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Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Sunil (SKG) Gupta, Senior Director in Cognizant and author of the book “Unlock Yourself” about creating a purpose led and fun filled life — a seasoned corporate leader with over three decades of experience spanning supply chain, IT-BPM, SaaS platforms, and now, marketing and influencer relations at Cognizant.Some highlights from the conversation has two major parts A Career Built on Transitions and Reinvention and making of the authorSunil started his career in the early 1990s in procurement, choosing the lesser-known path at a time when everyone else was aiming for sales, marketing, or R&D. His instinct for building structured systems began even then.By the late 90s, he was part of one of India's earliest experiments with reverse auctions and e-procurement, trained on platforms like Ariba before they became mainstream — gaining domain expertise that would shape the next phase of his career.Sunil joined the IT-BPM world in 1999, sparked by a newspaper ad that challenged readers to rethink their role during the Internet boom. From there, he helped set up B2B digital platforms across multiple sectors, including food and manufacturing.One of his standout projects was setting up a fully hosted commodity futures exchange, offering not just software but an end-to-end platform-as-a-service (long before SaaS became a buzzword).At Cognizant, Sunil spent over a decade building enterprise architecture and consulting practices, including growing a team of 300+ technology and business architects. He played a key role in setting up frameworks that bridged technology with real business impact.He later moved to the Philippines, taking on leadership roles in BPO services and transformation, and now works in marketing and analyst relations, helping position Cognizant's offerings with global firms like Gartner, Forrester, and IDC.The Making of an Author – Unlock Yourself:Sunil's book is a blend of personal introspection, professional learning, and tools for self-coaching.He introduces the RADHA framework – Reflect, Ask, Decide, Help, Act – to guide people through change and self-discovery.A strong advocate for neurodiversity and learning with compassion, Sunil discusses how society needs to reframe what “normal” means in both education and the workplace.His approach to writing and self-reflection was deeply influenced by the Theory of Constraints, coaching experiences, and even NFT community dynamics as an example of meaningful online engagement.Key Takeaway Moments:“Procurement taught me how systems work — and how people work within those systems.”“I realized I've always been in procurement… even when I didn't know it — we're all negotiating in life and work.”“My transition from technology to marketing feels as exciting as my first job — it's like starting fresh, but with wisdom in your backpack.”“Ask for help. Not because you're weak, but because you were never meant to do this alone.”A fresh take on fulfillment, success, and redefining “being number one”Sunil Gupta, also known as SKG, is a vibrant lifestyle step- up coach and a seasoned expert with over three decades in business strategy, program management, and corporate real estate. An IIT Kanpur alum, Sunil has enhanced his credentials with leadership programs from Symbiosis, Harvard Business Publishing, TinyMagiq, and SnehWorld. He volunteers with unicorn incubator IIT Startups and the Art of Living, Philippines. Sunil's personal advocacy is guiding first generation graduate girl students - whom he fondly calls as #BiryaniGirls.Known for his playful nature in childhood, Sunil worked diligently through high school and eventually graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from the esteemed IIT Kanpur in 1992. He later, in 2003, completed a PG in InternationalTrade from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies and in 2021, completed an Executive Leadership Development program by Harvard Business Publishing and subsequentlya 7-day residential TrainTheTrainer (T3P) program by Sneh Desai & team.Sunil boasts over three decades of experience in multiple industries with a focus on business strategy, portfolio & program management, corporate real estate & workplace management and sourcing. Besides his work, Sunil lendshis expertise to unicorn incubator IIT Startups as a mentor and also provides career guidance to first-generation female students, the ‘BiryaniGirls'. In his personal life, Sunil is anavid follower of The Art of Living teachings and has actively volunteered with their Philippines chapter. His journey to find life's meaning led him to establish the #PurposeProject, a venture to help people discover and live their true calling. Over the years Sunil has contributed to multiplewhitepapers and leading books on Theory of Constraints & Business Transformation. At present he is working on multiple books on personal development, goal setting, habit forming and purposeful living in what he calls as #TheNewAge - the era of uncertainties with immense promises and threats. Sunil is also preparing to launch his NFT Art & short story collection.Sunil is a staunch believer in the power of community and is dedicated to making a positive global impact through his work. He's deeply grateful to his mentors, family, friends, andcolleagues for their influence on his life and success.He considers himself to be a lover, actor, trader, teacher, peaceful warrior, saint, and prince, albeit with a fear of snakes, heights, and loneliness. He enjoys yoga, dogs, cycling, badminton, AI art & story creation, movies, cricket, and human connection. Connect with him if you're seeking someone who's passionate, driven, and a bit quirky!Sunil can be contacted at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunilkguptaskg/https://sunilkgupta.com interests / passionhttps://www.amazon.in/Unlock-Yourself-New-Age-Dialogues/dp/9360068152 - Unlock yourself in the new age - a book rooted in self-awareness, neurodivergence, personal rituals, and authentic transformation. In this conversation, he shares not just career milestones but the values and frameworks that shaped his journey.

"Behind the scenes, it's a Climate AI. It's a very deep Climate AI engine that we have built, which drives all of these workflows." Rohit Toshniwal pulls back the curtain on the sophisticated technology needed to tackle complex environmental challenges, highlighting how Artificial Intelligence is becoming essential for managing sustainability data and driving climate action. Rohit Toshniwal is a serial tech entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Sprih, which builds a Carbon Intelligence and Management platform using Climate AI to help organizations catalyze climate action. An IIT Kanpur graduate, Rohit previously co-founded Arkin Net, acquired by VMware for over $100 million, and helped scale that business within VMware to ~$250 million in revenue. Key Insights from the Conversation:

Dheeraj Pandey is a visionary entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for founding and leading Nutanix from its inception to becoming a publicly traded company valued at approximately $16.5 billion on NASDAQ. In 2020, he launched DevRev, an agentic AI company focused on unifying data to enhance customer experiences, securing over $100 million in funding from Khosla Ventures. Beyond his contributions to technology, Dheeraj co-founded Param Hansa with his wife, Swapna, to advance human life through science and technology. He holds a Computer Science and Engineering degree from IIT Kanpur and a master's in Computer Science from UT Austin.In this conversation, we discuss:Why data is the backbone of AI and how DevRev is leveraging knowledge graphs to transform customer support and product management.The evolution of enterprise AI—why businesses must integrate AI with human workflows rather than replace them.The future of customer support—how DevRev combines real-time conversations with ticketing systems to improve response times and reduce inefficiencies.The ethical challenges of AI adoption—how bias, security, and machine reliability shape the future of AI-driven business operations.How DevRev raised over $100M, including an unconventional approach using blockchain and decentralized funding models.Dheeraj's vision for AI's next frontier—why the real challenge isn't intelligence, but making AI work seamlessly with human decision-making.Resources:Subscribe to the AI & The Future of Work Newsletter:  https://aiandwork.beehiiv.com/subscribe Connect with Dheeraj Pandey on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpandey AI fun fact article:  https://hackernoon.com/next-time-you-hear-someone-say-ai-will-replace-call-center-agents-run On The Path To 500M+ YouTube views:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/301-william-osman-on-the-path-to-500m-youtube-views/id1476885647?i=1000668882327  

In this captivating episode of Entangled Things, Srinjoy Ganguly returns to join Patrick and Ciprian for an engaging exploration of AI-assisted optimization and its synergy with quantum computing. As he embarks on his PhD journey in quantum computing in the UK, Srinjoy shares expert insights into the transformative impact of AI and quantum technologies on the future of innovation. Additionally, he offers practical advice for newcomers eager to step into the world of quantum computing. Don't miss this enlightening conversation at the crossroads of groundbreaking technology and exciting opportunities. Srinjoy Ganguly is the founder & CEO of AdroitERA an EdTech firm which provides training on cutting edge technologies and IBM recognized Quantum Educator. He possesses a Masters in Quantum Computing Technologies from Technical University of Madrid, Spain and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from University of Southampton, UK. He has over 4+ years of experience in Quantum Computing and 5+ years of experience in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, AI. He has completed research-based courses on 5G signal processing systems from IIT Kanpur. He led, mentored and taught Quantum Machine Learning (QML) study space at QResearch QWorld and authored a book on Quantum Computing with Silq Programming. He has conducted Faculty Development Training at IIIT Pune by special invitation, gave expert talks on QML at IEEE SPS and has conducted several webinars at various institutes related to QML and Quantum Computing. He has been specially appointed and invited by Woxsen University as a Visiting Faculty to teach Quantum Computing to MBA students. He has also supervised research interns on QNLP, ZX calculus and Quantum Music as a part of QIntern 2021. His research interests include Quantum Machine Learning, Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP), Graphical Calculus for Quantum Computing (ZX Calculus) and Quantum Image Processing. 

Indie Hacker Special! I speak to Piyush Patel, the founder of AmplifyX Labs and a prominent voice in the micro-SaaS and indie hacking space. From bootstrapping projects to building in public and exploring AI-powered tools, Piyush shares invaluable insights into his personal journey, product development strategies, getting your first customers and the future of micro-SaaS. This episode is packed with actionable advice for aspiring indie hackers, developers, and entrepreneurs who want to build and scale meaningful projects without funding. He also shares how numerology and astrology influence both his personal and business decisions, and reveals the surprising story of how he used Bumble to gain new customers!in this conversation we talk:Why most people don't know what indie hacking is, and how the small but vibrant community in India is shaping the space.Piyush's step-by-step ideation process for identifying and validating product ideas.Building Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) and finding your first customers without breaking the bank.Common mistakes to avoid when developing and scaling a micro-SaaS product.The key strategies Piyush uses to scale his projects while staying bootstrapped.Why he prioritizes “selling before building” and “distribution before product” as the foundation for success.Navigating tough calls, feature prioritization, and knowing when to pivot or shut down a project.His thoughts on the rise of "AI for X" products and how indie developers can leverage AI to innovate.Opportunities and threats AI presents for the indie hacking community.Learning from failure and building emotional resilience as a bootstrapped founder.Tips for indie developers to build their personal brand on YouTube and social media.How to prioritize marketing efforts across channels like SEO, Meta, TikTok, and email marketing.Why networking is crucial for indie developers and Piyush's advice for making meaningful connections.How public speaking has helped him grow personally and professionally, with tips for beginners.Where Piyush sees the micro-SaaS industry heading in the next 5–10 years.Advice for aspiring indie hackers: Qualities you need, mistakes to avoid, and how to stay motivated.What he would do differently if he had to start over from scratch.and much more!Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/whatsuppiyush/https://bento.me/whatsuppiyushhttps://x.com/WhatsUpPiyush  Hosted And Produced by Neil Patel https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/neilpatel2 Enjoyed this episode? Don't forget to subscribe and leave us a review! Share this episode with your friends. Listen and Subscribe to More Episodeshttps://www.indianstartupshow.com/ Music by Punch Deck.https://open.spotify.com/artist/7kdduxAVaFnbHJyNxl7FWV

Join us for an exciting episode of the Archit Jain Podcast featuring Subhabrata Debnath, Co-founder and CTO of NeuralGarage! In this insightful discussion, Subhabrata shares his journey from IIT Kanpur to leading innovations in Generative AI and computer vision. What to Expect: Innovations in AI: Discover how NeuralGarage is transforming the media and entertainment industry with its cutting-edge technology, VisualDub, which synchronizes lip movements with dubbed audio for a seamless viewing experience. Entrepreneurial Insights: Hear about Subhabrata's experiences as a two-time founder and the lessons learned while building successful tech companies. Future of AI: Explore Subhabrata's perspectives on the role of AI in enhancing human capabilities and its ethical implications. In this deep-dive podcast, we discuss everything from the basics of how ChatGPT works to groundbreaking advancements in AI, such as Visual Dub technology that transforms dubbing in films. Our guest, a founder of an AI startup, shares insights into the future of generative AI, its applications in politics, filmmaking, and advertising, and how AI is shaping industries worldwide. We also explore practical advice for aspiring AI engineers and product managers, including essential skills, learning paths, and career opportunities. Dive into intriguing discussions about the potential of AI, job evolution, and India's unique position in the global AI ecosystem. 00:00 Precap 02:20 How ChatGPT Works - Based on Transformer architecture. 06:03 Can AI Replace Humans? - Exploring the balance between job loss and new opportunities. 12:02 AI and Security - Discussing Jailbreaks and the challenges of control. 20:06 Visual Dub Technology - Revolutionising dubbing with realistic facial expression changes. 26:08 Political Uses of AI - How AI enhances political communication. 31:00 AI in the Movie Industry - Examples of its integration in filmmaking. 35:16 Starting a Career in AI - Step-by-step guide for product managers and engineers. 41:05 API vs. Model Creation - Choosing between usage and development. 48:00 AI Engineer Salaries - Insights into pay scales and career growth in AI. 52:07 India's AI Ecosystem - Unique advantages and the multilingual edge.

On this episode of Research Radio we have Sreenath V S and Mini Chandran discussing their paper To Write Was to Cense: Kāvyaśāstra and Creative Freedom in Premodern India Sreenath V S teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. Mini Chandran teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur.. For more episodes and to listen to EPW's other podcast Supplement head to ⁠⁠⁠https://www.epw.in/podcasts⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to EPW to access all our content including the archives of The Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Weekly dating back to 1949. ⁠⁠⁠https://www.epw.in/subscribe.html⁠⁠ Sound Effect from Pixabay

Our speaker this week is Manoj Agarwal, President, and Co-founder of DevRev. Manoj is the co-founder and President of DevRev, one of the hottest startups in Silicon Valley with unprecedented seed funding and recent $1B series A round. Previously, he held executive positions at Nutanix (Nasdaq: NTNX), leading engineering teams and playing a vital role in the company's successful IPO in 2016, which was the largest tech IPO at the time.  Manoj is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and has worked in notable technology startups and companies like Synopsys and Sandisk. He left his role as SVP Engineering at Nutanix, where he spearheaded their cloud efforts, to co-found DevRev with Dheeraj Pandey in 2020. Connect with Manoj at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devreveler/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/uncharted1/support

You can follow his work on: https://www.youtube.com/@UC2Nwwobsd0ctkzVieXZvyQA Ankit Awasthi is from Alwar, Rajasthan. He has an M.Sc. (Gold Medalist) and an M.Tech. from IIT Kanpur. He is an educator and YouTuber in India with over 12 years of teaching experience. He's known for his expertise in current affairs and general studies, essential subjects for competitive exams like UPSC, SSC, and state public service commissions. His content covers topics including politics, economics, history, geography, and science, with a strong focus on current affairs. In this episode, Vinamre and Ankit talk about: - Changes in geopolitics during Modi's second and third terms. - How Mamata Banerjee mishandled the situation in the Kolkata case. - How the US controls global affairs and influences Indian media? - Potential nuclear threats to the US and the future of Imran Khan in Pakistan. - Criticism of the Indian economy's confidence, the threat posed by Monkeypox. - Problems with India's competitive exams and India's strengths and growth potential. If you are interested in current affairs and world politics, then this episode is for you. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:10 - Change in geopolitics during Modi 2.0 and Modi 3.0 3:28 - How the USSR was controlling Indian politics 5:36 - Rebirth of India through liberalization 9:35 - How India changed its course after 2014 14:29 - How the narrative has changed after the 2024 elections 18:35 - How Mamata Banerjee mishandled the situation 21:58 - History of appeasement of minorities 32:26 - How rape has been politicized in India 34:05 - Mamata Banerjee was a minister in the NDA government? 37:37 - Imran Khan will be a long-term leader of Pakistan 40:02 - How the US directly controls the whole world 41:22 - Neo-colonization 43:18 - How the US and Britain shaped our institutions 46:09 - Need for Make in India and China's reverse engineering 54:10 - How the US is controlling our media? 57:32 - The history of Iran and Why does Iran hate the US? 1:01:32 - Will the USA be nuked? 1:07:32 - Is Monkeypox a real threat to the world? 1:08:56 - Why the world supports Jews and Balfour Declaration 1:15:12 - Fake confidence in the Indian economy 1:19:53 - Why Smart Cities are important? 1:26:32 - Problems with competitive exams 1:32:37 - Conclusion ==================================================================== This is the official channel for Dostcast, a podcast by Vinamre Kasanaa. Connect with me LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinamre-kasanaa-b8524496/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinamrekasanaa/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/VinamreKasanaa Dostcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dostcast/ Dostcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dostcast Dostcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557567524054 ==================================================================== Contact Us For business inquiries: dostcast@egiplay.com

Welcome to India's first 'policy vlog' where we explore how small changes can lead to big transformations in our Indian cities. Join us on a journey to Singapore, a city-state that evolved from a humble village to a first-world metropolis within a single generation. This special episode features Shashank Dixit, a successful entrepreneur and the CEO of Deskera, a multi-million dollar software company. As an IIT Kanpur graduate, Shashank brings a wealth of knowledge and practical insights to our discussion.We chose Singapore because it epitomizes the potential for urban transformation. From its immaculate roads and efficient traffic management to its world-class housing, cleanliness, and innovative urban planning, Singapore sets a benchmark for what can be achieved with solid will, good planning, and flawless execution.In this vlog, you'll discover how Singapore's well-maintained roads and smart traffic systems make daily commutes smooth and stress-free. Explore the city's public housing model that provides affordable, high-quality living spaces for its residents. Learn about the rigorous cleanliness standards and efficient waste management practices that keep Singapore spotless, and see firsthand the thoughtful urban planning that integrates green spaces, commercial areas, and residential neighborhoods seamlessly. Experience the vibrant and hygienic hawker centers that offer a diverse range of affordable and delicious food options.Our vision with this vlog is to seed aspiration among the people of India. By showcasing the tangible benefits of meticulous planning and execution, we want to inspire viewers to believe that Indian cities can also achieve world-class standards. It's not about grandiose projects but about implementing small, consistent changes that collectively lead to a significant impact.Watch, learn, and get inspired to envision and demand better-managed cities in India. This journey begins with understanding and appreciating what is possible, and with initiatives like these, change is just around the corner.Stay tuned for more insightful and thought-provoking content. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe to our channel for regular updates on urban transformation, policy insights, and much more. Let's aspire for better cities, one vlog at a time!

About @Google Principal Scientist Prateek Jain: Prateek Jain is a Principal Scientist / Diretor at Google DeepMind India where he leads the Machine Learning and Optimization team. He obtained his doctorate from UT Austin and BTech from IIT-Kanpur. He has conducted foundational research in the areas of large-scale and non-convex optimization, and resource-constrained ML. Prateek regularly serves on the senior PC of top ML conferences and is on the editorial board of top ML journals including JMLR, SIMODS. He has also won multiple best paper awards including the 2020 Best Paper by IEEE Signal Processing Society. Prateek also received the Young Alumnus Award from IIT Kanpur in 2021 and the ACM India Early Career Researcher Award in 2022.

GSD Presents Token Economics and How to Design the Token Framework with Rishabh Gupta May 13, Monday Guest: Rishabh Gupta, Director of Operations, TDeFi https://www.linkedin.com/in/web3incubation/?originalSubdomain=in Rishabh is the Director of Operations at TDeFi and a beacon in the Web 3.0 landscape. At the core, he believes in unlocking the full human potential through spirituality, integrating deeper purpose with modern tech. With a rich portfolio of over 60 startups, Rishabh takes pride in guiding ventures to scale, assisting them in growing 1 to n. Each startup's journey is a testament to human potential and innovation. Deep expertise in token engineering sets Rishabh apart. By combining economics, game theory, incentive design, and financial models, bespoke strategies are crafted to ensure sustainable growth in the decentralized world. Before TDeFi, Rishabh was instrumental at OYO Rooms, shaping its trajectory to become one of the fastest Decacorn (USD 10 Bn+) companies. This journey enriched skills in negotiation and solidified the importance of customer-centric approaches. Holding an MBA in Finance from IIT Kanpur and boasting a CFA Level 3 candidature, Rishabh seamlessly merges the realms of finance and technology. Yet, beyond the boardroom, there's an enduring commitment to societal upliftment, particularly ensuring equitable education access and wealth distribution. #TokenEconomics #TokenFrameworkDesign #CryptoEconomics #Tokenization #BlockchainDesign #DigitalTokens #CryptocurrencyFrameworks

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: "Cool Things Our GHW Grantees Have Done in 2023" - Open Philanthropy, published by Lizka on May 13, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Open Philanthropy[1] recently shared a blog post with a list of some cool things accomplished in 2023 by grantees of their Global Health and Wellbeing (GHW) programs (including farm animal welfare). The post "aims to highlight just a few updates on what our grantees accomplished in 2023, to showcase their impact and make [OP's] work a little more tangible." I'm link-posting because I found it valuable to read about these projects, several of which I hadn't heard of. And I like that despite its brevity, the post manages to include a lot of relevant information (and links), along with explanations of the key relevant theories of change and opportunity. For people who don't want to click through to the post itself, I'm including an overview of what's included and a selection of excerpts below. Overview The post introduces each program with a little blurb, and then provides 1-2 examples of projects and one of their updates from 2023. Here's the table of contents: 1. Global Public Health Policy 1. Dr. Sachchida Tripathi (air quality sensors) 2. Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP) 2. Global Health R&D 1. Cures Within Reach 2. SAVAC 3. Scientific Research 1. Dr. Caitlin Howell (catheters) 2. Dr. Allan Basbaum (pain research) 4. Land Use Reform 1. Sightline Institute 5. Innovation Policy 1. Institute for Progress 2. Institute for Replication 6. Farm Animal Welfare 1. Open Wing Alliance 2. Aquaculture Stewardship Council 7. Global Aid Policy 1. PoliPoli 8. Effective Altruism (Global Health and Wellbeing) 1. Charity Entrepreneurship 9. How you can support our grantees Examples/excerpts from the post I've chosen some examples (pretty arbitrarily - I'm really excited about many of the other examples, but wanted to limit myself here), and am including quotes from the original post. 1.1 Dr. Sachchida Tripathi (air quality sensors) Sachchida Tripathi is a professor at IIT Kanpur, one of India's leading universities, where he focuses on civil engineering and sustainable energy. Dr. Tripathi used an Open Philanthropy grant to purchase 1,400 low-cost air quality sensors and place them in every block[2] in rural Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Using low-cost sensors involved procuring and calibrating them (see photo). These sensors now provide much more accurate and reliable data for these rural areas than was previously available to the air quality community. This work has two main routes to impact. First, these sensors make the problem of rural air pollution legible. Because air quality in India is assumed to be a largely urban issue, most ground-based sensors are in urban areas. Second, proving the value of these low-cost sensors and getting operational experience can encourage buy-in from stakeholders (e.g., local governments) who may fund additional sensors or other air quality interventions. Air quality monitoring is a major theme of our South Asian Air Quality grantmaking. We are actively exploring opportunities in new geographic areas, both within and beyond India, without high-quality, ground-based monitoring. Santosh Harish, who leads our grantmaking on environmental health, recently spoke to the 80,000 Hours podcast about this grant as well as air quality in India more generally. 2.2. SAVAC (accelerating the development and implementation of strep A vaccines) The Strep A Vaccine Global Consortium (SAVAC) is working to accelerate the development and implementation of safe and effective strep A vaccines. Open Philanthropy is one of very few funders supporting the development of a group A strep (GAS) vaccine (we've funded two projects to test new vaccines). GAS kills over 500,000 people per year, mostly by causing rheumatic heart disease.[3] Wh...

Sadhguru was at IIT Kanpur, during a stopover in his 30,000-km, 100-day lone motorcycle ride from Europe to India, as part of the #SaveSoil movement. Listen to the full talk here! Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org Sadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__app Official Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.org Sadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive Inner Engineering Link: isha.co/ieo-podcast Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sadhguru was at IIT Kanpur, during a stopover in his 30,000-km, 100-day lone motorcycle ride from Europe to India, as part of the #SaveSoil movement. Listen to the full talk here! Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org Sadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__app Official Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.org Sadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive Inner Engineering Link: isha.co/ieo-podcast Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two Suspects in Salman Khan Residence Firing Case Remanded to Mumbai Police Custody, Patanjali case: Ramdev, Balkrishna Acharya ready for ‘public apology'; Supreme Court next hearing on April 23, Reception Not A Part of Wedding: Bombay High Court, Civil Services final results out, Aditya Srivastava from IIT Kanpur tops exam, Ram Navami to Be Celebrated on 17 April: Many Banks to Remain Closed

#vaad #indiachina #indianeconomy Shashank Dixit is a successful entrepreneur and currently the CEO of Deskera, a multi million dollar software company. He is a graduate of IIT Kanpur. An entrepreneur at heart, Shashank loves to help and guide young entrepreneurs. 0:00 Promo 3:21 Intro 5:09 Of course China is far ahead 7:25 India bottom up, China top down 10:17 How China became China 16:28 The Manufacturing Playbook 19:52 Only one civilisation knew how to build cities 23:30 Why Indians have a crab mentality 25:07 Importance of cities in a civilisation 28:22 India needs to be a CAR country 32:20 India doesn't have a manufacturing playbook 34:57 China - CUT COPY PASTE 38:34 Chinese aren't better than Indians 39:45 10% growth is possible 42:18 Penalize petty crimes to become a great nation 46:15 No standardization in infra in India 51:30 Problem of workforce & education in India 56:38 Education shouldn't be For-Profit? 58:04 Death by regulations 1:04:28 Manufacturing economy without education? 1:07:03 India Vs China in numbers 1:11:21 Why we don't even think BIG 1:14:45 We don't have even skilled labour 1:22:28 We don't have enough machines 1:23:24 China has clarity, we have sharam 1:26:15 This is the mindset our civilization needs 1:28:00 How Oxford was setup 1:31:03 India's feudal mindset 1:34:21 How to take on China 1:36:01 Noida Vs Beijing 1:40:50 We are obsessed with villages 1:43:40 Don't be afraid of Cars 1:47:15 Housing bubble is in India, not China 1:54:45 Why don't we have fast metros 1:58:10 India's steel stupidity 2:00:58 We need Police reforms 2:10:45 These low hanging fruits can transform India 2:18:14 Sad state of Indian academia 2:22:44 Youth is India's best hope 2:26:01 Manufacturing better than IT for India? 2:33:01 Bottom up change visible? 2:35:39 Manufacturing more expensive than IT? 2:39:44 Show the way to the youth 2:41:44 This is how GDP will grow at 10%

In this episode of The Brand Called You, Sab Kanaujia, CEO of MindWell Labs, draws on his journey to discuss bringing mindfulness to the masses. Sab talks about the need to live with more purpose. He talks about MindWell Labs, which leverages wearable devices and personalised interventions to help users reduce anxiety, stress and distractions. Sab reflects on moving from capturing people's attention in media to now trying to give them more control over their minds.  About Sab Kanaujia Sab Kanaujia is the Co-Founder & CEO of Mindwell Labs. He is also the Managing Partner at Dia Ventures. Sab did his BTech from IIT Kanpur and MBA from the University of Maryland.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tbcy/support

IN THIS EPISODE: In this inspiring episode, host Denise Silber sits down with HBS MBA  Pankaj Agarwal,  an EdTech entrepreneur who was born in an Indian village  and developed  a deep desire to pay it forward.  Today he and his team are  optimizing the education process in  thousands of Indian and Korean classrooms thanks to the  low-tech invention from Taghive,  his Samsung-backed startup headquartered in Seoul, Korea.  Because Panjak is a keen observer and deep thinker, you will learn as he shares his story, how simple technology can impact students and teachers  in a big way  and  create remarkable outcomes. Discover how his company, TagHive,  is bringing solutions to one of the  biggest problems for teachers: knowing which students have understood the lesson and are ready to move on. This episode is for any entrepreneur looking for inspiration and a new way of thinking about his or her life, goals, and hopes. GUEST BIO: Mr. Pankaj Agarwal, an alumnus of HBS is the Founder & CEO at TagHive, a Samsung funded education technology venture with operations in South Korea and in India. He is an inventor on over 75 international patents and was on the list of Fortune India 40 Under 40 in 2021. He was also one of the 10 winners of MIT TR35 India (Innovators Under 35) Award in 2017.  Prior to TagHive Mr. Agarwal was with Samsung Electronics for over a decade. Mr. Agarwal is the Founder and Chairman of the IIT Alumni Association of South Korea since 2015. He is also a board member of the Indian Chamber of Commerce in Korea and an adjunct professor at the Ewha Woman's University.  Mr. Agarwal is a trained magician and is fluent in Korean. He has a Bachelor of Technology degree in EE from IIT Kanpur, an MS from Seoul National University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.  

There are videos on social media suggesting that an artificial rain experiment by IIT Kanpur can tackle air pollution and drought and that this artificially induced rainfall is likely to have “no negative consequences on the environment”.  Videos on social media claim this as a “sustainable solution”. However, this isn't the first time that cloud seeding has been suggested as a possible solution for air pollution in Delhi.  Some experts say that it is complicated, an expensive exercise whose efficacy in battling pollution is not completely proven, and that more research is needed to understand its long-term environmental impact. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has proposed this idea to reduce pollution levels in the national capital. This project has been in development since 2018.  To understand this further, Climate Emergency host Sneha Richhariya speaks to Professor Maninder Agarwal, who is a professor at IIT Kanpur and is the scientist who's leading this project on artificial rainfall.See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

Brought to you by the Founders Unfiltered podcast by A Junior VC - Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Aviral and Mazin. Join us as we talk to Amit Gupta, the Co-Founder & CEO of Yulu about their story. Amit graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2000. Later, he completed an executive programme at Harvard Business School. His professional journey included roles as a software engineer at Aditi Technologies, an assistant manager at Citifinancial India, a manager at Andale, and a founder and advisor at Analyticsworks. He also held a global board member position at MMA. In 2006, he co-founded InMobi, and later, in 2017, he co-founded Yulu.

Aloke Bajpai is the Co-founder and CEO of ixigo.com a platform that aggregates and compares real-time travel information, prices and availability for flights, trains, buses, and hotels, and allows ticket booking through its associate websites and apps. Since ixigo's launch in 2007, the company has gone from a bootstrapped startup to India's leading travel search and planning business, with over 20 million active users every month across mobile and web. Aloke graduated from IIT Kanpur in 2001 and started his career at Amadeus in Europe where he held key product and technology roles, building and managing large scale web-based products and networks for the first four years of his career. He then went to INSEAD for his MBA, and returned to India to build ixigo. . . . Episode Notes: Intro (2:15) Why entrepreneurship (4:11) What frameworks did Aloke decide to take the plunge into entrepreneurship (11:20) Why did Aloke pick travel as an industry to disrupt (14:35) The Aha-moment for Ixigo (17:38) Conversations with VCs in the early-stages (24:15) How did Aloke and team convince their first investors (30:00) Leveraging VCs to grow the company (32:40) Evolution of Aloke's leadership styles over the Yeats (37:40) How do you build a strong internal company culture (42:15) How did Ixigo navigate the pandemic and the challenges that came with it? (46:50) Overall learnings building Ixigo (55:20) Advice to younger self (59:18) . . . Social Links: ixigo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ixigo Aloke on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alokebajpai Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedesi_vc Akash Bhat on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bhatvakash Podcast on Instagram: https://instagram.com/thedesivc Akash Bhat on Instagram: https://instagram.com/bhatvakash

In this episode, Rohit Sharma, Sr. Vice President of Global Higher Education and Workskills, explains how ETS made the GRE almost two hours shorter (without cutting any sections) and why that's a good thing for test takers - and institutions. [SHOW SUMMARY] Are you wondering what the new shorter GRE is about? What does it mean for you as applicants and test takers? This episode is for you! We'll be discussing the new shorter GRE format and how it affects test-takers with ETS' Sr. Vice President of Global Higher Education and Workskills. An interview with Rohit Sharma,Sr. Vice President of Global Higher Education and Workskills at ETS. [Show Notes] Welcome to the 531st episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Thanks for joining me. Today's show is all about test prep, and I'd like to start with a quick one-question quiz. What is the paradox at the heart of graduate school admissions? Well, I'll tell you. You have to show that you belong at your target programs and simultaneously that you stand out in the applicant pool. Doing so is paradoxical and challenging. Accepted's free download, Fitting in and Standing Out: The Paradox at the Heart of Admissions, will show you how to do both. Master this paradox, and you are well on your way to acceptance.  Our guest today is Rohit Sharma, Senior Vice President of Global Higher Education and Workskills at the Educational Testing Service, better known as ETS. Rohit earned his bachelor's in engineering from IIT Kanpur in India and his MBA from UVA Darden. He has worked as a consultant for Boston Consulting Group and for over 20 years he has contributed internationally in management and product design and development in the fields of digital skills training, assessment, and higher education.  Rohit, welcome to Admissions Straight Talk. [2:03] Thank you, Linda. Thank you for having me. I'm delighted to speak with you today. So GRE is undergoing some transformations, right? ETS is giving us a whole new GRE. How is the new GRE going to be structured? [2:07] Great, thank you. First of all, the GRE is going to be similar in many ways to the old one in terms of having the same three sections that we have always had, which is the verbal reasoning, the quantitative reasoning, as well as the analytical writing section. So those three things remain unchanged. But the big news here is that the time that the test used to take previously, which was close to four hours, is going to be reduced in half to just shy of two hours. So that's a big change that we are making. And then I assume you're not sacrificing any kind of predictability or validity to the test in cutting it in half. [2:51] Of course, that was almost like I left it hanging there so that you asked me that, but it goes without saying- I fell for it. [3:09] Yes, no, thank you. But it goes without saying that as you know, ETS has a very long history of over 75 years that we have been around, and one of the things that we are so proud of is the research that goes behind all of our assessments. So the validity, the reliability of these measures, these assessments, the constructs that they measure continues to remain the same as it was before. So the total time is much less. You still have the same three sections. So is each section just basically cut in half? [3:32] So there's a couple of things that we have done. So in many of these assessments, Linda, historically, there's always been an unscored section. And before the world of generative AI, as well as other technological advances that was needed to make sure that we can test out items that we can then put in future tests because these items have been tested in a particular way. So first of all, we remove that unscored section so that itself produces a certain amount of time. The second thing we did was in the longer version of the test, which is the current one, there was a break in the midway for around 10 minutes.

A Fintech discussion with Openness as a guide with a Fintech entrepreneur, Dr. Ritesh Jain. With insights from the UK market, the Middle East, and India.Ritesh Jain https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritesh/ is a globally recognised Top 10 fintech and payments leader. Awarded a PhD for his work in Open Banking, Payments Innovation, and Financial Inclusion by Portsmouth University, He founded Infynit to humanize credit and credit card experience; in the past led HSBC as COO Digital, led Future of Payments for VISA, introduced apple pay to the market. A fellow at the University of London & the founding member of the fintech centre, Advisor to IIT Kanpur. He is also a G20 GPFI (Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion) member advisor, Policy advocate on emerging tech, financial services, open banking, digital commerce, and central bank digital currency. And he is visiting faculty at leading institutes globally, including Hull and Oxford

A Fintech discussion with Openness as a guide with a Fintech entrepreneur, Dr. Ritesh Jain. With insights from the UK market, the Middle East, and India.Ritesh Jain https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritesh/ is a globally recognised Top 10 fintech and payments leader. Awarded a PhD for his work in Open Banking, Payments Innovation, and Financial Inclusion by Portsmouth University, He founded Infynit to humanize credit and credit card experience; in the past led HSBC as COO Digital, led Future of Payments for VISA, introduced apple pay to the market. A fellow at the University of London & the founding member of the fintech centre, Advisor to IIT Kanpur. He is also a G20 GPFI (Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion) member advisor, Policy advocate on emerging tech, financial services, open banking, digital commerce, and central bank digital currency. And he is visiting faculty at leading institutes globally, including Hull and Oxford

Global Policy Watch: Chronicle Of A Crisis Foretold Reflections on global policy issues — RSJA major state election (Karnataka) is coming up this week. But there's hardly anything worth analysing. The Congress seemed to have a slight edge in the early opinion polls, but that's wearing thin. The BJP, always with its ears to the ground, has cranked up its poll machinery in the last couple of weeks drawing upon the star power of the PM in the urban areas of the state. The friendly media houses have been mobilised to pick up ‘emotive' issues that would tilt the scale in favour of the party in power. It is not too difficult to figure out what the average voter wants if you go by the opinion polls and surveys. But those substantive issues just don't feature in the public discourse. If you read the papers or media reports on what's being debated among parties in Karnataka, it is about who is a Hindu hater, who prostrates more often before deities and how going back to the OPS (old pension scheme) is such a wonderful idea. In the classical model of how representative democracy ought to work, the voters would have a limited view of how the world works, and it is the representative who owes the voters not only his labour but also his judgment on issues (to riff on Burke). That seems to be inverted here. One set of representatives has, over the last few years, instituted all kinds of targeted laws - hijaab ban, anti-conversion laws, scrapping minority quotas and cow slaughter ban - in the hope that they will yield electoral gains. The other set is talking of another set of bans convenient to them and some really bad economic policies. We often say that this newsletter attempts to change the demand side of the political equation by making people more aware of public policies and demanding better from their representatives. What we have here is the public demanding the right kind of things (if opinion polls are to go by), but their representatives are keen on dragging them back to divisive emotive issues. The Karnataka election will be a good test of what prevails eventually. I can almost see the straight line from these polls to the general elections due almost exactly 12 months from now. We will all be debating similar trivial issues than what really should matter to India. For some reason, that doesn't make for a good topic of debate. It makes any election analysis a waste of time, really. Switching gears, as I finished writing my last week's edition on what the US Fed refuses to learn from the SVB collapse, another mid-sized US bank, the First Republic Bank (FRB), went down and was sold to J.P. Morgan, the ultimate backstop in the US financial system. No amount of assurance from FDIC to the depositors of the bank nor the combined infusion of capital about a month back from a consortium of big banks into FRB was enough to stanch the outflow of deposits. Soon the bank was insolvent, the shareholders and bondholders lost everything, and J.P. Morgan was given enough of a sweet deal to pick up the pieces. I'm sure the Fed will come out with another report on the FRB collapse where it will blame the management for not hedging its treasury risks and being lax in its risk practices. There will be a light rap to the supervisors and staff from Fed who monitored FRB, and that will be that. I hope there's some more introspection by the Fed than that. Because as the shares of PacWest and Western Alliance have sunk over the last two days, it is clear that a number of mid-sized banks are going to collapse in slow-motion and end up in the lap of J.P. Morgan or FDIC very soon. The feeble Fed response was a 25 bps hike in rates last week with a strong indication that it will hit the pause button on hikes now. The question is if that's enough to structurally save many of these banks.I have argued for the past couple of months (just after the SVB collapse) that there are three problems for the Fed to contend with, and there are no real answers for them. It is Hail Mary time. Choose the best among the worst options and brace for the impact. I will lay out the three problems it faces before suggesting what looks like the best of the worst option that the Fed has chosen. First, the Fed continued raising interest rates to fight inflation without thinking through its impact on the banking system. This much is clear now. The surprises that have come up in the shape of SVB, Signature and FRB weren't anticipated at all. As the interest rates rose, the value of the long-term assets held by banks has fallen while their liabilities, in the form of deposits, which tend to be shorter in term, haven't fallen as much. The slowdown in the economy has meant there's not enough demand for credit at elevated rates, which means banks continue to invest in long-term US treasury bills. Every time the rates go up, these held-to-maturity (HTM) assets take a notional mark-to-market loss. A recent report by the Hoover Institution suggests that at this moment, the US Banking system's market value of assets is about $ 2 trillion below their book value. In an article on Yahoo Finance, Ambrose Evan-Pritchards writes:The second and third biggest bank failures in US history have followed in quick succession. The US Treasury and Federal Reserve would like us to believe that they are “idiosyncratic”. That is a dangerous evasion.Almost half of America's 4,800 banks are already burning through their capital buffers. They may not have to mark all losses to market under US accounting rules but that does not make them solvent. Somebody will take those losses.“It's spooky. Thousands of banks are underwater,” said Professor Amit Seru, a banking expert at Stanford University. “Let's not pretend that this is just about Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic. A lot of the US banking system is potentially insolvent.”The second problem, which kind of starts giving this a contagion feel, is the state of the commercial property market in the US. Interest rates have moved up too fast, the slowdown is real with many large employers laying off people, so there's no real need for commercial capacity, and the excess liquidity fuelled by the Fed during the pandemic meant additional capacity was built up cheaply, which now has no takers. What's worse, the rapid increase in rates means that a lot of these loans that will come up for refinancing soon (at higher rates) will face defaults. The mid-sized regional banks have a sizable exposure to commercial real estate, with estimates that about two-thirds of all commercial property borrowing comes from them. From the same Yahoo Finance article:Packages of commercial property loans (CMBS) are typically on short maturities and have to be refinanced every two to three years. Borrowing exploded during the pandemic when the Fed flooded the system with liquidity. That debt comes due in late 2023 and 2024.Could the losses be as bad as the subprime crisis? Probably not. Capital Economics says the investment bubble in US residential property peaked at 6.5pc of GDP in 2007. The comparable figure for commercial property today is 2.6pc.But the threat is not trivial either. US commercial property prices have so far fallen by just 4pc to 5pc. Capital Economics expects a peak to trough decline of 22pc. This will wreak further havoc on the loan portfolios of the regional banks that account for 70pc of all commercial property financing.Estimates vary, but it is likely that even a 10-15 per cent increase in default rates on commercial property when the refinancing chickens come home to roost could mean about $ 100 billion in losses for banks. And these are real losses, not the notional variety sitting on the books. Will the regional banks be able to weather this? And what happens if 4-5 of them catch a cold together in this portfolio? The risk of contagion flowing up the banking food chain is real.Lastly, the Fed, FDIC and the government took the extraordinary step of guaranteeing all deposits after the collapse of SVB to reassure depositors and not have further runs on mid-sized banks. But that didn't stop the ever-increasing deposit erosion for FRB during April. People can do the math, and they realise there's no way the government can fill a giant hole in case there's a real deposit run. The FDIC, after all, has a little over $ 100 billion to act as insurance for such an eventuality. That's loose change in the broader scheme of things. So, the depositors will flee the more you try and convince them all's well. Plus, the blanket deposit backstop has meant there's a moral hazard built right there for the management not to be too worried about the nature of deposits they bring or the risk of serious asset-liability mismatches. At the time of SVB collapse, I wrote in edition # 205:I guess one way to look at this is if you let fiscal dominance become the central canon of how you manage your economic policy, you will eventually reach the same place as other economies (mostly developing) that have indulged in the same for years. The monetary authorities in the U.S. have been accommodating the fiscal profligacy of the treasury for years. This was accentuated during the pandemic. Trillions of dollars were pumped in to save the economy. I'm not sure how much the economy needed saving then. But that bill has come now. First in the shape of inflation, followed by rapid, unprecedented rate hikes and the inevitable accidents that are showing up now. Almost certainly, a recession will follow. Isomorphic mimicry of Latin American monetary policy indeed.Now, back to Evans-Pritchard and his article in Yahoo Finance:The root cause of this bond and banking crisis lies in the erratic behaviour and perverse incentives created by the Fed and the US Treasury over many years, culminating in the violent lurch from ultra-easy money to ultra-tight money now underway. They first created “interest rate risk” on a galactic scale: now they are detonating the delayed timebomb of their own creation.Chris Whalen from Institutional Risk Analyst said we should be wary of a false narrative that pins all blame on miscreant banks. “The Fed's excessive open market intervention from 2019 through 2022 was the primary cause of the failure of First Republic as well as Silicon Valley Bank,” he said.Mr Whalen said US banks and bond investors (i.e. pension funds and insurance companies) are “holding the bag” on $5 trillion of implicit losses left by the final blow-off phase of the Fed's QE experiment. “Since US banks only have about $2 trillion in tangible equity capital, we have a problem,” he said.Going back to the original question I posed - what will Fed do given these problems on hand? I guess it has decided to choose what it thinks is the least worst option. It cannot let go of its fight against inflation. It has to find a way to avoid recession. So, all it can afford is a controlled banking crisis. An oxymoron if ever there was one. But that's where we are headed, where we will see things unfold in a slow but almost predictable manner. The Fed will try and boost the banks' capital in the meantime and hope the best of them brave through this without any risk of contagion. Anyway, in the worst case, there's always Jamie Dimon and his chequebook.Thanks for reading Anticipating the Unintended! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work.Numbers that Ought to Matter: In April 2023, the Union Health Minister reported that India has 108,000 MBBS seats in 660 colleges and 118,000 BSc nursing seats in approx 900 colleges. The total number of seats on offer is quite low, despite the large number of colleges. On average, each medical college has 163 seats, and each nursing college has just 131 seats. Government policy should focus on helping existing colleges increase their intake. For more context, read edition #159.India Policy Watch #1: Coal is Out? Naah.Insights on issues relevant to India— Pranay KotasthaneEarlier this week, I came across this Business Standard report:“India plans to stop building new coal-fired power plants, apart from those already in the pipeline, by removing a key clause from the final draft of its National Electricity Policy (NEP), in a major boost to fight climate change, sources said.”My prior assumption was that given coal-based power's lower costs, India would construct many more coal-powered plants over the next two decades to meet a growing economy's demand. Hence, this news item came as a bit of a surprise. So I went through the draft National Electricity Plan to understand the reasoning.Before we dive in, some bureaucratic knots that need untangling. The cited “final draft” of the National Electricity Policy is nowhere to be found on the Ministry of Power website. But I could find an earlier draft on the IIT Kanpur's Centre for Energy Regulation website! A Policy document such as this only lists the priorities and steers the sector. From it arises a Plan that's to be released every five years by the Central Electricity Authority. The Plan document is the real deal as it does demand projections through an ‘Electric Power Survey'. It then presents the energy generation mix required to meet the projected demand scenarios. A part of this elusive plan document was released, after many delays, in September 2022. Some relevant insights from the plan:* The current installed power capacity of ~400GW split looks as follows:* By FY32, it is projected that India's energy demand will be 2538 Billion Units, and peak power demand will be 363 GW, up from 1624 Billion Units and peak demand of 216 GW in FY23. * Coal+Lignite accounted for 52.7% of total installed capacity in FY23.* Using a planning tool that optimises for factors such as fuel availability, operational availability, and sustainability, the Plan throws up a required power generation capacity mix.* After taking all these constraints into account, the Plan finds that by FY32, India would need an additional installed coal capacity of 42.6 GW in the base case scenario and 53.6 GW in the increased-demand scenario. * Around 25.6 GW of capacity addition is already in various stages of execution.Now, we come to the report claiming a ban on additional coal capacity addition beyond the current in-progress projects. It essentially means that to meet the projected demand, India will have to find other sources to compensate for coal. In the best case, an additional 17 GW capacity will have to be conjured up; and in the worst-case scenario, nearly 28 GW capacity will have to be compensated. This additional capacity goes beyond the planned additions in clean energy generation. That's why I am sceptical about this news report. It's unlikely that government will make a blanket commitment.If we assume the report to be true, advancing the date of halting further coal power generation will require compensation by another reliable source to provide the base load. Only two options can be imagined with today's technology — nuclear energy and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS).Nuclear energy accounts for just 2 per cent of the total power generation mix today. The current plan already assumes a threefold increase in nuclear power capacity addition. For it to absorb the slack of stopping further coal addition, it has to reach six to eight times the current capacity. Given that nuclear power generation faces the problem of high capital costs and invites protests, scaling it up is tough unless the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology breakthrough leads to mass adoption in India. Maybe for this reason, the government is “considering” overturning a ban on FDI in nuclear power. Expanding BESS capacity also depends on the ability to develop Lithium refining expertise and bring other options, such as Sodium-ion batteries, online. So, stopping the building of new coal-fired power plants requires far too many other pieces of the puzzle to fall into place. Keep watching this space.Tailpiece: check out this Puliyabaazi episode on the chemistry, geopolitics, and significance of Lithium-ion batteries.India Policy Watch #2: Lessons from Apple's India Journey Thus FarInsights on issues relevant to India— Pranay KotasthaneApple's quarterly results are out. Its India revenue registered double-digit growth, prompting Tim Cook to make the now-commonplace “India is at a tipping point” statement. The last seven years have been stunning for Apple's India business. From being shunned away by the government for their plan to import and sale of refurbished phones to becoming a poster child of electronics manufacturing in India, Apple's India strategy has come a long way.I've always wanted to know how Apple raised its India game and whether there are broader lessons for Indian public policy from this experience. So I was delighted to read Surajeet Das Gupta's Business Standard article narrating Apple's tryst with Indian public policy. Das Gupta identifies these milestones and speed-breakers:* In 2016, after denying the import-refurbish-sell request, Apple was told to start manufacturing in India if it wanted to set up Apple-owned retail stores.* In 2017, Apple put forward two pre-conditions for starting manufacturing in India:* “15-year duty concessions (on capital equipment, components, consumables for smartphones).. and a reduction in customs duty on completely knocked down and semi-knocked down devices to be assembled in India.” * relaxation of 30 per cent local sourcing directive for foreign direct investment (FDI) in single-brand retail stores.* After both its asks were rejected, it set up an India team to work with the government and mobile phone industry associations.* After three years of lobbying, the government relented by allowing the 30 per cent local norm to be met as an average for the first five-year period, not annually. Then the government agreed to qualify the value added by Apple's contract manufacturers in India—regardless of the destination of these products—as “local sourcing”.* The government allowed Apple to set up an online store before the physical store if it brought over $200 million FDI and extracted a commitment that the online store couldn't get into heavy discounting.* When PLI rules were modified to accommodate Samsung's entry, Apple went along with the change.* After the government made the entry of FDI from China in the Indian tech sector arduous due to the Galwan clash, Apple worked with the industry body to get 12 of its Chinese suppliers approved on the condition that they would enter into joint ventures with Indian partners who would have a majority stake. (We wrote about it in edition #199).Take a breath. And it has only been seven years. There are three ways of interpreting this journey from a public policy perspective.First, to the extent that the government has been able to capture Apple's China manufacturing—even if in a really small way—its approach can be called a limited success. The government can rightfully claim that Apple's supply chain has created over a lakh jobs in India. Grabbing some part of the manufacturing of the world's biggest company has a signalling effect as well. It will also help Apple's Indian partners upgrade technologically and raise their standards. Second, Apple's up-and-down journey also serves as a warning. If the world's most well-known company had to jump as many hoops, what chance does a smaller company have? How many other businesses will have the money and patience to set up India teams that negotiate with the government to remove roadblocks, one by one, calmly? And the approval of Apple's Chinese suppliers shows that the government is comfortable making pro-business exemptions but is uncomfortable making pro-market relaxations. There's a risk of going overboard with the “market access in return for manufacturing” approach. A policy analyst must also pop the opportunity cost question. Could the government have spent precious state capacity elsewhere by following a general easing of these constraints? How many companies did India lose in the process of playing hardball with Apple? And what about the Indian consumers - what did they lose as a result of these overbearing conditions? These are tough questions to answer.Third, this journey shows that technology policy is shaping up rather well in India. Industry associations and public advocacy departments of companies are now able to put forward their demands and grouses in front of governments in a far more transparent manner. Not just that, they are able to get governments to modify policies as well.In my view, all three interpretations are simultaneously true. But this is just the beginning of India's electronics manufacturing journey. The steps required to strengthen it might be drastically different from the approach required to start it.HomeWorkReading and listening recommendations on public policy matters* [Article] Here's a RestofWorld Q&A on the US-China chip war and its implications for India featuring one of us.* [Story] FT has an excellent visual explainer on quantum computing this week.* [Article] Niranjan Rajadhyaksha's Mint column comparing Asian countries when their median age was 28 like India's is today, is insightful. 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

Can one become English? What does this have to do with the Suez Canal? Are you white? Are we free? Is it good to be obedient? Is the Other always an enemy? Or, could it be a reference group? Did everyday defiance (say, by the peasants) play a role in India's struggle against the British Empire? Is nationalism necessarily anti colonial? How is Indianness linked to the Aryan Invasion Theory? Was the British conquest of India always partial? Are Gandhi, Gandhism, & Gandhi-ites the same thing? Had Tagore read Marx? Why does dissent take time? How do wild elephants live within the market economy? Do rivers have their own unruly ‘erratic' lives? Are forest fires often an act of defiance? How/why do we defy Nature's will? Does geography change the way we think? Is Assam Bengal? Can the seemingly peaceful bear a lot of conflicts within? Was Tibet seduced differently from the other colonies? Does assimilation/citizenship always follow acculturation/subjecthood? What happens to Sutlej in Nathpa Jhakri? Will there always be defiance? How can one learn from dissent/friction? &, might modern democracy survive because of defiance? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using ideas and concepts from literary/post-colonial studies (Dr. Sayan Chattopadhyay, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur), philosophy (Dr. Bharati Puri, IIT Delhi, New Delhi), & history (Prof. Arupjyoti Saikia, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati). Listen in...

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In this podcast, we cover - 1. The art of coming depth and breath to become a deep-generalist 2. Insights from Pramath's journey to build a multi-modal career 3. Frameworks for building a constructive mentor-mentee relationship Pramath Raj Sinha has earned the tag of an institution builder, a profession that neither existed, nor could he ever have imagined for himself, when growing up in Patna, Bihar. What is perhaps less widely known is that as a Partner at McKinsey & Company, then as one of the Founders of the Indian School of Business (ISB), the Young India Fellowship (YIF), Ashoka University, the Vedica Scholars Programme for Women and the Naropa Fellowship, he has guided hundreds of students on their academic and career choices. As someone who studied metallurgical engineering, did robotics research, failed as an academic, then became a management consultant, a CEO, a media and now edtech entrepreneur, he believes you can surprise yourself with what you can do, yet shape your career purposefully and deliberately.This philosophy is the foundation for Pramath's latest venture, Harappa Education and its School of Leadership (HSoL), an online learning institution to teach Thrive Skills to working professionals across the world. For over twenty years now, he is a pioneering force in higher education, setting up more than a dozen innovative institutions and programs in India and abroad. His first book, An Idea Whose Time Has Come, about the ISB story, is now required reading for anyone building a new university or institution. In 2015, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) named him 'Personality of the Year' for his contributions to education. Earlier, he was listed by Thinkers50 as one of India's Top 50 Management Thinkers.Pramath received a BTech from IIT Kanpur (where he was conferred with the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2018) and an MSE and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics.

About Rajan Singh: In the modern world, where ample distractions capture our attention and constantly pull it in multiple directions, staying focused and achieving our goals can be a significant challenge. Moreover, with the rise of remote work and the shift towards an increasingly digital lifestyle, maintaining focus and productivity has become even more crucial. My next guest on The One Percent Project is a discipline and routine fanatic, productivity expert and entrepreneur Rajan Singh. Rajan is a graduate of IIT Kanpur and a former Indian Police Service officer who served as the Trivandrum Police Commissioner. But after a few years, Rajan felt a sense of intellectual stagnation in his job, and he decided to quit and restart his career. He then pursued an MBA from Wharton Business School and worked as a consultant with McKinsey in New York before returning to India as an investment professional at New Silk Route, a billion-dollar private equity fund. However, his restlessness did not end there, and he eventually became an entrepreneur, founding a habit-building startup called HabitStrong. At HabitStrong, Rajan helps people improve their lives by inculcating focus, self-discipline, and good habits. Listen in to learn Rajan's insights and strategies for achieving goals and maintaining focus on the things that matter most, his views on entrepreneurship, building products within HabitStrong, his ideas about self-doubt and boredom, and much more. Key Take Aways & Transcript: ⁠https://bit.ly/TOP_Raja⁠n Follow & Subscribe: WhatsApp:⁠ https://bit.ly/TOP_WA2⁠ YouTube:⁠ https://bit.ly/TOP_Youtube⁠ LinkedIn:⁠ https://bit.ly/TOP_LinkedIn⁠ Twitter:⁠ https://bit.ly/TOP_Twitter1⁠ Instagram:⁠ https://bit.ly/TOP_Insta

My guest this month is Amba Kulkarni from the Department of Sanskrit at the University of Hyderabad, who has also been associated with IIT Kanpur and the National Sanskrit University. Professor Kulkarni is best known for her work linking traditional Indian linguistic theory (starting with Pāṇini and focussing on aspects such as Śabdabodha  and Kāraka theory as studied especially within the Navya-Nyāya/'Neo-Logical' school of philosophy) and AI theories of Knowledge Representation to effect computer-based cognition of Sanskrit texts.  Find out more about her recent book 'Sanskrit Parsing based on the theories of Śabdabodha' here. The article by Rick Briggs that she mentions as her inspiration to apply her Computer Science background to Sanskrit is reprinted here, that by Rajeev Sangal and Vineet Chaitanya can be accessed here, and there is discussion of  Bhāratīkṛṣṇa Tīrtha's book on Vedic Mathematics here. She has collaborated extensively with Gérard Huet, best known in Sanskritist circles for his Sanskrit Heritage Site (part of which is the Segmenter). Relating to the parsing of the sentence yānaṃ vanaṃ gacchati  'the vehicle goes to the forest', she mentions the factors śabdabodha considers essential for verbal cognition: yogyatā or mutual compatibility, ākaṅksā or expectancy and saṃniddhi or proximity (read some discussion of these here). More on the three types of meaning of a word (abhidhā  or literal, lakṣaṇā or metaphoric/extended and vyañjanā  or suggested meaning) e.g. here.If you are a Sanskritist interested in working in computational linguistics, Professor Kulkarni suggests a thorough focus in Kāvya/Kāvyaśāstra, Mīmāṃsā, Nyāya orVyākaraṇa. 

Get your cool new Figuring Out hoodies here: https://figuringout.co/collections/allOrder my first book 'Build, Don't Talk' here: https://amzn.eu/d/eCfijRu--------------In this episode of the Figuring Out podcast, we are in conversation with Mukesh Bansal who is the founder of Myntraa and CureFit. Mukesh Bansal is an IIT Kanpur graduate and also the man behind two successful ventures in India. In this podcast Mukesh Bansal explores his take on business in India and the comparison of Indian consumers with the USA. Mukesh also gives valuable insights of fitness and the its impact on health as he is also the author of the book, Health in Hand.-------------------------

In this podcast we cover - 1. Mukesh's early career and adventures as an entrepreneur 2. The journey of tracing the story of our relationship with our body 3. Actionable advice on building a meaningful career keeping health and curiosity at the core Mukesh Bansal is a computer science engineer from IIT Kanpur and a technology entrepreneur. He founded India's largest fashion retailer Myntra and headed the ecommerce division for Flipkart after a highly successful acquisition. He is the co-founder of Cure Fit Healthcare Pvt Ltd. where he is involved in building a next-generation health platform that makes holistic health easy and accessible for everyone. He has over twenty years of experience in multiple early-stage start-ups in Silicon Valley (NexTag, eWanted, Centrata, newScale) where he held various senior management positions in Product Management and Marketing. Hacking Health: The Only Book You'll Ever Need to Live Your Healthiest Life is his second book.

Rajan Singh is the founder of Habitstrong and India's leading Habits Coach. He has changed the habits of thousands of clients through his scientific and disciplined approach. Rajan is an ex-IPS Officer and McKinsey consultant and an alumnus of IIT Kanpur.In this episode, we explore how habits are formed and sustained. Follow me on LinkedIn, YouTube, and all popular Podcast channels - Anshuman Tiwari

Binny Gill started his career as a programmer after studying CS and Engineering at IIT Kanpur and later UIUC, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He then had an impressive eight-year run as a technology leader at Nutanix, the hyper converged infrastructure company, eventually becoming its CTO for cloud services. In January 2021, Binny left Nutanix to start Kognitos based on a bold vision to make everyone a programmer. In this discussion, we learn about his journey and how generative AI just may change everything.Thanks to Steve Kaplan for the intro to Binny.Listen and learn:Binny's inspiration for starting Kognitos: "...why should humans need to think like machines... when machines can now think like humans?"What makes programming so hard.Why the future of programming is using natural language to describe the features you want.How computing interfaces restrict us from communicating like humans when programming.Why Binny says "generative AI is the new electricity."The most important leadership lesson Binny learned working alongside iconic leaders at IBM.References in this episode:How Petals just became the BitTorrent of LLMsPhil McKinney, former HP CTO, on AI and the Future of WorkThe Kognitos blog

Know what is harder than pivoting when the going gets tough? Pivoting when the going is good. On the surface, most metrics were scaling efficiently for Urban Company (previously UrbanClap) at the end of 2015. The tech company mainly generated leads for at-home service providers. But founders Abhiraj Bhal, Varun Khaitan, Raghav Chandra recognized that improving the experience of suppliers and customers would require deeper involvement. They needed to build a full stack marketplace with trained professionals. Eight years later, the company is valued at $2.8 billion. After proving their chops by taking the beauty industry online, Urban Company went on to digitally connect customers with a range of professional services including cleaning, repairs, electrical works, plumbing, and carpentry. When they first looked into the space, at-home services in India had been full of holes. The founders, all three from IIT Kanpur, knew that the problem had the potential to keep them busy for a lifetime. So they joined hands in 2014 to bring in organization and digitization. *** Over the past decade and a half, new-age marketplaces in India have transformed how people buy and sell products and services. From Flipkart to Swiggy, Urban Company, and Zetwerk, each has reimagined "the bazaars," shaping the future of commerce and livelihood in India. Starting November 3rd, we will share stories from the trenches about building and scaling these marketplaces, along with foundational lessons from their journeys. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3UnptTO *** 0:00 - Introduction 1:20 - Origin story 4:10 - Early days 9:33 - Product-market fit 14:25 - Picking the right service 16:30 - Testbed 17:40 - Zero-to-one phase 21:15 - Scaling the company 24:30 - Key strategic decisions 27:40 - Value to service partners 32:40 - Disintermediation 34:10 - Creating value on both sides 36:30 - Navigating COVID 39:50 - Leadership and culture 43:20 - The future

Rahul Chowdhri is the Managing Partner at Stellaris Venture Partners, an early-stage tech-focused venture capital firm based in Bangalore with investments in companies such as Mamaearth, MFine, Whatfix, Vogo, among many others. Rahul is an industry veteran, having been in Indian venture for over 15 years. He started his investing career at Helion where he was a Partner and led investments in companies such as BigBasket, Simplilearn and Livspace. At Stellaris, he focuses on B2B & B2C Commerce, Consumer Brands, Content/Social, Agri-Tech, Recruitment and Gaming.Prior to getting into venture, Rahul had stints in product management and consulting roles at Microsoft, MarketRx, i2 Technologies, and BCG. He holds a B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from IIM Calcutta.Episode notes:1. Current market sentiment and the state of the industry (3:03)2. What have Stellaris' top-performing companies and founders done really well in the last few years? (7:25)3. How does Rahul view investments, both cash-efficient and capital-intensive? (13:45)4. The evolution of Indian investors' risk appetite (18:30)5. What attracts investors to founders in both bear and bull markets, and what characteristics do they share? 23:26)6. How does Stellaris view market corrections in today's context? (28:26)7. What do the best operators do to take their businesses to the next level? (32:45)8. How far into the future do funds look when developing their investment thesis? (37:15)9. Fund culture, metrics, and metrics (41:07)10. What has Rahul learned about himself as a fund manager over the course of his investing career? (45:48)11. What is Rahul's decision-making framework? (50:10). . . Social Links: Stellaris VP on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Stellaris_VPRahul Chowdhari on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rchowdhriPodcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedesi_vcAkash Bhat on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bhatvakashPodcast on Instagram: https://instagram.com/thedesivcAkash Bhat on Instagram: https://instagram.com/bhatvakash

In this podcast we cover - 1. Insights from the Indian technological revolution of 1990s and 2000s. 2. Nurturing talent and building anti-fragile profitable businesses for the long-term. 3. Happy accidents and finding meaningful partnerships This is the story of a young man who steps out of the precincts of IIT Kanpur in 1974 with a dream in his heart – to become an entrepreneur and contribute to nation-building. Undaunted by the dearth of experience and means to capital in pre-Liberalization India, B.V.R Mohan Reddy's enterprising spirit takes the long and winding road, never losing sight of his ambition. He gains overseas education on scholarship and dons multiple hats for eighteen long years before embarking on his life's mission at forty. A mission that propels the company he incorporated, Cyient, to pioneer and excel in outsourced engineering services and introduce the brand ‘Engineered in India'. Engineered in India takes readers on an entrepreneurial rollercoaster ride, allowing them to see human truths with tools that let them breathe life into their business aspirations and experiments.

Sadhguru was at IIT Kanpur, during a stopover in his 30,000-km, 100-day lone motorcycle ride from Europe to India, as part of the #SaveSoil movement. Watch the full talk here! #YouthAndTruth #unplugwithsadhguru #sadhguru #iitkanpur #youthandtruthConscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.orgSadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__appOfficial Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.orgSadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusiveYogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times

Sadhguru was at IIT Kanpur, during a stopover in his 30,000-km, 100-day lone motorcycle ride from Europe to India, as part of the #SaveSoil movement.Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.orgSadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__appOfficial Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.orgSadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusiveYogi, mystic and visionary,Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times.

Join us as we talk to Abhishek Goyal and Neha Singh, the Co-Founders of Tracxn about their story. Neha Singh pursued her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in technology from IIT Bombay. Later, in 2014, she completed her MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. She also served as an Associate with the BCG Group and an Investment Analyst with Sequoia Capital. Abhishek Goyal completed his Bachelors of Technology in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur. In the IIT JEE Exam, he received an All India Rank of 60. Later, he served as a software engineer for organisations including Amazon, Yahoo, Andale, and Resume Pro. About Tracxn: Tracxn is one of the world's largest platforms for tracking 1.4 million entities through 1,800 feeds categorised across industries, sectors, sub-sectors, geographies, affiliations, and networks globally. It is powered by a unique blend of technical prowess and human analysts that filters through billions of data points to create one of the most useful data intelligence platforms. Tracxn has over 850 customer accounts worldwide, spread over 50 nations, and is backed by investors like Accel Partners and Sequoia. The Tracxn platform is also utilized by several governments, accelerators, incubators, and universities to track innovative businesses and industries. Tracxn has been featured in the Forbes Top 100 Global Analytics Startup List (2015), and Fortune 40 Under 40 (2018). For more visit - https://ajuniorvc.com/podcast/

Ratan Hemrom, a 33-year-old rice farmer in Birbhum district, says he will lose his home, culture and community if the West Bengal government goes ahead with its coal mine plans. He lives in the Deucha-Pachami-Dewanganj-Harinsingha area which is also home to the largest coal block in Asia, the 2nd largest in the world. Our reporter Suryatapa Mukherjee spoke to him about why the Santhal residents are protesting against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's plans. His voice has been dubbed by activist Udvas Das. We also hear from Dr Pradip Swarnakar, founder of the Just Transition research centre at IIT Kanpur, about what this means for India's coal phase down plans. India has a target of zero net carbon emissions by 2070. This year, the Union Ministry of Coal set up a Just Transition division to draft sustainable coal mine closure plans. Additional reading: Deucha Panchami: Mamata Banerjee increases monetary package for tribals - The Economic Times Bengal: Solidarity Platform Formed to Protect Rights of People Hit by Deucha Pachami-Like Projects | NewsClickCoal ministry to have a 'just transition' division; WB to provide $1.1 mn | Business Standard News Target of Coal Ministry is to minimize import of thermal coal and to make the country aatmanirbhar in the sector: Union Coal Minister India's Net Zero strategy: India can be a role model for developing countries | The Financial Express India's largest coal block will displace thousands but may not be viable after all - The Probe See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

The West Bengal government is working on opening a coal mine in the district of Birbhum. The mine in the Deucha Pachami area will be the largest in Asia and the second largest in the world. It will displace around 21,000 people, majority of whom belong to scheduled castes and tribes.  India is one of the governments around the world that have signed the UN Framework Convention of Climate Change. This year, the Union Ministry of Coal set up a Just Transition division for which the World Bank is supposed to provide an aid of $1.15 million. We have committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2070. So why are we increasing coal production while promising to phase it down?  To understand these contradictions, our reporter Suryatapa Mukherjee speaks to Pradip Swarnakar in this episode of The Suno India Show. He is a professor and the founder of the Just Transition research centre at IIT Kanpur. See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

Silos of excellence were important in the early years of Independent India, but not anymore. It's all about the interplay between disciplines now. ----more---- https://theprint.in/opinion/indias-interdisciplinary-rd-future-is-here-iit-kanpurs-new-medical-school-is-the-first-step/1059239/ 

According to a recent article in Forbes, as per data of ProductLedGrowth.org,“Buyers want to self-educate.” Personalization is expected by customers—not only are 80% of people more likely to do business with a company that offers personalization but Salesforce's 2017 State of Marketing Report found that 52% of B2C customers would actually switch brands if they weren't getting a personalized experience. In today's episode we've some Dheeraj Pandey, CEO at DevRev; Board Member at Adobe; Investor & Co-founder at Nutanix. During the episode, catch Dheeraj sharing his experience around Product-Led Growth over the past two decades, taking Nutanix Inc. public within 6 years of inceptio and much more. Notes - 01:44 - Intro02:26 - Achieving Product Market Fit - “What is the journey is not a destination.”05:15 - Identifying the problem statement for first 10 customer at Nutanix07:54 - Main value prop by Nutanix for early customers10:11 - How to identify large problems?13:22 - Whether to find a niche problem and then expand or find a problem statement of the larger market?15:07 - What's the first Aha moment for customers on DevRev?20:04 - Zoho Sponsored - Prashant Ganti on Where do founders struggle with Payroll and how can they fix it?21:18 - Why have Startups as the target audience v/s Large Entreprises?27:10 - History of Product-led growth32:50 - First principle thought behind Product-led growth with velocity37:49 - Customer Relationship Management v/s Sales First Automation39:07 - How a B2B developer can think like a B2C developer?40:23 - What are risks of failure they need to think about?41:40 - Building an entrepreneurial culture43:47 - Dealing with the most difficult part of an acquisition (i.e. Integration)45:38 - An early childhood in Patna, graduating from IIT Kanpur & Ph.D. dropout from University of Texas50:33 - Why did he chose to startup in a downturn of 2009?54:07 - Milestones in Nutanix's journey58:31 - Becoming a Public company59:58 - Aspirations for DevRev1:02:29 - What kind of person he is in his personal life?Also, try out a 30-day free trial of Zoho Payroll, and simplify your Payroll journey as an entrepreneur! https://zoho.to/zoho-payroll

Hello and welcome to this week's Blind Tech Adventures podcast.  We have a lot to cover, starting with Kirt's review of his new Galaxy s22.  Nimer then demos the Twitter web app with Jaws (no, you don't need yet another app on your phone), and we finish with our thoughts on the current state of cane travel-- what works, what could be better, and our different approaches to this well-worn tool we both rely on.In the News:1.  For those of you who use new Humanware braille displays, the Mantis and biX models just received their version 2.0 update.  Highlights include support for editing brf files (better late than never), a more intelligent terminal mode for easier connections with computers and other bug fixes.  There's still no backwards compatibility for non-HID devices, so support for chromebooks and android devices is still limited.https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa3VrT0RmWjQ4c195M0ltc2ZhT0NZSjBSNXlSUXxBQ3Jtc0ttbWFOV2lqZUZ1SkN2VHN1MTRRVGRwQ0hBaE5VSDFOSFZiOHl4U1RQZEFlSjg1N0NEcXYwWThFSU0tMndTNDE2Um1sSEtXVFNZZ3A3SXpNRWkzeUdwS0NNM1E0bTZvV0g5UzE3NEVaZE9ZYlRBVXFhSQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.humanware.ca%2Fweb%2Fen%2Fnewsletter%2F260520220925-BIX-Mantis-update.htm&v=Pe4Zo8d5Loc2.  Google Drive now supports standard keyboard commands for copying and pasting.https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa3BWOW1US21mR3RGRy01UEN0ZVFJWmNWU2Q0UXxBQ3Jtc0trTEhiYWdoOGF1amo3ZG5wb1R3SFNPV293R2VNLXhXa0VnLUZLYjJwb2k1a3F1Zkw1OEZ5ejgyVHJpbzl6VmtFTzJrRVU5bjZFRnk5MmNoSDE1VXBIT09zVElCYWhhT3F3cnU5empWamtKMGlCX2JXSQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.androidpolice.com%2Fgoogle-drive-keyboard-shortcuts-browser%2F&v=Pe4Zo8d5Loc3.  If you use a Moto g20 or any other budget smart phone with modem tech from the company Unisoc your phone may be at extra risk of falling victim to a remote attack.https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbk5nbm9lRnR1TndTMXp4TjhzM2xfSkx0cVBsQXxBQ3Jtc0trcHJuQWVvbUdXUlVQRHJIRnhoZFBIN0F6R2VRajZqLXZBMHB0ck5pSnhmeFBMUFBGaE53OE1hS19HQlA4ZmlQem1fVG43V1BhUGJpSmlkRnVRWTBUWENfVHlHNkpvZ3lyaDBxLU81MmVTZE8wVnk2cw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.phonearena.com%2Fnews%2Fbudget-android-phones-at-risk-because-of-unisoc-chip-vulnerability_id140516&v=Pe4Zo8d5Loc4.  Finally, IIT Kanpur from India has designed a smart watch for blind and visually impaired users.  The watch seems to display its output through haptic vibrations rather than sound and allegedly offers features for blind and visually impaired users, though specifics seem vague.https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa24zNnFLRE1UWWEwTTBFcFBCblRveERSdXo1Z3xBQ3Jtc0trcGVBNzBXM2NZMTRvc2Y5RlVibFBlNUhTWS1TMVlIb3hFMnZHVjNZbGFBRVVncFEyc1h0TENVUXVoX0R4X3dlejNwVzVzaVE1R0hQaEJBOWdtaHF3UnhCYlBOOHN2NVhMZWRJaXdhSTd6Yl9CelYzcw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indiatoday.in%2Feducation-today%2Fnews%2Fstory%2Fiit-kanpur-develops-haptic-smart-watch-for-the-blind-and-the-visually-impaired-1955424-2022-05-28&v=Pe4Zo8d5LocSupport the show

Episode 012 | May 30, 2022Neeraj Kayal: It's just a matter of time before we figure out how computers can themselves learn like humans do. Just human babies, they have an amazing ability to learn by observing things around them. And currently, despite all the progress, computers don't have that much ability. But I just think it's a matter of time before we figure that out, some sort of general artificial intelligence.Sridhar Vedantham: Welcome to the MSR India podcast. In this podcast, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, a researcher at the MSR India lab, speaks to Neeraj Kayal. Neeraj is also a researcher at MSR India and works on problems related to or at the intersection of Computational Complexity and Algebra, Number Theory and Geometry. He has received multiple recognitions through his career, including the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Kanpur, the Gödel prize and the Fulkerson Prize. Neeraj received the Young Scientist Award from the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in 2012 and the Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences in 2021. Ravi talks to Neeraj about how he became interested in this area of computer science and his journey till now.For more information about the Microsoft Research India click here.RelatedMicrosoft Research India Podcast: More podcasts from MSR IndiaiTunes: Subscribe and listen to new podcasts on iTunesAndroidRSS FeedSpotifyGoogle PodcastsEmailTranscriptRavi Krishnaswamy: Hi Neeraj, how are you doing? It's great to see you after two years of working from home.Neeraj Kayal: Hi Ravi, yeah thank you.Thank you for having me here and it's great to be back with all the colleagues in office.Ravi Krishnaswamy: First of all, congratulations on the Infosys prize and it's an amazing achievement.And it's a great privilege for all of us to have you as a colleague here.So, congratulations on that.Neeraj Kayal: Thank you.Ravi Krishnaswamy: Yeah, so maybe we can get started on the podcast. So, you work in complexity theory, which is I guess one extreme of, I mean, it's very theoretical end of the spectrum in computer science almost bordering mathematics. So hopefully by the end of this podcast we can, uh, I mean, convince the audience that there's more to it than intellectual curiosity. Before that right, let me ask you about how you got into theoretical computer science and the kind of problems that you work on. So, could you maybe tell us a bit about your background and how you got interested into this subject?Neeraj Kayal: Yeah, so in high school I was doing well in maths in general and I also wrote some computer programs to play some board games, like a generalized version of Tic Tac Toe where you have a bigger board, say 20 by 20, and you try to place five things in the row, column, or diagonal continuously and then I started thinking about how could a computer learn to play or improve itself in such a game? So, I tried some things and didn't get very far with that, but at that time I was pretty convinced that one day computers will be able to really learn like humans do. I didn't see how that will happen, but I was sure of it and I just wanted to be in computer science to eventually work on such things. But in college in the second year of my undergrad, I enrolled for a course in cryptography taught by Manindra Agrawal at IIT Kanpur and then the course started off with some initial things which are like fairly predictable that something called symmetric key cryptosystems where, essentially it says that let's say we two want to have a private conversation, but anyone else can listen to us. So how do we have a private conversation? Well, if we knew a language, a secret language which no one else did, then we could easily just converse in that language, and no one will understand this. And so, this is made a little more formal in this symmetric key cryptosystem. And then, one day, Manindra ended one of the lectures with the following problem: but now suppose we did not know a secret language. Then we just know English, and everyone knows English and then how do we talk privately when everyone can hear us? I thought about it for a few days. It seemed completely impossible. And then Manindra told us about these wonderful cryptosystems, called the Diffie Hellman cryptosystem and the RSA cryptosystem where they achieved this and it was very surprising. And the key thing that these cryptosystems use is something that lies at the heart of computer science, a big mystery still even to this day at the heart of computer science. There are these problems which we believe are hard for computers to solve in the following sense, that even if a computer takes a very long amount of time, if we give it a fairly long amount of time, a reasonable amount of time it cannot solve it. But if we give it time like till the end of the universe, it can in principle solve such problems. So that got me interested into which problems are hard and can we prove they are actually hard or not? And to this day, we don't know that.Ravi Krishnaswamy: So, I'm guessing that you're talking about the factoring problem, right?Neeraj Kayal: Yes, factoring is one of the big ones here. And the RSA cryptosystem uses factoring.Ravi Krishnaswamy: So, it's actually very interesting, right? You started out by trying to show that some of these problems are very, very hard, but I think, looking back, your first research paper, which happens to be a breakthrough work in itself, is in showing that a certain problem is actually easier to solve. Then we had originally thought right so, it is this seminal work on showing that primality testing can be solved in deterministic polynomial time. I mean, that's an amazing feat and you had worked on this paper with your collaborators as an undergrad, right?Neeraj Kayal: Yes.Ravi Krishnaswamy: Yeah, that's an incredible achievement. So maybe to motivate others who are in undergrad and who have an interest and inclination in such topics, could you maybe share us some story on how you got working in that problem and what sort of led you to this spark that eventually got you to this breakthrough result?Neeraj Kayal: So, my advisor Manindra, who also was the professor who taught us cryptography - he had been working on this problem for a long time and there were already algorithms that existed which are very good in practice- very very fast in practice, but they had this small chance that they might give the wrong answer. The chance was so small that practically it did not matter, but still as a mathematical challenge, it remained whether we could remove that small chance of error, and that's what the problem was about. So, Manindra had this approach and he had worked with other students also- some of our seniors- on it, and in that course, he came up with a conjecture. And then when we joined, me and my colleague Nitin, we joined this project , we came across this conjecture and my first reaction was that the conjecture is false. So, I tried to write a program which would find a counterexample and I thought we would be done in a few days-Just find that counterexample and the project would be over. So, I wrote a program- it will train for some time, didn't find a counterexample, so I decided to parallelize it. A huge number of machines in the computer center in IIT Kanpur started looking for that counterexample. And then to my surprise, we still couldn't find the counterexample. So there seemed to be something to it. Something seemed to be happening there which we didn't understand, and in trying to sort of prove that conjecture, we managed to prove some sort of weaker statement which sufficed for obtaining the polynomial time algorithm to test if a number is prime or not. But it was not the original conjecture itself. Many days after this result came out, we met a mathematician called Hendrik Lenstra who had worked on primality testing, and we told him about this conjecture. And after a few days he got back to us and it showed that if you assume some number theoretic conjecture is true, which we really really believe, it's true.Ravi Krishnaswamy: Ok, I see. So, the original conjecture, which you hoped to prove true is false, but the weaker conjecture was actually true, you proved it to be true, and that was enough for your eventual application.Neeraj Kayal: Yes, so in some sense we are very lucky that in trying to prove something false we managed to prove something useful.Ravi Krishnaswamy: Yeah, I mean it's a fascinating story, right? All the experiments that you ran pointed you towards proving it, and then you actually went and proved it. If you had found, I imagine what would have happened if you found a counterexample at that time, right?Neeraj Kayal: So yeah, Hendrix proof was very interesting. He showed that modulo this number theory conjecture a counterexample existed. But it would have to be very, very large and that's why you couldn't find it. So, he explained it beautifully.Ravi Krishnaswamy: Yeah, thanks for that story Neeraj. So. I guess from then on you've been working in complexity theory, right?Neeraj Kayal: That's right, yeah.Ravi Krishnaswamy: So, for me at least, the Holy Grail in complexity theory that I've often encountered or seen is the P versus NP problem, which many of us might know. But you've been working on a very equally important, but a very close cousin of the problem, which is called the VP versus VNP problem, right? So, I'm going to take a stab at explaining what I understand of the problem. So, correct me whenever I'm wrong. So, you are interested in trying to understand the complexity of expressing polynomials using small circuits. So, for example, if you have a polynomial of the form X ^2 + Y ^2 + 2 XY, you could represent it as a small circuit which has a few addition operations and a few multiplication operations like you could express it as X ^2 + Y ^2 + 2 XY itself. Or you could express it as (X + Y)^2. Which may have a smaller representation in terms of a circuit. So, you have been working on trying to identify which polynomials have small representations and which polynomials are natural but still don't have small representations.Neeraj Kayal: That's right.Ravi Krishnaswamy: Is that a reasonable approximation of the problem you're thinking about?Neeraj Kayal: Yes, that's right. So, another way to put the same thing is what is the power of computation when you do additions, multiplications, subtractions, all these arithmetic operations. You could include division, square roots also.Ravi Krishnaswamy: So, I have seen this VP class and it makes a lot of sense to me. It's the set of all the polynomials that can be captured by small sized circuits with the plus I mean addition and multiplication gates. I've also seen the VNP class, which seems to me at least to be a bit mysterious, right? So, these are all the polynomials whose coefficients of the individual monomials can be computed efficiently. Is that a reasonable definition, at least? Is my understanding correct?Neeraj Kayal: Yeah, that's the technical definition of this class, but there's another natural sort of intuition why we want to look at it, and the intuition is that it relates to counting the number of solutions to a problem, and also therefore to computing probabilities of various things happening.Ravi Krishnaswamy: I see. Ok, so that gives me a lot more understanding. I guess when you're able to estimate probabilities, you could also do sampling over those objects.Neeraj Kayal: Yes exactly.Ravi Krishnaswamy: Yeah, that's a very nice connection. I did not know about this. Thanks for that. So, you have been working, you have an agenda on trying to show some sort of a separation between the two classes, right, VP and VNP, by constructing these low depth circuits. So, you're able to show that all polynomials in VP have admit the low depth representation and your hope in this agenda is to find one polynomial in VNP which does not have a low depth representation, right?Neeraj Kayal: That's right.Ravi Krishnaswamy: So, how far are you in this agenda and do you think we have all the tools needed to actually achieve success through this sort of a method?Neeraj Kayal: Yeah, so just historically for converting a circuit or a program into a low depth program, this was done earlier. Most of this work was done by other people. So, we haven't contributed much in that direction. We have been trying to prove certain polynomials don't have small depth and small sized arithmetic circuits. So, it's not clear to us whether the existing techniques are good enough to prove this or not. And like on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, I think they are capable maybe, and on the other days I think maybe not. And this is what researchers generally deal with. Especially in these areas where you don't know whether your tools are good enough or not. And very recently, just last year, there was a big breakthrough by trio of complexity theorists who showed somewhat good lower bounds for all constant depth arithmetic formulas or circuits. And what was surprising also about this result is that, they use in a very clever way, techniques that were already known.Ravi Krishnaswamy: So, they would have probably shown it on a Monday or Wednesday or Friday.Neeraj Kayal: Yes, yes. [Laughs]Ravi Krishnaswamy: OK, that's very interesting. So, you still don't know whether this will lead to success or not through this route.Neeraj Kayal: Yes, yeah, we still don't know that.Ravi Krishnaswamy: Are there other people approaching this problem through other techniques?Neeraj Kayal: So, there's a program called the Geometric Complexity Theory program initiated independently by other people who basically try to understand symmetries. Because implicit in this question is a whole bunch of symmetry, then they try to exploit that. And there's a field of mathematics called group theory and representation theory, which is all about understanding symmetries of objects. That area is beautiful, really beautiful, and a lot of advancement has been made there. So, people have been trying to also attack this problem through using those tools.Ravi Krishnaswamy: Yeah, that's very nice, I think. So basically, you're saying a lot of like diverse techniques from math and computer science are at play here and trying to help you on your progress.Neeraj Kayal: That's right.Ravi Krishnaswamy: I see. I mean, it's very beautiful. I find it fascinating and beautiful that a lot of these different diverse techniques from mathematics and computer science come into play into establishing these lower bounds. And what's more fascinating to me is that they are all not just from an intellectual curiosity standpoint. They seem to be powering a lot of things that we take for granted, right, right from, like, as you said, messaging each other through social networks or whatever it is. They seem to be like at the foundation- the inherent hardness of certain problems seem to be at the foundation of a lot of things that we take for granted.Neeraj Kayal: Yeah, that's right, Ravi. So, for example, I do transactions using my mobile phone and anyone who is within a reasonable distance of my mobile phone can read all the signals that my phone is sending. So, they can see all the communication that I'm having with the bank. And the fact that despite that they are not able to infer my banking passwords relies on the fact that certain problems are very inherently hard to solve and that's what we are trying to prove.Ravi Krishnaswamy: OK, so that's very interesting Neeraj. And in the last part of this podcast, I want to flip the topic around a little bit. So, you've been working a lot on showing lower bounds, and in lower bounds in arithmetic complexity. But lately in the last couple of years you have also been using those insights into showing some very nice algorithms for some learning problems. I find that also very cool, so maybe you can talk a little bit about that.Neeraj Kayal: Yeah, so the algorithms that we are trying to devise are trying to solve the following problem. More general version of it is the following. Given a function or a polynomial, what's the smallest number of operations that you need to do to be able to compute that function or polynomial? So, for Boolean functions this has a very long history. That essentially is like designing chips, and you can imagine it was naturally very useful to think about. But more recently, it turns out a lot of works have found another very surprising connection because of which this problem specifically for polynomials has also become very interesting. And the connection is this. Suppose you have some very big data set. For now, think of this data set as consisting of a bunch of points in high dimensional space. For example, you can think of images as a point, every image as a point in the high dimensional space. Now it turns out that you can take statistics of this data. So, for example, you can take what's the average value of the first coordinate, what's the average value of the second coordinate? Or what's the average value of the product of the first two coordinates in this data set and so on. So, you can take some of these statistics, encode them as the coefficients of a polynomial. And here's the interesting part. When the data has some very nice structure, then this polynomial tends to have a small circuit.Ravi Krishnaswamy: I see.Neeraj Kayal: And so, when you want to understand the structure of data, so this general area is called unsupervised learning. Turns out that it's useful to find small circuits for polynomials. So, this is the computational problem that we are looking at: given a polynomial, what's the smallest number of operations, or what's the smallest circuit representing this polynomial.Ravi Krishnaswamy: So, if you're able to find the smallest circuit representing this, then from that you will be able to infer the underlying distribution or the structure of the underlying data.Neeraj Kayal: Yes, yes, that's right. So, this is one connection, and it also turns out that the lower bounds that we are proving, showing that certain things are very hard to compute are also useful for now devising algorithms to find the circuits of polynomials which do have small circuits and maybe let me give you some very rough sense of how that comes about, and I find this a bit fascinating. Here's how the lower bounds proofs work. So, underlying all those lower bounds for the various subclasses of circuits that we do have is a collection of linear maps and now it turns out that when you are given a polynomial which has a small circuit, using this polynomial and the collection of linear maps, which go into the lower bound proof you can form another big linear map, such that, very roughly, the eigen spaces of this new linear map correspond to the smallest circuit for F.Ravi Krishnaswamy: I see.Neeraj Kayal: And this was the connection that we discovered some time ago, which helped us find small circuits.Ravi Krishnaswamy: So, you find small circuits by computing the eigen space of the of the map.Neeraj Kayal: Yes, of this other linear map. That's right Ravi.Ravi Krishnaswamy: I see that's very nice. Ok, so I think we covered a lot of the topics that I wanted to cover, so maybe I'll end with two philosophical questions. So, one is you began the podcast by talking about how as a kid, you thought computers or machines could be able to do everything that human intelligence can do. So, I think it's a vague question, but what's your take on that now? And two is what advice would you give for budding theoreticians, whether they're in school or college or grad school? What sort of advice would you give them?Neeraj Kayal: So, for the first question, Ravi, I know a lot of other people also share this feeling, that it's just a matter of time before we figure out how computers can themselves learn like humans do. Just human babies, they have an amazing ability to learn by observing things around them. And currently, despite all the progress, computers don't have that much ability. But I just think it's a matter of time before we figure that out, some sort of general artificial intelligence. To your second question, Ravi, I don't have much to offer other than perhaps a banal comment that anyone looking to work in this area should really enjoy thinking about these kinds of problems. They tend to be rather abstract, sometimes the applications are not always apparent, but if you enjoy thinking about them, I'm sure you'll do well.Ravi Krishnaswamy: That's great, Neeraj. It's been a pleasure chatting with you. Thanks a lot for your time and hope you had fun.Neeraj Kayal: Yeah, thanks Ravi. Thanks a lot for having me.

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