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Project Cargo Professionals2025 in Review, 2026 Ahead | The Project Cargo Professionals Christmas SpecialIn the PCP Christmas Special, a group of senior project cargo professionals sit down with host Luke King to reflect on a turbulent 2025 — and look ahead to what 2026 may bring for the heavy lift and project cargo sector.Over good food and candid discussion, the group touches on:Market volatility, geopolitics and regulatory pressureFleet development, capacity and the role of specialist tonnageTariffs, compliance and rising customer expectationsThe growing importance of partnerships over price-only decisionsWhy attracting young talent matters more than everWhy companies should to “open their hearts and minds” to allWhat the industry should leave behind in 202...
2025-12-2046 min
PodcastInside the Rapid Rise of Blue Bell Shipping — With Aditya Menon | Project Cargo ProfessionalsBlue Bell Shipping has quietly become one of the growth stories in the project logistics world — and, in the first episode of Voices of Breakbulk Middle East, we hear how it happened. Aditya Menon joins us in London to unpack how a family-run firm founded by his father in 1987, has transformed into a...
2025-12-0224 min
Project Cargo ProfessionalsInside the Rapid Rise of Blue Bell Shipping — With Aditya Menon | Project Cargo ProfessionalsBlue Bell Shipping has quietly become one of the growth stories in the project logistics world — and, in the first episode of Voices of Breakbulk Middle East, we hear how it happened.Aditya Menon joins us in London to unpack how a family-run firm founded by his father in 1987, has transformed into a 15-office boutique project forwarder, spanning the Middle East, Central Asia and beyond. From major EPC wins in Iraq to 54 aircraft charters into Kazakhstan, Blue Bell’s rise has been fast — and far from straightforward. Adi tells host Luke King how the company learne...
2025-12-0224 min
Zubaani: South-Asian Parenting Tips and StorytellingZubaani: Love languages & desi dating cultureIn DDLJ, the father says "ja, Simran, ja." Was that not every desi father telling his daughter, 'go follow your heart?' We swoon. We die. We believe Shah Rukh Khan is a global treasure. Almost every South Asian writer is writing about love in one way or another. How does it show up in our homes? How does it work along lines of gender, caste, class, and age?Guest author: Uzma Jalaludin Co-hosts: Upasna Kakroo & Salma HussainProduced by: PeerbaghEpisode cover art: Niloufer Wadia...
2025-09-0829 min
Spender BenderSneakers Are Better Investments Than Mutual Funds? ft. Aditya Gundeti | #SpenderBenderVote for Spender Bender in the 'Best Innovative Format' category at the HT Smartcast Podmasters Awards: https://survey.zohopublic.in/zs/H3CRUA?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAacoG4zbKNdH0teze7i3lbWz5L4YIA-vlvhHMEL2DclaAfGym-NVHXsfnf-WVA_aem_4al8JWbCsT2xBh5jR-YJIQ This week on Spender Bender, Govind and Hoshang are joined by comedian Aditya Gundeti to talk about how Aditya used to be a table tennis coach, how he manages to be smart with his money, and how his spending habits have changed after marriage. Plus, all the boys show off their shoes, and talk about the many cool things they...
2025-04-071h 07
BackTable UrologyEp. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani MenonDid you know that robotic prostatectomy has its roots in both the immigrant experience and the renowned manufacturing legacy of Detroit? In this episode of BackTable Urology, Dr. Mani Menon, a pioneer in robotic surgery, joins Dr. Aditya Bagrodia to discuss the development of robotic prostatectomy technology.---CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORSSiemens Healthineers Theranosticshttps://www.siemens-healthineers.com/en-us/clinical-specialities/theranosticsPhotocurehttps://www.photocure.com/---
2024-09-171h 04
Beyond Cinema with NihitaBlack Friday (2004) – Anurag Kashyap’s finest cinematic portrayal on the 1993 Bombay Blasts.Writer & Director: Anurag KashyapBased on: Hussain Zaidi’s book “Black Friday: The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts”Cast: Pavan Malhotra, Kay Kay Menon, Aditya Srivastava, Gajraj Rao, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Pratima Kazmi, Imtiaz Ali, Nawazuddin SiddiquiCinematography: Natarajan SubramaniamMusic: Indian Ocean
2024-09-1308 min
Navigating IndiaA History of Economic Policy in IndiaIn this episode, I am in conversation with Rahul De, to discuss the key ideas in his book ‘A History of Economic Policy in India: Crisis, Coalitions and Contingency’. Rahul takes us through the meaning of economic history and the need for studying it. He situates industrial development in colonial India and its integration with the global economy. Rahul meticulously and candidly explores the failure of the Indian variant of planning, the reality of the green revolution and changes in voting behaviour, the evolution of liberalisation, and defining what can make a coalition government successful. Don’s miss this episod...
2024-08-051h 37
Impresi - TaiwanPekan Interaktif 150324 - Buah-buahan yang Cocok untuk Berbuka PuasaDalam acara "Pekan Interaktif" hari ini, topik yang akan dibahas adalah penipuan via LINE, mall besar di Hsinchu hari ini akan tutup, buah-buahan yang cocok untuk berbuka puasa, apa yang membuat area organ intimmu menjadi berbau, dan operasi pemberantasan narkoba di ASEAN Square.
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Jika Anda mengklik tautan tersebut, maka Anda akan masuk ke sebuah laman yang memin...
2024-03-1500 min
Let's Talk ShopBeyond Trends: Exploring Marketing MasteryStep into the world of fearless design conversations with the creme de la creme of the industry in our latest episode of Let's Talk Shop. This episode features Aditya Menon, a marketing professional with over 15 years of experience across diverse industries.From eyewear to automotive to lifestyle sectors, Aditya shares his journey and insights, revealing how he navigated challenges, crafted award-winning campaigns, and maintained brand consistency while catering to diverse consumer needs.Dive deep into the intersection of fashion, technology, and marketing as Aditya unpacks his strategies and imparts invaluable wisdom for aspiring m...
2024-02-1621 min
Grand TamashaThe Downfall of India's Princely StatesOne of the most remarkable episodes in modern Indian history is the story of how the leaders of over 550 sovereign princely states were convinced that they should give up their independence to become a part of a free India. This monumental task of accession was carried out over weeks, not months or years.But accession was just the first step in an ongoing drama between India’s princes and the rulers of the Indian republic, a drama that would unfold over the next many decades. A new book, Dethroned: Patel, Menon and the Integration of Princely India, ca...
2023-11-2255 min
The Closet Writer ChroniclesReviewing Stories: Books & Films ft. Aditya Mani Jha, Deepanjana Pal & Suchin MehrotraIt’s our bonus episode and we’re talking all things reviews, books & films! What is the difference between a reviewer and critic? How do you stay objective while reviewing a story? All this and a lot more on this informative and fun chat with some of the best in their fields. Tune in!
Aditya Mani Jha is currently a freelance writer but has been Books Editor at The Hindu Business Line in the past, and Commissioning Editor at Penguin Random House India. You can find his articles on books and films in India Today, Mint Lounge, Open...
2023-10-071h 52
Tollywood KaburluRevisiting Eega (2012): Review + Interesting FactsCredits
Banner: Vaarahi Chalani Chitram
Cast: Nani, Sudeep Samantha, Noel Sean, Aditya Menon, Srinivas Reddy, Thagubothu Ramesh (cameo), Hamsa Nandini (cameo), Sivanarayana (cameo)
Music: MM Keeravani
Dialogues: Janardhan Maharshi
Cinematography: KK Senthil Kumar
Art: S Ravinder
Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Visual FX: Makuta FX
Story - screenplay - direction: SS Rajamouli
Presented by: D Suresh Babu
Producers: Sai Korapati
Release date: 6 July 2012
Interesting Facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eega
Writ...
2023-10-0356 min
News and ViewsThe Politics of Atlee & Shah Rukh Khan, a 'Jawan' Spoiler TalkAfter the resounding success of SRK's January release 'Pathaan', King Khan is back with his big-budget maas entertainer 'Jawan', directed by one of the massiest Indian directors, Atlee.
In this video podcast, Prateek Lidhoo is talking to some of our in-house film buffs, Himanshi Dahiya, Aditya Menon, and Varsha Sriram about the politics of Shah Rukh Khan's social vigilante thriller. They also delve into some spoilers and talk about the good, the bad, and the absurd about this blockbuster.
Listen till the end. And of course, SPOILERS ALERT! Learn more about y...
2023-09-1636 minTollywood KaburluRevisiting Simha (2010): Review + Interesting FactsCredits
Banner: United Pictures
Cast: Bala Krishna, Nayana Tara, Sneha Ullal, Namitha, KR Vijaya, Saikumar (Malayalam), Hemanth, Shravan, GV, Kinnera, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Brahmanandam, Rehman, Ali, Krishna Bhagawan, Venu Madhav, LB Sriram
Music: ChakriBackground music: ChinnaCinematography: Arthur WilsonEditing: Kotagiri Venkateswara RaoFights: Ram - LaxmanArt: AS PrakashStory - screenplay - dialogues - direction: Boyapati SeenuProducer: Paruchuri Kiriti
Release date: 30 April 2010
Interesting Facts and Context: Watched it on Youtube back in 2011 and liked it for the fights but it...
2023-07-2144 min
The Big StoryKarnataka Results Analysis: Hindutva, Corruption & Local LeadersWhat will be the consequence of Congress’ victory in the Karnataka elections? What are the prominent factors that lead to BJP’s setback in the south? What issues mattered to the voters?
We are joined by Fatima Khan, principal correspondent with The Quint who was on the ground in the run-up to the elections, and Aditya Menon, our political editor to discuss what actually happened that lead to this result.
In this podcast, we closely examine what issues mattered in this election, what strategies worked, and what this election means for future polls.
2023-05-1537 min
News and ViewsUP's Anti Conversion Arrests: Is the Law Being Followed?The UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act was passed in November 2020. Since then, several people have been arrested for forceful conversions.
But Fatima Khan's investigation of various districts in UP has revealed a major loophole. Many of the FIRs and subsequent arrests in cases of forceful religious conversion go against the very law that they are based on.
In this episode of News and Views, Fatima Khan and her senior editor, Aditya Menon talk about some behind the scenes anecdotes, and the story behind this story.
Tune in! ...
2023-04-2128 min
No-Cost Extension with Deval SanghaviGoing Platinum: Past, Present and Future of Civil Society in India @ 75We're pausing our regular programming on No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi to bring you this panel discussion from Dasra Philanthropy Week 2023. Deval will be back next week with a new guest! The Going Platinum: Past, Present and Future of Civil Society in India @ 75 report is a collective effort by India’s leading non-profits to showcase and celebrate civil society's contribution to India's development. The conversation at DPW 2023 was based on the report and spanned policy, service delivery and research/ advocacy – reminiscing the past with an eye to the future. The panel was moderated by Sneha Menon...
2023-04-2032 min
Spill the Tea with SnehaA cup of coffee in the rain with Aditya Roy Kapur | Spill the Tea with Sneha | Film CompanionAhead of the release of Rashtra Kavach: OM, Aditya Roy Kapur is on Film Companion on a windy, rain-filled morning in Mumbai. He makes a perfect cup of coffee for Sneha Menon Desai as they discuss his new 'action star' avatar, the fitness regime that ensued and things he would never trade for stardom.
2022-06-2715 min
The Big StoryHow Can Hardik Patel & Sunil Jakhar's Exit Impact The Congress?On 18 May, Hardik Patel who gained popularity during the Patidar agitation, quit the party.
Taking swipes at senior leaders, he accused the party of lacking strong leadership both at the state and central levels. He said that Congress only plays the role of a “roadblock” when it comes to serious issues — be it about Ram Mandir, abrogation of Article 370 or GST.
While it’s not yet clear where Hardik will be headed next, resignations within the Congress party have been on the rise. There have been brazen expressions of discontentment over party leadership and the party's function...
2022-05-1921 min
The Big StoryUnpacking the State of Freedom of Press in IndiaA month after taking office in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India's "democracy will not sustain if we can't guarantee freedom of speech and expression".
However, 8 years on, the freedom of one of the fundamental pillars of democracy – the press – has taken a nosedive. In 2015, the World Press Freedom Index, which is compiled annually by Reporters Without Borders, ranked India at 136 out of 180 countries. This number in 2021 reached the all-time low of 142.
While India has not slipped further down the index, Reporters Without Borders continues to classify India as “bad” for journalism and termed it as one of t...
2022-05-0220 min
The Big StoryWill Congress Give Prashant Kishor The Mandate Over Election Strategy?It’s been a busy few days at 10 Janpath with political strategist Prashant Kishor meeting Congress president Sonia Gandhi and other senior party leaders, with the former reportedly looking to join the party full time.
With three high level meetings since 16 April, Kishor reportedly gave a detailed presentation on the roadmap to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections to party leaders like Priyanka Gandhi, Mukul Wasnik, KC Venugopal, Randeep Surjewala, Digvijay Singh, Ambika Soni, and Kamal Nath.
And this is also not the first-time buzz of Kishor joining the Congress have surfaced since similar discussions also happened between th...
2022-04-2014 min
The Morning BriefDiamonds Ain’t a Tiger’s Best FriendThe Bunder mining project in Madhya Pradesh may be one of Asia's largest diamond mines but the development versus displacement debate continues to singe Aditya Birla Group after Rio Tinto. Host Arijit Barman connects the dots with Bhavna Menon, programme manager of Last Wilderness Foundation, Hari Krishna Dwivedi, founding chairman of Pehel Foundation and ET's Anubhuti Vishnoi in this 15-year-long saga that's still simmering Credits: ANI News, NDTV, Madhya Pradesh TourismSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2022-04-1431 min
The Big StoryWhat Does a Unified MCD Mean for Delhi Citizens & Does it Help BJP Politically?The deference of the Delhi civic polls has left the AAP-led Delhi government at loggerheads with the BJP-led Centre.
At the heart of the delay is The Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2022 that seeks to merge the North, East and South Delhi municipal corporations.
The bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha by Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai who said it would make the MCD “a single, integrated and well-equipped entity”, however, the Delhi government along with several opposition parties have been vehemently opposed to calling it an unconstitutional move.
What...
2022-03-2817 min
The Big StoryAssembly Polls 2022: Unpacking BJP's Wins in UP, Uttarakhand, Goa, and ManipurThe Bharatiya Janata Party scoreboard for the latest round of assembly election shows that the saffron remains a formidable force in Indian politics.
Barring Punjab, where AAP decimated the ruling Congress, the BJP regained a second term in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.
Especially in Uttar Pradesh, the incumbent CM Yogi Adityanath made history as the first chief minister in decades to return to power in the state after a five year term and for the BJP, it is the first time a party has come back to power in Uttar Pradesh since the mind-80’s.
In o...
2022-03-1127 min
The Big StoryAssembly Polls 2022: What Led to AAP Decimating Congress in Punjab?The Aam Aadmi Party is headed for a massive win in Punjab, with trends showing the party leading in at least 92 seats in the 117-member Assembly at the time of recording this podcast.
It has been decades since any party in the state has secured such a vast majority with the last instance being way back in 1962, when the Congress had won 90 seats and then a close recreation was in 2017, when they won 77 seats.
Bhagwant Mann, the AAP’s CM face in Punjab, who won from the Dhuri assembly constituency with a margin of over 58,000 votes and said tha...
2022-03-1011 min
The Big StoryAssembly Elections 2022: What Are the Big Predictions of the Exit Polls?The exit poll results are in! What are the big predictions - will it be Yogi or Akhilesh in UP? Can Congress retain Punjab, or will AAP come to power for the first time there? And which way do the voters of Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur seem to be leaning? Which states are too close to call? And how accurate have exit polls been in these states in the past?
Tune in to a live conversation with The Quint's Political Editor Aditya Menon as he unpacks the various exit poll results and what they signal for 10 March.
2022-03-0751 min
The Big StoryUnderstanding Punjab Politics Ahead of Assembly Elections 2022The Punjab is set to see its most crucial Assembly election in decades on 20 February and for the first time, the state is witnessing as many as five parties or coalitions for 117 seats.
In the run-up to the election, the Punjab just in the past year has gone through many major developments, starting from the year-long farmers' agitation, which also led to the exit of the Shiromani Akali Dal from the Narendra Modi government as well as National Democratic Alliance. The ruling Congress party in the state has gone through an internal crisis, leading to the ouster of...
2022-02-1819 min
The Big StoryWill the Anger Over Farm Laws in Western UP Turn the Tides for the BJP?Fifty-eight constituencies, 11 districts, 143 seats, and the fate of nine sitting ministers are to be decided, as the polling was held on Thursday, 10 February, in western Uttar Pradesh.
West UP, often referred to as Jatland in the media, for being the Jat-dominated sugarcane belt of the state, witnessed a high-voltage electoral contest in the run-up to voting day, with the ruling BJP and the Opposition alliance SP-RLD trying to woo the community over the past few months.
And since 2014, the BJP has flipped the game in west UP, sweeping the entire region in two successive Parliament polls...
2022-02-1017 min
The Big StoryPunjab Elections: With Channi As CM Face, Will Congress' Fortunes Change?After much anticipation and drama in the political corridors of Punjab, incumbent Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi was declared the CM face of the Congress in the upcoming Punjab Assembly elections.
Making the announcement, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that it was not he who made the choice, but the people of Punjab, who said "we want someone from a poor home as the chief minister."
The question of who would become the CM candidate had been festering in the Punjab Congress for months, with constant infighting between CM Channi and Navjot Singh Sidhu, who...
2022-02-0819 min
The Big StoryWhat Are the Political Implications of Swami Prasad Maurya's Exit from the BJP?In a major and unexpected jolt to the Bhartiya Janta Party, Swami Prasad Maurya resigned from his post as Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister and is likely to jump ship to the BJP’s main rival in the state- the Samajwadi Party.
And the party was further left stunned after three of its lawmakers— Tilhar MLA Roshan Lal Verma, Bilhaur MLA Bhagwati Prasad Sagar and Tindwari MLA Brajesh Kumar Prajapati —waved goodbye to the saffron party and followed Maurya out of the door.
In his resignation letter, posted on Twitter, Maurya wrote that “despite a divergent ideology, I worked...
2022-01-1216 min
List Hai Toh Hit HaiBest arranged marriage themed filmsThey say marriages are made in heaven, but if you ask me, as an entertainer I would say they are made in movies! Shocked and surprised are you? Don't be as I’m talking about the arranged marriage concept that's shown in movies. Yes, that's the theme for today on List hai toh hit hai, my list showcases some of the best films made on the arranged marriage theme in movies. I'm your host Nikhil, here we go!Main, Meri Patni Aur WohThe 2005 romantic comedy, starring Rajpal Yadav, Rituparna Sengupta and Kay Kay Menon, ca...
2022-01-1104 min
The Big StoryHow Will New EC Guidelines Affect Parties in the Upcoming Assembly Polls?Amid the threat of the Omicron variant and the rising COVID-19 cases in the country, the Election Commission of India released new guidelines on the conduct of the upcoming Assembly elections in five states, which primarily ban all physical political rallies and roadshows till 15 January.
Along with a ban on political rallies, other aspects of the poll guidelines include full vaccination of all officials on election duty, no victory processions post-results, and that political parties and candidates are advised to conduct their campaigns through digital or virtual means only.
While the EC did receive some flak...
2022-01-1013 min
The Big StorySecurity Lapses in PM Modi's Punjab Visit: What is the Political Gameplay?Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Punjab turned into quite a fiasco with his convoy being stranded on a highway and the PM being forced to cancel his plans and public addresses in the state.
What followed was a full-blown political slugfest between the BJP-led Centre and the Congress-led Punjab government.
Shortly after the episode, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued a statement accusing the Charanjit Singh Channi government of a lapse in the PM's security. Seeking a detailed report on the matter, Home Minister Amit Shah tweeted, "Such dereliction of security procedure in th...
2022-01-0612 min
The Big StoryWhat Does AAP's Performance in Chandigarh Signal About Upcoming Assembly Polls?In its debut election in Chandigarh, the Aam Aadmi Party has single-handedly changed the political equations, by winning 14 out of 35 wards in the city municipal elections.
For a city like Chandigarh, which as a UT is administered by the Centre, the administrative power has always relayed between the BJP and the Congress. But those parties struggled to break ground this time around
While the ruling BJP party was reduced to 12 seats from 21 in 2016, Congress only managed to gain 8 seats. The Shiromani Akali Dal got only 1.
And the reason why we are speaking about Chandigarh...
2021-12-2812 min
The Big StoryHow Will the Sacrilege Cases in Punjab Impact Upcoming Assembly Polls?In a space of 24 hours, Punjab was shaken by two attempted and alleged cases of sacrilege, followed by lynchings, on 18 and 19 December in Amritsar and Kapurthala districts respectively.
In the case in Amritsar, there is CCTV footage showing a man jumping the railing of sanctum sanctorum at the Golden Temple and grabbing the Siri Sahib, the sacred sword and was then a split second later, tackled by the Sevadars and was seen being dragged out.
And with these cases, sacrilege has returned to the center stage in Punjab politics, with condemnations pouring from politicians across the...
2021-12-2020 min
The Big StoryFarm Laws Repealed: Strategic Retreat by PM Modi or A Win for Democracy? Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 19 November, announced that his government will repeal the three controversial farm laws, against which lakhs of farmers for the past year have been protesting.
The announcement, made on Guru Nanak Jayanti, came as a surprise to many since there was no indication from the saffron party or the Centre on any climb down on the farm laws. At first glance, the rollback of the laws is a major victory for the farmer's movement, and signals that old fashioned non-violent protest do have their way to find chinks in the BJP-led Centre’s strongman
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2021-11-2219 min
The Big StoryWhat Do BJP's NEC Resolutions Signal About the Parties Election Strategy?On the heel of a mixed bag of wins and losses in the recently concluded bypolls, the Bharatiya Janta Party held their first national executive meeting since the start of the pandemic on 7 November.
Though the meeting was largely devoted to applauding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on a range of actions, primarily COVID-19 and his intervention at the COP-26 summit, what was also front and centre was the focus on the upcoming assembly elections in early 2022.
And this was pertinent from Modi’s reported exhortations at the party meeting, asking the BJP top brass and workers to bec...
2021-11-0816 min
The Big StoryWhat Do the 2021 Bypoll Results Signal for the Bharatiya Janata Party?It was a bittersweet day for the Bharatiya Janata Party as the results of the bypolls held in 29 Assembly seats and three Lok Sabha seats were out on Tuesday, 2 November.
The saffron party and its allies made a clean sweep in the northeast, winning all nine seats, which went to poll in Assam, Mizoram, and Meghalaya and won the Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa. But it was the surprise blow by the Congress in Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, and Rajasthan, which became a major setback for the BJP.
In the BJP-ruled Himachal Pradesh, the GOP...
2021-11-0315 min
The Big StoryWhy Did the UP Govt Prevent Opposition Leaders From Visiting Lakhimpur Kheri?The farmers' protests in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district on 3 October took a grim turn as at least eight people were killed, including four farmers, after a vehicle part of a ministerial convoy allegedly ploughed through the crowd.
The vehicle, according to several media reports and farmer statements, was part of a convoy in which the Union minister of state Ajay Misra’s son, Ashish Misra, was part of and the SUV he was allegedly driving ran over three farmers.
In the horrific violence that followed the incident, four BJP workers – who were part of the mi...
2021-10-0413 min
The 37X PodcastE09: Apoorv Mangalam - Founder & CEO at GODS - India's Leading Outdoor Gear BrandDiscussion with Apoorv on all things biking, startups and design thinking.
Spoke about finding your IKIGAI, counter-intuitive idea of not relying on user feedback as a design first company, challenges of 3rd part manufacturing and finally on the threat of counterfeiting & how good patent laws help with innovation.
Find Apoorv here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/apoorvmangalam/
Find RoadGods here - https://www.roadgods.com/
2021-10-0356 min
The Big StoryThe Twists and Turns in Congress Party as Navjot Singh Sidhu ResignsPunjab Congress seems to have descended deeper into chaos after the surprise resignation of the state Congress committee chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, which came just two days after a new state Cabinet was announced.
In his resignation letter, which was posted on his Twitter profile on 28 September, he said that “the collapse of a man’s character stems from the compromise corner” and that he can never compromise on the state’s future and welfare.
In a video posted on 29 September, Sidhu hinted that it was the inclusion of certain politicians in the new Cabinet which led to h...
2021-09-2908 min
The 37X PodcastE08: Bhuman Dani - Founder at TGL & WickedGudJoin us as we pick Bhuman's brain on the why he decided to startup after being a consultant at BCG and INSEAD, how he managed to raise funds from 17 investors in a pre-seed round, how do you create a market for high quality products and how he came up with a classy yet minimalistic design for TGL.
Additionally we speak about the movies that's inspired him and the most common mistake that he's seen founders make.
Find Bhuman here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhuman-dani/
Find WickedGud here - https://wickedgud.com/
2021-09-2632 min
The Big StoryDoes the Change of Guard in Punjab Signal a Congress Party Makeover?The political corridors in Punjab were bustling over the last two days, with the resignation of one of its oldest guards Captain Amarinder Singh on 18 September and, just 24 hours later, the surprise pick of Dalit Sikh Charanjit Singh Channi as the new chief minister.
The Captain’s resignation comes after months of infighting, public insults and bitter jabs between him and his political arch-rival Navjot Singh Sidhu, who had been gunning for the Captain’s ouster for the better part of this year.
However, the final straw towards the Captain’s resignation fell after a faction of MLA...
2021-09-2015 min
The Big StoryCapt Amarinder Vs Sidhu: Where Punjab Congress Infighting Headed To?As Punjab nears its election season, the chasm in Congress between Capt Amarinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu is only deepening with both factions once again publicly lambasting each other.
Barely a month after Sidhu was made Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee Chief in order to broker peace in the leadership tussle within the party, far from yielding a truce, the infighting keeps bubbling over.
While the Chief Minister criticised Sidhu and his "advisors" over their unsavoury comments on Kashmir and Pakistan, on the other side in the Sidhu faction, twenty-three Punjab Congress MLAs including four state...
2021-09-0213 min
The 37X PodcastE07: Akshay Pai - Nutrova (India's leading nutraceutical brand)Join us as we pick Akshay's brain on the opportunity in the health & fitness segment, growth of nutraceuticals space in India, dealing with failures while coming up with breakthrough products and the process from ideation to product launch.
Additionally we speak about how the big pharma and FMCG players are entering the nutraceuticals space in big time.
Find Akshay here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshay-pai-5a59ab15/
Find Nutrova here - https://nutrova.com/pages/about-us
2021-08-2255 min
The Big StoryMamata in Delhi: Can the Bengal CM be the Face of a United Opposition in 2024?West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to the Capital has been making headlines for the past week. Her meetings with Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi and other Opposition parties have stoked speculations that Didi may finally be shedding the regional flag and stepping into the national political arena.
The overarching message in her visit to New Delhi was that a united Opposition front is required to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 general elections.
On 28 July, she launched a series of attacks at the BJP-led Centre. She said, “We have seen a...
2021-07-3015 min
The 37X PodcastE06: Arman Sood - Sleepy Owl Coffee - Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2020 (Asia)Join us as we pick Arman's brain on how he built a super-successful consumer product brand, insights on how the beverage space is going to evolve, takeaways from growing and in many ways transforming a traditional F&B space and how that led to him being named in Forbes 30U30.
Additionally we delve into how he's created metrics that Sleepy Owl obsessively tracks on a daily basis and tips on recruiting the right people.
Find Arman here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/armansood/
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2021-07-2742 min
The Big StoryCan Navjot Sidhu's New Appointment Solve Punjab Congress Infighting?With barely eight months ahead of Punjab assembly elections, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu has been elevated as the Punjab Pradesh Congress President.
The infighting in the Punjab unit of the Congress party has been making headlines for the past few weeks and the intense political drama reached a flashpoint on 17 July when Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh wrote a letter to Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi, voicing his concerns against Sidhu’s appointment as the party’s state unit Chief.
However, it looks like the Congress top brass has not paid heed to Amarinder Singh’s conc...
2021-07-2010 min
The Big StoryPM Modi's Cabinet Reshuffle A Corrective Measure or Election Tactics?With two-and-a-half-years remaining in PM Modi's second term, the Union Cabinet got a major reshuffle on Wednesday, 7 July.
While 12 heavyweights including Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal, and I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar were left out of the new Cabinet, 43 new ministers were sworn-in.
But not all of them are fresh faces. Seven junior ministers including Kiren Rijiju, Anurag Thakur, Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya got promoted in this rejig. In fact, the crucial Health Ministry went to Mandaviya, amid a severe criticism of the government's mishandling of the...
2021-07-0819 min
The Big StoryUttarakhand: What Does the Constant Change of CMs Signify for BJP?Uttarakhand received its third Chief Minister this year with Tirath Singh Rawat, who assumed office just four months ago in March, submitting his resignation citing 'constitutional crisis' as the reason.
Tirath Singh Rawat’s short tenure in office has been shrouded in one controversy after another. From passing sexist comments stating that women in ripped jeans set a 'bad example' to going ahead with allowing the Kumbh Mela festival to take place amid the spiralling second wave.
Things became worse when it was reported recently that over 1 lakh COVID test reports from the festival were fake. In...
2021-07-0515 min
The Big StoryWhat’s Behind Growing Dissent Against CM Amarinder in Punjab Cong?The crisis in the ruling Congress’ Punjab unit is refusing to settle as fresh dissension against Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has deepened the factionalism in the party.
There's been a lot of clamour in the past couple of days, against Captain Amarinder Singh's controversial decision to give police jobs to sons of two sitting MLAs on "compassionate grounds".
While the Chief Minister's supporters are backing the decision saying it was the right thing to do and is “in line with appointments given to similarly situated persons in the past", another faction is fast building up agai...
2021-06-2217 min
The Big StoryRift Between Yogi and Modi Ahead of UP Polls Now in Check?Uttar Pradesh will be holding state elections in less than a year from now, and ahead of it, speculations are thickening on a political discord between Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and BJP's central leadership.
While in the recent days, some BJP leaders like have refuted reports that have hinted at the possibility of a cabinet reshuffle in UP, every detail big or small is drawing a lot of scrutiny — such as the series of meetings held in the state and even the fact that going against the usual convention, PM Modi didn't wish Adityanath on Twitter on his bi...
2021-06-0812 min
The Big StoryModi Vs Mamata: Why the Ego Battle Is Causing More Harm Than GoodBarely a month after the announcement of the West Bengal Assembly election results, where Trinamool Congress won with a landslide victory, political theatrics between the Bhartiya Janta Party-led Centre and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is still finding their way in the administration of the state. This time, the drama surrounds the now-former state chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay.
In a dramatic escalation of events, just four days after the Centre extended his term as Chief Secretary at the request of Mamata Banerjee, the Centre recalled him back to the North Block.
This was just a few hours af...
2021-06-0117 min
The Big StoryBengal Results a Decisive Defeat for Modi-Shah Brand of PoliticsOne of the most aggressively fought election battles finally came to a close on 2 May, with a sweeping victory for the Trinamool Congress in the West Bengal Assembly polls.
The party is back to power for the third time in a row with an absolute majority, although party supremo Mamata Banerjee herself lost the prestige battle over the Nandigram seat to her former aide, Suvendhu Adhikari who had switched over to the BJP.
Counting of votes took place in there other states and a UT as well.
Assam, where the BJP became the only non-Congress party...
2021-05-0318 min
The Big StoryAssembly Elections 2021: Decoding Exit Polls of All Five StatesWith West Bengal ending its last phase of polling on 29 April, the much-awaited exit polls of poll-bound states, namely Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam, and Puducherry now released.
This election, all eyes are on the 294-seat West Bengal Assembly, where a fierce battle between Mamata Banerjee’s ruling Trinamool Congress and its main challenger BJP has been taking place for the past few months.
In today’s episode, we will be going through various exit polls mainly the Times Now/ABP CVoter and Republic-CNX polls to understand where each party stands in the poll-bound states.
Host...
2021-04-2917 min
Money ReimaginedGreensill's Collapse and How Blockchains Are Changing Trade Finance
Without letters of credit, bills of lading, shipping documents and trillions of dollars in global goods trade would grind to a halt. (And you thought our dependency on the Suez Canal was a problem!)This episode is sponsored by Interpop.ioBut the world’s system of trade finance, a highly complex setup involving banks, insurers, shipping companies, data providers and all manner of intermediaries, is far from ideal. There is massive fraud – check the New York Times’ account of the recent Greensill Capital collapse for – and severe inequity in terms of who gets favo...
2021-04-0952 min
The Big StoryAssembly Elections 2021: What’s at Stake in West Bengal and Assam?Two of the key electoral battles in India will be fought in West Bengal and Assam, which are set to go for its first phase of voting from 27 March.
The Bharatiya Janta Party is facing tough battles from its opposition in the TMC in Bengal and the Congress in Assam.
With phase 1 polling starting in both states tomorrow, in today’s episode, we will go through the latest political developments in each state, how each side is faring on the main issues and what the voters have said so far.
Host and Producer: Himmat Shaligram
Guest: Ar...
2021-03-2623 min
The Big StoryDoes Mamta Banerjee’s Injury Change the Narrative of WB Election?Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on 10 March, was allegedly attacked in Nandigram, a few hours after filling her nomination in the seat which propelled her to power in 2011.
The CM, who is currently being treated for injuries sustained to her head, shoulder leg, and ankle at state-run SSKM hospital, stated the alleged attack is a conspiracy against her and that she was pushed by four to five people.
While police investigations are underway to uncover what exactly led to the CM’s injuries, with the state heading into elections soon, social media wa...
2021-03-1213 min
The Big StoryWhy Has Uttarakhand Witnessed So Many Chief Ministers?Just days shorts of realising four years in power, Trivendra Singh Rawat submitted his resignation as chief minister of Uttarakhand to Governor Baby Rani Maurya on 9 March.
Speaking to the media after submitting his resignation, he said his party had given him the golden opportunity to serve as chief minister of Uttarakhand.
He said, “I come from humble beginnings, from a small village and the family of a soldier. No one could have imagined I would get the opportunity to serve as chief minister of the state for four years.”
And in a surprise move on 10 Marc...
2021-03-1011 min
The 37X PodcastE05: Subramanian Chidambaram - Expert on Indic Perspectives in Leadership Studies (Ex-McKinsey)Subramanian Chidambaram's profile:
linkedin.com/in/subramanianchidambaran
https://www.youtube.com/user/bcsubbu
Idea about Indian philosophy is that it’s highly esoteric. Does traditional indic wisdom have any relevance for modern management?
Why is going deeper in indic wisdom considered by many as a challenge in corporate growth? Is that really the case?
Leadership can be divided into two parts - leading oneself and leading others. What does Indian philosophy have to tell us about effectively leading others?
"Thinking brain is the supporting character who imagines it...
2021-03-071h 30
The Big StoryHow Significant is AAP’s Victory in Delhi Municipality Bypolls?The Aam Aadmi Party’s victory parade has slid into another week of celebrations as the party won four of the five wards on Wednesday, 3 March, in the Delhi Municipal bypolls. The Congress secured the remaining one ward, while the Bharatiya Janata Party drew a blank.
The ruling party won from Kalyan Puri and Trilokpuri in the East Delhi Municipal Corporation and Rohini-C and Shalimar Bagh in the North Delhi Municipal Corporation.
BJP’s loss at the Shalimar Bagh seat came as a surprise to many, since it is considered a stronghold of the party.
...
2021-03-0307 min
The Big StoryWhat Led to Aam Aadmi Party’s Surat Win in Gujarat Civic Polls?The Bhartiya Janta Party on 23 February put up its best performance in the two decades by sweeping all six municipal corporations in the Gujarat Urban local body elections. The ruling party won comfortable majorities in Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Bhavnagar corporations.
And the numbers speak for themselves. BJP improved on its 2015 tally of 389 seats out of total of 572 to as many as 483 out of 576 this time. However, on the other end, the Congress party took a nosedive in this election, from 174 seats in 2015 to just 55 in 2021.
While the BJP did cement its domination in urban Gujarat, w...
2021-02-2412 min
The Big StoryDo Punjab Civil Poll Results Project What the State Thinks of BJP?In the backdrop of the farmer's agitation at the borders of the capital, the Congress party made a clean sweep in Punjab’s seven of the eight municipal corporation elections on 17 February which are Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Abohar, Pathankot, Batala, Bathinda, and now Mohali as well, which went into a re-poll and the Congress emerged victorious there on 18 February when the results were declared.
In the final count, the Congress won 1,399 of the 2,165 wards in municipal councils and 271 of the 350 municipal corporation seats. The most stunning victory came from Bathinda, where the Congress party is set to elect a ma...
2021-02-1807 min
The Big StoryHealth Budget Increased by 137 Percent But Enough for Recovery?In the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gave a fresh impetus to the Indian healthcare sector as she tabled the Union Budget 2021 on 1 February.
The very first item on her checklist, the health budget –– with a total outlay of Rs 2.24 lakh crore –– witnessed a nearly 137 percent jump from last year. The finance minister said that the fight against coronavirus will continue well into 2021, as she identified "health and well-being" as one of the six pillars of the Budget.
Apart from healthcare, the Budget gave major emphasis to infrastructure and agriculture sectors. Amid chants t...
2021-02-0123 min
Pupil PodcastsThe curse of desperationListen to representative Aditya Menon from the mining community in Peru speak about the tragedy taking place under our very noses in the fabled Amazon Basin. In this podcast, you will hear a detailed analysis of the current ongoing events, and the ways brilliant minds are coming together to solve them.
2021-01-3102 min
Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy's PodcastThe Feminist City, Ep. 5 - The Central Vista Redevelopment Project & the Politics of Public SpaceHost: Sneha Visakha;
Intro Music: Wehrmut by Godmode;
Outro Music: Opheliea's Blues by Audionautix
In the fifth episode of The Feminist City podcast series, we speak with Prem Chandavarkar, Bengaluru based architect about the central vista redevelopment project. Some of the issues we touch upon are the background and recent developments around the central vista redevelopment project, the paradigms of urban development in India, implications of the Supreme Court ruling on participatory planning in the context of imagining feminist cities and the role of the everyday citizen in constructing and participating in the city.
Central Vista Redevelopment Project:
The Architecture...
2021-01-2935 min
The Big StoryWill The Absence of CM Face Hurt BJP's Prospects in WB Polls?Massive road shows, sloganeering, and defections — West Bengal's politics is getting more and more competitive by the day, ahead of the upcoming state elections.
In yet another concern for the TMC, another heavyweight — former West Bengal Forest Minister Rajib Banerjee exited from the party on 22 January. He's the third minister to resign from the state in just the last one month.
Although he did not cite any specific reason behind his actions, he told reporters that he was hurt when he learnt that he had lost his portfolio as Minister for Irrigation and was instead appointed as Minister for...
2021-01-2214 min
The 37X PodcastE04: Aditya Gadge - Founder at AIWMI, Niti Aayog (WEP), SEBI (AIPC)Aditya Gadge - Founder at AIWMI, Niti Ayog (WEP), SEBI (AIPC)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditya-gadge-67a8255/
(The Association of International Wealth Management of India (AIWMI) is a not-for-profit organization and a globally recognized membership association for finance professionals. AIWMI primarily focuses on the broad and strategic role of developing a more robust and forward-looking training infrastructure for the financial services sector and to promote more active industry involvement and collaboration in training and continuing education)
Aditya's journey from setting up the first wealth management company in Bilaspur to being a pioneer in...
2021-01-1949 min
The Big StoryFrom AAP to BJP — Political Developments to Watch Out for in 20212020 has been anything but a usual year with an unforeseen pandemic throwing the whole world into uncertain and challenging circumstances. But Indian politics has been adapting and improvising to work its way through the this 'new normal'.
Even as more than a few dozen countries like France, South Korea, Australia, Botswana and others postponed elections that were scheduled this year, Bihar pulled off one of the biggest state elections replete with full-fledged campaigns and rallies (more often than not flouting social distancing norms as well).
While the BJP made a successful foray in Nitish Kumar and...
2020-12-2414 min
The Big StoryWhat Do DDC Polls Results Mean for Gupkar Alliance & BJP?The Farooq Abdullah-led Gupkar Alliance has swept the most number of seats, while the BJP has emerged out to be the single largest majority, in the first major local elections to be held in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, since the abrogation of Article 370 and the bifurcation of the erstwhile state in 2019.
This was the first time that District Development Council elections for 280 seats were held across 20 districts in Jammu and Kashmir. Most importantly, this is the first exercise of democratic rights for the people of Kashmir, after more than a year of a serious clampdown...
2020-12-2314 min
The Big StoryHyderabad Civic Polls: What at Stake for The BJP and TRS?Greater Hyderabad is going for civic polls on 1 December and the BJP is leaving no stone unturned to gain some ground.
From deploying political heavyweights like Union Ministers Amit Shah, Smriti Irani, UP CM Yogi Adityanath to raising the communal rhetoric — the party seems to be fighting this election tooth and nail.
While the BJP has promised to free Hyderabad from the "Nawab Nizam culture" and rechristen the state to "Bhagyanagar", Chief Minister KCR is feeling the heat of this high-octane campaign in his own turf and has been compelled to give it as much importance as...
2020-11-3016 min
The Big StoryNitish Back as Bihar CM But With Two Deputies, Is BJP Set to Expand Base?Despite the massive anti-incumbency that he faced in the state, Nitish Kumar took oath as the chief minister of Bihar for a historic fourth consecutive term but with two deputies from the BJP.
The saffron party that emerged out to be the big brother in the alliance with 74 seats interestingly replaced Sushil Modi who had been Kumar's deputy for more than a decade with Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi — who won from the Katihar and Bettiah seats respectively.
According to reports, the post of Speaker in the Bihar Assembly will also be given to the BJP. And...
2020-11-1610 min
The 37X PodcastE03: Deep Bajaj - Founder, Sirona Hygiene Private Ltd. (Peebuddy | Sirona | Bodyguard)Deep Bajaj - Founder, Sirona Hygiene Private Ltd.
Creator of Award Winning Feminine Hygiene Products. Won multiple awards such as National Entrepreneurship Award, ET 40 under 40, Fortune 40 under 40 and ET Innovation Award. Deep is also a serial TedX speaker.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepbajaj/
Some of the topics covered in the episode -
The idea generation process - how he comes up with multiple innovative ideas
Tackling one of biggest unaddressed problems in India - intimate and menstrual hygiene faced by women
Switch from being an...
2020-11-1529 min
The Big StoryHow Did The BJP Manage A Comeback in State Elections?After facing a series of losses in the last few state elections, the BJP finally landed a stellar victory for themselves.
Despite the glaring unemployment problem and the weakened economy due to the pandemic, if the Bihar elections and the bypolls results tell us anything, it's this that BJP knows how to manage elections.
Although the party couldn't become the single largest party in Bihar, they made a noteworthy expansion into the state on their own, by winning 31 more seats than the JD(U). In the bypolls held across 11 states, it was a BJP sweep in 40...
2020-11-1111 min
The Big StoryWhy Bihar Phase 2 & MP Bypolls Maybe Make-or-Break for OppositionSome high stakes elections are being conducted in the country under the looming presence of the pandemic. 94 seats in 17 districts have gone to polls in the second phase of Bihar elections as 10 other states are voting in the bypolls for 54 seats.
In Bihar, there are as many as 1,500 candidates contesting in the second phase, including RJD's Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav from Raghopur and Hasanpur constituencies along with several ministers of the state cabinet like Road Construction minister Nand Kishore Yadav who is seeking his seventh consecutive term from Patna Sahib.
As Tejashwi seems to...
2020-11-0312 min
The Big StoryBihar Polls: Will Tejashwi Be Able to Put Up a Decent Fight?A new opinion poll survey held by Lokniti-CSDS shows that Nitish Kumar is still the preferred choice for CM over RJD candidate Tejashwi Yadav despite his massive anti-incumbency. This is similar to the findings of the CVoter opinion poll result that was released a few weeks ago, but if we are to look at the recent opinion polls, Tejashwi seems to be closing in on the gap.
The Lokniti-CSDS opinion poll results show that Nitish Kumar, who was the Chief Ministerial choice for 31 percent voters surveyed, only has a four percent lead over Tejashwi Yadav, who 27 percent of...
2020-10-2111 min
The Big StoryBihar Polls: Is There A BJP-LJP Deal to Outsmart Nitish Kumar?With Bihar Assembly elections only weeks away, the political developments in the state are headed towards an unexpected spin.
While Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) and the Bharatiya Janata Party have finally reached a seat-sharing agreement, with the JD(U) contesting 122 seats and the BJP 121, it is the LJP-BJP-JD(U)'s political dynamic that's been rather puzzling.
A former NDA ally, the LJP or the Lok Janshakti Party, led by Chirag Paswan, will fight the elections solo. It has withdrawn its support from the NDA alliance, however, it will not field candidates on those seats...
2020-10-0714 min
The Big StoryCan Nitish Kumar Return as Bihar CM Riding on Modi's Popularity?Bihar is angry with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, but the ruling NDA is all set to come back to power — that's what the first survey ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections in the state indicate.
According to predictions from the CVoter opinion poll, which surveyed 2,100 respondents across the state, Nitish Kumar who has been in power for 15 years, is looking at a massive anti-incumbency.
His unpopularity is at an all-time high with almost 57 percent of those surveyed wanting him out, 45 percent rating his performance as poor, and 30 percent saying that they're unhappy with him but don’t want to c...
2020-09-2814 min
The 37X PodcastE02: Pankaj Kapoor - Head, New Product Development at Marico Ltd.Pankaj Kapoor - Head, New Product Development at Marico Ltd.
Heads the Business Intelligence and Digitised Process at Marico
linkedin.com/in/kapoorpankaj
(Marico is one of India's leading consumer products companies operating in the beauty and wellness space. Marico markets household brands such as Parachute, Saffola, Set Wet and Livon among others that add value to the life of 1 in every 3 Indians)
Pankaj's distinctive journey from working at Wipro to becoming a six-sigma black belt in operations to heading new product development
Impact of COVID on day-to-day personal and professional...
2020-09-2731 min
The 37X PodcastE01: Nitin Vishwas - CEO, MoonshineNitin Vishwas - Co-founder of Moonshine - Asia's first Meadery
(Ex-Abbott, Ex-McKinsey)
https://in.linkedin.com/in/nitin-vishwas-84b7625
Nitin's journey and career path
What are meads and meadery and how is it different from breweries and wineries
Responding as a leader of a startup that’s been doing amazingly well when a crisis such as COVID hits
Building a consumer product brand in India in a category that previously didn't exist
Making projections in an unknown segment / market
Thought process while leaving McKinsey and Abbott an...
2020-09-2732 min
The 37X PodcastThe 37X Podcast - TrailerWelcome you to the 37X podcast!
So why the name 37x - Imagine you improve by 1% everyday. Compound that over a year and you would be 37x your present self by the end of the year. This is exactly what we aim to do.
We hope to put together content which is genuinely useful for anyone interested in understanding the secrets behind great businesses and wonderful lives - no matter if you’re a 25-30 year old who’s been working for a couple of years or a postgraduate student or even someone who’s right...
2020-09-2002 min
The Big StoryCan Congress Leadership Vacuum Lead to A Non-Gandhi President?The lingering Congress leadership crisis has taken the centre stage once again as the Interim Chief Sonia Gandhi offered to resign from her post, urging her party members to look for a replacement. This political drama unfolded in the Congress Working Committee meeting, on 24th August, a day after over 23 senior leaders demand for a ‘revival’ in the party became public.
The signatories who include a number of significant party members like Ghulam Nabi Azad and Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Kapil Sibal, Milind Deora, Jitin Prasada and loyalists like Mukul Wasnik, wrote to Sonia Gandhi asking for “a full-time, visibl...
2020-08-2414 min
The Big StoryAs Sachin Pilot Returns to Congress, Who is the Biggest Winner of the Political Drama?Sachin Pilot is back in the Congress party fold. Pilot’s short lived rebellion, which took shape on 11 July, concluded with a tweet at 1am on 11 August. In his tweet he thanked Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, as well as Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for “noting & addressing our grievances.”
Earlier on Monday, Pilot had met former Congress President Rahul Gandhi and party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra at Rahul's Tughlak Road residence. Soon after the meeting, the Congress party put out a statement saying:
“They have had a frank, open and conclusive discussion. Shri Sachin Pilot has committed to working i...
2020-08-1113 min
The Big StoryWhat Message Does Ram Temple Construction Send to Secular India?The foundation has been officially laid for the construction of a Ram temple, 28 years after the Babri Masjid was demolished.
And all eyes were on Ayodhya, on 5th August, as the Ram Mandir trust conducted the bhoomi poojan or the foundation-laying ceremony, in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and around 170 other spiritual and political leaders.
With this, the BJP's promise towards its Hindu voter base of a Ram Temple in Ayodhya – the mythical birth place of Ram – is a step closer to fulfillment. At the ceremony, PM Modi likened the Ram Janmabhoomi movement to Indi...
2020-08-0514 min
Trending among MillennialsEp. 2: Khayali Pulao, Breathe Season 2 and moreHello Everyone,
Welcome to the episode 2 of our podcast Trending among Millennials.
For more such podcast visit our website http://srmpodcasts.com/
In this episode, Aarushi and Aditya are back with weekly stuff which are trending. This time they are discussing about a short movie, web series, a music video, and YouTube trending video.
They started by thanking their listeners as they have got more than 175 listeners in their first episode.
Then they started by talking about Khayali Pulao, a s...
2020-07-1631 min
The Big StoryRajasthan Crisis: With Pilot Out, Is Reconciliation Off the Table?Sachin Pilot skipped the second Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting, even as the Congress decided to remove him from the posts of the Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan and the Rajasthan Congress chief.
At least 102 Congress MLAs from the state demanded action against Pilot. The CLP also passed a resolution supporting Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, and recommended "strong disciplinary action against any Congress MLA or office-bearer who weakens the party."
As the internal conflict within Congress shows no signs of ebbing, MLAs are being shifted to resorts. While Gehlot's supporters were shifted to Fairmont Hotel in...
2020-07-1415 min
The Big StoryCBSE Syllabus Cut An Academic or Political Decision?Chapters on federalism, nationalism and secularism have come under the axe as the Ministry of Human Resource Development decided to unburden CBSE students between classes 9-12.
The pandemic-mandated restrictions on educational institutions have eaten up into the academic year, raising a lot of problems for students and teachers alike over e-classes, exams and syllabus. And on July 8, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, the HRD minister, announced a 30 percent reduction of the CBSE course load in view of the prevailing "extraordinary situation".
Although 24 hours later CBSE clarified that the reduction of syllabus was only for Board exams, the choice...
2020-07-0812 min
The Big StoryDelhi Riots Investigation: Gaps Between Police Claims & Facts?Over the past few weeks, the Delhi Police have been filing charge sheets in a number of cases related to Delhi riots that had taken place late in February. According to police records, 751 cases were filed related to the violence that happened in waves over three days in certain areas of North East Delhi that ended up killing 53 people.
At the core of these charge sheets is a common theory of the riots being a planned conspiracy in the follow up of the NRC-CAA protests.
While one charge sheet alleges a plot to carry out a "big blast"...
2020-06-1214 min
The Big StoryWhy Doesn’t India Stand Up to Police Brutality Like US Does?It's been seven continuous days of large scale civil unrest all across USA, over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of a White police officer in Minneapolis, in the city of Minnesota.
"I can't breathe" – the final words that Floyd uttered before his death, as Derek Chauvin the police officer in concern knelt on Floyd's neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds straight – has become a rallying cry for the protestors.
New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Seattle, Ohio, Colorado — all the major states and cities that were deserted until only a week b...
2020-06-0211 min
The Big StoryArticle 370, CAA to Pandemic: Hits & Misses in One Yr of Modi 2.0From Article 370 to Ram Mandir to the Citizenship Amendment Act, and now a pandemic — the first year of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second term has been jam packed with big events.
On 30 May last year, Modi took oath for the second time as India's Prime Minister after the NDA alliance won with a greater majority than 2014, virtually decimating the opposition's mahagathbandhan.
It's been a long one year since but what does the annual report card look like? What did the government tick off its bucket list, what did it achieve and where did it fail? Tune in to Th...
2020-05-2914 min
NL HaftaHafta 256: Jharkhand elections, Modi’s Speech, citizenship law stir, Delhi winter, and moreIn this episode of NL Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Anand Vardhan, and Mehraj D Lone of Newslaundry are joined by Aditya Menon from The Quint.They begin with a discussion on BJP’s offensive tweet about the Tamil icon EV Ramasamy Periyar. Pointing out the reason for BJP’s dislike for Periyar, Aditya notes, “It's the Periyar legacy that is preventing the BJP from growing in Tamil Nadu, so they do want to attack the icon somehow.” Mehraj joins in and says it is more to do with ideology than political point-scoring.Talking about Narendra Modi’s mega rally kicking of...
2019-12-2800 min
News and ViewsNobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee to The Quint: India’s Economy in Bad ShapeDays after winning the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Abhijit Banerjee spoke to The Quint about the state of Indian economy, what can be done to fix it and his latest book Good Economics for Hard Times.
Banerjee’s economic views have drawn criticism from some BJP leaders. Responding to the criticism, Banerjee said he is “neither able nor willing to be involved in slanging matches.”
Listen to the podcast with The Quint's Aditya Menon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-10-2114 min
SeedToScale | Curated by AccelINSIGHTS #39 - Hari Menon on scaling Bigbasket and disrupting the grocery industryWe continue with the #INSIGHTSPodcast series, and on this edition we have Hari Menon, Co-founder and CEO of BigBasket, India’s largest online food and grocery store, which serves 10 million customers in 30 cities today.
In this podcast, Hari takes us through the journey of starting and scaling BigBasket and gives a behind-the-curtain glimpse of the years of grocery business experience that led to building an expertise in grocery supply chain and culminated in building India's leading online grocer.
Starting up in the 90s: too early to market
Born and brought up in Mumbai, Ha...
2019-10-041h 05