Podcasts about Hyderabad

Hafeez Lakhani was born in Hyderabad, India and raised in suburban South Florida. His fiction and essays have appeared in Crazyhorse, Exposition Review, Salt Hill, Tikkun, The Cortland Review, and The Southern Review, and have garnered fellowships from PEN America and The Center for Fiction. He was twice recognized with a Notable Essay in Best American Essays and twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He was profiled by the Huffington Post as one of “Eight Fantastic New Writers to Look Out For.” His debut novel, Abundance, following five members of an American Muslim family across Miami, New York, Monaco, and Gujarat, was a People Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2026. Hafeez and Barbara DeMarco-Barrett talk about how he knew the novel idea had legs and how he committed to it for the long haul: 12 years in the making! They also talk about when you know a novel is done, how to use your critique groups' feedback, using a Venn diagram, not going to an MFA program, and much more. For more information on Writers on Writing and to become a supporter, visit our Patreon page. For a one-time donation, visit Ko-fi. You can help out the show and indie bookstores by buying books at our bookstore on bookshop.org. It's stocked with titles by our guest authors, as well as our personal favorites. And on Spotify, you'll find an album's worth of typewriter music like what you hear on the show. It's perfect for writing. Look for the artist, Just My Type. You can find hundreds of past interviews on our website. (Recorded on April 28, 2026) Host: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Host: Marrie Stone Music: Travis Barrett (Stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Etc.)    

What do you do when your life feels withered, delayed, or under constant criticism? In todays word Apostle ministers from Mark 3, on how Jesus responds to hardened hearts, hostile voices, and impossible situations. Learn how God restores what has been broken, revives what has lost hope, and teaches us to walk in compassion instead of accusation. This word will strengthen your faith and remind you that no circumstance is beyond the restoring touch of Jesus.June 21, 2026 word at HISnearness Church, Hyderabad.

Gudrun talks with Debajyoti Choudhuri. He is staying at KIT as a short term guest. He is Associate Professor in the School of Basic Sciences at IIT Bhubaneswar, India. He did his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Hyderabad. His research interest lies in the analysis of elliptic PDEs using Functional Analytic and topological methods. In this he touches and has a slight overlap with the research of Gudrun. The conversation starts with the discussion about a small paper which Debajyoti put on the archiv. It is about understanding how to work with the Fractional Laplacian. This means extending the classical Laplace operator Δ to non-integer powers. This operator is the main part in PDEs which model, e.g, anomalous diffusion, probability theory, image processing, finance, and nonlocal mechanics. (-Δ)s, where 0 < s < 1. What makes It different to the ordinary Laplacian? While the traditional Laplace operator is local, i.e. it depends only on values of u and its derivatives near x, the fractional Laplacian is nonlocal, it depends on values of u everywhere in space. Thus, for the analytical and numerical treatment one needs very different methods. There are several possible definitions. Some of them can be found in the Wikipedia article which is cited below. On ℝn, the cleanest definition is the Fourier definition which follows the idea: Take the Fourier transform. Multiply by |ξ|2s. Transform back. In the short paper which is discussed the singular integral definition is used: For 0 < s < 1: (-Δ)^s u(x) = C(n,s) PV ∫ [u(x) - u(y)] / |x - y|^(n + 2s) dy This makes the nonlocality explicit: every point y contributes to the value at x. The method central in studying Laplace problems is variational. It considers an (infinite) family of generalised problems and works on the existence of so-called weak solutions. These problems are formulated with the help of Sobolev spaces. The weak solution for the Laplace problem is an element of the space H1=W1,2. This means the solution and its (generalised) gradient are bounded in L2 in the domain in which the problem is solved. This has physical meaning and due to known properties (embedding) of Sobolev spaces the pointwise (strong) solutions often can be constructed when enough regularitiy of the weak solutions is proved. Fractional Laplacians naturally live in fractional Sobolev spaces. These are not that easy to connect to physical properties and a few of the equivalent definitions in the context of classical Sobolev spaces are not equivalent any more everywhere. Common approaches for numerics for PDEs including the fractional Laplacian are: Fourier spectral methods (periodic domains) Finite element methods for fractional PDEs Matrix-function methods (As) Caffarelli–Silvestre extension methods Quadrature approximations of singular integrals The Extension trick introduced by Caffarelli and Silvestre in 2007 (their original paper is cited below) is also discussed as part of the short note. p-laplacian augurs well in the sense because the unicity of the definitions of the s-laplacian is still lacking. The conversation then turns to how Debajyoti found his way into mathematics and the topic of PDEs and how life and work feel like in his university. More information: Webpage of Debajyoti Choudhuri Debajyoti Choudhuri: A quick sneak-peek at the s-fractional Laplacian operator (2022) Wikipedia on the Fractional Laplace operator Mateusz Kwaśnicki: Ten equivalent definitions of the fractional Laplace operator (2015) E. Di Nezza, G. Palatucci, E. Valdinoci, Hitchhiker's guide to the fractional Sobolev spaces, Bull. Sci. Math., 136(5), 521–573 (2012) L. Caffarelli, L. Silvestre, An extension problem related to the fractional Laplacian, Communications in Partial Differential Equations, 32, 1245–1260 (2007)

Gudrun talks with Debajyoti Choudhuri. He is staying at KIT as a short term guest. He is Associate Professor in the School of Basic Sciences at IIT Bhubaneswar, India. He did his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Hyderabad. His research interest lies in the analysis of elliptic PDEs using Functional Analytic and topological methods. In this he touches and has a slight overlap with the research of Gudrun. The conversation starts with the discussion about a small paper which Debajyoti put on the archiv. It is about understanding how to work with the Fractional Laplacian. This means extending the classical Laplace operator Δ to non-integer powers. This operator is the main part in PDEs which model, e.g, anomalous diffusion, probability theory, image processing, finance, and nonlocal mechanics. (-Δ)s, where 0 < s < 1. What makes It different to the ordinary Laplacian? While the traditional Laplace operator is local, i.e. it depends only on values of u and its derivatives near x, the fractional Laplacian is nonlocal, it depends on values of u everywhere in space. Thus, for the analytical and numerical treatment one needs very different methods. There are several possible definitions. Some of them can be found in the Wikipedia article which is cited below. On ℝn, the cleanest definition is the Fourier definition which follows the idea: Take the Fourier transform. Multiply by |ξ|2s. Transform back. In the short paper which is discussed the singular integral definition is used: For 0 < s < 1: (-Δ)^s u(x) = C(n,s) PV ∫ [u(x) - u(y)] / |x - y|^(n + 2s) dy This makes the nonlocality explicit: every point y contributes to the value at x. The method central in studying Laplace problems is variational. It considers an (infinite) family of generalised problems and works on the existence of so-called weak solutions. These problems are formulated with the help of Sobolev spaces. The weak solution for the Laplace problem is an element of the space H1=W1,2. This means the solution and its (generalised) gradient are bounded in L2 in the domain in which the problem is solved. This has physical meaning and due to known properties (embedding) of Sobolev spaces the pointwise (strong) solutions often can be constructed when enough regularitiy of the weak solutions is proved. Fractional Laplacians naturally live in fractional Sobolev spaces. These are not that easy to connect to physical properties and a few of the equivalent definitions in the context of classical Sobolev spaces are not equivalent any more everywhere. Common approaches for numerics for PDEs including the fractional Laplacian are: Fourier spectral methods (periodic domains) Finite element methods for fractional PDEs Matrix-function methods (As) Caffarelli–Silvestre extension methods Quadrature approximations of singular integrals The Extension trick introduced by Caffarelli and Silvestre in 2007 (their original paper is cited below) is also discussed as part of the short note. p-laplacian augurs well in the sense because the unicity of the definitions of the s-laplacian is still lacking. The conversation then turns to how Debajyoti found his way into mathematics and the topic of PDEs and how life and work feel like in his university. More information: Webpage of Debajyoti Choudhuri Debajyoti Choudhuri: A quick sneak-peek at the s-fractional Laplacian operator (2022) Wikipedia on the Fractional Laplace operator Mateusz Kwaśnicki: Ten equivalent definitions of the fractional Laplace operator (2015) E. Di Nezza, G. Palatucci, E. Valdinoci, Hitchhiker's guide to the fractional Sobolev spaces, Bull. Sci. Math., 136(5), 521–573 (2012) L. Caffarelli, L. Silvestre, An extension problem related to the fractional Laplacian, Communications in Partial Differential Equations, 32, 1245–1260 (2007)

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====================================================================Zahack Tanvir is a Hyderabad-born independent journalist, counter-extremism expert, and the founder and editor of the UK-based media outlet Milli Chronicle. A self-described "anti-Islamist" traditional Muslim, he is one of the sharpest Muslim voices breaking down the difference between Islam as a faith and Islamism as a political ideology, with deep expertise in radicalization, South Asian politics, and the future of Muslims in India.In this episode, Vinamre and Zahack discuss:• Whether Hinduism and Islamism can coexist in India — and the future of Muslims under Modi• How and why Muslims actually get radicalized• The fake narrative being sold to Indian Muslims about persecution• The Heera Gold Ponzi scheme and why South Asian Muslims live a backward life• The caste system inside Islam, Sufism, and why Ismaili Muslims excel at business• India's strategy in the next 5 years amid the West Asia warFollow Zahack Tanvir on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zahacktanvir X: https://twitter.com/ZahackTanvir Milli Chronicle: https://millichronicle.comTimestamps:00:00:00 - Coming Up00:00:53 - Can Hinduism, Islamism Coexist?00:04:09 - Future of Islam in India00:07:24 - How Muslims Get Radicalized00:16:11 - Zahack on Nation State Concept00:23:26 - India's 5-Year West Asia Strategy00:27:44 - Why Muslim Ghettos Exist Globally00:33:34 - Heera Gold & South Asian Muslims00:46:42 - Fundamentals of Islam00:57:04 - Caste System in Islam01:00:28 - North African Muslim Countries01:05:44 - Islam vs Islamism Explained01:17:03 - Sufism, Barelvi, Liberal Islam01:22:11 - Why Ismaili Muslims Excel Business01:25:25 - 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

“చిన్ననాటి జ్ఞాపకాలు ఎప్పుడూ మనతోనే ఉంటాయి...మనం మన ఊరికి ఎంత దూరంలో ఉన్నామన మనసు మాత్రం మన ఊర్లోనే ఉంటుంది!”అంటూ... ఈ వారం 'మా ఊరు' పాడ్కాస్ట్ లో... విజయవాడకు చెందిన తార శాలిని గారు తమ ఊర్లో గడిపిన ఎన్నో తన చిన్ననాటి జ్ఞాపకాలను మనతో పంచుకున్నారు.సత్యనారాయణపురం వీధులు, స్కూల్ రోజులు, నలుగురు అక్కాచెల్లెళ్లతో కలిసి గడిపిన అందమైన క్షణాలు, తల్లిదండ్రులు నేర్పిన విలువలు, అప్పటి విజయవాడ సంస్కృతి గురించి ఎంతో ఆప్యాయంగా గుర్తు చేసుకున్నారు. ఐటీ రంగంలో ఉద్యోగిగా తన కెరీర్‌ను ప్రారంభించిన ఆమె... ప్రస్తుతం ఉపాధ్యాయురాలిగా విద్యార్థుల భవిష్యత్తును తీర్చిదిద్దే బాధ్యతలను నిర్వర్తిస్తున్నారు.విజయవాడ నుంచి హైదరాబాద్, అక్కడి నుంచి అమెరికాలోని సియాటెల్ వరకు సాగిన ఆమె ప్రయాణం... కుటుంబ విలువలు, కెరీర్ మార్పులు, జీవిత పాఠాలతో నిండిన ఒక అందమైన అనుభవం.మిస్ అవ్వకండి! వారిమాటల్లోనే వినండి…“Childhood memories stay with us forever...No matter how far we move away from our hometown,our hearts always remain connected to it.”In this week's Maa Ooru podcast, Tara Shalini from Vijayawada shares some of her most cherished childhood memories and experiences.She fondly recalls the streets of Satyanarayanapuram, her school days, the beautiful moments spent with her sisters, the values taught by her parents, and the culture of Vijayawada during those days. Starting her career in the IT industry, she later chose the path of teaching and is now dedicated to shaping the future of her students.Her journey from Vijayawada to Hyderabad and eventually to Seattle, USA, is filled with inspiring life lessons, career transitions, and strong family values.Click the link below and listen to her story in her own words. Don't miss it!Guest: Tara SaliniHost: Usha#TALRadioTelugu #MaaOoru #Vijayawada #Satyanarayanapuram #ChildhoodMemories #HometownStories #TeluguPodcast #Storytelling #Nostalgia #SeattleLife #MaaOoruPodcast #TeluguStories #LifeLessons #CareerJourney #MemoriesThatMatter #ListenNow #TALRadio #TouchALifeFoundation

The mastermind thought they could trap Vatsava, but the tables have just turned!

Srini Raju - the man behind Cognizant, TV9, iLabs, and Sri City - sits down for his first podcast ever.From a small town in AP to Silicon Valley and back to Hyderabad. From cashing out of Satyam to fighting a SEBI case. From building a world-class manufacturing city on the AP-TN border to now reimagining how India educates its youth.A must-watch for anyone who wants to understand what scale, vision, and real implementation actually look like.This episode covers:-How a civil engineer from Warangal accidentally became a tech entrepreneur-How Hyderabad was built, designed, and who really drove it-Building Cognizant from 60 people to a NASDAQ-listed giant - and walking away at the right time-The TV9 story - idealism, media pressure, and what really happened with Ravi Prakash-The Satyam scam, the SEBI battle, and fighting to clear his name-The Hyderabad he saw before anyone else - and how his 10 acres near Begumpet became InOrbit Mall-Sri City - building a world-class manufacturing hub from scratch on the AP-TN border-Sricity International University - his boldest bet to fix India's education and employment crisis

Never underestimate Vasanti!

Dr Ramesh Chandra Sinha is a 1962-batch IAS officer whose six-decade career produced some of the most consequential infrastructure projects in modern India.As Vice Chairman and Managing Director of the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) under PWD Minister Nitin Gadkari, he built India's first world-class expressway — the 95-km Mumbai-Pune Expressway — completing it in 36 months at a cost of Rs 1,600 crore, which was Rs 50 crore below the MSRDC's own estimate and roughly half of Reliance's competing bid that came with 78 concessions. He raised Rs 2,400 crore from the open market through non-convertible debentures on an equity base of just Rs 5 crore, creating a financing model that other states later sought to replicate.Alongside the Expressway, he delivered 50-plus flyovers across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region with an average construction time of around 30 months, along with numerous rail over-bridges and town bypasses.Earlier, as Vice Chairman and Managing Director of CIDCO under Chief Minister Sharad Pawar, he transformed Vashi from a settlement of 30,000 people into the foundation of Navi Mumbai — building its dam, water supply, six-lane road to Mumbai, railway connectivity (with CIDCO funding 67 percent of the capital cost), modern railway stations, and the iconic Seawoods NRI Complex which sold out worldwide in nine days.He also developed New Nashik, New Aurangabad, New Nanded and the district headquarters of Sindhudurg, and engineered the shifting of Mumbai's wholesale market to Navi Mumbai.At the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation, he turned a loss-making PSU profitable and launched the famed half-hourly ASIAD bus service between Mumbai and Pune in the face of organised taxi-union resistance.In Andhra Pradesh, under Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, he played a key role in conceptualising Cyberabad, the Visakhapatnam SEZ, the Nagarjuna Sagar water supply system for Hyderabad, the Hyderabad bypass, the biopharma zone, the Hyderabad Metro, the Krishna port and the international airport.As Vice Chairman and Managing Director of MADC, he led the MIHAN multi-modal cargo hub and airport project at Nagpur. As Aurangabad Collector during the 1992 riots, his decisiveness earned him the nickname "Simh."At All India Radio earlier in his career, he was instrumental in bringing FM radio to India in 1977. His biography, Transforming India from Within, was released in 2024.

The investigation is shifting gears, and the danger has reached the city!

In today's podcast I talk about: Road trip to Hyderabad.

In today's podcast I talk about: Treasure hunting my parcels. Meeting house architects. Packing for Hyderabad.

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Consider the British Empire in 1792, the year of Macartney's expedition to China and the year young Emperor Francis began to look askance at the French Revolution and all the ruling factions within it started to wish for a war.  Well at that time the empire was rather modest, a few spice islands, Canada, Gibraltar, New South Wales had started, there was a logging settlement in Honduras, and in India, Bombay Madras and Bengal, with Bengal the largest British territory in India.  Trade with China is substantial, around 25% of all, generating 16% of total government revenue.  But except for Penang, a stop on the way, no territory to support it.By 1803 the value of British trade increased 81%.  From the French revolutionary wars to 1803, the empire grew to include Trinidad, Ceylon and Malta, even after returning most captured possessions at the Peace of Amiens.  Then by 1814....The British position in India was massively increased, with the Mughal empire , Hyderabad, Mysore, and most of the South under various forms of British control.  Furthermore, the main waystations to get there, including the Cape colony of South Africa, and the Indian ocean islands were now under British control.The number of sugar islands increased and British Guiana became real and there were more gold Coast trading posts in Africa, and Tasmania was added to New South Wales. And before the decade was over the third Maratha war would cement control over much of the rest of India and see the establishment of the first post in Singapore.  With many supporting bases like St Helena where Napoleon was stashed along with the newly established Ascension Island to help support St Helena.I'm describing a different world now, different to 1792.  One where rivals to British sea power just do not exist. 

What do you do when a doctor says: "There is nothing more we can do"?For thousands of cancer patients and families in India, this is a moment of complete helplessness. Most rush to another doctor, try another treatment, spend everything they have, not knowing there is a better, more peaceful path.In this TAL Health Talk, Dr. Subrahmanyam Maddirala, Founder Trustee at ‪@sparsh.hospice‬, Hyderabad — explains everything families need to know about hospice and palliative care, in simple, honest words.Hospice care is NOT giving up. It is choosing comfort, dignity, and peace over painful, futile treatments. It means your loved one gets to spend their remaining time without pain, surrounded by family — not alone in an ICU.WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:What hospice and palliative care actually meansWhy ICU and ventilators are not always the right answerHow cancer patients can live remaining time with zero pain & full dignityHome care vs inpatient hospice — what suits your familyWhy all care at Sparsh is 100% FREE — medicines, food, counseling includedHow families get emotional support even after their loved one passesThe real numbers — 30,000 advanced cancer patients in Hyderabad alone, but only 3,000 seek palliative care"The aim of a hospice is not to speed up or delay death, but to treat the symptoms so the remaining time is meaningful." — Dr. Subramanyam

Operation Octopus is Hyderabad Police’s ambitious multi-phase crackdown on the infrastructure behind cyber fraud — not just the small fish, but the entire ecosystem. From mule accounts and rogue bank employees to ghost SIMs and crypto networks, each phase peels back a new layer of a sprawling criminal enterprise spanning multiple states and international actors. Commissioner VC Sajjanar estimates four hundred crore rupees is lost annually in Hyderabad alone. Yet kingpins remain at large. Based on Shilpa Ranipeta’s ground investigation, Anirban Chowdhury narrates how a single Facebook scam unravelled into one of India’s most complex cybercrime investigations.You can follow Anirban Chowdhury on his social media: X and LinkedinCheck out other interesting episodes like: ET Deep Dive: Swipe Left on Reality,India wants manufacturing at 25% of GDP — will AI in factories help?, Tanay Kothari Wants To Kill The Keyboard, From Doer to Director: The LinkedIn Playbook for the AI Agea, Semaglutide Goes Generic: Big Pharma’s Moat Breaks and much more. Catch the latest episode of ‘The Morning Brief’ on The Economic Times Online, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, Amazon Music and Youtube.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He left Vizag with nothing but a dream. Years later, that dream has a name — Satyadev.Satyadev didn't walk into the film industry. He crawled in - failed aptitude tests, no connections, juggling jobs just to survive, auditioning for Jyothi Lakshmi while counting every rupee, and working on films that didn't even pay him.But he stayed. And that stubbornness built a career.In this episode, he takes us through all of it - the Vizag streets that shaped him, the Hyderabad grind that tested him, and the moment he decided to remove one word from his life forever: doubt.He talks about Bluff Master - how it landed, what went wrong, and the truth nobody says out loud: that a single bad film doesn't just underperform at the box office. It quietly follows an actor everywhere, closing doors and shrinking opportunities in ways audiences never see.He talks about Fridays - the dread, the silence, the waiting. About standing next to Chiranjeevi on Godfather and what that weight actually feels like. About becoming a father and suddenly seeing every script differently. About the humiliation that still stings. The backstabbing. The RGV tweet.And then there's Samvarthi - five hours in a makeup chair, transforming into something that doesn't look human, and somehow finding stillness in it. Because for Satyadev, acting isn't performance.It's meditation.This one's not a promo. It's a story.

Faiz Ahmad Faiz wrote this ghazal from a prison cell in Hyderabad, Sindh — and somehow made it sound like spring. In this episode, Kshitij and Burair sit with Gulon Mein Rang Bhare and ask the question the poem itself refuses to answer: is this a love poem or a call for revolution? They trace the ghazal through three renditions that each find something different in it — Mehdi Hassan's classical composition that gave the poem its first immortal voice, Ali Sethi's Coke Studio version that cracked it open for a younger diaspora ear, and Vishal Bhardwaj's use of it in Haider, where Faiz's longing and Kashmir's grief become indistinguishable. Along the way, the conversation turns to the bandishein of ghazal — the formal rules that hold the form together — and what it means that a structure this disciplined became home to some of the most quietly subversive poetry of the 20th century.

CBSE OSM security flaw exposed; IIT-M steps in for system audit A young ethical hacker, Nisarga Adhikary, has uncovered a serious vulnerability in CBSE's new On-Screen Marking (OSM) system, part of its Digital India push. Developed by Hyderabad-based Coempt EduTeck Pvt Ltd, the platform was so poorly secured that unauthorized users could potentially access and alter scanned Class 12 answer sheets. Adhikary reported the flaw to CERT-In on February 25, 2026, but received only a generic acknowledgement and saw no corrective action for months. He eventually went public with the issue in a May 22 blog post, also highlighting institutional apathy. Amid growing concerns over glitches and weak access controls, a team from IIT Madras is now in Delhi conducting a third-party audit of the system. IIT-M director V. Kamakoti said the review will help identify what went wrong and guide fixes. Quad to mobilise $20 bn to strengthen critical minerals supply chain Countering China's tight grip on global supplies of critical minerals, Quad partners India, the US, Australia, and Japan have signed a framework to mobilise up to $20 billion to strengthen supply chains across mining, processing, and recycling. “The Quad partners intend to support the development of secure critical minerals supply chains, which are essential for advanced technologies, economic growth, and the resilience of our industrial bases,” a statement on the `Quad critical minerals initiative framework' issued by the MEA on Tuesday said. The four countries intend to work together to use economic policy tools and coordinated investment to accelerate the development of diversified and fair critical mineral markets and support the supply of critical minerals that are crucial to our region's economic growth and security, it added. The framework was finalised at the Quad Foreign Ministers' meeting in New Delhi hosted by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and attended by Foreign Minister of Australia Penny Wong, Foreign Minister of Japan Toshimitsu Motegi, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Airtel Priority sparks parliamentary scrutiny over net neutrality and equal access Amid a growing debate triggered by the launch of Airtel Priority post-paid plan, a Parliamentary panel on Tuesday asked the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to study the impact of 5G network slicing services in countries such as Singapore and the UK, while also examining whether the interests of India's largely prepaid mobile subscriber base are adequately protected. The Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology, headed by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, also decided to call major digital and social media companies, including Meta, X, Google and Amazon, for discussions on net neutrality and preferential access practices. The meeting was convened to review “Quality of Service (QoS) Standards and Consumer Protection in Telecom Sector,” with a specific focus on net neutrality, reports Shishir Sinha. India's bank education loans record decade-high 15% jump to ₹8.58 lakh crore in FY26 Rising tuition fees, growing overseas education aspirations, and wider lender participation pushed education loans from banks to their sharpest annual growth in a decade in FY26. Outstanding education loans from banks rose nearly 15 per cent year-on-year to ₹8.58 lakh crore in FY26 from ₹7.46 lakh crore in FY25, according to data from Reserve Bank of India's latest bulletin. The loan book had contracted in FY22 and FY23 before recovering in the last two fiscals. Experts attributed the rise to increasing education costs, rupee depreciation, and a growing willingness among families to finance higher education through borrowings, writes Yashaswani Chauhan. (Research and VO: Siddharth Mathew Cherian)

Three-quarters of children are worried about the state of the planet and Clare Garey argues that makes sustainability not just an environmental issue, but a wellbeing one. In this conversation, Clare, founder of Sustainability at School, challenges the idea that hanging up an eco poster or marking Earth Day is enough. Drawing on her work with international schools across Spain, India, Singapore and beyond, she makes the case that young people who learn about climate change but have no opportunity to take real action become disempowered and that school leaders have the ability to change that. You'll learn why trying to tackle every sustainability issue at once leads to overwhelm and why choosing one focused theme in year one is the most powerful thing a school can do. Clare walks through the four pillars that stop sustainability becoming just another initiative; a clear "why", a representative team, a simple action plan, and treating it with the same strategic weight as any curriculum change. You'll also hear why language matters more than leaders realise (calling it a "project" is, in Clare's words, "curtains"), how students in Hyderabad reduced their school's energy consumption by 11% by asking the operations team for monthly data, and how a school in Barcelona is on track to eliminate 250,000 single-use yogurt pots in a single year. If sustainability has felt overwhelming or abstract for your school, this conversation will make it feel both urgent and entirely achievable. Resources & Links Mentioned:Sustainability at SchoolClare Garey on LinkedInClare Garey's WorkbookEpisode PartnersInternational Curriculum AssociationSisiJoin Shane's Intensive Leadership Programme at educationleaders.co/intensiveShane Leaning, an organisational coach based in Shanghai, supports school leaders globally. Passionate about empowment, he is the author of the best-selling 'Change Starts Here.' Shane is a leading educational voice in the UK, Asia and around the world.You can find Shane on LinkedIn and Bluesky. or shaneleaning.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

హైదరాబాద్‌లోని చిన్ననాటి జ్ఞాపకాల నుండి… ప్రపంచ స్థాయి టెక్నాలజీ సంస్థల్లో పనిచేసే స్థాయికి చేరుకున్న తన ప్రయాణాన్ని ఈ వారం మా ఊరు పాడ్కాస్ట్ లో మనతో పంచుకున్నారు శశాంక్ తుమ్మనపల్లి గారు.స్కూల్ బస్ ప్రయాణాలు… వేసవి సెలవుల్లో కుటుంబంతో గడిపిన రోజులు… ఇండియాలో చూసిన ఎన్నో ప్రాంతాలు… చిన్నప్పటి సరదా జ్ఞాపకాల గురించి ఎంతో ఆప్యాయంగా గుర్తు చేసుకున్నారు.అలాగే టెక్నాలజీ రంగంలో తన కెరీర్ ఎలా ప్రారంభమైందో… అమెరికాకు ఎలా వచ్చారో… ప్రస్తుతం చేస్తున్న పని, అక్కడి అనుభవాల గురించి కూడా వివరించారు. కుటుంబ విలువలు, పిల్లల పెంపకం, పుస్తకాలు చదివే అలవాటు, జీవితంలో ఒత్తిడిని ఎలా ఎదుర్కోవాలి వంటి ఎన్నో విషయాలను మనతో పంచుకున్నారు.తప్పకుండా వినండి అస్సలు మిస్ అవ్వకండి…! From childhood memories in Hyderabad to reaching a position where he works with world-class technology companies, Mr. Shashank Thummanapalli shared his inspiring journey with us in this week's Maa Ooru Podcast.He warmly reminisced about school bus journeys, summer holidays spent with family, and the many places he explored across India during his childhood.He also spoke about how his career in the technology field began, how he moved to the United States, and the experiences from his current work and life there. Along with that, he shared his thoughts on family values, parenting, the habit of reading books, and how to handle stress in life.Do listen to this episode… don't miss it!Host: Usha Guest: Sasank#TALRadioTelugu #MaaOoruPodcast #ShashankThummanapalli #HyderabadMemories #TechJourney #IndianInUSA #PodcastTelugu #InspirationalJourney #FamilyValues #Parenting #BookReading #LifeLessons #CareerGrowth #Technology #TeluguPodcast #PodcastEpisode #TALRadio #TouchALifeFoundation

We are resharing this episode in memory of Michael Harrison, who passed away on April 17, 2026. He was 67. In this episode, we discuss the life and work of musician and Sufi teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan with composer/pianist and Inayat Khan scholar Michael Harrison. Hazrat Inayat Khan ( July 1882 – 5 February 1927) was an Indian professor of musicology, singer, exponent of the saraswati vina, poet, philosopher, and pioneer of the transmission of Sufism to the West. At the urging of his students, and on the basis of his ancestral Sufi tradition and four-fold training and authorization at the hands of Sayyid Abu Hashim Madani (d. 1907) of Hyderabad, he established an order of Sufism (the Sufi Order) in London in 1914. By the time of his death in 1927, centers had been established throughout Europe and North America, and multiple volumes of his teachings had been published. Michael Harrison (October 24, 1958 - April 17, 2026) forged a new approach to composition through just intonation (the system of tuning based on pure harmonic proportions). His works blend classical music traditions of Europe and North India. He is a Guggenheim Fellowship and NYFA Artist Fellowship recipient. Michael created dedicated tuning systems for many of his works. He pioneered a structural approach to composition in which the proportions of harmonic relationships organically determine other musical elements such as pitch, duration, and dynamics. He also invented the “harmonic piano,” a grand piano that plays 24 notes per octave, documented in the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Harrison seeks expressions of universality via the physics of sound – music that brings one into a state of concentrated listening as a meditative and even mind-altering experience. At the time of his death he was working on “The Raga Cycle”, a series of albums charting the hours of the day through Hindustani raga. The first installment, Evening Light, was released in March 2026 on Cantaloupe Records. More albums in the series were recorded before he became too ill to continue. They will be released in the years ahead. Donations in his memory can be made to the Michael Harrison Foundation for Just Music at JustMusic.org. Topics 00:00 Podcast Welcome 00:22 Encore Tribute 02:28 Mysticism Book Intro 02:49 Spiritual Music Path 04:32 Conservatory And Tonality 06:37 Daily Raga Practice 12:55 Voice Breath And Wazifa 16:48 Creation As Vibration 20:14 Harmony East And West 24:07 Math Of Consonance 25:32 Temperament Versus Just 28:24 Tuning The Soul Quote 32:03 Piano Retuning Journey 35:54 432 Versus 440 39:56 Music As Universal Religion 46:02 Cage Oliveros Deep Listening 51:16 Commentary And Curriculum 53:08 Teaching Programs 55:26 Closing Thanks And Outro Links Michael Harrison — His Own Work Evening Light: Raga Cycle I — Cantaloupe Music (2026) Seven Sacred Names — Bandcamp (2021) Revelation: Music in Pure Intonation — Cantaloupe Music (2007) From Ancient Worlds — michaelharrison.com Time Loops with Maya Beiser — Cantaloupe Music (2012) Michael Harrison website Episode Music Michael Harrison — "Mureed" from Seven Sacred Names (2021, Cantaloupe Music) Michael Harrison — "Alim: Polyphonic Raga Malkauns" from Seven Sacred Names (2021, Cantaloupe Music) Michael Harrison — "Qadr: Etude in Raga Bhimpalasi" from Seven Sacred Names (2021, Cantaloupe Music) Hazrat Inayat Khan — "Purvi Khal: Kamli Wale Tope Sabkuchhvare" (2022, Primitiv) Michael Harrison – “Sami: The Acoustic Constellation” from Seven Sacred Names (2021, Cantaloupe Music) Hazrat Inayat Khan The Mysticism of Sound and Music — Goodreads Inayat Khan 1909 78rpm Recordings — YouTube Hazrat Inayat Khan — Wikipedia The Inayat Order — Pir Zia Inayat Khan Turning Toward the Heart — SAND Podcast with Pir Zia Inayat Khan Teachers & Lineage Pandit Pran Nath — Wikipedia La Monte Young — Wikipedia Terry Riley — Wikipedia Pir Vilayat Khan — Wikipedia Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan — Wikipedia Other Composers & Artists Referenced Pauline Oliveros — Center for Deep Listening® — Michael Reiley's teacher; creator of Deep Listening practice Pauline Oliveros — paulineoliveros.us John Cage — Wikipedia — composer, Zen Buddhist, creator of 4'33" Arvo Pärt — Wikipedia Hildegard of Bingen — Wikipedia Ravi Shankar — Wikipedia George Harrison Concert for Bangladesh — YouTube Roomful of Teeth — website John Eliot Gardiner — Wikipedia Josquin des Prez — Wikipedia Claudio Monteverdi — Wikipedia J.S. Bach — Wikipedia Programs & Institutions Arts, Letters and Numbers — Creative Music Intensive Michael Harrison Foundation for Just Music — donations in his memory Manhattan School of Music — where the harmonic piano is now archived Contact SAND podcast@scienceandnonduality.com Support the mission of SAND and the production of this podcast by becoming a SAND Member

The conversation delves into the impact of Babar Azam's performance in the PSL and the cultural significance of his achievements. It also explores the success and impact of the Hyderabad team, shedding light on their social media engagement and demographic reach. Also covers the impact of the test series defeat in Bangladesh.

Hafeez Lakhani was born in Hyderabad, India and raised in suburban South Florida. His novel is called Abundance. His fiction and essays have appeared in Crazyhorse, Exposition Review, Salt Hill, Tikkun, The Cortland Review, and The Southern Review, among other places, and have garnered fellowships from PEN America and The Center for Fiction. He was twice recognized with a Notable Essay in Best American Essays and twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. After publishing his essay, If We Show That We Like They Make More Mainga, he was profiled by the Huffington Post as one of “Eight Fantastic New Writers To Look Out For”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 233 of Journey from Goos features his set from warming up for Marsh at Block22 in Hyderabad, India in 2022. Artwork by Hyphen Design - www.instagram.com/hyphendesign Follow Goos: www.goosmusic.com

On this episode Gil and Gregg welcome Dr. Sai Praveen Haranath, Senior Vice President for Medical and Strategy at Apollo HealthAxis and Senior Consultant in Pulmonary and Critical Care at Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad. Their conversation picks up where a chance green-room meeting at BioAsia 2026 left off. What follows is a candid, wide-ranging dialogue on the future of medicine: tele-critical care delivered from a command center in India to hospitals in rural America and the island of Fiji; AI tools that could restore empathy to time-starved clinicians; a 4.5-billion-person global access gap that demands urgent innovation; and Apollo's four-decade bet that prevention, technology, and human connection belong together. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

In today's Tech3 from Moneycontrol, Sarvam AI is close to raising a record $300 million round led by HCLTech, potentially making it India's largest pure-play AI startup funding deal. Startup IPO lock-ins worth over Rs 2.3 lakh crore enter unlock season, setting up a fresh wave of investor exits. Uber expands its India engineering footprint with large tech hubs in Bengaluru and Hyderabad. And Oracle revokes campus offers at IITs and NITs amid global restructuring, leaving students scrambling for new opportunities.

Following the recent electoral setbacks faced by two of the largest constituents of the INDIA bloc, the DMK and the TMC, there is renewed debate over the future of Opposition politics in India. Do these developments signal a turning point for the INDIA bloc, or are they part of a longer structural shift in Indian politics? T Is this the end of the road for the INDIA bloc? Here, we discuss the question. Guests: Prof. KK Kailash, Professor and former HOD of Political Science at the University of Hyderabad; Yashwant Deshmukh, Founder-Director of C-Voter Host: Sobhana K Nair Producer: Jude Francis Weston Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wherever Roshaneh Zafar went in Pakistan in the early 1990s, documenting World Bank social development projects, women told her the same thing: the water and sanitation are fine, but what about economic opportunity?Zafar tells Tim Phillips how that question led her to train with Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank, and then back to Pakistan to found Kashf Foundation in 1996 — the country's first specialised microfinance institution for women. Thirty years on, Kashf serves more than one million clients, has covered six million lives through micro-health insurance, and has financed over 3,000 low-cost private schools. Zafar describes a model that long ago outgrew its Grameen origins: customised for Pakistan's diversity, run on a partnership rather than a hierarchical footing, and now embracing climate risk, ultra-poor programmes and AI-assisted credit decisions.The episode also confronts the question: Does microfinance actually empower women? Research has questioned whether it makes a difference. Zafar has ten years of longitudinal data that tells a different story, and a view on why the two bodies of evidence are not as contradictory as they appear.Research and references discussed in this episode:Banerjee, Abhijit, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, and Cynthia Kinnan. 2015. "The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 7(1): 22–53.Rana, Annum Ather. 2025. Evidence on the Impact of Microfinance Program on Poverty Reduction and Income Security. Kashf Foundation Focus Note Series, April To cite this episode:Phillips, Tim, and Roshaneh Zafar. 2026. "Roshaneh Zafar on 30 years of microfinance and mindset change in Pakistan." VoxDev Talk (podcast). Assign this as extra listening. The citation above is formatted and ready for a reading list or VLE.About Roshaneh ZafarRoshaneh Zafar is the founder and managing director of Kashf Foundation, Pakistan's first specialised microfinance institution. A development economist by training, she worked at the World Bank before leaving to found Kashf in 1996 after training under Muhammad Yunus at Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. Her work spans microfinance, micro-insurance, women's economic empowerment, low-cost private education and behaviour change communication. Research and context cited in this episodeGrameen Bank and the Grameen model. Founded by Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh in 1983, Grameen Bank pioneered group-based lending to poor women without requiring collateral, on the premise that social accountability within borrower groups could substitute for asset security. Yunus received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. Kashf was established as a Grameen replicator but diverged significantly in its approach: hiring women loan officers from the outset, replacing the group hierarchy with a peer partnership model (using the Urdu term baji, meaning sister, for both client and staff), and adapting products for Pakistan's religious, linguistic and cultural diversity.The 2008 microfinance delinquency crisis in Pakistan. Over-indebtedness, predatory lending practices and the absence of a credit information bureau led to a sector-wide delinquency crisis in Pakistan in 2008. Following the crisis, regulators, lenders and the Pakistan Microfinance Network introduced enhanced consumer protection standards and a credit bureau to prevent multiple borrowing. Kashf now limits lending to clients with no more than two active loans from any provider.Banerjee et al. (2015) randomised controlled trial. The paper, a randomised evaluation of a microcredit expansion in Hyderabad, India by Spandana Sphoorty, found no statistically significant effect on women's empowerment, health, education or consumption over an 18-to-24-month follow-up period. It became the most-cited challenge to microfinance's development impact. Zafar's counter-argument turns on time horizon: empowerment, she argues, is a decade-scale process that short-panel RCTs cannot capture. A University of Minnesota longitudinal analysis of ten years of Kashf client data found a statistically significant positive correlation between the number of loans taken and business income, and between savings behaviour and subsequent business investment.Behaviour change communication: theater and television. Kashf has used street theater for thirty years to communicate on topics including child marriage, girls' education, reproductive health and insurance take-up. After Zafar attended a conference session on the impact of telenovelas on gender norms in Brazil and Mexico, the foundation moved into television drama production, covering topics including child sexual abuse, human trafficking and cybercrime. A child sexual abuse drama prompted a legal notice from PEMRA (the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority), which was successfully contested. The dramas are produced with a media and creative team to ensure sensitive handling of difficult subjects.The gender bond and gender sukuk. In 2005, Zafar rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. The experience prompted a long-term ambition to connect micro women entrepreneurs to capital markets. Kashf subsequently issued a gender bond listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange, followed by a gender sukuk (Sharia-compliant bond) listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange — the first such instrument linking Pakistani microfinance to international Islamic capital markets.Low-cost private schools. Research by Kashf found that clients, once they had access to income, were moving their children from public to low-cost private schools; teacher absenteeism in private schools was far lower. Further research showed 70% of these schools were run by women. Kashf began financing them; it now supports over 3,000 such schools, with a requirement that girls constitute at least 50% of enrolment.More VoxDev Talks on this topicBreaking down access constraints faced by women: Experimental evidence from Pakistan, a VoxDev Talk on how removing specific barriers to vocational training take-up shifts economic participation among women in Pakistan — the supply-side complement to Kashf's demand-side model.How safe transport could unlock women's labour force participation in Pakistan, a VoxDev Talk on how mobility constraints suppress women's economic activity in urban Pakistan, and how subsidised women-only transport services can shift that.Related reading on VoxDevWhat have we learned about microfinance?, a VoxDev article reviewing the evidence base on microfinance impact, including the conditions under which credit does and does not produce lasting change in household welfare.Women's microcredit groups empower women politically, a VoxDev article on evidence that participation in group lending schemes produces political voice and civic engagement even when economic empowerment effects are limited.Empowering women through digital financial services, a VoxDev article on how mobile money and digital accounts give women a private, named financial identity — and what that does to their control over household resources.

First, we talk to The Indian Express' Anonna Dutt about Hantavirus and how it caused the deaths of three people on a cruise travelling from Argentina to Spain. The virus was contracted by a few more passengers onboard. Anonna talks about the virus, its symptoms and how serious the situation was on the cruise. Next, we talk to The Indian Express' Shivani Naik about two teenage girls from Telangana who will represent India in sailing at the Asian Games. While sailing is mostly seen as an elite sport, it is interesting how an initiative in Hyderabad is introducing the sport to children from underprivileged backgrounds. (11:54)Lastly, we talk about the Indian defence establishment feeling a need for domestically-made artificial intelligence systems. (23:11)Hosted by Niharika NandaProduced by Shashank Bhargava, Niharika Nanda, and Ichha SharmaEdited and mixed by Suresh Pawar

Planning your return to India? Don't guess — plan it right

In today's Tech3 from Moneycontrol, Skyroot Aerospace becomes India's first space-tech unicorn with a $60 million fundraise. NPCI accelerates rollout of UPI Meta to make online UPI payments faster amid growing card competition. Hyderabad continues gaining ground in India's GCC race against Bengaluru, while Pronto doubles valuation in a fresh funding round. And Vijay's Tamil Nadu election win puts the spotlight on the growing role of social media engagement in politics.

From the Bahmani to the Qutb Shahis, Hyderabad's local identity is far more complex than the standard Mughal-centric narrative suggests.

In an online meeting with a group of Bhagavan's devotees in Hyderabad, Michael James discusses Bhagavan's teachings. This episode can be watched as a video on YouTube and a more compressed audio copy in Opus format can be downloaded from MediaFire. Songs of Sri Sadhu Om with English translations can be accessed on our advertisement-free Vimeo video channel. Books by Sri Sadhu Om and Michael James that are currently available on Amazon: By Sri Sadhu Om: ► The Path of Sri Ramana (English) ► El camino de Sri Ramana (Spanish) By Michael James: ► Happiness and Art of Being (English) ► Lyckan och Varandets Konst (Swedish) ► Anma-Viddai (English) Above books are also available in other regional Amazon marketplaces worldwide. - Sri Ramana Center of Houston.

Zahack Tanvir is a Hyderabad-born independent journalist, counter-extremism expert, and the founder and editor of the UK-based media outlet Milli Chronicle. He specializes in international affairs and counter-terrorism, having completed academic programs in these fields at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and the London School of Journalism.His educational background is diverse, also comprising an engineering degree in Computer Science from Osmania University, a post-graduate diploma in AI and Machine Learning from IIIT India, and a Master's in AI-ML from Liverpool John Moores University.Tanvir identifies as a traditional Muslim who is vocally "anti-Islamist," often criticizing extremist ideologies and the political misuse of religion. He lived in Saudi Arabia for 13 years until a significant legal ordeal in late 2023, when he was detained by Saudi authorities following a complaint filed by Pakistan regarding his social media content, which was alleged to be anti-Pakistan. He was released in December 2024.

Psychosis and conditions like Schizophrenia have been tainted with pessimism right from the beginning. Doctors often don't know that recovery is possible and can convey this fatalism to their patients. Prateeksha Sharma's lived experience and research work challenges this pessimism. Prateeksha is a musician, a researcher, a composer, a counselor, and a writer. However, for the longest time, she was only thought of as a patient. She is a distinguished research fellow at the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research in Hyderabad and the founder of Brightside Family Counseling Center. She received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder as a college student and has managed these achievements while navigating the horrors and the gifts of psychosis. Prateeksha's writings critically examine psychiatric systems and foreground survivor perspectives. She brings intellectual depth and personal clarity to what it means to move from being labeled a patient, to being recognized as a person. In this interview, we discuss psychiatric subjectivation, medical zombification, the silencing effects of diagnosis, and how lived experience completely reshapes the conversation about mental health. *** Thank you for being with us to listen to the podcast and read our articles this year. MIA is funded entirely by reader donations. If you value MIA, please help us continue to survive and grow. https://www.madinamerica.com/donate/ To find the Mad in America podcast on your preferred podcast player, click here: https://pod.link/1212789850 © Mad in America 2026. Produced by James Moore https://www.jmaudio.org

In today's Tech3 from Moneycontrol, India's retail trading boom shows signs of cooling as NSE sees a record drop in active investors. Vanguard picks Hyderabad over Bengaluru, signalling a shift in GCC location strategy. The TCS Nashik probe prompts industry-wide reviews of workplace safety systems. And Zolve expands beyond the US, pivoting to geographic diversification amid changing immigration trends and global uncertainty.

David Larson still recalls the moment he challenged conventional thinking inside Thomson Reuters. A shared services team in Hyderabad, long viewed as transactional, held untapped potential. Rather than accept the status quo, Larson pushed to integrate the team into the broader finance function—despite resistance tied to time zones and skepticism. The effort required planning, persuasion, and patience, but ultimately reshaped how the organization operated.That moment reflects a career defined less by linear progression and more by deliberate expansion. Larson began in tax at Ernst & Young before pivoting into M&A, where he “didn't know anything about valuing companies” (tells us). Over two decades, he developed a deep understanding of how businesses function end-to-end, leading due diligence, integrations, and go-to-market alignment.His willingness to step into the unfamiliar—relocating internationally, raising his hand for new roles, and moving beyond corporate development—enabled him to broaden into enterprise leadership. At Thomson Reuters, he progressed through finance leadership roles before becoming Chief Strategy Officer, gaining a long-term view of growth and competitive positioning.Today, as CFO of Feedzai, Larson applies these lessons to an AI-driven business where trust and execution are paramount. He emphasizes that finance leaders must understand “how companies operate…from A to Z” (tells us), pairing data discipline with business insight.For Larson, the CFO role has evolved beyond numbers. It is about shaping strategy, guiding investment, and helping organizations see the business clearly—end-to-end.

A major thing I've uncovered in my reporting is that most of the H-1B-related scams are coming from Hyderabad, India. Instead of reporting that, CBS News went there and pushed the narrative that the city is a Silicon Valley-like tech hub whose workers are more skilled than Americans. Meanwhile, the visa scammer I exposed in my last H-1B video has scrubbed his Instagram of incriminating videos to cover for himself ... but we have the receipts. RINO Rep. Tony Gonzales (Texas) gets exposed in another sexual harassment scandal. President Trump signs an executive order to restructure college sports. ► Here's my initial H-1B investigation that started it all: https://youtu.be/9sfeESywMUs?si=hoEI2Ab9z-tEqy0C ► Watch my latest H-1B visa scam video, where I confronted a food truck worker: https://youtu.be/iIsYhVSQCM0?si=_AQ6zoM3v72was-k ► Email me at saratips@blazemedia.com if you have uncovered potential fraud in your area. ► Subscribe to my second YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SaraGonzalesTX?sub_confirmation=1 ► MDHearing Go to https://www.ShopMDHearing.com and use promo code SARA to get a pair of hearing aids for just $247. ► BlazeTV Head over to https://www.blazetv.com/sara and subscribe today. Use code SARA to save $45 on your annual subscription. Timestamps: 00:00 – The Hyderabad Hustle 25:41 – Visa Scammer Looks Guilty 40:15 – Tony Gonzales Caught Again 43:47 – Trump Saves College Football Connect with Sara on Social Media: https://twitter.com/saragonzalestx https://www.instagram.com/saragonzalestx http://facebook.com/SaraGonzalesTX ► Subscribe on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sara-gonzales-unfiltered/id1408958605 ► Shop American Beauty by Sara: http://americanbeautybysara.com Sara Gonzales is the host of Sara Gonzales Unfiltered, a daily news program on Blaze TV. Joined by frequent contributors & guests such as Chad Prather, Eric July, John Doyle, Jaco Booyens, Sara breaks down the latest news in politics and culture. She previously hosted "The News and Why It Matters," featuring notable guests such as Glenn Beck, Ben Shapiro, Dave Rubin, Michael Knowles, Candace Owens, Michael Malice, and more. As a conservative commentator, Sara frequently calls out the Democrats for their hypocrisy, the mainstream media for their misinformation, feminists for their toxicity, and also focuses on pro-life issues, culture, gender issues, health care, the Second Amendment, and passing conservative values to the next generation. Sara also appears as a recurring guest on the Megyn Kelly Show, The Sean Spicer Show, Tim Pool, and with Jesse Kelly on The First TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Studies of forms of media have focused on either political or cultural histories of media. Political histories study media growth and literacy, and the emergence of liberal democratic institutions in Western and postcolonial societies. Cultural histories study the multiple origins of media technologies, seek lost or marginalised cultural objects, and examine how artefacts are connected to earlier modes of production and consumption. What is lost in both is the idea that media and technologies have an independent existence, with their own lives, histories, and afterlives. Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities: Media and Cultural Practices in South Asia (Orient BlackSwan, 2025) fills this gap, showing how media and technologies create the human condition even as they are created by it. The authors highlight this through everyday artefacts like the book, newspaper, radio, photograph, film, television and activism on digital media. P. Thirumal is Professor of Communication Studies at the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad. Carmel Christy K. J. is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Syracuse University and is affiliated with the South Asian Studies program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Studies of forms of media have focused on either political or cultural histories of media. Political histories study media growth and literacy, and the emergence of liberal democratic institutions in Western and postcolonial societies. Cultural histories study the multiple origins of media technologies, seek lost or marginalised cultural objects, and examine how artefacts are connected to earlier modes of production and consumption. What is lost in both is the idea that media and technologies have an independent existence, with their own lives, histories, and afterlives. Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities: Media and Cultural Practices in South Asia (Orient BlackSwan, 2025) fills this gap, showing how media and technologies create the human condition even as they are created by it. The authors highlight this through everyday artefacts like the book, newspaper, radio, photograph, film, television and activism on digital media. P. Thirumal is Professor of Communication Studies at the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad. Carmel Christy K. J. is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Syracuse University and is affiliated with the South Asian Studies program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies

Are you a narr-actor or a spect-actor? Are you best placed to narrate your own story? Why do those things not get talked about? Do narrations create selves? Can one perceive differently than one sees? Are certain narrators to be privileged? Are we all born into a narrative structure? Do spectators change the events? How does one live in a world with competing truths? What if ‘facts' are absent / silent? How do we cover up and fabulate? Who experiences guilt and anxiety? What comes in between speech and silence? Does history (or power) stutter? Could rituals & folk tales be narratives? Which stories become narratives? Who counts as a human being? Is (historical) truth immaculate? What do history books in Congo talk about? What have sugar / rubber / oil done to the world? Do structures come out of processes? What happens when something false is retold? Who is the narrator of the narrator? How do the spectres speak? Do you listen to the Other? How is global politics done when things are unclear? Are spectators, actors and narrators increasingly mingling around us? So then: where are we? What time is it? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using ideas from literary studies & psychoanalysis (Dr. Arka Chattopadhyay, IIT Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar), political studies (Dr. Aparna Devare, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad), & history (Prof. Saurabh Dube, El Colegio de México, Mexico City). Listen in...

From the annexation of the princely state of Hyderabad in September 1948 to the formation of Andhra Pradesh in 1956 and the eventual creation of Telangana in 2014--these broad brushstrokes of Hyderabad's history are well-documented. What has long been missing, however, is the perspective of the people, the different communities who lived through these upheavals--the communal violence of Independence and Partition, the push for a linguistic re-imagination of the state and its bifurcation, the long-drawn-out struggle for statehood--and those who were forced to adapt to a rapidly changing India. For the first time, Daneesh Majid brings their stories to light. Drawing from generational interviews, oral histories, literature in Urdu and English and his own personal experiences, he drafts a modern history of Hyderabad in The Hyderabadis: From 1947 to the Present Day (Harper Collins, 2025). A work of this scale and size has never been attempted before and The Hyderabadis promises to open new doors to the former kingdom's past and future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

From the annexation of the princely state of Hyderabad in September 1948 to the formation of Andhra Pradesh in 1956 and the eventual creation of Telangana in 2014--these broad brushstrokes of Hyderabad's history are well-documented. What has long been missing, however, is the perspective of the people, the different communities who lived through these upheavals--the communal violence of Independence and Partition, the push for a linguistic re-imagination of the state and its bifurcation, the long-drawn-out struggle for statehood--and those who were forced to adapt to a rapidly changing India. For the first time, Daneesh Majid brings their stories to light. Drawing from generational interviews, oral histories, literature in Urdu and English and his own personal experiences, he drafts a modern history of Hyderabad in The Hyderabadis: From 1947 to the Present Day (Harper Collins, 2025). A work of this scale and size has never been attempted before and The Hyderabadis promises to open new doors to the former kingdom's past and future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

This episode features Yashica Dutt, journalist and author of Coming Out as Dalit. We began with a discussion of her choice to write a memoir, the significance of the memoir as a genre of Dalit writing, the politics around passing as upper caste, and what her mother's role in the life taught her about Dalit feminism as a counter to Brahminical patriarchy. We then moved on to what her work as a journalist in India and the U.S. has revealed about the differences in the operations of caste in the two contexts. Finally, we ended with her coverage of the Zohran Mamdani campaign, both its promises and its failure to address the caste question head-on. Guest: Yashica Dutt is a journalist and author whose writings can be found on her Substack, Featuring Dalits and in New Lines magazine. Mentioned in the episode: Yashica Dutt, Coming Out as Dalit Rohith Vemula: an Indian PhD scholar at the University of Hyderabad whose suicide drew attention to widespread institutional casteism. Kumari Mayawati: first Dalit woman chief minister in India who served in the state of Uttar Pradesh as the leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party. BSP: Bahujan Samaj Party founded in 1984 and focused on representing the interests of Dalits, Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and religious minorities. Origin: 2023 film written and directed by Ava DuVernay based on the life and work of Isabel Wilkerson. ST/SC Act: Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 is a landmark Indian law designed to protect marginalized communities from atrocities, hate crimes, and discrimination. Cargenie Institute study: 2024 Indian American Attitudes Survey conducted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. DRUM Beats: organization that mobilizes working-class South Asian and Indo-Caribbean communities. Yashica Dutt, “I reported on the Zohran Mamdani Campaign for six months and documented South Asians' rise to power in New York City” Yashica Dutt, “What Zohran Mamdani's Campaign Says About the Quiet Erasure of Caste in US Politics” Yashica Dutt, “If South Asians are prominent in the New York Mayoral Election, then where is caste?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

When an eclipse happens, something shifts. The light changes. The atmosphere feels different. Traditionally, these moments were never treated as ordinary.In this episode, Dylan is joined by Jyotishi and Ayurvedic practitioner Laura Plumb, Vaidya Dr Krishna Raju, Vaidya and medical astrologer Dr Harsha Raju, and mantra teacher Purnesh. Together they explore eclipses through the lenses of Ayurveda, Jyotish and mantra śāstra.They speak about Rahu and Ketu, the difference between solar and lunar eclipses, why digestion and prāṇa are considered more sensitive during these periods, and why eclipses have long been used as powerful windows for mantra and inner practice. Specific mantras and simple ritual guidelines are shared, along with practical recommendations around food, rest, meditation and how to orient the mind during these heightened times. The conversation moves between astronomy, subtle physiology and lived experience, offering a steady and grounded way to approach eclipse events.Rather than sensationalising eclipses, this episode invites a composed perspective. A reminder that moments of shadow can also be moments of alignment.IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:

Rupert Sheldrake is one of the most controversial scientists alive. When his first book was published, its ideas were considered so taboo that one prominent journal suggested it should be burned, and his TED Talk was taken down following intense backlash from members of the scientific community. In this episode of the Align Podcast, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake explores the controversial concept of morphic resonance, telepathy, and the mystery of memory beyond the brain. Dr. Sheldrake shares insights on spiritual disconnection, depression, rites of passage, psychedelics, and offers wisdom for the next generation on living a connected life. ALIGN PODCAST EPISODE #582 THIS PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY: Go to https://ax3.life/align and use the promo code ALIGN for a 20% discount Get 15% off at Kaizen (clean electrolytes): https://LiveKaizen.com/align Go to Timeline.com/ALIGN and get up to 39% off your order of Mitopure Gummies OUR GUEST RUPERT SHELDRAKE, PHD, is a biologist and author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. At Cambridge University he worked in developmental biology as a Fellow of Clare College. He was Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in Hyderabad, India. From 2005 to 2010 he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick project for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. DR. RUPERT SHELDRAKE

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