Podcasts about Mumbai

In this monthly conversation series Grant Scott speaks with art director, lecturer and creative director Fiona Hayes. In an informal conversation each month Grant and Fiona comment on the photographic environment as they see it through the exhibitions, magazines, talks and events that Fiona has seen over the previous weeks. Mentioned in this episode: Don Mcullin https://holburne.org/opening-in-january-don-mccullin-broken-beauty/ and https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/don-mccullin-90/ Gordon Parks https://alisonjacques.com/exhibitions/gordon-parks-we-shall-not-be-moved Catherine Opie https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2026/catherine-opie-to-be-seen Jack Davison https://www.cobgallery.com/exhibitions/131-portraits-1416-november-jack-davison/ Fiona Hayes Fiona Hayes is an art director, designer, consultant and lecturer with over 30 years' experience in publishing, fashion and the art world. She has been a magazine art director ten times: on Punch, Company, Eve, the British and Russian editions of Cosmopolitan, House & Garden,GQ India (based in Mumbai), MyselfGermany (in Munich), and Russian Vogue (twice). Between 2013 and 2019, as Art Director of New Markets and Brand Development for Condé Nast International, based in London and Paris, she oversaw all the company's launches – 14 magazines, including seven editions of Vogue. She still consults as Design Director at Large for Vogue Hong Kong. In 2002 she founded independent photography magazine DayFour, publishing it continuously until 2012. She is Co-Author and Art Director of The Fashion Yearbook, and creative director of books for South African media consultancy Legacy Creates. Outside the publishing world, she has been Art Director of contemporary art auction house Phillips de Pury in London and New York, and Consultant Art Director of Russian luxury retail group Mercury/TSUM. (Fiona would like to point out she is not Russian: she is proudly Irish and studied Visual Communication and History of Art and Design at NCAD Dublin.) She currently divides her time between design consultancy for commercial clients, and lecturing at Oxford Brookes University, the Condé Nast College of Fashion and Design, London, Nottingham Trent University, Ravensbourne University, and Leeds University. She lives in West London. @theartdictator Dr.Grant Scott After fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler, Scott began to work as a photographer for a number of advertising and editorial clients in 2000. Alongside his photographic career Scott has art directed numerous advertising campaigns, worked as a creative director at Sotheby's, art directed foto8magazine, founded his own photographic gallery, edited Professional Photographer magazine and launched his own title for photographers and filmmakers Hungry Eye. He founded the United Nations of Photography in 2012, and is now a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, and a BBC Radio contributor. Scott is the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019), and What Does Photography Mean To You? (Bluecoat Press 2020). His photography has been published in At Home With The Makers of Style (Thames & Hudson 2006) and Crash Happy: A Night at The Bangers (Cafe Royal Books 2012). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was premiered in 2018. Scott's next book is Inside Vogue House: One building, seven magazines, sixty years of stories, Orphans Publishing, is on sale now wherever you buy your books. © Grant Scott 2026

In this episode, Dr. Laura Scherck Wittcoff sits down with Shilpa Alva, Founder of Surge for Water, to discuss how a childhood moment of witnessing inequality in Mumbai sparked a lifelong mission to bring clean water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health solutions to underserved communities worldwide. Shilpa shares her journey from the corporate world to founding an organization that operates on a revolutionary model: women-led, community-owned development that breaks the cycle of poverty. Through candid conversation, she reveals how listening to communities—truly listening—transforms the effectiveness of international aid work. KEY TOPICS DISCUSSED The Power of Childhood Witnessing How Shilpa's observations as a seven-year-old in Mumbai planted the seeds for her life's work The difference between recognizing privilege and understanding injustice From Corporate to Calling Shilpa's journey climbing the corporate ladder while feeling unfulfilled How she heard her inner voice calling her back to purpose Why she took six years to transition from corporate work to full-time nonprofit leadership The Education-Water Connection Why 120 of 150 students didn't show up to school in rural India How water scarcity directly impacts educational access The health consequences of unsafe water on children's ability to learn Learning From Mentorship in Haiti The transformative lessons from living with a local partner organization leader The cautionary tale of millions spent on beautiful houses with no infrastructure How "staying with locals, listening, and learning" became the foundation of Surge's model Surge for Water's Women-Led, Community-Owned Model What makes Surge different from traditional international aid organizations The three core values: Equity, Respect, and Stewardship Why community ownership isn't just ethical—it's essential for sustainability Water Plus: A Comprehensive Approach Water access goes beyond wells—it includes sanitation and hygiene How Surge teaches communities to make their own soap, creating women-run enterprises The critical role of menstrual health education in girls' empowerment and school attendance Geographic Strategy and Intentional Depth Why Surge reduced from 12 countries to 3 (Uganda, Haiti, Indonesia) Working in remote, rural areas where other NGOs don't operate Building partnerships with local government and community-based organizations Cultural Humility and Gender Dynamics Navigating patriarchal societies without imposing Western values How Shilpa meets women in kitchens and under mango trees—safe spaces for real conversation Respecting cultural context while amplifying women's voices The difference between cultural respect and tolerance for harm Partnership Over Colonialism Why Surge works through local partners, not directly with governments How trust-building with community leaders comes before government engagement The importance of pilots and data alongside relationship-building Recent Evolution and Future Vision The exciting new model of supporting smaller women-led organizations to scale How Surge is thinking about creating a "feeder system" of partners The expansion happening in Uganda this week ABOUT SURGE FOR WATER Surge for Water is a movement led by women and owned by communities. The organization delivers safe water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health solutions through an investment in women-led, community-owned models that create lasting change and break the cycle of poverty. Currently operating in Uganda, Haiti, and Indonesia, Surge works in remote, rural communities—often described as "forgotten lands"—where other international NGOs don't operate. Their comprehensive Water Plus approach addresses not just water access but the interconnected challenges of sanitation, hygiene education, and menstrual health. Surge for Water is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit registered in the United States with headquarters in Chicago and a branch in Dubai. ABOUT SHILPA ALVA Shilpa Alva is the Founder and Executive Director of Surge for Water. Her passion for global equity and community empowerment began at age seven during a visit to Mumbai, India. After earning her degree and working in the corporate sector, she felt called to dedicate her life to international development work. Shilpa's approach is rooted in cultural humility, genuine partnership, and a deep belief that communities hold the solutions to their own challenges. She has lived and worked extensively in Haiti, Uganda, and Indonesia, learning firsthand the importance of staying with locals, listening, and building trust-based partnerships. RESOURCES & LINKS Visit Surge for Water: www.surgeforwater.org Follow Surge for Water on Social Media: @SurgeForWater (Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X) Connect with Shilpa Alva on LinkedIn: Search "Shilpa Alva" WHAT MAKES SURGE GUTSY? According to Shilpa, Surge is gutsy because: They dare to dream and follow through, refusing to take shortcuts that compromise their values and model They're willing to acknowledge when they're not doing things correctly and commit to fixing and improving They operate with a decolonizing lens, centering community wisdom and leadership They stay true to their mission even when it's harder, more stressful, and more expensive than easier alternatives SMALL & GUTSY MISSION Small & Gutsy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit podcast spotlighting nonprofits and social enterprises with budgets under $10 million. The show elevates the visibility of small but mighty changemakers doing bold, passionate, and impactful work. Small & Gutsy has been ranked #8 on FeedSpot's Top 30 Social Impact Podcasts and #9 by Million Podcasts for Youth Empowerment episodes. DO YOU KNOW A NONPROFIT DOING INCREDIBLE WORK? If you know of a nonprofit or social enterprise making real impact, nominate them to be featured on Small & Gutsy. Contact Dr. Laura Scherck Wittcoff at laura@smallandgutsy.org. Check out other episodes of Small & Gutsy at SmallAndGutsy.org.    

In modern Mumbai, a grieving man begins receiving messages from his girlfriend who died in a tragic accident months ago. As the messages grow more personal, they lead him back to the place where their love turned into anger. But when the past resurfaces in a haunting form, he realizes some words spoken in rage don't fade — they return. Because in some stories, love doesn't end with death… it waits.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What makes a character so compelling that readers will forgive almost anything about the plot? How do you move beyond vague flaws and generic descriptions to create people who feel pulled from real life? In this solo episode, I share 15 actionable tips for writing deep characters, curated from past interviews on the podcast. In the intro, thoughts from London Book Fair [Instagram reel @jfpennauthor; Publishing Perspectives; Audible; Spotify]; Insights from a 7-figure author business [BookBub]. This show is supported by my Patrons. Join my Community and get articles, discounts, and extra audio and video tutorials on writing craft, author business, and AI tools, at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn This episode has been created from previous episodes of The Creative Penn Podcast, curated by Joanna Penn, as well as chapters from How to Write a Novel: From Idea to Book. Links to the individual episodes are included in the transcript below. In this episode: Master the ‘Believe, Care, Invest' trifecta, how to hook readers on the very first page Define the Dramatic Question: Who is your character when the chips are down? Absolute specificity. Why “she's controlling” isn't good enough Understand the Heroine's Journey, strength through connection, not solo action Use ‘Metaphor Families' to anchor dialogue and give every character a distinctive voice Find the Diagnostic Detail, the moments that prove a character is real Writing pain onto the page without writing memoir Write diverse characters as real people, not stereotypes or plot devices Give your protagonist a morally neutral ‘hero' status. Compelling beats likeable. Build vibrant side characters for series longevity and spin-off potential Use voice as a rhythmic tool Link character and plot until they're inseparable Why discovery writers can write out of order and still build deep character Find the sensory details that make characters live and breathe More help with how to write fiction here, or in my book, How to Write a Novel. Writing Characters: 15 Tips for Writing Deep Character in Your Fiction In today's episode, I'm sharing fifteen tips for writing deep characters, synthesised from some of the most insightful interviews on The Creative Penn Podcast over the past few years, combined with what I've learned across more than forty books of my own. I'll be referencing episodes with Matt Bird, Will Storr, Gail Carriger, Barbara Nickless, and Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer. I'll also draw on my own book, How to Write a Novel, which covers these fundamentals in detail. Whether you're writing your first novel or your fiftieth, whether you're a plotter or a discovery writer like me, these tips will help you create characters that readers believe in, care about, and invest in—and keep coming back for more. Let's get into it. 1. Master the ‘Believe, Care, Invest' Trifecta When I spoke with Matt Bird on episode 624, he laid out the three things you need to achieve on the very first page of your book or in the first ten minutes of a film. He calls it “Believe, Care, and Invest.” First, the reader must believe the character is a real person, somehow proving they are not a cardboard imitation of a human being, not just a generic type walking through a generic plot. Second, the reader must care about the character's circumstances. And third, the reader must invest in the character's ability to solve the story's central problem. Matt used The Hunger Games as his primary example, and it's brilliant. On the very first page, we believe Katniss's voice. Suzanne Collins writes in first person with a staccato rhythm—lots of periods, short declarative sentences—that immediately grounds us in a survivalist mentality. We care because Katniss is starving. She's protecting her little sister. And we invest because she is out there bow hunting, which Matt pointed out is one of the most badass things a character can do. She even kills a lynx two pages in and sells the pelt. We invest in her resourcefulness and grit before the plot has even begun. Matt was very clear that this has nothing to do with the character being “likable.” He said his subtitle, Writing a Hero Anyone Will Love, doesn't mean the character has to be a good person. He described “hero” as both gender-neutral and morally neutral. A hero can be totally evil or totally good. What matters is that we believe, care, and invest. He demonstrated this beautifully by breaking down the first ten minutes of WeCrashed, where the characters of Adam and Rebekah Neumann are absolutely not likable, but we are completely hooked. Adam steals his neighbour's Chinese food through a carefully orchestrated con involving an imaginary beer. It's not admirable behaviour, but the tradecraft involved, as Matt put it—using a term from spy movies—makes us invest in him. We see a character trying to solve the big problem of his life, which is that he's poor and wants to be rich, and we want to see if he can pull it off. Actionable step: Go to the first page of your current work in progress. Does it achieve all three? Does the reader believe this is a real person with a distinctive voice? Do they care about the character's circumstances? And do they invest in the character's ability to handle what's coming? If even one of those three is missing, that's your revision priority. 2. Define the Dramatic Question: Who Are They Really? Will Storr, author of The Science of Storytelling, came on episode 490 and gave one of the most powerful frameworks I've ever heard for character-driven fiction. He explained that the human brain evolved language primarily to swap social information—in other words, to gossip. We are wired to monitor other people, to ask the question: who is this person when the chips are down? That's what Will calls the Dramatic Question, and it's what he believes lies at the heart of all compelling storytelling. It's not a question about plot. It's a question about the character's soul. And every scene in your novel should force the character to answer it. His example of Lawrence of Arabia is unforgettable. The Dramatic Question for the entire film is: who are you, Lawrence? Are you ordinary or are you extraordinary? At the beginning, Lawrence is a cocky, rebellious young soldier who believes his rebelliousness makes him superior. Every iconic scene in that three-hour film tests that belief. Sometimes Lawrence acts as though he truly is extraordinary—leading the Arabs into battle, being hailed as a god—and sometimes the world strips him bare and he sees himself as ordinary. Because it's a tragedy, he never overcomes his flaw. He doubles down on his belief that he's extraordinary until he becomes monstrous, culminating in that iconic scene where he lifts a bloody dagger and sees his own reflection with horror. Will also used Jaws to demonstrate how this works in a pure action thriller. Brody's dramatic question is simple: are you going to be old Brody who is terrified of the water, or new Brody who can overcome that fear? Every scene where the shark appears is really asking that question. And the last moment of the film isn't the shark blowing up. It's Brody swimming back through the water, saying he used to be scared of the water and he can't imagine why. Actionable step: Write down the Dramatic Question for your protagonist in a single sentence. Is it “Are you ordinary or extraordinary?” or “Are you brave enough to love again?” or “Will you sacrifice your principles for survival?” If you can't answer this with specificity, your character might still be a sketch rather than a person. 3. Get rid of Vague Flaws, and use Absolute Specificity This was one of Will Storr's most important points. He said that vague thinking about characters is really the enemy. When he teaches workshops and asks writers to describe their character's flaw, most of them say something like “they're very controlling.” And Will's response is: that's not good enough. Everyone is controlling. How are they controlling? What's the specific mechanism? He gave the example of a profile he read of Theresa May during the UK's Brexit chaos. Someone who knew her said that Theresa May's problem was that she always thinks she's the only adult in every room she goes into. Will said that stopped him in his tracks because it's so precise. If you define a character with that level of specificity, you can take them and put them in any genre, any situation—a spaceship, a Victorian drawing room, a school playground—and you will know exactly how they're going to behave. The same applies to Arthur Miller's Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, as Will described it: a man who believes absolutely in capitalistic success and the idea that when you die, you're going to be weighed on a scale, just as God weighs you for sin, but now you're weighed for success. That's not a vague flaw. That's a worldview you can drop into any story and watch it combust. Will made another counterintuitive point that I found really valuable: writers often think that piling on multiple traits will create a complex character, but the opposite is true. Starting with one highly specific flaw and running it through the demands of a relentless plot is what generates complexity. You end up with a far more nuanced, original character than if you'd started with a laundry list of vague attributes. Actionable step: Take your protagonist's flaw and pressure-test it. Is it specific enough that you could place this character in any situation and predict their behaviour? If you're stuck at “she's stubborn” or “he's insecure,” keep pushing. What kind of stubborn? What kind of insecure? Find the diagnostic sentence—the Theresa May level of precision. 4. Understand the Heroine's Journey: Strength Through Connection Gail Carriger came on episode 550 to discuss her nonfiction book, The Heroine's Journey, and it completely reframed how I think about some of my own fiction. Gail explained that the core difference between the Hero's Journey and the Heroine's Journey comes down to how strength and victory are defined. The Hero's Journey is about strength through solo action. The hero must be continually isolated to get stronger. He goes out of civilisation, faces strife alone, and achieves victory through physical prowess and self-actualisation. The Heroine's Journey is the opposite. The heroine achieves her goals by activating a network. She's a delegator, a general. She identifies where she can't do something alone, finds the people who can help, and portions out the work for mutual gain. Gail put it simply: the heroine is very good at asking for help, which our culture tends to devalue but which is actually a powerful form of strength. Crucially, Gail stressed that gender is irrelevant to which journey you're writing. Her go-to examples are striking: the recent Wonder Woman film is practically a beat-for-beat hero's journey—Gilgamesh on screen, as Gail described it. Meanwhile, Harry Potter, both the first book and the series as a whole, is a classic heroine's journey. Harry's power comes from his network—Dumbledore's Army, the Order of the Phoenix, his friendships with Ron and Hermione. He doesn't defeat Voldemort alone. He defeats Voldemort because of love and connection. This distinction has real practical consequences for writers. If you're writing a hero's journey and you hit writer's block, Gail said, the solution is usually to isolate your hero further and pile on more strife. But if you're writing a heroine's journey, the solution is probably to throw a new character into the scene—someone who has advice to offer or a skill the heroine lacks. The actual solutions to writer's block are different depending on which narrative you're writing. As I reflected on my own work, I realised that my ARKANE thriller protagonist, Morgan Sierra, follows a hero's journey—she's a solo operative, a lone wolf like Jack Reacher or James Bond. But my Mapwalker fantasy series follows a heroine's journey, with Sienna and her group of friends working together. I hadn't consciously chosen those paths; the stories led me there. But understanding the framework helps me write more intentionally now. Actionable step: Identify which journey your protagonist is on. Does your character gain strength by being alone (hero) or by building connections (heroine)? This will inform every plot decision you make, from how they face obstacles to how your story ends. 5. Use ‘Metaphor Families' to Anchor Dialogue and Voice One of the most practical techniques Matt Bird shared on episode 624 is the idea of assigning each character a “metaphor family”—a specific well of language that they draw from. This gives each character a distinctive voice that goes beyond accent or dialect. Matt explained how in The Wire, one of the most beloved TV shows of all time, every character has a different metaphor family. What struck him was that Omar, this iconic character, never utters a single curse word in the entire series. His metaphor family is pirate. He talks about parlays, uses language that feels like it belongs in Pirates of the Caribbean, and it creates this incredible ironic counterpoint against his urban setting. It tells us immediately that this is a character who sees himself in a tradition of people that doesn't match his immediate surroundings. Matt also referenced the UK version of The Office, where Gareth works at a paper company but aspires to the military. So all of his language is drawn from a military metaphor family. He doesn't talk about filing and photocopying; he talks about tactics and discipline and being on the front line. This tells us that the character has a life and dreams beyond the immediate scene—and it's the gap between aspiration and reality that makes him both funny and believable. He pointed out that a metaphor family sometimes comes from a character's background, but it's often more interesting when it comes from their aspirations. What does your character want to be? What world do they fantasise about inhabiting? That's where their language should come from. In Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi is a spiritual hermit, but his metaphor family is military. He uses the language of generals and commanders, and that ironic counterpoint is part of what makes him feel so rich. Actionable step: Assign each of your main characters a metaphor family. It could be based on their job, their background, or—more interestingly—their secret aspirations. Then go through your dialogue and make sure each character is consistently drawing from that well of language. If two characters sound the same when you strip away the dialogue tags, this is the fix. 6. Find the Diagnostic Detail: The Diagonal Toast Avoid clichéd character tags—the random scar, the eye patch, the mysterious limp—unless they serve a deep narrative purpose. Matt Bird on episode 624 was very funny about this: he pointed out that Nick Fury, Odin, and eventually Thor all have eye patches in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Eye patches are done, he said. You cannot do eye patches anymore. Instead, look for what I'm calling the “diagonal toast” detail, after a scene Matt described from Captain Marvel. In the film, Captain Marvel is trying to determine whether Nick Fury is who he says he is. She asks him to prove he isn't a shapeshifting alien. Fury shares biographical details—his history, his mother—but then she pushes further and says, name one more thing you couldn't possibly have made up about yourself. And Fury says: if toast is cut diagonally, I can't eat it. Matt said that detail is gold for a writer because it feels pulled from a real life. You can pull it from your own life and gift it to your characters, and the reader can tell it's not manufactured. He gave another example from The Sopranos: Tony Soprano's mother won't answer the phone after dark. The show's creator, David Chase, confirmed on the DVD commentary that this came from his own mother, who genuinely would not answer the phone after dark and couldn't explain why. Matt's practical advice was to keep a journal. Write down the strange, specific things that people do or say. Mine your own life for those hyper-specific details. You just need one per book. In my own writing, I've used this approach. In my ARKANE thrillers, my character Morgan Sierra has always been Angelina Jolie in my mind—specifically Jolie in Lara Croft or Mr and Mrs Smith. And Blake Daniel in my crime thriller series was based on Jesse Williams from Grey's Anatomy. I paste pictures of actors into my Scrivener projects. It helps with visuals, but also with the sense of the character, their energy and physicality. But visual details only take you so far. It's the behavioural quirks—the diagonal toast moments—that make a character feel genuinely alive. That said, physical character tags can work brilliantly when they serve the story. As I discuss in How to Write a Novel, Robert Galbraith's Cormoran Strike is an amputee, and his pain and the physical challenges of his prosthesis are a key part of every story—it's not a cosmetic detail, it's woven into the action and the character's psychology. My character Blake Daniel always wears gloves to cover the scars on his hands, which provides an angle into his wounded past as well as a visual cue for the reader. And of course, Harry Potter's lightning-shaped scar isn't just a mark—it's a direct connection to his nemesis and the mythology of the entire series. The rule of thumb is: if the tag tells us something about the character's interior life or connects to the plot, it's earning its place. If it's just there to make the character visually distinctive, it's probably a crutch. Game of Thrones takes character tags further with the family houses, each with their own mottos and sigils. The Starks say “Winter is coming” and their sigil is a dire wolf. Those aren't just labels—they're worldview made visible. Actionable step: Start a “diagonal toast” notebook. Every time you notice something strange and specific about someone's behaviour—something that feels too real to be made up—write it down. Then gift it to a character who needs more texture. 7. Displace Your Own Trauma into the Work Barbara Nickless shared something deeply personal on episode 732 that fundamentally changed how I think about putting pain onto the page. While starting At First Light, the first book in her Dr. Evan Wilding series, she lost her son to epilepsy—something called SUDEP, Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy. One day he was there, and the next day he was gone. Barbara said that writing helped her cope with the trauma, that doing a deep dive into Old English literature and the Viking Age for the book's research became a lifeline. But here's what's important: she didn't give Dr. Evan Wilding her exact trauma. Evan Wilding is four feet five inches, and Barbara described how he has to walk through a world that won't adjust to him. That's its own form of learning to cope when circumstances are beyond your control. She displaced her genuine grief into the character's different but parallel struggle. When I asked her about the difference between writing for therapy and writing for an audience, she drew on her experience teaching creative writing to veterans through a collaboration between the US Department of Defense and the National Endowment for the Arts. She said she's found that she can pour her heartache into her characters and process it through them, even when writing professionally, and that the genuine emotion is what touches readers. We've all been through our own losses and griefs, so seeing how a character copes can be deeply meaningful. I've always found that putting my own pain onto the page is the most direct way to connect with a reader's soul. My character Morgan Sierra's musings on religion and the supernatural are often my own. Her restlessness, her fascination with the darker edges of faith—those come from me. But her Krav Maga fighting skills and her ability to kill the bad guys are definitely her own. That gap between what's mine and what's hers is where the fiction lives. Barbara also said something on that episode that I wrote down and stuck on my wall. She said the act of producing itself is a balm to the soul. I've been thinking about that ever since. On my own wall, I have “Measure your life by what you create.” Different words, same truth. Actionable step: If you're carrying something heavy—grief, anger, fear, regret—consider how you might displace it into a character's different but emotionally parallel struggle. Don't copy your exact situation; transform it. The emotion will be genuine, and the reader will feel it. 8. Write Diverse Characters as Real People When I spoke with Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer on episode 673—Sarah is Choctaw and a historical fiction author honoured by the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian—she offered a perspective that every fiction writer needs to hear. The key message was to move away from stereotypes. Don't write your American Indian character as the “Wise Guide” who exists solely to dispense mystic wisdom to the white protagonist. Don't limit diverse characters to historical settings, as though they only exist in the past. Place them in normal, contemporary roles. Your spaceship captain, your forensic scientist, your small-town baker—any of them can be American Indian, or Nigerian, or Japanese, and their heritage should be a lived-in part of their identity, not the sole reason they exist in the story. I write international thrillers and dark fantasy, and my fiction is populated with characters from all over the world. I have a multi-cultural family and I've lived in many places and travelled widely, so I've met, worked with, and had relationships with people from different cultures. I find story ideas through travel, and if I set my books in a certain place, then the story is naturally populated with the people who live there. As I discuss in my book, How to Write a Novel, the world is a diverse place, so your fiction needs to be populated with all kinds of people. If I only populated my fiction with characters like me, they would be boring novels. There are many dimensions of difference—race, nationality, sex, age, body type, ability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, class, culture, education level—and even then, don't assume that similar types of people think the same way. Some authors worry they will make mistakes. We live in a time of outrage, and some authors have been criticised for writing outside their own experience. So is it too dangerous to try? Of course not. The media amplifies outliers, and most authors include diverse characters in every book without causing offence because they work hard to get it right. It's about awareness, research, and intent. Actionable step: Audit the cast of your current work in progress. Have you written a mono-cultural perspective for all of them? If so, consider who could bring a different background, perspective, or set of cultural specifics to the story. Not as a token addition, but as a real person with a real life. 9. Respect Tribal and Cultural Specificity Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer on episode 673 was emphatic about one thing: never treat diverse groups as monolithic. If you're writing a Native American character, you must research the specific nation. Choctaw is not Navajo, just as British is not French. Sarah described the distinct cultural markers of the Choctaw people—the diamond pattern you'll see on traditional shirts and dresses, which represents the diamondback rattlesnake. They have distinct dances and songs. She said that if she saw someone in traditional dress at a distance, she would know whether they were Choctaw based on what they were wearing. She encouraged writers who want to write specifically about a nation to get to know those people. Go to events, go to a powwow, learn about the individual culture. She noted that a big misconception is that American Indians exist only in the past—she stressed that they are still here, still living their cultures, and fiction should reflect that present reality. I took a similar approach when writing Destroyer of Worlds, which is set mostly in India. I read books about Hindu myth, watched documentaries about the sadhus, and had one of my Indian readers from Mumbai check my cultural references. For Risen Gods, set in New Zealand with a young Maori protagonist, I studied books about Maori mythology and fiction by Maori authors, and had a male Maori reader check for cultural issues. Research is simply an act of empathy. The practical takeaway is this: if you're going to include a character from a specific cultural background, do the work. Use specific cultural details rather than generic signifiers. Sarah talked about how even she fell into stereotypes when she was first writing, until her mother pointed them out. If someone from within a culture can fall into those traps, the rest of us certainly can. Do the research, try your best, ask for help, and apologise if you need to. Actionable step: If you're writing a character from a specific culture, identify three to five sensory or behavioural details that are particular to that culture—not the generic version, but the real, researched, lived-in version. Consider hiring a sensitivity reader from that community to check your work. 10. Give Your Protagonist a Morally Neutral ‘Hero' Status Matt Bird was clear about this on episode 624: the word “hero” simply means the protagonist, the person we follow through the story. It's a functional role, not a moral label. We don't have to like them. We don't even have to root for their goals in a moral sense. We just have to find them compelling enough to invest our attention in their problem-solving. Think of Succession, where every member of the Roy family is varying degrees of awful, and yet the show was utterly compelling. Or WeCrashed, where Adam Neumann is a narcissistic con artist, but we can't look away because he's trying to solve the enormous problem of building an empire from nothing, and the tradecraft he employs is fascinating. As I wrote in How to Write a Novel, readers must want to spend time with your characters. They don't have to be lovable or even likable—that will depend on your genre and story choices—but they have to be captivating enough that we want to spend time with them. A character who is trying to solve a massive problem will naturally draw investment from the audience, even if we wouldn't want to have tea with them. Will Storr extended this idea by pointing out that the audience will actually root for a character to solve their problem even if the audience doesn't actually want the character's goal to be achieved in the real world. We don't really want more billionaires, but we invested in Adam Neumann's rise because that was the problem the story posed, and our brains are wired to invest in problem-solving. This connects to something deeper: what does your character want, and why? As I explore in How to Write a Novel, desire operates on multiple levels. Take a character like Phil, who joins the military during wartime. On the surface, she wants to serve her country. But she also wants to escape her dead-end town and learn new skills. Deeper still, her father and grandfather served, and by joining up, she hopes to finally earn their respect. And perhaps deepest of all, her father died on a mission under mysterious circumstances, and she wants to find out what happened from the inside. That layering of motivation is what turns a flat character into a three-dimensional one. The audience doesn't need to be told all of this explicitly. It can emerge through action, dialogue, and the choices the character makes under pressure. But you, the writer, need to know it. You need to know what your character really wants deep down, because that desire—more than any external plot device—is what drives the story forward. And your antagonist needs the same depth. They also want something, often diametrically opposed to your protagonist, and they need a reason that makes sense to them. In my ARKANE thriller Tree of Life, my antagonist is the heiress of a Brazilian mining empire who wants to restore the Earth to its original state to atone for the destruction caused by her father's company. She's part of a radical ecological group who believe the only way to restore Nature is to end all human life. It's extreme, but in an era of climate change, it's a motivation readers can understand—even if they disagree with the solution. Actionable step: If you're struggling to make a morally grey character work, make sure their problem is big enough and their methods are specific and interesting enough that we invest in the how, even if we're ambivalent about the what. 11. Build Vibrant Side Characters Gail Carriger made a point on episode 550 that was equal parts craft advice and business strategy. In a Heroine's Journey model, side characters aren't just fodder to be killed off to motivate the hero. They form a network. And because you don't have to kill them—unlike in a hero's journey, where allies are often betrayed or removed so the hero can be further isolated—you can pick up those side characters and give them their own books. Gail said this creates a really voracious reader base. You write one series with vivid side characters, and then readers fall in love with those side characters and want their stories. So you write spin-offs. The romance genre does this brilliantly—think of the Bridgerton books, where each sibling gets their own novel. The side character in one book becomes the protagonist in the next. Barbara Nickless experienced this firsthand with her Dr. Evan Wilding series. She has River Wilding, Evan's adventurous brother, and Diana, the axe-throwing research assistant, and her editor has already expressed interest in a spin-off series with those characters. Barbara described creating characters she wants to spend time with, or characters who give her nightmares but also intrigue her. That's the dual test: are they interesting enough for you to write, and interesting enough for readers to demand more? As I wrote in How to Write a Novel, characters that span series can deepen the reader's relationship with them as you expand their backstory into new plots. Readers will remember the character more than the plot or the book title, and look forward to the next instalment because they want more time with those people. British crime author Angela Marsons described it as readers feeling like returning to her characters is like putting on a pair of old slippers. Actionable step: Look at your supporting cast. Is there a side character who is vivid enough to carry their own story? If not, what could you add—a specific hobby, a distinct voice, a compelling backstory—that would make readers want more of them? 12. Use Voice as a Rhythmic Tool Voice is one of the most important elements of novel writing, and Matt Bird helped me think about it in a technical, mechanical way that I found really useful. He pointed out that the ratio of periods to commas defines a character's internal reality. A staccato rhythm—lots of periods, short sentences—suggests a character who is certain, grounded, or perhaps survivalist and traumatised. Katniss in The Hunger Games has a period-heavy voice. She's in survival mode. She doesn't have time for complexity or qualification. A flowing, comma-heavy style suggests someone more academic, more nuanced, or possibly more scattered and manipulative. The character who qualifies everything, who adds sub-clauses and digressions, is a different kind of person from the character who speaks in declarations. This is something you can actually measure. Pull up a passage of your character's dialogue or internal monologue and count the periods versus the commas. If the rhythm doesn't match who the character is supposed to be, you've found a mismatch you can fix. Sentence length is the heartbeat of your character's persona. And voice extends beyond rhythm to the words themselves. As I discussed in the metaphor families tip, each character should draw from a distinctive well of language. But voice also encompasses their relationship to silence. Some characters talk around the thing they mean; others say it straight. Some are self-deprecating; others are blunt to the point of rudeness. All of these choices are character choices, not just style choices. I find it useful to read my dialogue aloud—and not just to check for naturalness, but to hear whether each character sounds distinct. If you could swap dialogue lines between two characters and nobody would notice, you have a voice problem. One practical test: cover the dialogue tags and see if you can tell who's speaking from the words alone. Actionable step: Choose a key passage from your protagonist's point of view and read it aloud. Does the rhythm match the character? A soldier under fire should not sound like a philosophy professor at a wine tasting. Adjust the ratio of periods to commas until the voice feels right. 13. Link Character and Plot Until They're Inseparable Will Storr made the case on episode 490 that the number one problem he sees in the writing he encounters—in workshops, in submissions, even in published books—is that the characters and the plots are unconnected. There's a story happening, and there are people in it, but the story isn't a product of who those people are. He said a story should be like life. In our lives, the plots are intimately connected to who we are as characters. The goals we pursue, the obstacles we face, the same problems that keep recurring—these are products of our personalities, our flaws, our specific ways of being in the world. His framework is that your plot should be designed specifically to plot against your character. You've got a character with a particular flaw; the plot exists to test that flaw over and over until the character either transforms or doubles down and explodes. Jaws is the perfect example. Brody is afraid of water. A shark shows up in the coastal town he's responsible for protecting. The entire plot is engineered to force him to confront the one thing he cannot face. Will pointed out that the whole plot of Jaws is structured around Brody's flaw. It begins with the shark arriving, the midpoint is when Brody finally gets the courage to go into the water, and the very final scene isn't the shark blowing up—it's Brody swimming back through the water. Even a film that's ninety-eight percent action is, at its core, structured around a character with a character flaw. This is the standard I aspire to in my own work, even in my action-heavy thrillers. The external plot should be a mirror of the internal struggle. When those two are aligned, the story becomes irresistible. Will also made an important point about series fiction, which is where most commercial authors live. I asked him how this works when your character can't be transformed at the end of every book because there has to be a next book. His answer was elegant: you don't cure them. Episodic TV characters like Fleabag or David Brent or Basil Fawlty never truly change—and the fact that they don't change is actually the source of the comedy. But every episode throws a new story event at them that tests and exposes their flaw. You just keep throwing story events at them again and again. That's a soap opera, a sitcom, and a book series. As I wrote in How to Write a Novel, character flaws are aspects of personality that affect the person so much that facing and overcoming them becomes central to the plot. In Jaws, the protagonist Brody is afraid of the water, but he has to overcome that flaw to destroy the killer shark and save the town. But remember, your characters should feel like real people, so never define them purely by their flaws. The character addicted to painkillers might also be a brilliant and successful female lawyer who gets up at four in the morning to work out at the gym, likes eighties music, and volunteers at the local dog shelter at weekends. Character wounds are different from flaws. They're formed from life experience and are part of your character's backstory—traumatic events that happened before the events of your novel but shape the character's reactions in the present. In my ARKANE thrillers, Morgan Sierra's husband Elian died in her arms during a military operation. This happened before the series begins, but her memories of it recur when she faces a firefight, and she struggles to find happiness again for fear of losing someone she loves once more. And then there's the perennial advice: show, don't tell. Most writers have heard this so many times that it's easy to nod and then promptly write scenes that tell rather than show. Basically, you need to reveal your character through action and dialogue, rather than explanation. In my thriller Day of the Vikings, Morgan Sierra fights a Neo-Viking in the halls of the British Museum and brings him down with Krav Maga. That fight scene isn't just about showing action. It opens up questions about her backstory, demonstrates character, and moves the plot forward. Telling would be something like: “Morgan was an expert in Krav Maga.” Showing is the reader discovering it through the scene itself. Actionable step: Look at the main plot events of your novel. For each major turning point, ask: does this scene specifically test my protagonist's flaw? If not, can you redesign the scene so that it does? The tighter the connection between character and plot, the more powerful the story. 14. The ‘Maestra' Approach: Write Out of Order If you're a discovery writer like me, you may feel like the deep character work I've been describing sounds more suited to plotters. But Barbara Nickless gave me a beautiful metaphor on episode 732 that reframes it entirely. Barbara described her evolving writing process as being like a maestra standing in front of an orchestra. Sometimes you bring in the horns—a certain theme—and sometimes you bring in the strings—a certain character—and sometimes you turn to the soloist. It's a more organic and jumping-around process than linear writing, and Barbara said she's only recently given herself permission to work this way. When I told her that I use Scrivener to write in scenes out of order and then drag and drop them into a structure later, she was genuinely intrigued. And this is how I've always worked. I'll see the story in my mind like a movie trailer—flashes of the big emotional scenes, the pivotal confrontations, the moments of revelation—and I write those first. I don't know how they hang together until quite late in the process. Then I'll move scenes around, print the whole thing out, and figure out the connective tissue. The point is that discovery writers can absolutely build deep characters. Sometimes writing the big emotional scenes first is how you discover who the character is before you fill in the rest. You don't need a twenty-page character worksheet or a 200-page outline like Jeffery Deaver. You need to be willing to follow the character into the unknown and trust that the structure will emerge. As Barbara said, she writes to know what she's thinking. That's the discovery writer's credo. And I would add: I write to know who my characters are. Actionable step: If you're stuck on your current chapter, skip it. Write the scene that's burning in your imagination, even if it's from the middle or the end. That scene might be the key to unlocking who your character really is. 15. Use Research to Help with Empathy Research shouldn't just be about factual accuracy—it's a tool for finding the sensory details that create empathy. Barbara Nickless described research as almost an excuse to explore things that fascinate her, and I feel exactly the same way. I would go so far as to say that writing is an excuse for me to explore the things that interest me. Barbara and I both travel for our stories. For her Dr. Evan Wilding books, she did deep research into Old English literature and the Viking Age. For my thriller End of Days, I transcribed hours of video from Appalachian snake-handling churches on YouTube to understand the worldview of the worshippers, because my antagonist was brought up in that tradition. I couldn't just make that up. I had to hear their language, feel their conviction, understand why they would hold venomous serpents as an act of faith. Barbara also mentioned getting to Israel and the West Bank for research, and I've been to both places too. Finding that one specific sensory detail—the smell of a particular location, the specific way an expert handles a tool, the sound of a particular kind of music—makes the character's life feel lived-in. It's the difference between a character who is described as living in a place and a character who inhabits it. As I wrote in How to Write a Novel, don't write what you know. Write what you want to learn about. I love research. It's part of why I'm an author in the first place. I take any excuse to dive into a world different from my own. Research using books, films, podcasts, and travel, and focus particularly on sources produced by people from the worldview you want to understand. Actionable step: For your next piece of character research, go beyond reading. Watch a documentary, visit a location, talk to someone who lives the experience. Find one sensory detail—a smell, a sound, a texture—that you couldn't have invented. That detail will make your character feel real. Bonus: Measure Your Life by What You Create In an age of AI and a tsunami of content, your ultimate brand protection is the quality of your human creation. Barbara Nickless said that the act of producing itself is a balm to the soul, and I believe that with every fibre of my being. Don't be afraid to take that step back, like I did with my deadlifting. Take the time to master these deeper craft skills. It might feel like you're slowing down or going backwards by not chasing the latest marketing trend, but it's the only way to step forward into a sustainable, high-quality career. Your characters are your signature. No AI can replicate the specificity of your lived experience, the emotional truth of your displaced trauma, or the sensory details you've gathered from a life of curiosity and travel. Those are yours. Pour them into your characters, and they will resonate for years to come. Actionable Takeaway: Identify the Dramatic Question for your current protagonist. Can you state it in a single sentence with the kind of specificity Will Storr described? Is it as clear as “Are you ordinary or extraordinary?” or “Are you the only adult in the room?” If you can't answer it with that kind of precision, your character might still be a sketch. Give them a diagonal toast moment today. Find the one hyper-specific detail that proves they are not an imitation of life. And then ask yourself: does your plot test your character's flaw in every major scene? If you can align those two things—a precisely defined character and a plot that exists to test them—you will have a story that readers cannot put down. References and Deep Dives The episodes I've referenced today are all available with full transcripts at TheCreativePenn.com: Episode 732 — Facing Fears, and Writing Unique Characters with Barbara Nickless Episode 673 — Writing Choctaw Characters and Diversity in Fiction with Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer Episode 624 — Writing Characters with Matt Bird Episode 550 — The Heroine's Journey with Gail Carriger Episode 490 — How Character Flaws Shape Story with Will Storr Books mentioned: The Secrets of Character: Writing a Hero Anyone Will Love by Matt Bird The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr The Heroine's Journey by Gail Carriger How to Write a Novel: From Idea to Book by Joanna Penn You can find all my books for authors at CreativePennBooks.com and my fiction and memoir at JFPennBooks.com Happy writing! How was this episode created? This episode was initiated created by NotebookLM based on YouTube videos of the episodes linked above from YouTube/TheCreativePenn, plus my text chapters on character from How to Write a Novel. NotebookLM created a blog post from the material and then I expanded it and fact checked it with Claude.ai 4.6 Opus, and then I used my voice clone at ElevenLabs to narrate it. The post Writing Characters: 15 Actionable Tips For Writing Deep Character first appeared on The Creative Penn.

Axel Geddes ACE, Tony Greenberg, Chloe Kloezeman, Geoff Sledge, Ayesha Johannes The Hoppers editing team of Axel, Tony, Chloe, Geoff and Ayesha understand better than anyone, that in the world of animation, creating a captivating film involves more than just drawing and animating characters. It requires a deep understanding of storytelling, editing, and collaboration.  Not to mention the occasional party in the cutting room. Hoppers follows a young woman named Mabel Tanaka, an animal lover whose mind is transferred into a lifelike robotic beaver, allowing her to communicate with animals and save their habitat from human destruction, while inadvertently starting an uprising in doing so.   AXEL GEDDES, ACE Axel Geddes joined Pixar Animation Studios in February 1999 as an assistant editor on the Academy Award®-nominated feature "Toy Story 2." Geddes went on to work as a second assistant editor on "Monsters, Inc.," first assistant editor on Oscar®-winner "Finding Nemo" and second film editor on Oscar®-winning feature film "WALL•E."  He continued as a lead editor on two Toy Story Toons, the studio's Halloween television special "Toy Story of TERROR!" and "Finding Dory." He more recently served as Editor on the Academy AwardÆ-winning film "Toy Story 4," in addition to working on Pixar's "Lightyear." Geddes recently completed cutting Pixar's latest feature "Hoppers". Geddes was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He studied filmmaking with an emphasis on editing at The Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He resides in the East Bay with his wife and their three children. TONY GREENBERG Anthony Greenberg (call him Tony) joined Pixar in 2002 as a Second Assistant Editor for The First Incredibles. His subsequent credits include serving as First Assistant Editor on WALL•E, and Second Editor on both The Good Dinosaur and Incredibles 2. Most recently, he served as the Lead Editor for Lightyear and as a Second Editor for Hoppers. Prior to his time at Pixar, Tony began his career as an Intern at Industrial Light & Magic, where he eventually rose to the position of Assistant VFX Editor. CHLOE KLOEZEMAN Chloé Kloezeman was hired as a temporary assistant editor in 2012 for the TV special, Toy Story of Terror. What was supposed to be 3 months turned into 14 years, and she's hoping that no one has noticed. She has Second Assistant Editor credits on Finding Dory, Coco, Toy Story 4 (and said TV Special), and two credits as a Second Editor (Lightyear and the new Hoppers). Working on Hoppers has been a highlight of her career. Kloezeman was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a UC Berkeley graduate. She lives in Oakland with her partner and two kids. GEOFF SLEDGE Geoffrey Sledge previously worked on live action features in New York, mainland China and Hong Kong. After returning to the States, he started at Pixar in 2013, first as an assistant on Coco. He transitioned into the Second Editor role while working on Hoppers. AYESHA JOHANNES Ayesha Johannes joined Pixar in the spring of 2016 as an Editorial Intern on Cars3. She then went on to become a second assistant editor on Luca and then Lightyear.  She also worked as an assistant editor on two spark shorts at Pixar, PURL and LOOP. On Hoppers she was promoted to a first assistant editor and it has been her most favorite time at Pixar so far. Prior to her time at Pixar, Ayesha studied at the Academy of Art University and while there worked with a director on a Filipino short film called Christmas Bonus. She was born and raised in Mumbai, India and now lives in Oakland, California with her family. Visit Extreme Music for all your production audio needs Listen to past interviews with 2026 ACE Eddie Winners, Michael Shawver (Sinners), Andy Jurgensen (One Battle After Another), Mark Strand (The Pitt), Nathan Schauf (KPop Demon Hunters) and Eric Kissack (The Studio) Check out what's new with Avid Media Composer Subscribe to The Rough Cut podcast and never miss an episode Visit The Rough Cut on YouTube

Many people ask: What actually happens in a session with Wolfgang?In this video, Wolfgang from Tools for Ascension explains how his personal spiritual sessions work and what you can expect if you decide to book one.Rather than acting as a traditional psychic reader or clairvoyant, Wolfgang focuses on helping people connect directly with their own higher guidance while activating and stabilizing Kundalini energy.Sessions are designed to create insight, unblock energy, and accelerate spiritual awakening.What happens during a session• meeting live on zoom• session recording and ai summary afterwards• discussion of your current life situation• exploration of your spiritual path and practices• identifying energetic or emotional blockages• kundalini activation and higher self connectionTopics we may explore include:• life purpose and spiritual direction• astrology basics such as sun sign and ascendant• relationship patterns and family dynamics• past trauma and emotional healing• meditation and spiritual practices• health, diet, and physical energy• work and life path challenges• unusual spiritual experiences or awakening symptomsThe goal of a session is not dependency on a teacher, but awakening your own inner guidance system.About WolfgangWolfgang was born in postwar Germany and studied fine art at one of the country's most respected academies. He also studied western philosophy at postgraduate level.His spiritual path took him across the Silk Road to Nepal and later into long periods living in ashrams. He spent over a decade immersed in spiritual communities, including six years in Mumbai studying Bhakti Yoga.Wolfgang has explored many traditions and practices including:• kundalini yoga• chi gong• meditation and rebirthing• hands on healing• crystal work• sweat lodges and fire walking• invocation and guided meditationToday he creates guided meditations and spiritual teachings that support healers, empaths, starseeds, and people experiencing spiritual awakening.Some viewers resonate strongly with these practices and choose to work with Wolfgang in one-on-one sessions where deeper transformation can happen quickly.e-mail Wolfgang for appointments: https://www.wolfgangarndt8@gmail.comFree Pendulum Chart: https://www.toolsforascensionbywolfgang.com/resources/https://www.facebook.com/The-Gaia-Eagle-Wolf-Healing-Circlewebsite: https://www.toolsforascensionbywolfgang.com/YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/@toolsforascensionbyWolfganghttps://www.facebook.com/The-Gaia-Eagle-Wolf-Healing-CircleInstagram https://www.instagram.com/wolfgangarndt1#kundaliniawakening#spiritualawakening#kundaliniactivation#spiritualcoaching#energyhealing#higherself#spiritualguidance#kundaliniyoga#energywork#consciousnessawakening#spiritualmentor#empathawakening#starseedawakening#meditationteacher#toolsforascension#SpiritualGrounding #Calm #Meditation #Mindfulness #InnerPeace #Spirituality #Healing #EnergyHealing

https://slasrpodcast.com/      SLASRPodcast@gmail.com  Welcome to Episode 226 of the Sounds Like a Search and Rescue podcast. This week we're joined by Jim Thorsen, who just returned from an incredible trip that took him from trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal to nearly a month traveling across India—temples, safaris, a sunrise at the Taj Mahal, tea plantations, Kerala backwaters, and the full sensory overload of cities like Delhi and Mumbai. We're also welcoming back our own Stomp, who returns for a special segment on communication in the wilderness—covering how hikers can better prepare, stay connected when things go sideways, and why good communication is often the difference between a minor problem and a full-blown rescue. Plus we've got a bunch of New Hampshire topics including shoulder-season hiking reminders as the weather warms up but winter refuses to leave, the upcoming live show at the Mountain Wanderer, some political drama around the Fryeburg Fair in Maine, a look at how the Common Man welcome centers somehow turned rest stops into a $25-million operation, maple syrup season ramping up across the Granite State, gear talk including a snowshoe sale and waterproofing strategies, a music minute featuring Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by the Smashing Pumpkins, updates from Dave somewhere down the Appalachian Trail around Neel's Gap, recent hikes, listener shout-outs, and of course a dad joke that probably should have stayed in the notebook. Join the SLASR Podcast 48 Peaks Team on June 13 to hike Mount Adams   Topics Live Show at Mountain Wanderer Adventures in Lincoln, NH this weekend PUDs Podcast updates Weather is warm, weather is cold Fryeburg Fair and Cumberland Fair Drama White Mountains History - Wonalancet Outdoor Club Common Man Roadside Expansion Moose Alley Waterville Valley Expansion Maple Syrup Season Gear Talk Nick's Music Minute Dave Shits on the AT update Guest of the Week - Jim Thorsen - Travels in Nepal and India Show Notes Apple Podcast link for 5 star reviews SLASR Merchandise SLASR LinkTree SLASR's BUYMEACOFFEE Order Hike Safe Card 48 Peaks website Nick's Instagram Country Fair politics and drama in Maine More details Text of the Law Wonalancet outdoor club newsletter research tool Logging discussions and motorized vehicles  Obscure facts and mining proposals Sandwich Wilderness Designation and Why Mt. Chocorua was left off the Wilderness designation Common Man Roadsides Expanding Moose Alley, NH Waterville Valley expansion deep dive A summary from the Master Development Plan Maple Syrup Production is ramping up MSR is having a 25% off snowshoe sale in March NikWax waterproofing for leather,   Sponsors, Friends  and Partners Wild Raven Endurance Coaching burgeonoutdoor.com 48 Peaks - Alzheimer's Association Mount Washington Higher Summits Forecast Hiking Buddies  Vaucluse - Sweat less. Explore more. – Vaucluse Gear Fieldstone Kombucha CS Instant Coffee The Mountain Wanderer 

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This article is part of our new APAC coverage, which will ultimately require a separate subscription to view. For more info on this product, contact subscriptions@9fin.comA big change is coming for the Indian banking system. Starting 1 April, India's central bank will allow domestic banks to fund mergers and acquisitions. It's a change to long-held rules barring lenders from the Indian M&A market, which has so far been dominated by foreign lenders and private credit funds.As Indian banks prepare to lend more to domestic corporates, what does this mean for liquidity, access to funding, and for international lenders that have earned 20% yields so far?9fin's Mumbai-based reporter Rajhkumar Shaaw and Asia editor Richard Macauley answer these questions and walk listeners through the changes in this latest edition of our Cloud 9fin podcast.

Send a textAbout Matthew J. Martin, OD, FIAOMC After graduating with honors in Pre-Optometry at Ferris State University, Dr.Martin Attended the Michigan College of Optometry graduating with honors in1999. Dr. Martin has been serving the Mid-Michigan area for 20 years providingcomprehensive care, managing ocular disease, and fitting specialty contact lensdesigns. He specializes in pediatric eye care and all types of myopia management,with an emphasis on Ortho-K. Dr. Martin is a Fellow of the International Academy of Orthokeratology andMyopia Control since 2005.  He has served on the Leadership and Planning Boardfor this organization and currently serves on the Fellowship Committee. He takesan active role in testing candidates sitting for their FIAOMC as well as keeping thetesting process up to date. Dr. Martin has a passion for education and has served as a mentor for manydoctors new to myopia management. In 2017 he was asked to present at VisionBy Design (VBD) Bootcamp for Newcomers. Based on reviews he has become apermanent member of the Bootcamp team. Dr. Martin speaks nationally andinternationally on the subject of myopia control, with an emphasis on Ortho-K.His most recent international lecture was Mumbai, India.Dr. Martin was a founding member of Mission Myopia Control. Its mission was toeducate and assist doctors in incorporating myopia management into theirprivate practices. While this organization has now been dissolved, Dr. Martin hascontinued his efforts towards educating doctors in the best specialty in eye care!

VOV1 - Các hãng hàng không quốc tế đang chịu ảnh hưởng kép từ cuộc xung đột tại Trung Đông bởi giá nhiên liệu tăng mạnh. Để ứng phó, một số hãng hàng không Ấn Độ đã buộc phải áp dụng phụ phí nhiên liệu đối với nhiều chuyến bay nội địa và quốc tế. Tại Ấn Độ, các hãng hàng không thuộc tập đoàn Tata Group gồm Air India và Air India Express đã quyết định tăng phụ phí nhiên liệu trên nhiều đường bay do chi phí nhiên liệu hàng không tăng mạnh và thời gian bay kéo dài.Theo thông báo, mức phụ phí nhiên liệu sẽ được triển khai theo từng giai đoạn.Cụ thể, đối với các chuyến bay nội địa và các tuyến bay giữa Ấn Độ với các nước thuộc Hiệp hội Hợp tác Khu vực Nam Á (SAARC), hành khách sẽ phải trả thêm 399 Rupee/vé được đặt sau ngày 11/3. Trong khi đó, các chuyến bay đến và đi từ khu vực Tây Á sẽ áp dụng phụ phí 10 USD. Đối với các chuyến bay của Air India tới Đông Nam Á và châu Phi, mức phụ phí nhiên liệu hiện hành sẽ tăng 50%, lên lần lượt 60 USD và 90 USD.Trong giai đoạn hai, áp dụng cho vé đặt từ ngày 18/3, Air India sẽ tăng phụ phí đối với các chuyến bay tới châu Âu, Bắc Mỹ và Australia. Theo đó, phụ phí đối với các chuyến bay tới châu Âu sẽ tăng 25% lên 125 USD, còn các chuyến bay tới Bắc Mỹ và Australia sẽ tăng khoảng một phần ba, lên mức 200 USD.Giai đoạn ba sẽ được công bố chi tiết sau. Những vé đã đặt trước thời điểm áp dụng sẽ không bị tính phụ phí mới, trừ khi hành khách thay đổi ngày bay hoặc hành trình.Theo Air India, kể từ đầu tháng 3/2026, giá nhiên liệu máy bay - vốn chiếm gần 40% chi phí vận hành của các hãng hàng không – đã tăng đáng kể do nguồn cung toàn cầu bị gián đoạn. Tại Ấn Độ, áp lực chi phí càng gia tăng khi nhiên liệu hàng không phải chịu mức thuế tiêu thụ đặc biệt và thuế giá trị gia tăng (VAT) cao tại các thành phố lớn như Delhi và Mumbai.Ngoài ra, các chuyến bay của Air India tới châu Âu và Bắc Mỹ còn chịu ảnh hưởng từ việc Pakistan cấm các hãng hàng không và máy bay Ấn Độ sử dụng không phận nước này, khiến thời gian bay kéo dài hơn và làm gia tăng lượng nhiên liệu tiêu thụ./.Đình Nam/VOV New DelhiMáy bay chở khách của Air India (Ảnh: ANI)

This week, we're joined by Andrew Clarke of Acme Fire Cult for an episode that goes everywhere — from fire cooking and restaurant building to addiction, recovery, music, and the moments that change a life. This is a conversation with a true original: chef, restaurateur, former Maverick of the Year, co-founder of Pilot Light, plant medicine facilitator, and owner of what may well be the best facial hair in London.We recorded this one at Acme Fire Cult in Hackney, and Andrew paints the full picture of how the restaurant grew from a scrappy lockdown car park operation into one of London's most unique dining experiences. He talks about starting with barely any money, serving on palm leaf plates because proper crockery was out of reach, and slowly reinvesting every pound back into the space. There are brilliant details throughout — the dark walk down Abbott Street before you reach the yard, the old wine bar they inherited, the butternut squash cooking overnight in residual heat, the signature leeks with pistachio romesco, Marmite bread made from brewery yeast, and the way Acme turns into a “curry house” each winter inspired by his travels through Mumbai, Goa and Kerala.But what makes this episode really special is just how much Andrew gives us. He shares stories from his childhood eating pie, mash and liquor, his early years wanting to be a professional musician, playing in metal and hardcore bands, DJing to fund his record habit, and drifting into kitchens almost by accident. He takes us through working at places like The Square, St. John, Anchor & Hope, Rita's, Brunswick House and St Leonards, with all the chaos that came with it — tattooed chef prejudice in old-school kitchens, sleeping on banquettes, wild post-service nights, and the intensity of trying to create great food while his life was unravelling behind the scenes.This episode also gets incredibly raw. Andrew speaks movingly about depression, cocaine addiction, telling his dad he didn't want to live anymore, and the long road back through honesty, friendship, therapy, men's circles and plant medicine. He tells unforgettable stories — a terrifying first ayahuasca ceremony in a blacked-out room in Essex, reviving a collapsing croquembouche at a wedding, a non-paying table turned into tequila-shot regulars, and the mad reality of building restaurants with brilliance and dysfunction happening at the same time. It's hilarious, heavy, generous and packed with hard-won wisdom — and by the end, you'll understand why Andrew Clarke is one of the most compelling figures in hospitality today.Pre Order Ben's Incredible Book - All You Can Eat - By Clicking Here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-You-Can-Eat-British/dp/1805221523Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For years, India was thought of as the Wild West of the fertility industry. But in 2021, a new law in India made it illegal for women to sell their eggs or serve as paid surrogates. That law clashed with a growing demand for human eggs within the country. The result: a thriving black market for human eggs.Today, some of the most marginalized Indian women and girls are supplying reproductive material, often with little compensation and at great personal risk. This week on The Sunday Story, NPR correspondent Diaa Hadid and co-reporter Shweta Desai investigate the supply chain of human eggs in India, from fertility clinics catering to the wealthy to the slums of Mumbai and Chennai. And we meet women who have given up some of the most intimate parts of themselves—to survive.To manage podcast ad preferences, review the links below:See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Send a textWhat does it take to build a business when no woman before you has done it?In this deeply honest conversation, we share the raw, behind-the-scenes stories of becoming the first women in our families to build, grow, and claim our place in business. The doubts. The visibility fears. The moments we questioned our worth and the decision to keep showing up anyway.This episode is a reflection on the journey from invisible to worthy, visible, and paid.We also share why we're bringing this conversation into the room in Mumbai through our upcoming live experience:Worthy, Visible, Paid; a space for women ready to step into their power, claim their voice, and build a business that truly sees and pays them.If you've ever felt unseen, underestimated, or like you're blazing the trail alone... this conversation is for you.• The truth about being the first woman in your family to build a business• The invisible emotional weight of leadership• Navigating visibility fears and self-doubt• The shift from proving your worth to owning it• Why women deserve to be worthy, visible, and paid• Introducing our Worthy, Visible, Paid live event in MumbaiJoin us in Mumbai for the Worthy, Visible, Paid live experience.A room for women ready to✨own their voice ✨ be fully seen✨and be powerfully paid for their workReach out to us on IG for all the details.@thesoniamotwani @shalvikapWe look forward to meet you in-person in mumbai.Support the show

Debbie Millman, designer, author, educator, curator, artist, and pioneering podcast host, joins Designers On Film to talk about Arrival (2016), a movie that has all the ingredients to keep you engaged and make you curious about life on this planet, or life beyond this planet. Amy Adams is Louise Banks, Jeremy Renner is Ian Donnelly, and together they're brought into a government operation to understand, analyze, and hopefully communicate with visitors from another planet. In addition to sharing everything about the movie that she loves, Debbie also talks about how science has been an integral part of her own life, why she believes in alien lifeforms, and ponders big questions about language, love, and time.-Debbie Millman is host of the pioneering podcast Design Matters. Fast Company called her "one of the most creative people in business" and Graphic Design USA called her "one of the most influential designers working today." She's a "woman of influence" as Success Magazine has said, building a career at the intersection of design, storytelling, and cultural commentary. As the founder and host of Design Matters, one of the first and longest-running podcasts in the world, she's interviewed more than 700 of the world's most creative thinkers and makers, having earned the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, multiple Webby awards and Ambie nominations, and numerous accolades from Apple Podcasts who named Design Matters one of their "All-Time Favorites" three times. Debbie worked on the concept and design of the vault plate that's aboard NASA's Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's moon. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Magazine, The Baffler, The New York Review of Books, and Fast Company. The author of two books of illustrated essays, plus author of eight books, she's also Editorial Director of PrintMag.com which she co-owns, Debbie and her business partners rescued the publication from bankruptcy in 2019, preserving its 80-year legacy. Debbie and her wife, best-selling author Roxane Gay, recently acquired The Rumpus. Debbie lives in New York City and Los Angeles with her beautiful wife, two lovable cats and a very charismatic dog.https://www.printmag.com/author/debbie-millman/https://www.instagram.com/debbiemillman/https://designmattersmedia.com/https://apple.co/designmattershttps://debbiemillman.com/https://therumpus.net/-Zipeng Zhu is a Chinese-born artist, designer, educator, and founder of the award-winning creative studio Dazzle in New York City. He wants to make every day a razzle-dazzle musical and has collaborated with iconic brands such as Apple, Adidas, Adobe, Coca-Cola, Instagram, MTV, Microsoft, Netflix, The New York Times, The New Yorker magazine, Samsung and Uber. His work has been exhibited at major museums and institutions in cities all over the world, including New York, Barcelona, Dubai, Shanghai, Beijing, and Mumbai. Zipeng dedicates his days running both the Dazzle Studio and merch shop Dazzle Supply, bringing his dazzling design to clients and fans around the globe.https://dazzle.studio/-Arrival (2016)https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543164/‍ ‍https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5384213/‍ ‍Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chianghttps://amzn.to/4rfSiBk‍ ‍-Other movies, shows, and books discussed:Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)Contact (1997)Interstellar (2014) The Twilight Zone, S3.E24: To Serve Man (1962)

What a match in Mumbai! England nearly pulled off a 'cricketing miracle' in a game that saw almost 500 runs scored.The Tailenders assemble - complete with Issy Wong and her Network Of Spies - to look back at an extraordinary semi final that resulted in India making it to the Mens T20 World Cup Final where they will face New Zealand.Plus Mattchin goes deep into the data (sort of) to find out what makes New Zealand such a cricketing force.AND find out why Fe won't listen to Jimi Hendrix...

How do the inhabitants of the Indian city of Mumbai navigate political signs and representations? What is the significance of crowds and mass mobilization to popular politics, and what lessons does the politics of Mumbai hold for Indian democracy at the current conjuncture? These questions are at the heart of Lisa Björkman's Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai (U Minnesota Press, 2025), that analyses questions of representation, populism, and political communication and organizing. In this episode, Björkman joins Kenneth Bo Nielsen for a discussion of the book, and on the intricate ways in which Mumbaikars from all walks of life assess political performances and real-life politicians, endlessly discussing and debating possible meanings of words and images, cash and crowds, flyers and flowers. Lisa Björkman is an anthropologist working at the University of Louisville, and a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute. Kenneth Bo Nielsen, your host, is an anthropologist working at the University of Oslo where he also directs the Centre for South Asian Democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In episode 62 of Fill the Gap, hosts Tyler Wood, CMT and Dave Lundgren, CMT, CFA interview Keith Lerner, CMT, CFA, the CIO and Chief Market Strategist at Truist Advisory Services, about his “weight of the evidence” investment framework, which integrates history, economics, fundamentals, and technical analysis to guide portfolio decisions. Lerner explains how technical analysis serves as a critical accountability tool that can challenge narratives, force humility, and prompt timely portfolio adjustments when market data diverges from expectations. He discusses how the relative importance of different signals changes across market cycles, noting periods—such as sharp volatility events—when technicals deserve greater weight due to uncertainty in fundamentals or macro outcomes.Fill the Gap, hosted by David Lundgren, CMT, CFA and Tyler Wood, CMT brings veteran market analysts and money managers onto a monthly podcast. For complete show notes of every episode, visit: https://cmtassociation.org/development/podcasts/ Give us a shout:@dlundgren3333 or https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-lundgren-cmt-cfa-63b73b/@_TBone_Pickens or https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-wood-cmt-b8b0902/@CMTAssociation orhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/cmtassociationCMT Association is the global credentialing authority committed to advancing the discipline of technical analysis in the financial services industry. We serve members in over 137 countries. Our mission is to elevate investors mastery and skill in mitigating market risk and maximizing return in capital markets through a rigorous credentialing process, professional ethics, and continuous education. CMT Association formed in the late 1960s with headquarters in lower Manhattan, NY and Mumbai, India.Learn more at: www.cmtassociation.org

Will smaller AI models win over large language models?Sudarshan Kamath grew up in Mumbai, taught himself AI before most Indian companies were even hiring for it, and bought the domain "smallest.ai" for $100 in 2022, two years before the company existed. Today, he runs Smallest AI, a startup focused on real time voice AI.He started with self-driving cars, training large models and compressing them to run on vehicle hardware in real time. That's where he first saw what small models could do: a hundredth of the size, almost no loss in accuracy.Two years later he put in his own $150K, got some GPUs, and started training. Eighteen months later he had a seed round, a Series A, a seven-figure enterprise deal, and a $150M acquisition offer he turned down.Most of the data that goes into large models is noise. Strip it out, train small, and you get a model that matches a giant at a fraction of the size and runs in real time. That insight is what Smallest AI is built on.00:00 – Trailer 00:51 – Sudarshan's journey before Smallest AI 05:00 – Arjun Jain & Yann LeCun 08:20 – Why build in voice AI in 2024? 15:09 – Why move the company from India to the US? 17:25 – Hiring talent via LinkedIn and X 18:49 – What large US funds actually bring to startups 21:03 – Raising a seed round with zero revenue 26:06 – Strong intros from US VCs 28:23 – What the first enterprise customer teaches you 31:50 – Raising Series A with Seligman Ventures 32:19 – The $150M acquisition offer 34:32 – When should founders sell secondaries? 36:24 – Who are Smallest AI's customers? 38:28 – What are state space models? 40:16 – Are GEPA models closer to AGI? 41:23 – Growing 10× in three months 48:03 – This is not a winner-takes-all market 49:32 – Why this is a trillion-dollar market 50:08 – Why large AI labs are not building in voice 51:26 – What it takes to reach $100M ARR 54:21 – The biggest goal for 2026 57:11 – Voice costs 1000× more than text 01:02:04 – How Smallest AI cracked large enterprises-------------India's talent has built the world's tech—now it's time to lead it.This mission goes beyond startups. It's about shifting the center of gravity in global tech to include the brilliance rising from India.What is Neon Fund?We invest in seed and early-stage founders from India and the diaspora building world-class Enterprise AI companies. We bring capital, conviction, and a community that's done it before.Subscribe for real founder stories, investor perspectives, economist breakdowns, and a behind-the-scenes look at how we're doing it all at Neon.-------------Check us out on:Website: https://neon.fund/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theneonshoww/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beneon/Twitter: https://x.com/TheNeonShowwConnect with Siddhartha on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddharthaahluwalia/Twitter: https://x.com/siddharthaa7-------------This video is for informational purposes only. The views expressed are those of the individuals quoted and do not constitute professional advice.Send a text

How do the inhabitants of the Indian city of Mumbai navigate political signs and representations? What is the significance of crowds and mass mobilization to popular politics, and what lessons does the politics of Mumbai hold for Indian democracy at the current conjuncture? These questions are at the heart of Lisa Björkman's Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai (U Minnesota Press, 2025), that analyses questions of representation, populism, and political communication and organizing. In this episode, Björkman joins Kenneth Bo Nielsen for a discussion of the book, and on the intricate ways in which Mumbaikars from all walks of life assess political performances and real-life politicians, endlessly discussing and debating possible meanings of words and images, cash and crowds, flyers and flowers. Lisa Björkman is an anthropologist working at the University of Louisville, and a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute. Kenneth Bo Nielsen, your host, is an anthropologist working at the University of Oslo where he also directs the Centre for South Asian Democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

How do the inhabitants of the Indian city of Mumbai navigate political signs and representations? What is the significance of crowds and mass mobilization to popular politics, and what lessons does the politics of Mumbai hold for Indian democracy at the current conjuncture? These questions are at the heart of Lisa Björkman's Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai (U Minnesota Press, 2025), that analyses questions of representation, populism, and political communication and organizing. In this episode, Björkman joins Kenneth Bo Nielsen for a discussion of the book, and on the intricate ways in which Mumbaikars from all walks of life assess political performances and real-life politicians, endlessly discussing and debating possible meanings of words and images, cash and crowds, flyers and flowers. Lisa Björkman is an anthropologist working at the University of Louisville, and a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute. Kenneth Bo Nielsen, your host, is an anthropologist working at the University of Oslo where he also directs the Centre for South Asian Democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies

How do the inhabitants of the Indian city of Mumbai navigate political signs and representations? What is the significance of crowds and mass mobilization to popular politics, and what lessons does the politics of Mumbai hold for Indian democracy at the current conjuncture? These questions are at the heart of Lisa Björkman's Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai (U Minnesota Press, 2025), that analyses questions of representation, populism, and political communication and organizing. In this episode, Björkman joins Kenneth Bo Nielsen for a discussion of the book, and on the intricate ways in which Mumbaikars from all walks of life assess political performances and real-life politicians, endlessly discussing and debating possible meanings of words and images, cash and crowds, flyers and flowers. Lisa Björkman is an anthropologist working at the University of Louisville, and a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute. Kenneth Bo Nielsen, your host, is an anthropologist working at the University of Oslo where he also directs the Centre for South Asian Democracy.

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Fluent Fiction - Hindi: Finding Family: Ria's Heartfelt Holi in Mumbai Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hi/episode/2026-03-05-23-34-02-hi Story Transcript:Hi: मुंबई की चहल-पहल भरी गलियों में, जहाँ होली की तैयारियों की हलचल थी, एक अनाथालय था।En: In the bustling streets of Mumbai, where the excitement of Holi preparations was in the air, there was an orphanage.Hi: इस अनाथालय में रिया रहती थी, जो एक दयालु और चार्मिंग किशोरी थी।En: Ria lived in this orphanage, a kind and charming teenage girl.Hi: वह अक्सर रंग-बिरंगे कपड़े पहनने और त्योहार के बीच खुशी महसूस करने के सपने देखती थी, खासकर होली के दौरान।En: She often dreamt of wearing colorful clothes and feeling joy amidst the festival, especially during Holi.Hi: लेकिन उसे याद रहता था कि उसके पास एक परिवार नहीं है, जिससे वह इस खुशी को बांट सके।En: But she always remembered that she didn't have a family to share this joy with.Hi: रिया के सबसे अच्छे दोस्त, माया, एक समझदार और विचारशील लड़की थी, जो रिया के सपनों और चिंताओं को साझा करती थी।En: Ria's best friend, Maya, was a wise and thoughtful girl who shared Ria's dreams and concerns.Hi: दोनों दोस्तों के बीच गहरा जुड़ाव था।En: There was a deep bond between the two friends.Hi: अनाथालय में अक्सर सहायता करने वाला एक खुश-मिजाज स्वयंसेवक, आरव, भी था।En: There was also a cheerful volunteer at the orphanage, Aarav, who frequently helped out.Hi: आरव चाहता था कि बच्चे होली का पूरा आनंद लें।En: Aarav wanted the children to fully enjoy Holi.Hi: लेकिन अनाथालय के पास सीमित संसाधन थे।En: However, the orphanage had limited resources.Hi: एक दिन, आरव अनाथालय आया और बच्चों के लिए नए कपड़े खरीदने का प्रस्ताव दिया।En: One day, Aarav came to the orphanage and proposed buying new clothes for the children.Hi: रिया ने खुद को उसे कपड़े चुनने में मदद करने की पेशकश की, जिससे उसे उससे जुड़ने और अपने दिल की बातें कहने का मौका मिला।En: Ria offered to help him choose the clothes, giving her a chance to connect with him and share her heart.Hi: बाजार में खरीदारी के दौरान, रिया ने आरव से कहा, ""होली पर नए कपड़े और रंग खेलना असली उत्सव जैसा होता है।En: During the shopping trip in the market, Ria told Aarav, ""Wearing new clothes and playing with colors on Holi feels like a real celebration.Hi: लेकिन कई बार लगता है कि इससे एक परिवार का हिस्सा होने का एहसास होता है।"En: But sometimes, it also feels like being part of a family."Hi: आरव मुस्कराया। ""रिया, मैं चाहता हूँ कि तुम सब खुशी महसूस करो।"En: Aarav smiled. "I want you all to feel happy, Ria," he said.Hi: जैसे ही वे खरीदारी कर रहे थे, रिया को पता चला कि आरव ने अनाथालय के लिए एक सरप्राइज होली आयोजन रखा है। इसमें रंग, मिठाईयाँ और संगीत सब होगा।En: As they continued their shopping, Ria discovered that Aarav had planned a surprise Holi celebration for the orphanage with colors, sweets, and music.Hi: जिस दिन होली की पूर्वसंध्या आयी, अनाथालय रंग-बिरंगे होली के सजावट से सजाया गया था।En: When Holi's eve arrived, the orphanage was adorned with colorful Holi decorations.Hi: सभी बच्चे नए कपड़े पहन कर सज-धज कर बाहर आए।En: All the children came out dressed in new clothes, ready to celebrate.Hi: आरव ने सभी को रंगों के पैकेट और मिठाईयाँ बाँटी।En: Aarav distributed packets of colors and sweets to everyone.Hi: जैसा सूर्य ढल रहा था, रिया ने रंगों से खेलते हुए और संगीत पर नाचते हुए एक खास भावना महसूस की।En: As the sun was setting, Ria felt a special emotion while playing with colors and dancing to music.Hi: उसने महसूस किया कि जरूरी नहीं है कि परिवार केवल माता-पिता वाला हो।En: She realized that a family doesn't have to be just parents.Hi: परिवार वो है जहाँ प्यार और अपनापन हो।En: A family is where there is love and belonging.Hi: उसके चारों ओर मौजूद दोस्त, आरव का स्नेह, और माया का समर्थन उसे उस परिवार के रूप में मिला, जिसने उसे सच्चा आनंद दिया।En: The friends around her, Aarav's affection, and Maya's support became the family that brought true joy to her.Hi: इस तरह, रिया की होली में एक नई चमक आ गई और उसने अनाथालय के लोगों को सच में अपना परिवार मान लिया।En: Thus, Ria's Holi gained a new brightness, and she truly considered the people at the orphanage her family.Hi: मुंबई की आवाज़ों में खोया उसका अनाथालय अब उसे बाकी शहर जितना ही अपना लगने लगा था।En: Lost in the sounds of Mumbai, her orphanage now felt as much a part of her as the rest of the city.Hi: होली ने उसे एक ऐसा घर दिया, जो रंगों से भरा था और प्यार से सजीव था।En: Holi gave her a home filled with colors and alive with love. Vocabulary Words:bustling: चहल-पहल भरीexcitement: उत्साहorphanage: अनाथालयcharming: चार्मिंगdreamt: सपने देखतीamidst: बीचconcerns: चिंताओंbond: जुड़ावcheerful: खुश-मिजाजvolunteer: स्वयंसेवकfrequently: अक्सरproposed: प्रस्ताव दियाconnect: जुड़नेdiscovered: पता चलाadorned: सजाया गयाdistributed: बाँटीemotion: भावनाbelonging: अपनापनaffection: स्नेहsupport: समर्थनgained: आ गईbrightness: चमकconsidered: मान लियाalive: सजीवresources: संसाधनfully: पूराfeels: महसूसeve: पूर्वसंध्याpacket: पैकेटlost: खोया

Marty opens the show talking with his Niece Sarah Treser who is in Mumbai and trying to travel to Seattle. All flights canceled

Fluent Fiction - Hindi: Unlocking Holi's Hidden Traditions in Mumbai Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hi/episode/2026-03-04-08-38-20-hi Story Transcript:Hi: गेटवे ऑफ इंडिया के सामने समुद्र की लहरें धीरे-धीरे किनारे पर आ रही थीं।En: The waves of the sea were gently reaching the shore in front of the Gateway of India.Hi: आसमान में हल्की गुलाबी सूती बादल थे, और होली के रंग हवा में उड़ रहे थे।En: Light pink cotton clouds adorned the sky, and the colors of Holi were swirling in the air.Hi: लोग खुशियों में झूम रहे थे और हर तरफ हंसी-खुशी की गूंज थी।En: People were reveling in joy, and laughter echoed all around.Hi: इसी भीड़ में अरुण, एक उत्साही और जिज्ञासु युवक, खड़ा था।En: Amidst this crowd stood Arun, an enthusiastic and curious young man.Hi: उसकी नजर किताबों की एक छोटी सी दुकान पर पड़ी।En: His eyes fell on a small bookstore.Hi: उसने वहां से एक पुरानी किताब उठाई।En: He picked up an old book from there.Hi: जब उसने उसे खोला, तो उसमें से एक पुराना पत्र निकल आया।En: When he opened it, an old letter emerged.Hi: पत्र में लिखा था, "अतीत की पगडंडियों पर चलो, रंगों के त्योहार की असली कहानी खोजा।En: The letter read, "Walk the paths of the past, discover the true story of the festival of colors."Hi: " अरुण को यह संदेश रहस्यमयी लगा।En: Arun found this message mysterious.Hi: उसने तुरंत अपने दोस्तों, प्रिया और रोहन, को बुलाया।En: He immediately called his friends, Priya and Rohan.Hi: उसने उन्हें सब कुछ बताया।En: He told them everything.Hi: तीनों ने सोचा कि हो सकता है यह एक मज़ाक हो, लेकिन अरुण ने इसे गंभीरता से लेने का फैसला किया।En: The three thought it might be a joke, but Arun decided to take it seriously.Hi: वो उनके साथ गेटवे ऑफ इंडिया से निकल पड़ा, भीड़-भाड़ वाली होली की रेवड़ियों से होता हुआ।En: He set out with them from the Gateway of India, moving through the bustling Holi crowds.Hi: जैसे-जैसे शहर के अंदर चलते गए, उन्हें होली के जुलूस दिखे, ढोल बज रहे थे, लोग नाच रहे थे।En: As they walked deeper into the city, they saw Holi processions, drums were beating, people were dancing.Hi: अरुण, प्रिया, और रोहन ने चहारदीवारी के उस पार एक पुरानी पुस्तकालय की ओर कदम बढ़ाया।En: Arun, Priya, and Rohan made their way towards an old library beyond the walls.Hi: वहां का पुस्तकालयाध्यक्ष उन्हें वर्षों पुराने दस्तावेज देखने की अनुमति दी।En: The librarian there granted them permission to view ancient documents.Hi: तेजी से पन्ने पलटते हुए, अरुण ने एक पुरानी होली की परंपरा का उल्लेख पाया- "फाल्गुन की आखिरी संध्या में लोग मिलकर पारंपरिक संगीत और नृत्य का आयोजन करते थे।En: Flipping through the pages quickly, Arun found a mention of an old Holi tradition - "On the last evening of Phalgun, people would gather to organize traditional music and dance."Hi: "शाम में, वे सब उसी ऐतिहासिक इलाके में जमा हुए।En: In the evening, they all gathered in the same historic area.Hi: वहाँ, उन्होंने उस भूली-बिसरी परंपरा को जीने का निर्णय लिया।En: There, they decided to relive that long-forgotten tradition.Hi: बहुत सारे लोग भी आ जुटे।En: Many others joined in.Hi: उन्होंने गीत गाए, नृत्य किया, और एक-दूसरे को रंग लगाकर जश्न मनाया।En: They sang songs, danced, and celebrated by smearing colors on each other.Hi: इस नई खोज के बाद, अरुण ने जाना कि त्यौहार के पीछे छुपी कहानियाँ और परंपराएँ कितनी महत्वपूर्ण होती हैं।En: After this new discovery, Arun understood how important the stories and traditions behind festivals are.Hi: उसने महसूस किया कि उन परंपराओं को जीवित रखकर ही हम अपने अतीत को संजो सकते हैं।En: He realized that by keeping these traditions alive, we can preserve our past.Hi: अब हर वर्ष होली में, उनकी यह खास परंपरा पल भर के लिए उनके इलाके की जान बन जाती है।En: Now every year during Holi, this special tradition becomes the heart of their area for a moment.Hi: अरुण ने और उसके दोस्तों ने यह जान लिया कि कुछ संदेश, जो रहस्यमयी लगते हैं, असल में इतिहास की कहानियों का रास्ता होते हैं।En: Arun and his friends have learned that some messages, which seem mysterious, actually pave the way to stories of history. Vocabulary Words:waves: लहरेंshore: किनारेreaching: आ रही थींadorned: सजे थेreveling: झूम रहे थेechoed: गूंजenthusiastic: उत्साहीcurious: जिज्ञासुbookstore: दुकानmysterious: रहस्यमयीbustling: भीड़-भाड़processions: जुलूसdrums: ढोलpermission: अनुमतिflipping: पलटतेtradition: परंपराdiscover: खोजाancient: पुरानेevening: संध्याgather: मिलकरcelebrated: जश्नsmearing: लगाकरdiscovery: खोजpreserve: संजोforgotten: भूली-बिसरीstories: कहानियाँtraditions: परंपराएँpave: रास्ताpaths: पगडंडियोंdocument: दस्तावेज

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England have been scrappy but found match-winners on their way to the T20 World Cup semi-finals. Next up: India in Mumbai. Alan Gardner is joined by Matt Roller and Vish Ehantharajah to assess their chances Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At Mobile World Congress, Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia outlines India's telecom ambitions. Stock markets brace for another brusing session as they reopen after Mumbai's Holi holiday. With risks around the Strait of Hormuz, policymakers assess oil supplies, trade exposure, tech vulnerabilities and market fallout across sectors. Also read our analysis on Iran's defence pivot and find out which cars Indians bought most - all in the day's Moneycontrol Editor's  Picks.  

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Ronnie Screwvala changed the viewing habits of the world's most populous country, India - but he started out selling toothbrushes. BBC business editor Simon Jack and journalist Zing Tsjeng chart his journey, from knocking on apartment doors in 1980s Mumbai selling cable TV, to building a media empire that would transform Indian entertainment. Ronnie Screwvala launched the first Indian daily soap opera, the country's most popular children's channel, and a Hollywood-style film studio in Bollywood. He rode India's economic liberalisation to reshape how a nation watched television and movies. Along the way he made big deals with Rupert Murdoch and Disney. And his most recent business move into ed-tech made Ronnie Screwvala a billionaire. Good Bad Billionaire is the podcast that explores the lives of the super-rich and famous, tracking their wealth, philanthropy, business ethics, and success. There are leaders who made their money in Silicon Valley, on Wall Street and in high street fashion. From iconic celebrities and CEOs to titans of technology, the podcast unravels tales of fortune, power, economics, ambition and moral responsibility. Simon and Zing put their subjects to the test with a playful, totally unscientific scorecard — then hand the verdict over to you: are they good, bad, or simply billionaires? Here's how to contact the team: email goodbadbillionaire@bbc.com or send a text or WhatsApp to +1 (917) 686-1176. Find out more about the show and read our privacy notice at www.bbcworldservice.com/goodbadbillionaire

Sanju Samson, a quiet and often forgotten star of Indian cricket, reminds everyone of his exceptional talents with a stunning 97 not out to seal India's place in the T20 World Cup semi final. Simon Hughes and Simon Mann review the way India over came West Indies and national expectation to win the match on the back of Samson's stunning innings. They discuss the prospects for the two semi finals, how England could surprise India in Mumbai, whether bowlers should just keep it simple and bowl at the stumps rather than use so many variations, and who will be champions on Sunday. For more on the T20 World Cup and our podcasts AD-FREE subscribe to us at the Cricverse on Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Traveling to India in 2026 and don't know where to start? We've got you.In this episode of Half Past Chai, we're breaking down everything you need to know before your first (or next) trip to India! From visas and flights to food, weather, packing, and the culture shock no one warns you about.We're sharing real tips we've learned from traveling to India ourselves: what to do, what not to do, and how to actually enjoy the experience instead of feeling overwhelmed the second you land. Whether you're heading to Gujarat, Mumbai, or anywhere else, this episode is your honest, practical guide to traveling India with confidence.Now settle in, get cozy, and grab your chai.

Video IntroductionAfter 40 years of discussions, delays, and political battles, the Dharavi Redevelopment Project in Mumbai is finally moving forward.But is this the right model for Dharavi?In this episode of Indian Business Debate, two experts go head-to-head on one of India's most controversial urban decisions. Meet Ghulam Zia, Senior Executive Director at Knight Frank India. He believes this model is the most practical solution to a long-standing human crisis.Opposing him is Hussain Indorewala, urban planning professor and columnist. He argues that this redevelopment model could lead to serious long-term consequences for the city. One project. Two visions. You decide which model is right and which model is wrong!

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Andrew Mueller unpacks what we learned from Trump’s State of the Union address, Mumbai’s first musical road and an unusual plan from Thai police to arrest a thief during Lunar New Year celebrations.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 RadarOnline.com reveals that Prince William has selected Mumbai, one of the world's most polluted megacities, to host this year's Earthshot Prize awards, emphasizing India's crucial role in climate and nature.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of Fill the Gap, hosts Tyler Wood, CMT and Dave Lundgren, CMT, CFA speak with veteran trader and educator Brian Shannon, CMT about his swing‑trading approach and the evolution of the Anchored VWAP indicator. Brian explains how Anchored VWAP helps identify who is in control of a market, and why it offers objective insight into market psychology. He gives incredible insight into the creation of the Anchored VWAP, and how he uses it in his analysis. The conversation also covers why Brian favors swing trading over day trading, highlighting the importance of process, risk management, and emotional discipline. Overall, the episode reinforces the idea that price is the most reliable truth in markets and that thoughtful, flexible use of technical tools can improve decision‑making across timeframes and asset classes.Fill the Gap, hosted by David Lundgren, CMT, CFA and Tyler Wood, CMT brings veteran market analysts and money managers onto a monthly podcast. For complete show notes of every episode, visit: https://cmtassociation.org/development/podcasts/ Give us a shout:@dlundgren3333 or https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-lundgren-cmt-cfa-63b73b/@_TBone_Pickens or https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-wood-cmt-b8b0902/@CMTAssociation orhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/cmtassociationCMT Association is the global credentialing authority committed to advancing the discipline of technical analysis in the financial services industry. We serve members in over 137 countries. Our mission is to elevate investors mastery and skill in mitigating market risk and maximizing return in capital markets through a rigorous credentialing process, professional ethics, and continuous education. CMT Association formed in the late 1960s with headquarters in lower Manhattan, NY and Mumbai, India.Learn more at: www.cmtassociation.org

In this podcast, Kushal speaks with Darshan Maharaja about the Canadian PM Mark Carney's visit to India. As Mark Carney lands in Mumbai there is a systemic campaign being run back home in Canada by the Khalistanis and their plants in media. Can India trust Canada as a reliable trading partner? Can the Canadians resolve their pending issues with India? Follow them: X: @TheophanesRex #markcarney #narendramodi #khalistan #canadianpoli #donaldtrump #racism #remigration #massimmigration ------------------------------------------------------------ Listen to the podcasts on: SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/kushal-mehra-99891819 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1rVcDV3upgVurMVW1wwoBp Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-c%C4%81rv%C4%81ka-podcast/id1445348369 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-carvaka-podcast ------------------------------------------------------------ Support The Cārvāka Podcast: Buy Kushal's Book: https://amzn.in/d/58cY4dU Become a Member on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKPx... Become a Member on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/carvaka UPI: kushalmehra@icici Interac Canada: kushalmehra81@gmail.com To buy The Carvaka Podcast Exclusive Merch please visit: http://kushalmehra.com/shop ------------------------------------------------------------ Follow Kushal: Twitter: https://twitter.com/kushal_mehra?ref_... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KushalMehraO... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecarvakap... Koo: https://www.kooapp.com/profile/kushal... Inquiries: https://kushalmehra.com/ Feedback: kushalmehra81@gmail.com

The former US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, will testify in the congressional investigation into late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Her husband, the former president, Bill Clinton, will testify on Friday.Also on the programme: a third round of talks between Iranian and American officials are being held in Geneva; and a new study that discovered the key to staying mentally sharp in old age. (Photo: Hillary Clinton attends the Mumbai Climate Week in Mumbai, India on February 18, 2026. Credit: Reuters)

We explore whether Hungary’s fight over oil could change the course of the war in Ukraine. Plus: as Mumbai residents plead for respite from ‘musical road’, what are the best highway enhancers? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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TISS is a weekly podcast where Varun, Kautuk, Neville & Aadar discuss crazy "facts" they find on the internet. Come learn with them... or something like that.This week, the boys are talking about 'India's Infra Fails feat'To support TISS, check out our Instamojo: www.instamojo.com/@TISSOPFollow #TISS Shorts where we put out videos: https://bit.ly/3tUdLTCYou can also check out the podcast on Apple podcast, Spotify and Google podcast!https://shorturl.at/hfQZXhttp://apple.co/3neTO62http://spoti.fi/3blYG79http://bit.ly/3oh0BxkCheck out the TISS Sub-Reddit: https://bit.ly/2IEi0QsCheck out the TISS Discord: / discord  Buy Varun Thakur's 420 Merch - http://bit.ly/2oDkhRVSubscribe To Our YT Channels:Varun - https://bit.ly/2HgGwqcAadar - https://bit.ly/37m49J2Kautuk - https://bit.ly/3jcpKGaNeville - https://bit.ly/2HfYlWyFollow Us on Instagram:Varun -   / varunthakur  Aadar -   / theaadarguy  Kautak -  / cowtuk  Neville -  / nevilleshahChapters:00:00 AI-Generated Aadar02:08 Aadar's Sick Leave04:26 Viewer Task05:10 World Cup Talk09:05 Azeem the Infra Comic12:02 Mumbai's Musical Road21:17 Mira-Bhayandar Bridge24:28 Bhopal's 90° Bridge27:05 Solar Panels Under Shade (Pakistan)28:22 Chile's “Cow Cow” Bridge30:41 No Lift in the Building32:05 Blocked View Problems34:53 Nagpur Balcony Bridge41:40 Weird Infrastructure Worldwide48:36 Roads Re-Done in India51:48 Govt Lighting Obsession54:29 Crazy Political Hoardings01:00:36 Scary Car Safety Features01:05:06 Raunaq Joins TISS01:05:49 Mumbai–Pune Highway01:11:08 Agarwal Packers & Movers01:48:34 Azeem's Shows01:50:33 Superchats02:03:50 HygieneThumbnail - Anjali Handa

Vivian sits down for an honest conversation with Zarna and Zoya Garg, the hilarious mother-daughter duo redefining what it means to build wealth, legacy, and success on your own timeline. Zarna went from Mumbai to Ohio, from lawyer to matchmaking entrepreneur to selling out comedy shows at 40—proving it's never too late to reinvent yourself. Now, she's touring with comedy legends, landing Hulu specials, and her daughter Zoya is right there building her company alongside her. Together, they're breaking down the immigrant money mindset, the real cost of chasing your dreams mid-life, and why the timeline we're sold for success is complete BS. In this episode, you'll learn: The financial reality of reinvention, what it actually takes to walk away from a stable career at 40. How immigrant family dynamics shape your relationship with money, risk, and ambition: from the pressure to pursue "safe" careers to navigating conversations about wealth, inheritance, and financial independence across generations. What happens when you build a family business in the age of "nepo baby" discourse, how Zoya convinced her traditionally-minded mom she was the best person to grow the Garg empire, the money conversations every family should be having (but aren't), and why betting on yourself and your people might be the smartest financial move you ever make. Keep up with Zarna and Zoya! Check out their podcast.  Follow the podcast on Instagram and TikTok! Got a financial question you want answered in a future episode? Email us at podcast@yourrichbff.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Cheetah Girls are back! Well, some of them are. It's complicated. But stick with them, because this time, they're off to Bollywood!Still reeling from Galleria's departure for the dreaming spires of Cambridge, Chanel, Dorinda and Aqua need a win to turn their fortunes around. Great news, then, that all three of them are cast in a huge musical shooting in Mumbai, India! Bad news, however, that there is actually only one role, and the Cheetahs will need to audition against each other, something that will no doubt cause them to immediately fall out and start trying to kill each other! Can the Cheetahs stay fierce and Cheetahlicious while competing against each other? Is there more to Aqua's new boyfriend than meets the eye? And why does every elephant in India seem to want to kill Dorinda? Listen and find out!If you crave bonus episodes of Mom Can't Cook!, monthly livestream watchalongs, or a shoutout at the end of the show, remember to check out our Patreon at Patreon.com/extrahelpings.If you've watched The Cheetah Girls: One World and have your own thoughts, email them to us at momcantcookpod@gmail.com for a chance to have them read out on the show. Next time on Mom Can't Cook! we'll be watching 1997's Toothless. See you then!This episode is sponsored by NordVPN. EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ nordvpn.com/momcantcook. Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee!Thanks also to sponsor Incogni! To get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan, go to incogni.com/momcantcook!This episode is also sponsored by Insert Coin Clothing! Visit insertcoinclothing.com and use code THATSNORAVEN for 10% off online orders. Codes are not applicable on charity items, bundles, gift cards, postage and some products at launch. Codes cannot be combined with other deals or promotions and are valid until June 2026.Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: multitude.productions/adsCheck out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: momcantcookmerch.com and check out Mom Can't Cook! Extra Helpings for bonus episodes, ad free episodes, monthly watchalongs and more!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Retired agent Phil Andrew shares how his experience surviving one of the nation's first school shootings when he was a twenty-year-old college student impacted his FBI career as a hostage negotiator. Phil reviews a kidnapping case where he negotiated with a member of the terrorist organization behind the Mumbai attacks and a case where he attempted to broker the release of New York Times reporter David Rohde, who was being held captive for ransom by the Taliban in Afghanistan. These case reviews are examples of how Phil turned tragedy into purpose, dedicating his life to keeping communities safe. Phil served in the FBI for 21 years. He is currently a 2026 candidate for the United States Congress in Illinois's 9th Congressional District. Check out episode show notes, photos, and related articles: https://jerriwilliams.com/387-phil-andrews-ny-times-reporter-kidnapped-by-taliban-hostage-negotiation/   Also listen to Episode 038: Kidnapped Grandma - https://jerriwilliams.com/toni-chrabot-kidnapped-grandma-hostage-negotiations/     Buy me a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JerriWilliams   Join my Reader Team to get the FBI Reading Resource - Books about the FBI, written by FBI agents, the 20 clichés about the FBI Reality Checklist, and keep up to date on the FBI in books, TV, and movies via my monthly email. Join here. http://eepurl.com/dzCCmL    Check out my FBI books, non-fiction and crime fiction, available as audiobooks, ebooks and paperbacks wherever books are sold. https://jerriwilliams.com/books/  

It is challenging enough to have your barely intelligible tech support guy talking to you from Mumbai, but to sit there as an alien at your own Super Bowl?…I mean, be honest. Had anyone actually heard of Offensive Oryctolagus Cuniculus (Bad Bunny) before he got this gig? The highest any song of his had charted was #85. It seems to me that he was imported in the spirit of take that. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/