini wants to buy the coffee shop...Listening to stories help children create curiosity, imagination and better communication. It also increases their way of expression and makes it easy for them to communicate their inner feelings. It creates a whole new world for the kids as they learn more about life and all its aspects. They start developing new ideas and creative modes for daily activities. Why should you listen to my podcast?+Helps in reducing Screen Time.+Builds visualizing power.+Creates moral values and understandings.+Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip:You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories........Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

Hindi-English mix conversation between Dr Sumer Sethi & Kamlesh 2nd year MBBS student from Nagpur.

What happens when Nandi becomes too bossy?Lets find out what happens next.Narrated by- Aisha GuptaNandi;s Friend- Vivaan JainMoral- Romica GuptaWhy should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip:You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories. Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

Interactive LIVE session between Dr Sumer Sethi & Dr Vijayesh Tighare, Intern from ACPM Medical College Dhule. Session covers how to find time for dreams in busy life of internship. Also how to read and study a complex subject like medical science, what should be the approach of Medical student. (Hindi-English Mixed Language as it was LIVE discussion)

What happens when you are not ready to share?Lets find out what happens next.Why should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip:You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories. Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

Thirsty crow with modern brains. Persistence and diligence can create great rewards. Lets find out how.Why should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip:You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories. Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

A very loving and super sensitive boy- Yuvraj, once met a beautiful dove. Lets find out what happens next.Why should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip:You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories. Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

What happens when someone else do the same thing with you?Lets find out.Why should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip:You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories. Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

What happens when Nirbhaya was coming back alone and met a frightening man? Lets find out how brave she was. Why should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip:You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories. Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

You reap what you sow..! Jojo had bad intentions and so does the ice cream seller.. Lets find out what does it means! Why should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip:You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories. Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

Aisha & Anisha were rewarded for their hardwork. But did they utilize their reward ? What happened with their magical maggi? Lets find out.. ! Why should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip:You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories. Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

"Sometimes people assume marketing is just about advertising or selling, but this is not the whole story. It's actually about creating a perception in the minds of your customers." Sandeep Maheshwari is a name among millions who struggled, failed and surged ahead in search of success, happiness and contentment. Just like any middle class guy, he too had a bunch of unclear dreams and a blurred vision of his goals in life. All he had was an undying learning attitude to hold on to. Rowing through ups and downs, it was time that taught him the true meaning of his life.

Moral: Honesty is the best policy! It gives you courage and confidence! Don't forget to follow us on instagram & please leave us a feedback - www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com Why should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip: You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories.

We are live with another story! This horse is not unique, we all are same. Don't forget to follow us on instagram & please leave us a feedback - www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com Why should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip: You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories.

What does doctor Suzi have to say to Shera? Lets find out!Why should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip: You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories. Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

United we stand and divided we fall. Let's see how a farmer teaches this beautiful philosphy to his lazy sons. Why should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip: You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories. Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

This story is about Geetu , her Mom and a magic pot. Let's see what happens. Moral- Always finish the work you started.Why should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip: You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories. Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

Once upon a time, there was a drummer. His son also started playing beautiful drums. One day both them went to the city for a large annual fair and earned a lot of money. But they came back home empty handed. Let's see why?Moral- Always listen to your elders and act as per the situation.Why should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip: You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories. Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

The moral of the story of the little red hen is that you should be friendly and helpful.Also, that you must work hard to earn a living for yourself. The little red hen asks several other animals on the farm to help her collect wheat, grind it and then bake chapatis. Let's see what happens?Why should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip: You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories. Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

A Dog, to whom the butcher had thrown a bone, was hurrying home with his bone as fast as he could go. As he crossed a narrow bridge, he happened to look down and saw himself reflected in the water. But the greedy Dog thought he saw a real Dog carrying a bone much bigger than his own.He tried to threaten him and take his bone.Lets see what happens next? ...Moral: Be content and grateful for everything you have.Why should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip: You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories. Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.comwww.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

Mohan and Rama, brought a Duck home. It lays one golden egg every day. One day, Mohan thought that there would be more golden eggs in the stomach of the duck. If he cut the stomach, he could take all the golden eggs and he would become rich in a very short period of time instead of waiting for those eggs for many more days. Let's see what happens next. Moral_ Greed is unhealthy for everyone.Why should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip: You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories. Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

Once upon a time, there lived two friends in a forest, a Deer and a Crow. One day, a Fox saw the Deer and wanted to trick him. “I live alone and have no friends. May I be your friend?” asked the Fox.“Well, all right,” said the Deer.The Crow was not happy as the Fox was a total stranger and they did not know him, at all.The Fox showed the Deer a cornfield. The Deer began going there, daily.One day, the Deer was caught in a trap set by the farmer. The Fox saw what had happened and thought, This is what I wanted.'The Deer called out to the Fox for help, but he pretended not to hear. Let's find out what happened next! Why should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip: You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories. Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.com www.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

Once upon a time, two frogs hopped in the backyard of a sweet shop. Lets find out their adventure.Why should you listen to my podcast? +Helps in reducing Screen Time. +Builds visualizing power. +Creates moral values and understandings. +Hindi-English mix, makes it easy to understand. =Tip: You can even ask your kids to use the characters to form their own stories.Connect to me - happinesswithromica@gmail.comwww.instagram.com/desistorieswithmoraltadka

Dipesh Sharma Batalvi is a very well-known mix and mastering engineer from India, and is now based in Los Angeles (USA). An ex-Yash Raj Films Studio engineer, he shares with us his experiences of 20 years in this field. Students of audio (and music) will get invaluable tips from both his episodes on the subject of "reality of sound engineering". Audio in Hindi / English.