Podcasts about Indian Council

Cancers are rising and rising fast in India. The Indian Council of Medical Research's National Cancer Registry Programme estimated a 12% increase between 2020 and 2025. This year, cancer numbers were estimated to hit 15.7 lakh. A worrying trend in this rise, is the spike in cancer cases among young persons. We know of and we are battling risk factors such as tobacco use, alcohol consumption and obesity and while these are still responsible for a significant chunk of cancers in India, other factors such as environmental pollution are now also beginning to play a role. Air pollution, forever chemicals in our water and soil and the increasing consumption of ultra-processed food are all being studied for their links to cancer. How much do we know about these factors? What does the research say about their links to cancer? Could some of these chemicals be responsible for the rise in cancers in India? What can we, as individuals do, about this? Guest: Dr. Krithiga Shridhar, head, cancer epidemiology unit, Centre for Chronic Disease Control. New Delhi Host: Zubeda Hamid Edited by Sharmada Venkatasubramanian.

An analysis by scientists from Indian Council of Medical Research, published in The Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia, examines cancer data from 2013 to 2022.  

This year, in celebration of World Hindi Day, Shabd Yatra, a literary group, organized an international literary and cultural gathering with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations in Colombo. Sixty distinguished writers and artists from India, Australia, Oman, Jordan, and Sri Lanka participated in this event. Suniti Mishra, one of the attendees, shared her experience of promoting the legacy of the Hindi language abroad.

This is the Catchup on 3 Things by The Indian Express and I'm Ichha Sharma.Today is the 10th of January and here are this week's headlines.After news of respiratory infections caused by human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in China, at least seven cases of the virus were detected during routine surveillance by ICMR's (Indian Council of Medical Research) network of laboratories. Clarifying the status of the virus, the Union Health Ministry issued a statement that read “HMPV is already in circulation globally, including in India, and cases of respiratory illnesses associated with HMPV have been reported in various countries.” It added that there was no history of international travel in the two cases that were picked up during surveillance, meaning that these infections have no connection to the reported surge in respiratory infections in China.The Chhattisgarh police Sunday arrested the alleged main accused Suresh Chandrakar in connection with the murder of journalist Mukesh Chandrakar in the state's Bijapur district from Telangana. Last Saturday, the police arrested three people, including Suresh's brothers Ritesh Chandrakar and Dinesh Chandrakar, and construction supervisor Mahendra Ramteke, in connection with the murder case, and the district administration also razed alleged “illegal property” belonging to the key accused. A freelancer, Mukesh worked with media houses such as NDTV and News 18, and hosted a YouTube channel, Bastar Junction, with 1.59 lakh subscribers.Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for his alleged involvement in a murder-for-hire scheme targeting Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a Sikh separatist and American citizen, has stated that since his extradition from the Czech Republic to the US seven months ago, he has not been contacted by anyone from the Indian government. Gupta expressed to The Indian Express that despite his family's multiple requests for assistance, there has been no communication from Indian officials regarding his situation. Gupta, currently being held in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, was responding to a set of questions from The Indian Express. His replies were shared through an intermediary who has been in regular contact with him.Although Ahmedabad is the primary focus of India's bid to host the 2036 Olympics, discussions are underway to expand the event's reach across the country. The government is considering hosting various sports in different cities to foster a nationwide movement. Proposed venues include hockey in Bhubaneswar, rowing in Bhopal, canoeing and kayaking in Pune, and cricket in Mumbai. India has been actively engaging with the International Olympic Committee's Future Hosts Commission since submitting a Letter of Intent last October. This proposal aims to showcase India's diverse sporting capabilities and will be presented to the IOC soon. An official noted that while the final structure of the plan is still being developed, there is a strong desire to involve multiple regions in this significant event, making it a collective national effort.On the global front, a new wildfire has reportedly erupted in the Hollywood Hills scrubland, Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley announced, as five other blazes continued to devastate the county. The powerful Santa Ana winds, typically associated with high wildfire risks, fanned the flames and hindered firefighting operations. Raging wildfires have surrounded Los Angeles, killing at least five people, destroying hundreds of homes as more than 100,000 people were ordered to evacuate. Pacific Palisades, home to celebrities like Jamie Lee Curtis and Mark Hamill, saw widespread destruction, forcing evacuations. Homes and properties worth millions were consumed by the flames, with more than 1,000 structures destroyedThis was the Catch Up on 3 Things by the Indian Express

For the first time in more than 30 years, the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival is highlighting 'New India House,' a dedicated space showcasing Indian fashion, art, and technology. SXSW CEO Colin Daniels hailed the event as a historic moment, marking India as the first Asian nation to have its own house at the festival. The initiative, led by Irfan Malik, Chair of the Australia India Business Council NSW, aims to strengthen ties between India and Australia. The launch saw notable attendees, including India's Consul General Dr. S Janakiraman, Centre for Australia-India Relations CEO Tim Thomas and Indian Council for Cultural Relations Director Niyati Mehta.

Sanjay Kathuria, a former lead economist at the World Bank, is a prominent expert on economic integration and development in South Asia. He currently holds several prestigious positions, including fellow at the Wilson Center, senior visiting fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in India, and nonresident senior fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies in Singapore. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and visiting faculty at Ashoka University. Over his 27-year tenure at the World Bank (1992–2019), Kathuria worked across Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and South Asia, with field postings in New Delhi and Dhaka. Before joining the World Bank, he spent a decade as a fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations. Kathuria earned his master's degree in economics from the Delhi School of Economics and holds both MPhil and PhD degrees in economics from Oxford University. USE ‘TBT25' TO GET 25% OFF! LIMITED SEATS! JOIN THE MASTERCLASS: https://muzamilhasan.com/courses Article link: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/pakistan-needs-public-debt-restructuring-by-sanjay-kathuria-1-2024-09 Recommend Guest for a Podcast: https://muzamilhasan.com/guest Get in touch with Muzamil: https://muzamilhasan.com/contact-me Get Mentorship from Muzamil: https://muzamilhasan.com/mentorship Do not forget to subscribe and press the bell icon to catch on to some amazi

Episode 6 of The Dharma Podcast mega series narrating the Marxist destruction of Indian History narrates the long, toxic and distortionist career of Irfan Habib. Irfan Habib has been the most vocal propagandist of rewriting Indian history to force-fit it into Karl Marx's wild theories. He has also been the most vicious denouncer of the RSS, Hindutva and Hindu Dharma. In one of his articles, he has called Hindu nationalism as a disease. For decades, Irfan Habib treated the Aligarh Muslim University as his personal fiefdom. He has awarded and promoted those who toed his line and destroyed the careers of those who merely disagreed with him. Irfan Habib was Chairman of the Indian Council for Historical Research for a record FIVE TIMES! Like Romila Thapar and her ilk, he used the ICHR as a private bank, enriching himself on Indian taxpayer money. Habib's history books are a mass of falsehoods and dubious interpretations calculated to serve the cause of Marxism, not objective history. His tactics of sidelining and conspiring against his own colleagues are hardly befitting an academic. Irfan Habib's role in the Ayodhya episode deserves a special mention. This episode cites from the copious speeches and writings of Irfan Habib in this regard and shows him to be a staunch anti-Hindu. Do listen to the whole podcast that contains revealing information and rare anecdotes exposing the voluminous misdeeds and distortions committed by Irfan Habib.If you enjoyed this conversation, please consider supporting The Dharma Podcast so we can offer more such interesting, informative and educational content related to Indian History, Sanatana Dharma, Hindu Culture and current affairs. It takes us weeks of focussed research, scripting and rigorous editing and significant costs to offer this labour of love and dedication. Your support helps us keep our content free! Here are some ways you can Support The Dharma Podcast. * Click the button below:* Take a paid subscription* Support via UPI: dharmadispatch@axl* Scan the QR Code below to support via UPI Get full access to The Dharma Dispatch Digest at thedharmadispatch.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to Top of the Morning by Mint, your weekday newscast that brings you five major stories from the world of business. It's Monday, June 17, 2024. My name is Nelson John. Let's get started:Hyundai, the South Korean carmaker, has announced plans to list its Indian unit. The company, which began its Indian journey 25 years ago with the Santro hatchback, aims to raise between $2.5 billion and $3 billion by offering 142.2 million equity shares, representing 17.5% of Hyundai Motor India Ltd.'s post-offer paid-up equity share capital, valuing the subsidiary at $25-30 billion. This proposed IPO could surpass the record set by the Life Insurance Corp of India's $2.46 billion issue in May 2022, making it the largest in the country's history. The IPO also aims to address the traditional undervaluation that Korean companies face due to the dominant, often opaque, chaebol structure—a term for large family-controlled business conglomerates. Hyundai's IPO would make it the fourth major passenger vehicle manufacturer in India to be publicly listed, joining Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors, and Mahindra & Mahindra, as reported by Mint's autos correspondent Alisha Sachdev. The timing of this public offering is crucial as it coincides with Hyundai's rival, Tata Motors, making significant strides towards EVs and SUVs, efforts that have helped close the market share gap with Hyundai.Following the recent Lok Sabha election results, which resulted in the formation of a coalition government, bank stocks took a hit due to the perceived political uncertainty. Public sector banks saw sharper declines than the broader market on the results day. While the Nifty 50 index fell 5.9%, the Nifty PSU Bank index dropped about 15%. Although these indices have since recovered, the plunge and subsequent rebound highlight the transformative changes public sector banks have undergone in recent years, thanks primarily due to government decisions. These initiatives have dramatically improved the profitability of these banks. In fiscal year 2023-24, the net profit of the 12 PSU banks exceeded ₹1.4 trillion, a 35% increase from the previous year and a fourfold increase from 2020-21. Our partners at howindialives.com have explained how these PSU banks - the stock prices of which are heavily dependent on policy and regulation - are on an upward trend again. Click on the link in the show notes to check out the charts prepared by howindialives.com. Since the recent election results, foreign investors have been rapidly cutting down their bearish bets on Indian stock indexes, helping the Nifty and Bank Nifty reach new highs. Initially, these investors held a significant number of short positions—essentially betting that stocks would fall. By June 14, they had dramatically reduced these positions, suggesting a potential shift towards betting on stocks to rise, reports Mint's markets correspondent Ram Sahgal. This substantial change is largely due to increased political stability with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government continuing. Interestingly, retail and high net worth investors seized this opportunity to cash in by selling their long positions—where they bet on stocks going up—to these foreign investors.Your seafood is in danger, and climate change is to blame. People across the country—from Goa to Kolkata—are finding it increasingly difficult to source fresh fish due to marine heatwaves. Rising temperatures are severely impacting marine life, especially in inland water bodies. Trivesh Mahekar, a fisheries scientist at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute in Goa, told Mint's Puja Das that an alarming 2-5% of fish populations in lakes and ponds may have perished. Warmer water temperatures reduce dissolved oxygen levels, leading to a decline in fish populations. Fish consumption in India varies widely by region, with the highest intake in states like Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Kerala. While per capita consumption has more than doubled over the past two years, prices have increased exponentially. This deep dive by Puja Das explores the perils facing the fisheries industry and the effects climate change is having on our dietary habits.To address the sharp rise in pulse prices, the Indian government has mandated that major retail chains and online grocers report their pulse stock levels twice a week. These retailers include D-Mart, Reliance Retail, BigBasket, Amazon, and Flipkart. This move aims to improve transparency and prevent price manipulation. Recent inspections by government officials at ports and industry hubs revealed that some major retailers had been neglecting to disclose their stocks as required. In response, the Department of Consumer Affairs updated its stock disclosure portal mid-April to more closely monitor these retailers' stock levels, report Mint's Puja Das and Dhirendra Kumar. This regulatory step comes at a time when the prices of common pulses such as chana dal, tur or arhar, urad, masur, and moong have seen significant increases, ranging from 0.6% to 25% year-over-year.We'd love to hear your feedback on this podcast. Let us know by writing to us at feedback@livemint.com. You may send us feedback, tips or anything that you feel we should be covering from your vantage point in the world of business and finance. Show notes:Hyundai Motor India IPO set to help parent drive past ‘Korea discount'Why PSU banks are on a roll, explained in chartsFPIs cut bearish bets ahead of budget sessionDead in the water: How heatwaves are killing fishRetail chains face pulses stock rule

Listen to the Previous EpisodesLEARN ALL ABOUT how the Marxists had mastered the art of bureaucratic functioning and how they were able to manipulate the bureaucracy and plant their own people in all key positions. The establishment of the Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Indian Council for Historical Research (ICHR) was a milestone in the Marxist subversion of Indian education. With this, the Marxists usurped the whole system of designing textbooks and setting the syllabus and sidelined and destroyed the careers of academics who didn't toe their line. This episode also exposes the sheer criminality of the Marxist historians entrenched in the ICHR. The range of this criminality includes financial fraud, nepotism, and brazen academic plagiarism. This episode gives detailed stats and hard data supporting each of these Marxist misdeeds. The worst part of this sordid saga is how they have remained unpunished till date even after they were publicly exposed. Do watch and listen to the whole podcast that provides priceless insights and shocking truths not found in the usual mainstream narratives on the subject. A Heartfelt AppealIf you enjoyed this conversation, please consider supporting The Dharma Podcast so we can offer more such interesting, informative and educational content related to Indian History, Sanatana Dharma, Hindu Culture and current affairs.It takes us weeks of focussed research, writing and rigorous editing and significant costs to offer this labour of love and dedication. Your support helps us keep our content free!Ways you can support our work:* Click the button below:* Support via UPI: dharmadispatch@axl* Scan the QR Code below Get full access to The Dharma Dispatch Digest at thedharmadispatch.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to Top of the Morning by Mint, your weekday newscast that brings you five major stories from the world of business. It's Tuesday, May 21, 2024. My name is Nelson John. Let's get started.No stock market updates from us today as the markets remained shut on Monday as Mumbai went to the polls.Yesterday, Iran's interior minister confirmed that the country's leader, Ebrahim Raisi, had died in a helicopter crash that also killed the country's foreign minister. We invited Elizabeth Roche, an associate professor at Jindal University, to write about the implications of this tragedy. Roche also answers what's next for Iran, and how this will affect India, the Middle East, and the West.A couple of weeks ago, a research paper by Banaras Hindu University sparked widespread worries among Indians. The paper said a significant number of people faced adverse side-effects after taking Covaxin, the indigenously developed covid vaccine. Bharat Biotech, which developed the vaccine, brushed off the concerns, pointing to other studies that proved the vaccine's safety record. Now, the government is stepping in to dismiss any concerns: the Indian Council of Medical Sciences said that BHU's study was poorly designed, and had no control group of unvaccinated individuals to compare with. Priyanka Sharma writes that the participants were contacted by telephone, and no physical examination was conducted. This ought to put Covaxin users at ease.The Reserve Bank of India has reprimanded a host of financial entities lately, from Paytm to Kotak Mahindra Bank and Bank of Baroda. Under governor Shaktikanta Das, the banking regulator is doing its best to whip every lender into shape. Prior to Das, Raghuram Rajan was at the helm. His goal was cleaning up banks' balance sheets, while Das wants to ensure better governance. But as Shayan Ghosh writes, the way the RBI has been going about this is interesting: it is now not afraid of taking big decisions. Earlier, the central bank relied on fines and warnings. Today, it is cancelling banking licences and preventing companies from taking on new customers — essentially hurting the core of their business. Shayan takes a deep dive into the RBI's practices, and why it's resorting to such measures to protect citizens.If you go to buy an electric vehicle, you'll realise that one big advantage EVs have over their fossil fuel-counterparts is that they don't carry any road tax. For example, in Karnataka, the road tax for petrol cars can be up to 17 percent of the car's price. This is an incentive from the government for companies and buyers to go green. But you don't have to electrify yourself fully to get discounts from the government. Take for example, ethanol-powered cars. Alisha Sachdev reports that union road minister Nitin Gadkari expressed interest in lowering the taxes on ethanol and ethanol-blend cars from anywhere between 2 and 14 percent. This would significantly lower the cost of cars that use either pure ethanol or a blend of ethanol and petrol, called flex-fuel cars. While flex-fuel cars aren't yet produced in India, Gadkari claims they pollute even less than EVs. In the battle between electric and petrol, ethanol seems to have gained the political upper hand.It's a good time to be a premium D2C company. Brands such as bespoke apparel maker Bombay Shirt Company, luggage maker Mokobara, and organic dairy startup Akshay Kalpa have raised funds from some of India's largest venture capital firms in the recent past. Sowmya Ramasubramanian speaks to investors who are bullish on this segment, as they see an increasing number of people willing to pay premium prices. Convenience plays a role, too. Sowmya writes that these products are more likely to be available on quick commerce apps than legacy brands. She also writes about the reality of affluent consumers, and how big an audience such brands can actually target.We'd love to hear your feedback on this podcast. Let us know by writing to us at feedback@livemint.com. You may send us feedback, tips or anything that you feel we should be covering from your vantage point in the world of business and finance.Show notes:India's ties with Iran: What after Ebrahim Raisi?Govt rejects Indian study about Covaxin side-effects In EV vs hybrid battle, flex fuel vehicles win political favourNo carrot, only stick: Why the RBI has gone beyond moral suasion and fines  VCs chase a pot of gold as India's growing affluent class goes premium 

This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.It's the 20th of May and here are today's headlines.Polling is underway for 49 Lok Sabha seats across six states and two Union Territories including Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla. As of this afternoon, the Election Commission received about 1036 complaints from various political parties in West Bengal related to malfunctioning EVMs, agents being stopped from entering polling booths, and voters being threatened or stopped from going to cast their votes in different constituencies.  Meanwhile, in addition to five Lok Sabha seats in Odisha, voters will also cast their ballot for the second phase of simultaneous state assembly elections in 35 seats today.Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that he was hurt seeing the poverty in Odisha despite the state having “so many mineral resources”, and alleged that the Chief Minister's Office and residence had been captured by “a handful of corrupt people”. In an indirect dig at V K Pandian, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's close aide and BJD's key election strategist who is from Tamil Nadu, Modi also claimed that people were saying the keys of the Puri Jagannath Temple's Ratna Bhandar (treasure trove) had been sent to the souther state. THis is his third visit to Odisha in a fortnight.Days after a Banaras Hindu University study reported long-term adverse events of “special interest” in a group of over 900 people a year after they were vaccinated with Bharat Biotech's Covaxin, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has called it a “poorly designed study” with critical flaws. The director-general of the apex medical research body has also written to the authors of the paper and the editor of the journal in which it was published, stating that it “incorrectly and misleadingly” acknowledges ICMR though the body did not offer any financial or technical support for the paper.The Enforcement Directorate has moved an application seeking an extension of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's judicial custody by 14 days in the money laundering case linked to the 'excise policy scam' after he surrenders on 2nd of June. Kejriwal is currently on interim bail till 1st of June after he was granted bail by the apex Court.Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi has been killed in a helicopter crash in the mountains to the northwest of the country, close to its borders with Armenia and Azerbaijan.The helicopter, which was also carrying Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and the Governor of Iran's East Azerbaijan province Malek Rahmati, disappeared in dense fog on Sunday. According to Iran's Constitution, the First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber will take over as interim president.This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.

First, Indian Express' Santanu Chowdhury tells us about the fierce poll battle between the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal, and how the winning margins are likely to narrow this time.Next, Indian Express' Anonna Dutt shares details about the comprehensive guidelines issued by the National Institute of Nutrition, in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), on what Indians should be eating (15:02).And in the end, Indian Express' Shashank Nair talks about some of the biggest highlights from the career of Indian football legend Sunil Chhetri, who announced his retirement yesterday (24:25).Hosted, produced and written by Shashank BhargavaEdited and mixed by Suresh Pawar

Episode 3 of our mega series tracing the Marxist destruction of Indian History begins with the Marxist takeover of existing institutions of history research and writing after India attained Independence. In this endeavour, they were tacitly assisted by India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The reign of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad as India's first Education Minister was also a big factor in seeding the distortion of India's real history. The notable fact is that Marxists met with little or no opposition to their efforts at institutional capture and subversion. After Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister, she appointed a committed Marxist named Nurul Hasan as Education Minister. He gave a free run to the Marxists who eventually monopolised history departments across the board. The infamous Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Indian Council for Historical Research (ICHR) were established under his watch. With this kind of stranglehold, Marxist academics began revising history syllabi on an industrial scale and prescribed distorted Indian history textbooks to schoolchildren. The distortionist template had already been set in the 1930s by prejudiced historians like Mohammad Habib and others. A fundamental element of the Marxist distortion of Indian history is its deliberate misrepresentation of the history of the Hindu spiritual civilisation with a long term view of turning the whole Hindu society and India into a Communist country. Do watch and listen to the whole podcast that provides priceless insights and rare anecdotes not found in the usual mainstream narratives on the subject.A Heartfelt Appeal If you enjoyed this conversation, please consider supporting The Dharma Podcast so we can offer more such interesting, informative and educational content related to Indian History, Sanatana Dharma, Hindu Culture and current affairs. It takes us weeks of focussed research, writing and rigorous editing and significant costs to offer this labour of love and dedication. Your support helps us keep our content free! Ways you can support our work:* Click the button below: * Support via UPI: dharmadispatch@axl * Scan the QR Code below Get full access to The Dharma Dispatch Digest at thedharmadispatch.substack.com/subscribe

This week we look at the NHS sees sense over Trans; THe NYT doesn't; Misgendering pets; Lord Winston banned on TikTok;  Resignation of Humza Yousaf and persecution of Kate Forbes; Indian Council's Incredible Letter; Tracy Ullman; Frank Field; Domestic Violence in Australia; Pausing Biden; Seinfield on unfunny comedy; Cicadia one in a 200 year event; SEEK 33- Art; Rico Tice leaves the Church of England; Russell Brand gets baptised; with music from Del Amitri, Bach, Lindisfarne, Duane Eddy, 10CC; Vivaldi; and Handal 

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by independent journalist Rahul Singh.Rahul talks about his report on the shortcomings of the public distribution system in Jharkhand. He says despite the online mechanism, food security is poor in rural areas, and instead of helping, the system “is emerging as a hurdle” for the Adivasis.Basant reported on people falsely named as beneficiaries of the Krishi Vigyan Kendra in a report by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, which also claimed their farm incomes doubled in 2022. He shares how he found out the factual errors in the government body's book. Tune in.Timecodes00:00:00 - Introduction00:01:14 - Lok Sabha Election00:07:57 - Issues in getting Ration in Jharkhand00:25:21 - Farmers' income00:36:45 - RecommendationsRecommendationsRahulJawanBasantScoopMedia Ka LoktantraProduced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TB Science Simplified podcast: Prof Urvashi B Singh explains TB diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Prof Urvashi is in-charge of Tuberculosis Division, and Professor, Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (AIIMS Delhi) is speaking in End TB Dialogues. She is also the Co-Chair of Diagnostic Committee, National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP, Government of India, and member of Diagnostic Committee, India TB Research Consortium, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and ICMR Task Force on Genital Tuberculosis. Prof Singh is in conversation with CNS Founder, Managing Editor and Executive Director Shobha Shukla.Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, iVoox, and other podcast streaming platforms.ThanksCNS team

Today my guests are M. Krishnan and Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan. M. Krishnan is an economist based in Chennai and Singapore, and specializes in agriculture education systems, fisheries, and aquaculture research. He is currently an advisor at Infinite-Sum Modeling Inc and was a distinguished scientist of the Agricultural Research Service of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan is an economist specializing in trade and international policy. He is a Fellow at the (NITI) Aayog, Government of India, where he formerly led the institution's sections on Trade and Commerce, Strategic Economic Dialogue, International Cooperation, and Vision India@2047. Today we are discussing their recent coauthored paper titled Indian Fisheries in the Context of WTO Regulations, published by the Mercatus Center in collaboration with Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh. We spoke about the big issues concerning fisheres, in particular, India's interests in at the 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) recently held in Abu Dhabi. Recorded March 13th, 2024. Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links. Timestamps (00:00:00) - Intro (00:01:50) - Fisheries in India (00:13:46) - Overfishing and Illegal Fishing in India (00:19:59) - Overfishing Negotiations   (00:22:01) - Subsidies (00:26:27) - At the Negotiating Table (00:28:24) - IUUs (00:33:01) - Seasonal Fishing Ban (00:37:33) - Leading the Global South (00:45:17) - Measurement (00:48:47) - Domestic Politics (00:53:35) - The Future (00:59:38) - Outro Connect with Ideas of India Follow us on X Follow Shruti on X Follow Badri on X Click here for the latest Ideas of India episodes sent straight to your inbox.

In this episode of The Brand Called You, Madhu Purnima Kishwar, the founder and editor of MANUSHI journal, discusses key insights from her studies of Indic faith traditions and civilizational studies. She touches on her journey from academic scholarship to social activism. From upholding the truth despite political costs as a "truth-winger" and "factarian", to the open acceptance of diversity in Hindu Dharma, she shares her experiences. She highlights the situation in Hinduism today, expressing concerns about its "endangered" state she calls for reinventing Hindu wisdom to stand up for a safe space for Dharma to prosper. About Madhu Purnima Kishwar Madhu Purnima Kishwar is the founder and editor of MANUSHI, a journal about women and society.  She is a senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and a national professor at the Indian Council of Social Science and Research from 2017 to 2020.  She's the author of 14 books and several papers and a TV personality. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tbcy/support

"Empowering urban youth with affordable healthcare, MediMate offers comprehensive services at just one rupee per day. From mental health to eye care and nutrition, our innovative approach includes pioneering ophthalmology instruments and a unique drug vending machine. Making quality healthcare accessible for a healthier future."In today's episode of The Shape Of Work, we have Dr. Vishesh Kasliwal, Co-Founder & CEO of Medyseva Technologies, a trailblazer in rural telemedicine. With an MBBS from Nagpur and a Master's in Hospital Administration from England, his journey includes roles at iSmart Business Solutions, Arth Rural Connect Services, and ZIO Technologies in Dubai. His expertise shone as Operations Head at Vishesh Hospital and in research with the Indian Council of Medical Research. Join us as we explore Dr. Kasliwal's vision for accessible healthcare in rural areas and his innovative approach to medical entrepreneurship.In this episode, the CEO of MediSeva discusses overcoming healthcare barriers in rural and urban areas through technology and strategic partnerships. Highlights include the MediMate app, AI advancements, and global expansion. The journey from medical graduate to entrepreneur is explored, showcasing how innovative healthcare solutions can have a worldwide impact. Tune in for an insightful look into this healthcare revolution.Episode HighlightProspects and optimism in healthcare advancements.MediSeva's journey from rural clinics to metropolitan healthcare innovation.Integration of advanced technology with a human-centric approach.Improving access to medical care in both rural and urban areas.Follow Vishesh on LinkedinProduced by: Priya BhattPodcast Host:Archit SethiAbout Springworks:Springworks is a fully-distributed HR technology organisation building tools and products to simplify recruitment, onboarding, employee engagement, and retention. The product stack from Springworks includes:SpringVerify— B2B verification platformEngageWith— employee recognition and rewards platform that enriches company cultureTrivia — a suite of real-time, fun, and interactive games platforms for remote/hybrid team-buildingSpringRole — verified professional-profile platform backed by blockchain, andSpringRecruit — a forever-free applicant tracking system.Springworks prides itself on being an organisation focused on employee well-being and workplace culture, leading to a 4.8 rating on Glassdoor for the 200+ employee strength company.

“One thing which we have not been able to convey about antimicrobials is that it is a natural resource…just like your food, air, and water.” In this episode of the Public Health Insight Podcast, we share a clip from our One Health Connect event hosted in 2021, where Dr. Walia provides a comprehensive overview of the Indian experience with Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), shedding light on the initiatives undertaken by her organization and herself over the past two decades. Addressing the pressing nature of AMR in today's world, she highlights its pivotal role in infectious disease management and the profound impact it has on global health. Podcast Guest◼️ Dr. Kamini Walia, Senior Scientist in the Division of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases Division of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)References In Our Discussion◼️ One Health Connect 2021: Keynote Speakers and Panel Discussion (2/3) Podcast Hosts & Producers◼️ Leshawn Benedict, MPH, MSc, PMP®◼️ Gordon Thane, BMSc, MPH, PMP®Podcast Production Notes◼️ Music from Mandelbro - Music for Video Volume 1Subscribe to the NewsletterSubscribe to the newsletter so you don't miss out on the latest podcast episodes, live events, job skills, learning opportunities, and other engaging professional development content here.Leave Us A Five Star RatingIf you enjoy our podcasts, be sure to subscribe and leave us a rating on Apple Podcast or Spotify, and spread the word to your friends to help us get discovered by more people

Just about a month ago, Rescurity, an American cyber security firm, said that personal information of 815 million Indians was being sold on the dark web. This included details such as Aadhar numbers and passport details. The persons selling this information claimed that it was from the Indian Council of Medical Research or ICMR, the country's premier scientific research body. This is not the first time ICMR has been subject a cyber attack – 6,000 such attempts were reported just last year. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences – AIIMS in Delhi has also been hit by cyber attacks – in one ransomware case, the hackers took over the servers, encrypted the data, and made it impossible for the hospital to access its own systems. Health data consists of sensitive, personal information and once stolen, can increase the risk of digital identity theft, online banking thefts, tax frauds and other financial crimes. India was ranked fourth across the world in all malware detection in the first of 2023, as per a survey from Resucurity. Even as this is going on, the Central government launched an ambitious Ayushman Bharat Digital Initiative in 2021. During the Covid-19 pandemic, our Aadhar and other details were used for both testing and vaccination services. So how safe is our health data with the government or private health organisations? How well does the Data Protection Act, that came into force this year protect this sensitive information? Is our right to privacy over our personal information being adequately safeguarded in India?

The introduction of the contraceptive pill in the 1960s was one of the most significant events in the history of human society. It still left the burden of birth control largely on women.Now, however, things are changing. The demand for male contraceptives is on the rise. Last week, in a major breakthrough, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) finished clinical trials for the world's first injectable male contraceptive. The trial proved that it is safe and highly effective without any serious side effects.But why have big pharmaceutical companies not paid enough attention to the research on male contraceptives for all these years?Tune in.Daybreak is produced from the newsroom of The Ken, India's first subscriber-only business news platform. Subscribe for more exclusive, deeply-reported, and analytical business stories.

On this episode of Research Radio we have A Suresh discussing his paper titled "Reinventing Agricultural Extension System in India: The Road Ahead" which he co-authored with V K Sajesh, R N Padaria, and A K Mohanty. Dr. A Suresh is Principal Scientist and Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research – Central Institute of Fisheries Technology in Kochi. 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

How do we understand how an infection affects the human body? And how do we go about the process of finding safe and effective drugs and vaccines for the many diseases that abound? One way scientists do this is through Controlled Human Infection Studies or CHIS, also known as human challenge studies. This involves deliberately exposing a volunteer to a disease-causing germ, in a controlled environment. This is done to understand the various facets of the infection and disease, and also to speed up the process of finding a cure. India has so far stayed away from such studies, because of the many ethical issues involved: the deliberate harm caused and the potential risk of exploitation since volunteers are paid for their participation, though they have been carried out in other countries. Last month however, the country's premier medical research body, the Indian Council of Medical Research, released a consensus policy document, arguing the case to bring in human infection studies into our country. What exactly will these studies involve? Do they have any benefits over regular clinical trials? After the world saw the sudden explosion of Covid-19, is there a need for deeper, faster studies of infectious diseases especially with resistance to many drugs increasing? Does India have a robust-enough regulatory system to oversee such trials and to ensure transparency and accountability?

On this episode, financial journalist Govindraj Ethiraj talks to Dr. R.M. Anjana, Managing Director of Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Non Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control and IDF Centre of Education. She is also the Vice President of the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, which is an ICMR Centre for Advanced Research on Diabetes. Her main research areas are prevention of diabetes, epidemiology, physical activity and translational research and metagenomics.Dr. Anjana has published over 250 papers in national and international peer reviewed journals. She has also participated and given lectures in several national and international conferences and programmes on diabetes, non communicable diseases and cardiovascular epidemiology.In this conversation you will learn about the alarming implications of a recent study (for which Dr. Anjana is the lead author) by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on diabetes in India, what were some of the study's findings, and insights into the diabetes epidemic from both a personal and policy lens.Connecting the Dots with Dr. R M Anjana on YoutubeFor more of our coverage check out thecore.inSubscribe to our NewsletterFollow us on:Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Linkedin | Youtube | Telegram

“If you meditate and you become calm and are at peace with the world, then you can arrive at an answer to the problem that is worrying you.”Today's enlightening conversation with Philosopher Madhuri Santanam Sondhi is a total privilege. At nearly 90 years old, she's lived an extraordinary life. Madhuri has spent her life as a devoted wife to a celebrated politician, a mother to two children and also an Independent Research Scholar. She has a Masters in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh and diplomas from the Universities of Oxford and London. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research. Friends with His Holiness the Dalai Lama for six-plus decades and a total devotee of her beloved Guru Swami Shyam.Madhuri illuminates this episode with her wisdom, sweetness and delightfulness. Here's what we touch on:➖07:55 Madhuri's search for her Guru & finally meeting him➖11:39 What no one ever taught you➖22:22 Inner peace, social peace, political peace➖26:25 Peace and Oneness➖32:30 Spiritual outlook to deal with problems➖37:17 Crisis as a great teacher➖52:45 What happens to the mind in meditationIt is my wish for us all that we have such peace and settledness in us at 90 years old. This conversation exemplifies the power of oneness possible between two people regardless of age or background when tuned into the Self.With love and oneness,BobbiThanks for listening, you beautiful soul!

Dean Radin, PhD, has been Chief Scientist at the INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES (IONS) since 2001, and Associated Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES (CIIS) since 2016. His original career track as a concert violinist moved into science after earning a BSEE degree in electrical engineering, magna cum laude with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and then an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For a decade he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories on advanced telecommunications R&D. For the last three decades he has been engaged in research on the nature of consciousness at IONS, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh (Scotland), University of Nevada, and SRI International.He is author or coauthor of over 250 scientific and popular articles, three dozen book chapters, and three popular books including the award-winning and bestselling The Conscious Universe (HarperOne, 1997), Entangled Minds (Simon & Schuster, 2006), and a 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award, Supernormal (Random House, 2013). His forthcoming book will be published in 2018 by PenguinRandomHouse. These books have been translated into 14 foreign languages, so far. His technical articles have appeared in journals ranging from Foundations of Physics and Physics Essays to Psychological Bulletin and Journal of Consciousness Studies. His work was featured in the New York Times Magazine, and he has appeared on dozens of television shows and film documentaries worldwide.He has given over 375 interviews and talks, including invited presentations at Harvard (on medicine), Stanford (statistics), Cambridge (physics), Princeton (psychology), Virginia Tech (human factors), the Sorbonne (yoga), the University of British Columbia (psychic phenomena), for industries including Google, Johnson & Johnson, and Rabobank, and for government and military agencies including the US Navy, DARPA, the National Academy of Sciences, the Indian Council of Philosophical Research (India), the International Center for Leadership and Governance (Malaysia), and the Australian Leadership Retreat.

Educational lecture delivered to the senior leaders of Indian Social Sciences establishment in Delhi, explaining how their field has been hijacked by Wokeism. How this is propelling Khalistanis, and other Breaking India forces abroad as well as in India. Indian Council of Social Sciences Research (HRD Ministry) needs to wake up and study this latest phenomenon. It is impacting Indian education at all levels and providing fuel to divisive politics and geopolitical forces. Snakes in the Ganga - http://www.snakesintheganga.com Varna Jati Caste - http://www.varnajaticaste.com The Battle For IIT's - http://www.battleforiits.com Power of future Machines - http://www.poweroffuturemachines.com 10 heads of Ravana - http://www.tenheadsofravana.com To support Infinity Foundation's projects including the continuation of such episodes and the research we do: इनफिनिटी फ़ौंडेशन की परियोजनाओं को अनुदान देने के लिए व इस प्रकार के एपिसोड और हमारे द्वारा किये जाने वाले शोध को जारी रखने के लिए: http://infinityfoundation.com/donate-2/ To Subscribe to Rajiv Malhotra Official: राजीव मल्होत्रा ऑफिसियल की सदस्यता लेने के लिए: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk85J3pqkn1y--k2wNMbthA?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rajivmalhotrapodcast/support

An India-wide study on the prevalence of diabetes and pre-diabetes, results of which were released recently, threw up some startling results: 10.13 crore people in our country of 140 crore could be diabetic, and another 13.6 crore are estimated to be at the pre-diabetic stage. The study was conducted by the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research and the Union Health Ministry. Apart from diabetes, the study also revealed that 35.5% of Indians suffer from hypertension, while nearly 40% of the population has abdominal obesity. Uttar Pradesh had the lowest prevalence of diabetes at 4% while Goa had the highest at 26.4%, closely followed by Puducherry and Kerala. What does the rural-urban divide in the diabetes numbers tell us? How can these high numbers in diabetes be tackled by States? How much of a role does our diet play and what can individuals do?

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: Cause area report: Antimicrobial Resistance, published by Akhil on June 6, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This post is a summary of some of my work as a field strategy consultant at Schmidt Futures' Act 2 program, where I spoke with over a hundred experts and did a deep dive into antimicrobial resistance to find impactful investment opportunities within the cause area. The full report can be accessed here. AMR is a global health priority Antimicrobials, the medicines we use to fight infections, have played a foundational role in improving the length and quality of human life since penicillin and other antimicrobials were first developed in the early and mid 20th century. Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites evolve resistance to antimicrobials. As a result, antimicrobial medicine such as antibiotics and antifungals become ineffective and unable to fight infections in the body. AMR is responsible for millions of deaths each year, more than HIV or malaria (ARC 2022). The AMR Visualisation Tool, produced by Oxford University and IHME, visualises IHME data which finds that 1.27 million deaths per year are attributable to bacterial resistance and 4.95 million deaths per year are associated with bacterial resistance, as shown below. Figure 1: Composition of global bacterial infection related deaths, from AMR Visualisation Tool This burden does not include that of non-bacterial infections, such as fungi or pathogens, which might increase this burden by several factors. For instance, every year, there are 150 million cases of severe fungal infections, which result in 1.7 million deaths annually (Kainz et al 2020). Unlike for bacterial infections, we do not have good estimates of how many of those are associated or attributable to resistance. Concerningly, AMR is escalating at an increasing rate (USA data, Swiss data, Mhondoro et al 2019, Indian Council of Medical Research 2021). One prominent report estimates that AMR will result in 10 million deaths every year by 2050 (Jim O'Neill report, 2014). Even more concerningly, we may be at a critical juncture, where if we do not drastically change our current trajectory, we could run out of effective antimicrobials. This would mean that our ability to perform surgery, give cancer patients chemotherapy, or manage chronic diseases like cystic fibrosis and asthma, all of which hinge on the effectiveness of antimicrobials, would be significantly impacted. The very foundations of modern medicine could be threatened; the WHO has warned that we could return to a pre-antibiotic age, which would result in the average human life expectancy going down from 70 to 50 (WHO, 2015). Beyond the health effects, there is a profound economic cost to AMR – for patients, healthcare systems and the economy. In the USA, the CDC estimates that the cost of AMR is $55 billion every year (Dadgostar 2019). Studies show that as a result of AMR, the annual global GDP could decrease by 1% and there would be a 5-7% loss in low and middle income countries by 2050 (Dadgostar 2019). In conjunction, the World Bank states that AMR might limit gains in poverty reduction, push more people into extreme poverty and have significant labour market effects. The importance of AMR is recognised by major governments and multilateral organisations. The WHO calls AMR one of the greatest public health threats facing humanity, the UK government lists AMR on its National Risk Register, and both GAVI and the United Nations Foundation term AMR as a ‘silent pandemic'. AMR is a neglected field Although there has been some global response to AMR, it has not been proportional to its threat to healthcare systems and the economy. Despite many governments developing National Action Plans (NAPs) in response to the WHO call for the same in ...

Learn the amazing story behind NICOA_s creation_and the powerful role it plays in improving the lives of Native American elders. For further info contact: NICOA.org or nicoacompass.org

India's development has not been uniform and has leapfrogged from agriculture to services, skipping over a manufacturing phase. However, the agriculture and services sectors typically do not create enough productive jobs for those at the bottom of the education and skills ladder. Thus, there is a need for labor-intensive manufacturing to absorb those with low levels of education and skills, but only around 11–12 percent of the total employment is in manufacturing, and this share has been essentially flat for two decades. There is also too much labor employed in the low-productivity unorganized sector, and there are too few jobs in the high-productivity formal sector. As recently as 2015–16, the unorganized sector continued to employ over 70 percent of total manufacturing employment. Inclusive growth would require us to find ways to enable formal manufacturing to prosper.In this episode of Interpreting India, Radhicka Kapoor joins Sayoudh Roy to discuss the state of labor-intensive manufacturing in India.--Episode ContributorsRadhicka Kapoor is a visiting professor at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, in addition to having previously worked at the Planning Commission and at the International Labour Organization, Geneva. Her research interests include poverty and inequality, labor economics and industrial performance, and she has published extensively on labor-intensive manufacturing in India. Most recently, she has edited A New Reform Paradigm, a collection of essays written in honor of Isher Judge Ahluwalia.Sayoudh Roy is a senior research analyst with the Political Economy Program at Carnegie India.  His work focuses on the macroeconomic implications of frictions in labor and financial markets and how interactions between them can affect macroeconomic aggregates.--Additional ReadingA New Reform Paradigm: Festschrift in Honour of Isher Judge Ahluwalia, edited by Radhicka KapoorCreating jobs in India's organised manufacturing sector by Radhicka KapoorExplaining the contractualisation of India's workforce by Radhicka Kapoor and P. P. KrishnapriyaStylized Facts on the Evolution of the Enterprise Size: Distribution in India's Manufacturing Sector by Radhicka KapoorEmployment in India by Ajit Kumar GhoseIndia Employment Report by Ajit Kumar GhoseStructural Change and Employment in India by Nomaan MajidSmall-Scale Industry Policy in India: A Critical Evaluation by Rakesh MohanIndustrialisation for Employment and Growth in India: Lessons from Small Firm Clusters and Beyond, edited by Rayaprolu Nagaraj--

In this episode we discuss regulatory bodies their influence on the generation and dissemination of knowledge. Should regulatory bodies have the authority to affect the topics and methods of science? Is more highly regulated research actually better? And should we just give up on our own lines of research and become potato researchers?    Shownotes Kitcher, P. (2001). Science, truth, and democracy. Oxford University Press. Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)-Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI) Emergence of the NIH  DARPA SCORE Lakens, D. (2023). Is my study useless? Why researchers need methodological review boards. Nature, 613(7942), 9-9. PSA: Legate, N., Ngyuen, T. V., Weinstein, N., Moller, A., Legault, L., Vally, Z., ... & Ogbonnaya, C. E. (2022). A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(22).  

COVID-19 and the fear around it may have gone away, but over the past few weeks, India has been rocked by cases of fever and intense coughs. People across States have been falling sick, and some have even had to be hospitalised. Last week, the Indian Council of Medical Research said these cases are linked to Influenza A, the H3N2 subtype virus that causes flu. The Council said surveillance data had shown a spike in these cases in India. So what is the H3N2 virus? Who is vulnerable to it and what symptoms can it cause? Is there a vaccine that can be taken?

This month in 1891, “The Student,” the monthly student publication of the University of North Dakota, printed this story: “We had visited the soldiers' quarters, wandered around where the soldiers parade, and even visited the store, which is just outside the fort. Then longing for new fields to conquer we wondered what we should do next. At length someone suggested that we visit the Council Room of the Indians, and having learned that they were holding a council that afternoon, we sallied forth."

In mid-December, a government department told the Kerala High Court that Ribociclib, a drug prescribed for a type of breast cancer, did not meet the conditions necessary to issue a compulsory licence. The drug is patented and therefore cannot be made by generic manufacturers but a compulsory licence, if issued by the government would permit a drug to be manufactured and made available at an affordable price. The case involved a woman, now deceased who said that she and her husband had a joint income of ₹74,400 a month, while the drug Ribociclib cost her ₹58,140, making it unaffordable. A study by the Indian Council of Medical Research has found that breast cancer is one of the top cancers in women in India. Drug prices have evoked national interest following the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw widespread reporting of desperate patients turning to the black market for drugs and devices. In September, the Centre released the National List of Essential Medicines -- the list was released after a gap of seven years, and contains 384 drugs. Interestingly, it also has added, for the first time four drugs that are under patents. So what's in and out of the latest list? How are drug prices regulated in India, and how will the inclusion of drugs on the list help? Does India need to do more to make medicines affordable and accessible?

What are Global Value Chains and why have they become important in global trade? What are the factors impending India's integration into GVCs? This week in Puliyabaazi, we try to understand policies for improving India's integration into global supply chains with economist and Visiting Professor at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) Dr. Saon Ray.  इस हफ्ते हमने बात की ICRIER की प्रोफ़ेसर शावन रे के साथ ये समझने की लिए कि आखिर ये Global Value Chains है क्या और भारत की इन में हिस्सेदारी कैसे बढ़ाई जाए? If you like our conversations, please like, subscribe and share them with others. For more: Global value chains and the missing links, book by Saon Ray and Smita Miglani https://amzn.eu/d/bNVQMTV Global supply chains: why they emerged, why they matter, and where they are going - a paper by Richard Baldwin Risks and Global Supply Chains: What We Know and What We Need to Know - paper by Richard Baldwin and Rebecca FreemanWrite to us at puliyabaazi@gmail.com Hosts: @saurabhchandra @pranaykotas @thescribblebee Puliyabaazi is on these platforms: Twitter: @puliyabaazi Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/puliyabaazi/Subscribe & listen to the podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Castbox, AudioBoom, YouTube, Spotify or any other podcast app.Related episodes: सरकारी काबिलियत लोकनीति को कैसे प्रभावित करती है? Public Policy in India ft. Ajay Shahhttps://youtu.be/mvotEDOOdeA श्रम कानून में सुधार कैसे लाया जाए? Reforming India's Labour Laws ft. Bhuvana Anand https://youtu.be/WlSLs_DjcfY Jairam Ramesh on the 1991 Reforms, Narratives in Economic Policy Making, and more https://youtu.be/zplBxm9fWlASee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

SYNOPSIS:The Mahābhārata, originally known as the Jaya Samhita and later as the Bharata Samhita, has been engulfed in a plethora of debates with respect to its nature, age, authorship, and, historicity. The text can be classified as a Smriti, an Itihasa as well as Kavya, consisting of 18 Parvas and over 100,000 verses at present. The puissant stories centered around the internecine battle of Kurukshetra have enraptured the masses over the centuries and have instigated a course of active interpretation and deliberation, especially about the historical occurrence of these events.The text talks about magical occurrences, legendary creatures, and supernatural weapons, which may lead one to believe that it can be best categorized as mythology. However, the 2013 Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), Prof. Y.S. Rao argued that the Mahābhārata is not a work of mythology, rather it holds historical credibility.In the past few decades, with technological advancement, several archaeological excavations have been undertaken at places mentioned in the Mahābhārata – Hastinapur, Mathura, Kurukshetra, Bairat; that suggests that these places were inhabited by Painted Grey Ware (PGW) cultures around this time; with marine archaeological explorations also leading to the discovery of the submerged city of Dwarka.However, archaeology cannot prove or disprove the veracity of epic events as it is best utilized foruncovering the general patterns of material culture rather than corroborating textual details of literary works.Some historians have argued that history and mythology need not be diametrically opposed to each other, because history can be understood as a broad term that relates to past events- not only as a result of discovery and interpretation but also as a collection of memory and presentation; on the other hand, mythology revolves around symbolic narratives and metaphors of human experiences. Therefore, both disciplines share similar traits where the narration of human endeavours becomes an area of convergence.This leads us to question the strict dichotomy between mythology and history that came to the forefront in the era of ‘positivism' in 19 th century Europe, and subsequently around the world, which emphasized an a posteriori approach driven by objectivity, facts, and evidence.Here, one has to understand that texts like the Mahābhārata, whose compilation spans from the 3 rd century BCE to the 3 rd century CE, are bound to be affected by changing societal & culturalcircumstances, along with geographical, and religious settings. For instance, the tribal version of the text by the Bhils does not mention the vastra haran (disrobing) of Draupadi. Moreover, given the extensive timespan, what is indeed the original form of the text becomes extremely hard to determine.Therefore, we at Argumentative Indians call for a dispassionate understanding and interpretation of this recurring debate over the historicity of the Mahābhārata.DISCLAIMER:We invite thought leaders from across the ideological spectrum. The guests in our sessions express their independent views and opinions. Argumentative Indians do not profess to subscribe, agree or endorse the same or be in any way responsible for the stance, words, and comments of our guests.Explore More at - www.argumentativeindians.comDISCLAIMER:We invite thought leaders from across the ideological spectrum. The guests in our sessions express their independent views and opinions. Argumentative Indians does not profess to subscribe, agree or endorse the same or be in anyway responsible for the stance, words and comments of our guests.

The Pakistan Experience is an independently produced podcast looking to tell stories about Pakistan through conversations. Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepakistanexperience To support the channel: Jazzcash/Easypaisa - 0325 -2982912 Patreon.com/thepakistanexperience One of the leading Economist of the world, Sanjay Kathuria, comes on The Pakistan Experience to discuss Trade with India, the Pakistani Economy, South Asia, What Pakistan can learn from Bangladesh, default and IMF. Will trade with India improve Pakistan's economy? Should Pakistan default? Is Bangladesh's bubble going to burst? How does Sanjay rate Modi's Economic Policies? Find out this and more on this week's episode of The Pakistan Experience. Sanjay Kathuria is a leading thinker and commentator on economic integration in South Asia and the economic development of the region. He spent over 27 years at the World Bank, working on South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe, including field assignments in New Delhi and Dhaka. Before joining the World Bank, he was a Fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations in New Delhi. His scholarly and popular writing has focused on South Asia, economic growth and development, trade and globalization, regional integration, and the economics of small states, among others. He is on the editorial board of the Rising Asia Journal. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Oxford University as an Inlaks Scholar. He graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and did his Master's at the Delhi School of Economics. And Please stay in touch: https://twitter.com/ThePakistanExp1 https://www.facebook.com/thepakistanexperience https://instagram.com/thepakistanexpeperience The podcast is hosted by comedian and writer, Shehzad Ghias Shaikh. Shehzad is a Fulbright scholar with a Masters in Theatre from Brooklyn College. He is also one of the foremost Stand-up comedians in Pakistan and frequently writes for numerous publications. Instagram.com/shehzadghiasshaikh Facebook.com/Shehzadghias/ Twitter.com/shehzad89 Chapters: 0:00 What is the new book about? 1:45 Trade with India 7:30 Trade in South Asia 14:00 What Bangladesh has done right 23:30 What factors hold the Pakistani Economy back 35:30 Debt, Current Account Deficit and Trade Deficit 45:00 Pakistan's risk of default 59:30 Remittances being a double edged sword 1:05:00 Paratariffs 1:11:30 Border Markets 1:15:30 Why is the GDP Growth of India falling? 1:17:30 Demonetization 1:19:00 Improving Relationships with India 1:25:10 Economic Policies of the Modi Government 1:30:40 Economic Dependency in light of Russia-Ukraine 1:33:15 Pakistan's Economic Situation 1:36:00 Global Energy Crisis 1:37:30 Trade in South Asia 1:41:00 Female Participation 1:42:30 1:44:30 Pakistan's Core Economic Problem

The Indian Consulate in Sydney hosted an Amrit Sandhya event with performances by visiting Indian artists. Cultural troupes led by Bharatnatyam icon Pavitra Krishna Bhatt, established flute artist Dr Jayaprada Ramamurthy and folk troupes led by Dhara Shah (Gujarati Folk Dance) performed across Australia. The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) supported this cultural exchange.

Global Policy Watch: Europe's WarGlobal policy issues and their implication for India— RSJThere is an energy crisis in Europe. Russia announced this week that it won't resume supplying gas to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline until the west lifts the sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine. Till last year, Russia accounted for about 45 percent of the EU's total gas imports. About a third of it flowed through Nord Stream 1. A few months back Russia halted supply via Nord Stream citing maintenance concerns. At least there was a pretense. Now the gloves are off. The weaponising of energy is complete. That apart you may have heard of this being the hottest summer in Europe in living memory. The rivers have run dry and hydel power generation is at an all-time low. The crisis is real. How bad is it? Well, if you go by estimates an average European household might end up spending over €500/month by March next year on their energy bill. This number was around  €160-170 /month a year back. This will mean an aggregated annual increase in energy spends in EU of about €2 tn. To put this in perspective, the total GDP of the member states is around €14 tn. No economy can take such a price surge in its stride, more so, when the inflation is already running at a multi-decadal high. Typically, they could do a few things to manage this. One option is to cap the prices of imported gas from Russia. The other is for the governments to absorb these price increases and lighten the burden for the people. The last option is to reduce demand by imposing rationing measures on people. The long term option is to move to renewables but that's not going to help anyone during this winter.  The idea of capping imported gas prices seems the easiest. Of course, price caps distort markets and will lead to other unintended consequences but you have to choose the lesser devil in scenarios like these. Except any price cap on Russian gas will mean you will have to deal with the wrath of Putin. On Wednesday, he gave EU leaders a peek into how he sees any attempt by the EU to impose a price cap. As CNBC reported:Responding to EU proposals to implement price caps on Russian energy imports, Putin told business leaders in Vladivostok that Russia could yet decide to rip up existing supply contracts.“Will there be any political decisions that contradict the contracts? Yes, we just won't fulfill them. We will not supply anything at all if it contradicts our interests,” Putin said at the Eastern Economic Forum in Russia's far east.“We will not supply gas, oil, coal, heating oil — we will not supply anything.”“We would only have one thing left to do: as in the famous Russian fairy tale, we would let the wolf's tail freeze. Freeze, freeze, the wolf's tail,” he said.Hmm. So, what's this famous Russian fairy tale about a tail? The good, ol' Pravda came to the rescue here:In the tale, the cunning fox made the stupid wolf catch fish in the frozen river by putting his tail into an ice hole. The fox would hop around the desperate and hungry wolf saying "freeze, freeze, the wolf's tail" until the ice hole froze trapping the wolf in the ice. Men from the village then came and beat the wolf for all the bad things that he had done to them in summer. The wolf struggled and escaped, but his tail was left in the frozen ice hole.I read that a few times to get my head around the fairy tale. It didn't make any sense given the context. I guess Putin wanted to give some folksy spin to his threat of freezing Europe this winter. Maybe Russians enjoyed that. Anyway, the upshot of this threat was visible in the meeting of the EU ministers on Friday that was convened to discuss the energy crisis. The ministers deferred the proposal to cap price agreeing that it needed more work and deliberation. Also, there was no real proposal to force a reduction in demand among the member countries. There is a voluntary pledge of cutting it by 15 percent but that might neither be enforced nor be adequate. I guess the price surge, if allowed, will eventually bring down the demand but which politician will want that scenario to be played out? That leaves the option of a combination of rationing for industries (less politically sensitive) and government subsidies to manage the pain for people. That's what different governments have been doing. France, as NYT reports, has asked businesses to appoint an ‘ambassador of energy sobriety' while spending over €26 billion since the Ukraine war to keep gas prices in check. Further:Germany, Europe's biggest user of Russian gas, reversed plans on Monday to shut down two of its three remaining nuclear power plants by the end of the year, and on Sunday announced a $65 billion aid package to ease the burden of high energy costs on citizens. Italy is looking to Algeria as a potential new supplier of natural gas to replace Russian fuel. In Spain, the government has begun a huge effort to improve energy efficiency in buildings and in industry.Also, it is not as if the utility companies are making money hand over fist at this time. All utilities companies use derivatives available on utility exchanges to protect themselves from price swings. Typically, they lock in a price for the future to guard themselves against price falling. When prices surge, like they have now, they cannot cancel these derivatives and this leads to huge losses at least on paper. Eventually, if the prices remain elevated and the derivatives contracts run out (usually 6-9 months), the utilities will make a windfall. But till then the exchanges are at risk that the utilities will not be able to honour their derivatives contracts. So, the exchanges will demand that utilities give them cash collaterals for such an eventuality. What could be the size of such collaterals put together? A reasonable estimate is about €1.5 trillion. There is no way that utilities are sitting on that kind of working capital to stump up this collateral. For the markets to function efficiently and to avoid a Lehmann-like contagion, some solution has to be found. One is to cap the price and prevent further paper losses. But Putin has closed that option. Eventually, the governments will have to step in as the back stop. There's a lot of heavy lifting the governments have to do. It will further raise their debt burden that's already at their peak after the spending spree during the pandemic. The taxpayers will have to foot the bill; one way or the other. I don't know about you but it doesn't seem to me there are any good options left for Europe in the short run. Some kind of a structural solution can be worked out where the tariff deficit is allowed to be spread over a longer term, thus allowing the utility companies to securitize these future revenues. It is easier said than done though. The other scenario is for EU members to agree on price caps, Putin's wrath notwithstanding. This will happen because humouring Putin isn't a long term solution. That apart, there could be some forcible demand reduction, then a hope for a milder than usual winter and a scenario where there's an increase in supply from the Middle-East and the US because of the likely move away to Russian oil and gas by China and India. A combination of all of these could help Europe tide this crisis over. It isn't going to be easy at all. Europe's winter of discontent has begun. And it could be a long one. Meanwhile, Europe isn't alone in the energy crisis. Here's the Washington Post on China:Amid the most intense global heat wave in decades, China experienced another electricity crisis this summer. Ten months after surging coal prices drove widespread curbs on power consumption, parts of central and eastern China had to ration power after months of drought and scorching heat.This year's heat wave across central and eastern China ran for more than 70 days, the country's longest stretch since such record keeping began in 1961. Rainfall dropped more than 45 percent across the Yangtze River basin, which supplies water to more than 400 million people.Supply constraints, in turn, forced severe restrictions on power use in Sichuan and other provinces that tap into Sichuan's power. Sichuan authorities imposed comprehensive restrictions on industrial power consumption starting Aug. 15, while neighboring Chongqing, a provincial-level municipality with a population of 32 million, introduced similar cuts two days later. Additional restrictions for commercial spaces and households meant limited access to cooling, even when daytime highs exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit.And China's short term response won't be music to the ears of the climate warriors:Authorities are likely to respond by expanding their alternatives to hydropower. This may well include building more coal-fired power plants, which are responsible for roughly 40 percent of China's carbon emissions. The 2021 crisis saw the same response; provincial coal-fired power plant approvals rose almost 50 percent year on year in the first half of 2022 as the central leadership stressed the importance of “energy security.”Thankfully, India has seen through its summer months before the global energy crisis has come to a head. The global demand for coal has surged as countries have been forced to hark back to thermal power plants to meet their energy needs. Almost 70 percent of electricity generation in India is from thermal power plants. The domestic supply of coal isn't going to be enough and Indian companies will need to stockpile more for future security. This is an area to keep an eye on while looking at the macroeconomic indicators for India that otherwise look benign in a troubled world.  Not(PolicyWTF): No Exports Without ImportsThis section looks at egregious public policies. Policies that make you go: WTF, Did that really happen? - Pranay KotasthaneIf one were to make a word cloud of our editions, the term “import substitution” would appear right in the centre, in angry red colour. On many occasions, we have highlighted that high import tariffs and Production Linked incentives (PLIs) are at cross purposes. The tariffs end up increasing input costs to such an extent that it negates the monetary benefits of PLI schemes. The result is that manufacturing in India remains as uncompetitive as it was earlier, despite the government providing significant financial incentives. Given our abhorrence for higher tariff barriers, it was a welcome surprise that the Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology released an excellent report on August 29th, which has empirical evidence on the importance of trade for creating a domestic electronics industry.The report, titled Globalise to Localise: Exporting at Scale and Deepening the Ecosystem are Vital to Higher Domestic Value Addition in Electronics, is written by trade economists from Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). It makes a crucial point that should interest anyone interested in Indian public policy: India must first globalise and only then localise if it aspires to be a global production and export hub for electronics. I guess this recommendation would hold to a large extent in other sectors as well.But let's get back to electronics. The report highlights that both Viet Nam and India exported the same value of electronics items in 2010. But by 2020, Viet Nam's electronics exports had become seven times that of India's. What just happened? The report argues that the reason could be the difference in trade strategies followed by Viet Nam and China on one hand, and by India on the other. The difference is this. Indian governments have pursued a strategy of simultaneously increasing electronics exports and boosting domestic value addition per unit of total demand. For increasing exports, governments used tax rebates and built special economic zones. For boosting domestic value addition, governments deployed higher custom duties for components, and local sourcing norms for public procurement. In contrast, both Viet Nam and China focused on growing their exports at scale first. At first, this led to a decrease in the domestic value added per unit of demand. This is because companies preferred to import components, assemble, and then export them. Only after electronics exports had achieved global scale did the two countries target local content addition. That too, through instruments such as sourcing fairs and technology upgradation programmes, instead of erecting trade barriers. Over time, not only did the exports continue growing, but also a competitive components industry mushroomed. Hence the report suggests that India too should first globalise and then localise. The comparative analysis in the paper is illuminating. I'll leave you with the recommendations chart, which has specific ideas for putting this strategy into effect. From a political economy viewpoint, it's interesting that the electronics ministry unveiled this report. I hope that it suggests that the government is willing to reconsider its strategy of high custom duties for domestic value addition. To become a global manufacturing hub, we need to internalise that import substitution is self-defeating.PS: This report's analysis also makes for an excellent public policy teaching resource.India Policy Watch: Kaun Kitne Paani Mein?Insights on topical policy issues in India— RSJThis week Bangalore had rains. Tip tip barsaa paani. And paani ne aag lagaa di. Pictures of streets of Bangalore looking like a river in spate with high-end luxury cars drowning in them made the rounds. The poor took the usual brunt. The familiar lament of lack of urban planning, the venality of municipal corporations in big cities and the apathy of citizens soon followed. Such flooding is a common phenomenon now even in cities that don't have a history of heavy rainfall. Over the past few years, there have been similar pictures from Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune.  There are four factors at play here. First, there's climate change. It could mean different things to different people. But let's accept short bursts of intense and often unseasonal rainfall is a thing now in many parts of India and the world. It didn't happen this often in the past. So, expect flooding when you get more than 150 mm of rainfall in under 3 hours in a densely populated urban landscape like it happened in Bangalore this week.. Second, urbanisation is good for India and it will only gather more pace. Cities provide network benefits, greater opportunities and they help diffuse historical identities that get in the way of social mobility. New cities or satellite towns cannot be planned and developed top down like many policy makers think when they announce such plans. So, there's no point arguing for reducing the burden of a large city by proposing a plan to ‘develop' new cities. A city emerges organically on the back of the millions of individual transactions that continue growing because of network effects. You cannot control them though you can anticipate their growth and plan to manage it. That planning is totally absent in India. The numerous cases of lake beds and natural reservoirs being usurped for construction, the lack of any thinking about the topography of a location and the flow of water in it before allowing for buildings to come up and consistent reduction in green cover - all of these mean there's nowhere for water to go except flood homes and then stand still till it is pumped out. That brings me to the third point. The way the political economy is structured right now, it is difficult to see how there will be enough devolution of power and finances to a city. A big city most often is a bankrupt political orphan in India. It doesn't look like changing any time soon. And lastly, you have to ask how long will citizens remain stoic and manage their lives through these great difficulties? Should we beware the fury of the patient? Among these four, I don't foresee any correction of course for the first three factors. They will continue in the same vein. That leaves only the citizen. She will have no choice but to accept these as inevitable and then find private solutions to what are public problems. These solutions will tend to be locally optimal but suboptimal for the whole. The numerous gated communities that try doing this are examples of this. You can live in a gated republic and keep the state away. But nature is a different ballgame. It doesn't care for your gates. Things will only get worse for citizens. Will there be a tipping point, I often ask myself? I don't think so. People will grin and bear it. And then forget it.Resilience of the people is the timeless safeguard against a revolution. Matsyanyaaya: Chip Trouble Big fish eating small fish = Foreign Policy in action— Pranay KotasthaneIn a Politico article earlier this week, the authors explain Russia's desperate attempts to get hold of some pretty basic integrated circuits (chips) for military equipment. This news comes closely after the delays in delivering frigates to Indian Navy. The Indian government would do well to keep a close eye on these developments.Regardless of Russia's intent, its defence production competence has been set back many years because of the coordinates sanctions. This means India should develop contingency plans for all pending military platform deliveries from Russia.Russia doesn't have reliable semiconductor manufacturing facilities of its own. We should expect that it will try to get hold of these legacy-node chips through the black market. We should also expect that some Chinese foundries like SMIC might come to Russia's rescue. In either case, it has the same lesson for India - Russia's ability to deliver secure military platforms to India has taken a big hit. We should seek other alternatives.HomeWorkReading and listening recommendations on public policy matters[Article] This post by Hannah Ritchie on effective but counter-intuitive ideas on climate change action is gold.[Book] This excellent book, Global Value Chains and the Missing Links Cases from Indian Industry by Saon Ray and Smita Miglani[Article] S Vishwanath has the most informative article on the Bengaluru floods. 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

Dean Radin is a world-renowned parapsychologist making breakthrough discoveries in human potential— including the exploration of consciousness and psychic phenomena such as clairvoyance, telepathy, remote viewing, magic and rituals, precognition, and divination. He is the Chief Science Officer at The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). He has given over 650 talks and interviews worldwide, and he is the author or coauthor of some 300 scientific and popular articles, four dozen book chapters, and nine books, four of which have been translated into 15 foreign languages: The Conscious Universe (1997, HarperCollins), Entangled Minds (2006, Simon & Schuster), Supernormal (2013, RandomHouse), and Real Magic (2018, PenguinRandomHouse).  Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001, Dean Radin held appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International, where he worked on a classified program investigating psychic espionage for the US government (now commonly known by one of the program's many codewords: Star Gate). His 130+ scientific articles can be found in peer-reviewed journals ranging from Foundations of Physics and Physics Essays to Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Psychological Bulletin, Brain and Cognition, and Psychology of Consciousness. He serves as a referee for 25 journals, including PLOS One, Frontiers in Bioscience, Integrative Cancer Therapies, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Physics Essays, and Psychology of Consciousness. He was featured in a New York Times Magazine article, and he has appeared on dozens of television programs around the world. His 650+ interviews and talks have included presentations at Harvard (medical), Stanford (statistics), Princeton (psychology), Columbia (education), Cambridge (physics), Edinburgh (psychology), The Sorbonne (parapsychology), University of Padova (physics), University of British Columbia (parapsychology), and University of Allahabad (cognitive neuroscience,). ​ Radin's invited talks for industries have included Merck, Google, Johnson & Johnson, and Rabobank, and his government talks have included the National Academy of Sciences, the Naval War College, Army Special Operations Command, Naval Postgraduate School, DARPA, the Indian Council of Philosophical Research (India), the International Center for Leadership and Governance (Malaysia), and the Australian Davos Connection  (Australia).  In 2017 he was named one of the 100 most inspiring people in the world by the German magazine, OOOM, as of 2021 his filmography on IMDB lists 42 films, television programs, and documentaries, and in 2021 he was designated a Visionary Leader by The Visioneers International Network.   0:00 - Dean Radin Intro 3:40 - Blindspots of Scientific Theory 4:05 - Intro to Psychic Phenomena 9:50 - Synchronicity Stories 16:35 - Real Magic + Rituals 26:15 - Cautions of Black Magic + White Magic 31:55 - Supernormal Yoga Sutras + 25 Siddhis 37:15 - Project Stargate: Secret Government Operation 41:35: Future of Psi Research 47:15 - What is Universal Consciousness? 53:15 - The Final Trio Guest: Dean Radin, Consciousness Researcher Website Twitter LinkedIn Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)  Do You Have Psi Abilities?    Host: Emilio Ortiz Instagram | https://bit.ly/35fkcJx Twitter | https://bit.ly/35hMMda TikTok | https://bit.ly/3lKjs3W  Watch Video Interviews on YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/emilioortiz  Special Offerings to Support the Show: ✦ Receive 15% off any purchase from Ra Optics, the world's best blue-light-blocking glasses. Use our code "justtapin" at checkout for your special discount - https://bit.ly/RaOptics-EmilioOrtiz ✦ Receive 10% off any purchase from Intelligent Change, elegant tools, and simple daily routines to instill positive change, including products such as "Five Minute Journal" and "Productivity Planner." Use our code "EMILIO10" at checkout for your special discount - https://bit.ly/IntelligentChange-EmilioOrtiz  Leave a Rating for Just Tap In with Emilio Ortiz: ✦ Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3BOnqQr ✦ Apple Podcasts | https://apple.co/3IeWnjD Our mission at Just Tap In is to bridge the new consciousness and empower, inspire, and uplift the next generation of leaders to co-create the New Earth. Business inquires emortiz0717@gmail.com

Tripurdaman Singh is a historian of South Asia and currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. Born in Agra, India, Tripurdaman read politics and international studies at the University of Warwick, and subsequently earned an MPhil in modern South Asian studies and a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Universiteit Leiden and an Indian Council of Historical Research Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Agra. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, and the author of three books: Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Sixteen Stormy Days (Penguin, 2020) and Nehru (William Collins, 2021). He lives in Cambridge, UK and Agra, India.

Schools can be an important focus for screening of children for epilepsy, as well as educational efforts to address basic knowledge, stigma, and misconceptions associated with epilepsy. Schools also are an appropriate and necessary place to provide seizure first aid to affected students, teachers, and staff, as well as rescue medications when needed.There is strong stigma around epilepsy in India;  parents may deny that a child has epilepsy, even if a community health worker has observed the child having seizures. And teachers and school administrators can be reluctant to allow children with epilepsy to attend school. This, combined with the social stigma of epilepsy and possible learning and cognitive issues, can lead to academic underachievement, lost opportunities, and poor quality of life into and throughout adulthood.To better understand the epilepsy treatment gap in children, as well as to begin addressing the gap on a school-based level, Dr. Sulena Singh and colleagues developed a three-year project of surveys and training activities. Dr. Sulena is in the Division of Neurology, Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital, Faridkot, Punjab, India.The project is supported by an ad hoc grant (No.5/4-5/189/Neuro / 2019-NCD-1) from the Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi.Read more about the project on the ILAE website.This episode was reported, edited and produced by Nancy Volkers.Contact ILAE with feedback or episode ideas at podcast@ilae.orgSharp Waves content is meant for informational purposes only and not as medical or clinical advice. The International League Against Epilepsy is the world's preeminent association of health professionals and scientists working toward a world where no person's life is limited by epilepsy. Visit us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Support the showSharp Waves episodes are meant for informational purposes only, and not as clinical or medical advice.The International League Against Epilepsy is the world's preeminent association of health professionals and scientists, working toward a world where no person's life is limited by epilepsy. Visit us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri is an Indian film director, screenwriter and author who works in Hindi cinema. As of 2022, he is a member of the board of India's Central Board of Film Certification and a cultural representative of Indian Cinema at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. https://twitter.com/vivekagnihotri Sanjana Singh (The Host): https://linktr.ee/sanjanasingh ; https://sanjanasingh.substack.com/ The Naked Dialogue Podcast: https://linktr.ee/TheNakedDialogue --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sanjanasinghx/support

Episode Notes BIO Neha Seshadrinath is an innovative and versatile performer of Indian classical dance forms. Her passion for the arts is palpable in her elegantly crafted performances. She has been trained in Kathak and Bharatanatyam under the tutelage of Smt. Nirupama and Shri T. D. Rajendra of Abhinava Dance Company (ADC) for over 18 years. She has also been trained in Natya Shastra under the guidance of her guru Smt. Nirupama Rajendra. She has worked as a principal dancer and a faculty member at ADC and has performed at a number of prestigious festivals and events throughout India and abroad like the USA, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Bahrain and South Africa. She has worked with other dance companies such as Sampradaya Dance Company, Canada and also in a production by Smt. Kumudini Lakhia ji which was featured in Russia. Neha is also a successful solo performer in her own right. She is a graded artist of Doordarshan. She is also the recipient of the Young Artist Scholarship, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India and also an empanelled artist of Indian Council for Cultural Relations. She also holds a Masters degree in Psycho-social counseling and Rehabilitation. She is currently living in Czech Republic and continuing her passion for dance through conducting classes, workshops and also through performances. SHOW HIGHLIGHTS (0:01:09) The concept of Karunas (0:08:22) The importance of having a strong core (0:13:52) How stamina is affected by consistency (0:15:17) How do you teach differently than how you were taught (0:19:09) Drawing the line between being compassionate and being a therapist (0:21:06) Finding more lullabies with girls in it (0:22:34) Creative process (0:25:17) memories from her first performances (0:26:16) How being in Karnataka influenced Neha's kathak practice (0:29:45) Working with Abhinava dance company (0:32:35) Doing both Kathak and Bharatnatyam (0:35:33) Connection with Gurus (0:43:32) Spreading awareness about Kathak

Kevin Prego joins me to talk about the services provided by the New York Indian Council.

Episode Links Vidha Lal - YouTube Vidha Lal (@vidhalal) • Instagram photos and videos Vidha LAL Kathak Exponent | Facebook Show Highlights (0:01:42) Sankalp: Promoting young dancers (0:08:11) Aharyam: Jewelry for Kathak Dancers (0:14:34) The wait for the Bismillah Khan Yuva Puruskar (0:17:21) The importance of people vouching for you (0:20:14) How the reach of youtube is bigger than other social media avenues (0:21:57) Adapting to different audiences across the world (0:25:50) What kind of organizers do you like to work with? (0:28:53) Stories from backstage: The case of the missing ghungroo (0:36:31) Pre Stage Rituals (0:38:09) Who to rely on to get feedback from? (0:40:49) The importance of being your own person (0:44:14) Riyaz Rituals: Using an Agarbatti (0:47:13) Guiness World Record Bio Vidha lal, a multi-faceted Kathak exponent is a disciple of renowned guru and Sangeet Natak Akademi awardee guru Smt. Geetanjali Lal of Jaipur Gharana. Vidha holds a masters degree with distinction and gold medalist from Indira Kala sangeet Vishwavidalaya , Khairagarh, Chattisgarh. She has completed her diploma hons (11 years training), from the National Institute of Lathak, New Delhi in the year 2000 and also a merit scholarship holder of Kathak Kendra, New Delhi. She is a graduate from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi. Vidha is an empanelled artist of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and ‘A' graded artist from Delhi Doordarshan. She has Performed in many prestigious festivals in India and abroad including Khajuraho dance festival, Nishagandhi festival, Milap Fest Liverpool , Dance India Asiad Pacific Singapore, Sydney Dance Festival Australia.

Dr. Kapil Tiwari is a 2021 Padma Shree awardee in ‘Literature and Education' field. He received the honour for his stellar contribution over 30 years in studying and documenting oral traditions among various communities in India, especially the tribals. Thanks to him, invaluable part of Bharat's heritage i.e. oral tradition of folk and tribal communities is preserved in over 50,000 printed pages today. Born in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar, Dr. Tiwari, a PhD in Hindi Literature, has edited scores of books related to folk and tribal culture. He has been the Director of Madhya Pradesh Adivasi Lok Kala Academy and is currently an advisory member of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and a member of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.

Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri is an Indian film director, screenwriter, author and activist. As of 2019, he is a member of the board of India's Central Board of Film Certification and a cultural representative of Indian Cinema at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Agnihotri ; https://twitter.com/vivekagnihotri?s=20 Sanjana Singh (The Host): linktr.ee/sanjanasingh --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sanjanasinghx/support