I have a freewheeling conversation with Ram Sampath about his life, career and the process of creativity. How does a musician think? What goes behind the doors when it comes to creating a song? How do musicians even decide what ...
I chat with Samyak Chakraborty from X Billion labs about the future of skill development and employability in India. We discuss how X Billion Labs is creating unique interventions to train and prepare India’s youth for the future. The future ...
Religion is all around us, we wake up in the morning to the sound of a temple bell ringing or a late-night azaan depending on our preference 🙂 Many of us are used to the sight of getting up early ...
In this podcast, I discuss American politics and the culture wars that have engulfed that side of the world with Josiah Neeley of R Street Institute and Doug McCullough of Lone Star Policy Institute. America is going through a unique ...
I chat with Dr Wilfred Reilly about the overall journey of African Americans in the United States of America. We discuss issues like affirmative action and whether it is a policy that has helped the African American community. We also ...
In this monologue, I want to address the problem with the arguments presented by religious believers. Whenever they are questioned about specific verses from their religious texts they will use the standard excuse that the translation of the verse is ...
In this 6th Episode of Shastrartha, J Sai Deepak, Nikhil Mehra and I try to understand The Idea of India. What does it mean? We use the CAA NRC legislation as an example and try to unpack the multiple layers ...
In this podcast, we will try to understand Zionism with Jaideep Prabhu. What is the core of Zionism? What are the origins of Zionism? Why did this ideology emerge? Are there different kinds of Zionism? Also is there anything like ...
I had a conversation with Neel Kolhatkar about his series “Crossing the Line”. We discuss his experience as he went about making this series. Humour is a very complex subject. What constitutes a good joke? What is socially acceptable and ...
Anger is an old ally/foe of the human species. It has accompanied us since the earliest times and from time immemorial. As per the Scientists at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology (University of California Santa Barbara) Anger is an “evolved ...