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Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Meet The Professional Side of Mrs. Kasturi Navalkar Machado: My Last On-Air InterviewThis is officially my last interview on air. I realised that over 7 and a half years of my career.. I have not introduced you to what my wife does(professionally)! So here we are.. Couldn't be a more fitting way to end a 7 & a half year career in Radio. Crazily enough, she was once a listener who called in. The only listener I ever broke my one rule(to never date a listener) for! Well, proud to say that she's my wife now! I hope you enjoy listening to it! --- Send in a voice message...

2022-10-1314 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay The Voice Behind "Man Made Machines" on Instagram!The Trichy-born and Haryana-based digital content creator, Ankit Sharma is an early disruptor in the Indian creator economy, breaking into the relatively uncommon automotive space as a photographer and videographer, eventually going on to chart his own destiny. His brand Man Made Machines has carved its own space and identity — commanding 181,000 (and counting) followers on Instagram. In this edition of Kays Spotlight Ankit Sharma joins RJ Kay to talk about his journey as a content creator, photographer and his love for machines, bikes and cars. He speaks about his recent experiences and how he started Man Made Ma...

2022-05-2917 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Taking a Break From Instagram ft. Charit JaggiCharit Jaggi who was a former journalist, a forever filmmaker, now building we the Young - an impact video content platform that talks about stories and issues at the heart of young Indians. We The Young is pushing conversations around topics like Mental Health, Online Safety, Bullying and Harassment, Feminism and LGBTQIA+ Issues, by bringing out stories of young people. It is their endeavour to build more meaningful online communities for India's youth. Therefore they collaborated with Instagram to bring this new feature to emphasise the importance of taking a break in this mad internet world. In...

2022-04-1510 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Women Making The Armed Forces Proud ft. Capt. Yashika Hatwal TyagiCaptain Yashika Hatwal Tyagi is a Short service commissioned lady Officer from the initial batches of Women entry into Indian Armed Forces. She passed out with a Silver medal from the prestigious (OTA) Officers Training Academy, Chennai in the year 1994. During her Army tenure, she has served in intense counter insurgency / terrorist infested areas of Assam during “Operation Rhino”. She holds the proud distinction of being the first Lady officer from logistics wing to be posted to Extreme cold climate / High altitude areas of Leh /Kargil .She participated actively during “Operation Vijay” and successfully coordinated the logistics, during the war like sc...

2022-01-3118 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Turning Disability To Strength With Comedy ft. Sweta MantriiAn MBA turned writer, disability rights activist and stand-up comic, Sweta stumbled upon comedy quite accidentally; just like the other things that she stumbles upon while walking with her crutches. Presently, she's having a gala time as she ‘stands up’ to address the understanding of disability and the disability of understanding - one joke at a time! Sweta is a strong voice who has been advocating for the rights of people with disabilities through blogs and features, documentaries, on-ground awareness campaigns, interactive visual platforms, and stand-up comedy. Her maiden concept show ‘With This Ability’ has won her accolades for consiste...

2022-01-3025 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Archiving India's Tattoo Art ft. Shomil ShahWhile tattoos might be the mainstay of hipsters and rock stars in today’s world, in India, the tradition extends over hundreds of years. For Mumbai-based tattoo artist Shomil Shah, the affinity for this art form is literally etched in his DNA. His great-grandmother from Kutch, Gujarat, had unique dotted tattoos on her hands and neck known as “trajva”. These markings are commonly found on people belonging to the Mer/Maher or Rabadi tribes of Gujarat or Rajasthan and were used in lieu of jewellery for those who couldn’t afford any. Three generations later, Shah has taken on the onus...

2022-01-3015 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Leading The Way For India's Future ft. Vijay NiraniMr. Vijay Nirani, an entrepreneur, industrialist, technocrat, investor and philanthropist is a young man who has proved his mettle from a young age and continues to do so. With a strong educational background in business management from world renowned institutes, Vijay Nirani entered the business world at a young age, but with a passionate vision. His laurels at the young age of 28 are a testament to his business prowess. Mr. Vijay Nirani is currently the Managing Director of the MRN Group, which consists of companies involved in sugar production, ethanol production, CNG/LPG production, education, banking, power...

2022-01-2218 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Travel For The Disabled Community ft. Neha AroraImagine as a child never being on a family holiday. Watching your classmates going for one in summer and winter vacations, and your travels limited to just school picnics or grandparents houses. Planet-Abled provides accessible travel solutions and leisure excursions for people with different disabilities. There are over a billion people with different disabilities in the world, but the percentage of them travelling is miniscule, owing to the lack of accessible travel options available. Planet Abled identified this gap and came forward to give them the freedom to travel no matter what their disability is! Whether they want to e...

2022-01-2123 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Empowering Indian Women In The Boardroom & Bedroom ft. Sachee MalhotraLaunched in 2020, That Sassy Thing is an all-natural feminine hygiene and sexual wellness startup, which aims to empower women — not just in the boardroom, but also in the bedroom. The startup aims to fill a gaping hole in the femtech space by focusing on women and their bodies — and having a woman leading the charge helps. Beyond empowering women and vulva owners to take charge of their sexual needs, That Sassy Thing has been making a big play for feminine hygiene products, which Sachee says is an exciting space these days. Their products are specially designed for peop...

2022-01-2016 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay These Young Indians Are Attempting To Solve The "Indian-Waste-Problem" ft. One Step GreenerOne Step Greener started in February 2018 by Vihaan (14 years) and Nav Agarwal (11 years) in New Delhi and works on Waste Management, Recycling and Tree Plantations. It strives towards a zero-waste future and creates employment for Rag Pickers to move to the formal sector ensuring they work safely with dignity and gain financial literacy. Their main goals are; helping change behaviour by educating people on the harm that irresponsible disposal of waste causes, ensuring households/corporates/schools start segregating their waste at source and offering a pickup of their dry waste, recycling different waste streams collected through certified recyclers, motivating...

2022-01-1920 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Going The Distance ft. Sufiya KhanSufiya Khan is a two-time Guinness World Record Holder. In 2017, after 10 years of working gruelling night shifts in the airline industry, she took up running for fitness. After seeing perceptible changes, she ran her way through marathons and ultra-marathons, but soon, more than running was on her mind. She recently completed the Himalayan Ultra run expedition in 156 hours, becoming the first female runner in the world to have attempted the 480 km run from Manali to Leh. Earlier, she completed the distance from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and traversed the Golden Quadrilateral – a network of highways that connect the fo...

2022-01-1813 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Why Does Leadership Need to Evolve In These Times ft. Jimmy MistryJimmy Mistry has always led his incredibly successful business life by ensuring that his projects and deals have a higher purpose: to improve society for all and to make a significant dent in the world at large. He is the Chairman and Managing Director of Della Group, a forward-thinking Social Entrepreneur, Award Winning Designer, Real Estate Developer, Hotelier and now, Founder of Della Leaders Club (DLC). DLC is the world’s first business platform for a Global Community of entrepreneurs, professionals and leaders across 15 Chapter Cities. Had a chat with him and you ca...

2022-01-1717 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Winner Of International Icon Season One Is Back!As we get into the hunt for the next International singing sensation, Season 1's winner of International Icon is on the show to catch up and chat up. The one and only, Joel Jacob! We chat about the music scene, winning this competition and getting mentored by the best in the industry like Shaggy and Kylie Minogue! Listen to our chat and check out Joel's Youtube Channel here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gmbwithkay/message

2022-01-1613 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay The Feeling Of Losing Time Through A Pandemic And How You Need A Change In Perspective ft. Sukriti V. KohliSukriti is the founder of Doctor of Happiness. She is an artist who is helping young people with depression and other mental conditions through her art and online platform. Her Instagram account tagline is “A Reservoir of Hope & Encouragement.” She helps youth handle peer pressure, and the burden of being politically correct all the time, feeling it to be the need of the hour. Hear her story here and check out her page here! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gmbwithkay/message

2022-01-1617 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Can Training Of Pets Be Done Online? ft. Vineet KhannaBengaluru-based Supertails is an online pet care and supplies startup that offers a unique virtual training service for pet parents to train their pets on their own. Launched in 2021 by Vineet Khanna, Varun Sadana, and Aman Tekriwal, the startup provides veterinary care, pet food and supplies, and offers pet training sessions as well. Supertails stands apart as a fully digital tele-health consultation service with a team of highly experienced in-house veterinarians. Since its inception in July 2021, Supertails has catered to more than 10,000 pet parents, and has completed over 5,000 consultations covering healthcare and online training services. One of t...

2021-12-3120 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Memories Of The Bangladesh Liberation War ft. Wing Commander Aspari RaghunathWing Commander Aspari Raghunath was commissioned in 1964 as a navigator and later was trained on Canberra Bomber in 1966 under the command of the-then Sqn. Ldr. P Gautam. As a Flight Lieutenant, he again served under Wing Commander P Gautam during Bangladesh Liberation war in 1971 and carried out bombing missions over West Pakistan as well as East Pakistan. He was awarded Vir Chakra for his role in this war. He served the Indian Air Force as an Instructor, Local Examiner, Systems Test Navigator on various aircraft at ASTE, the premier Test Flying Centre of IAF in addition to operational flying, adm...

2021-12-3020 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay How Influencers Have Given People A Window To The World Through A Pandemic ft. Ivana PerkovicWhy would a foreigner choose a future in India? Ivana Perkovic, known from her YouTube channel Travel.Vlog.Iv explains why a foreigner chooses a future in India. As a Professional YouTube vlogger, Ivana travels the world making videos and taking over 100.000 subscribers with her on her adventures. After stepping foot on Indian soil in 2015 as a foreigner tourist, she knew this country was her future. There are many reasons why a foreigner chooses a future in India. Ivana had the luxury of a location independent career, which allowed her to now be fully based in Bangalore. As a...

2021-12-2916 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Why Is The Drone Business In India Going To Boom In The Next Few Years? ft. Mughilan Thiru RamasamyFounded in 2014, Bengaluru-based drone tech startup Skylark Drones provides worksite intelligence to enable accurate business decision-making using drone data. Skylark Drones is involved in building core infrastructure for global drone ecosystems. Skylark Drones claims that it has worked with over 100 enterprises and executed over 20,000 autonomous flights via their platform, processing more than one million images since inception. The core products are Drone Mission Ops and Spectra. Drone Mission Ops is a full-stack drone flight solution that enables drone service providers, pilots, and enterprises to execute fast, accurate and seamless drone missions. Meanwhile, Spectra is an integrated drone...

2021-12-2816 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Meet The Ultra Cool Indian Ninja! ft. Avinash SubramanyamSoke (Grandmaster) Avinash Subramanyam, who has studied for over five decades under the greatest exponents of Taiji, Dao Yin, Lian Gong, and Qi Gong in China and Japan, is the founder of SEEFAR. His training methods have won acclaim from India's top corporate houses and the top brass of the police and the armed forces. Avinash has been conducting workshops for the armed forces and policemen, equipping them with rare skills of body and mind that prove invaluable in combat situations. Companies that invite him to train their employees in stress management have consistently given him an "exceeded expectations"...

2021-12-2616 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Home Chefs Get An Upgrade For Distribution ft. Apeksha GhiaNeeji, founded by Apeksha Ghia, is a mobile application that aims to provide home chefs in Mumbai with opportunities and tools to scale their businesses. The focus of Neeji is building a solid community of home chefs using a user-friendly UI and easy-to-use app. The core team of Neeji comprises women, barring the delivery partners. All functions, from marketing to operations, are managed by an all-women team. So far, it has listed over 100 chefs offering over 25 cuisines in less than three months. Apeksha has completed her master’s degree in business administration from Mumbai University. She had be...

2021-12-2516 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Plated Up For Christmas ft. Chef Aarthi SampathChef Aarthi Sampath’s foray into the culinary world began with an exploration of flavors found in the diverse kitchens of Taj hotels and interning in different restaurants in Mumbai , New Delhi , Chennai and Hyderabad for 5 years .Her passion for cooking started in her parent’s kitchen as she perused through cookbooks of figures that seemed to be in a place she could never reach. Her curiosity for learning and exploring global cuisine brought her across the globe to America . She specialized in Baking and Pastry and Food Service management at the prestigious Johnson & Wales Culin...

2021-12-2420 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay The Biggest Problem Of The Festive Season & How You Shouldn't 'Waste' This Opportunity To Solve It ft. Vani Murthy a.k.a. Worm RaniVani Murthy, the queen of compost and renowned urban farmer, and passionate citizen leader, is one of the most active campaigners for SWM in the city. She started her SWM journey in 2008 with the Wealth out of Waste program and started making awareness activities for her co-citizens in Malleswaram. Vani has passionately tested every home composting method available. Her knowledge on recycling kitchen waste into compost, and using it to grow herbs, flowers, fruits and vegetables is held in high esteem. She also makes an effort in documentation of the methods. She is a member of solid waste management ro...

2021-12-2421 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay The Secret To Staying Sexy During Christmas & New Year's ft. Vinit ChhabriaI've struggled with fitness, finding a balance & eating healthy for years! How do you even keep fit during the festive time? The guys at Liv.Ezy really helped me with that! Vinit Chhabria, my trainer, came in to help everyone out today. He's a fantastic, kind and extremely knowledgeable guy who has really turned my life around! Thanks, Vinit! Big shoutout to Ralston & the peeps at Liv.Ezy for making this happen! You can get your fitness journey started here: https://www.livezy.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.c...

2021-12-2116 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay A Christmas Album With A Twist ft. Dominic D’Cruz & Jerusha Lawrence-D’Cruz‘LED BY THE LIGHT’ conceptualized in 2017, is an album of traditional Christmas carols; an essay with global musical flavours. The arrangements encompass energetic rhythms, a splash of festive chants, sargams, percussion et al, bringing on new shades and hues in the embellishments. As with any recording production, this too was a work in progress as we explored the suggestions made and even ventured down paths less trod. Musicians came aboard once arrangements were in place, and every one of them gave of their expertise, adding their own special touch to the album that comprises a dozen carols, including a medl...

2021-12-0522 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Meet The Woman Who Re-Enacted JRD Tata's First Commercial Flight in 1932!Aarohi Pandit is an Indian pilot. After completing her schooling at the age of 17, she enrolled at The Bombay Flying, College of Aviation (BFC), and the flying school in Maharashtra. Aarohi's career began at the age of 21 when she was selected for the Women Empowerment Expedition round-the-world portion on a light-sport aircraft. On October 15, Captain Aarohi Pandit took off from the Bhuj runway that the women of Madhapar rebuilt within 72 hours during the Indo-Pak war, refuelled at Ahmedabad, and landed at India's first civilian airport in Juhu. She was re-enacting the first commercial flight flown by JRD...

2021-12-0313 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Transforming 100 Acres Of Barren Land! ft. Varun RavindraToday, the 100-acre land in Shoolarji, along the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border is a paradise that’s home to 40,000 trees of 250 varying species, as well as a variety of birds and other biodiversity. Named Vanantara, it is the labour of love of Varun Ravindra and 40-odd others who have brought about such a powerful transformation in a matter of five years. The 38-year-even during his growing years was making environmentally conscious efforts to reduce the harm on the environment. He graduated in 2009 as a chartered accountant and took a corporate job. Alongside, he was imparting free lessons in Ma...

2021-12-0315 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Meet Mrs. India Worldwide 2021!Amisha Sethi, the winner of Haut Monde Mrs. India Worldwide 2021, is the author of the bestseller book 'It doesn't hurt to be nice'. She is a global marketing and strategy leader, fitness coach, and also a fashion model. She is an alumnus of Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and an MBA in marketing from Amity Business School. Amisha is a multi dimensional person who believes in living life to the fullest. She is a fitness enthusiast who believes in combining the powers of yoga, meditation and mindfulness to those with modern exercises. This award winning marketing leader has w...

2021-12-0314 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay The Best Tips & Tricks For Online Dating Told By The Experts! ft. Able JosephLet's face it: Online Dating is hard. The pandemic has made things even tougher. I spoke to a guy who helped setup a dating app and you will love this conversation! The Aisle app was launched in 2016 and Able calls it the right mix of a casual dating app and a matrimonial app. Able says that he started Aisle out of his own exasperation of the interfaces that a lot of matrimonial apps (where his parents forced him to be a member) had back in 2013. Able met his wife through Aisle, the dating app that he founded...

2021-12-0316 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay This Man Has Over 18,000 Comics In His Collection!Arun Prasad (46years) is a practicing Pannapictagraphist (Comic Archivist), history researcher, artist and freelance writer based in Bangalore. He began his career as a journalist and soon enough decided to dedicate his time exclusively to nurturing his lifelong obsession for collecting and preserving comics. His comic collection is a treasure in true sense, consisting of a wide range of Indian and Western comics books/strips with an exhaustive collection of many out of print comic books from various publishers in India. With his zeal for art and alternative genre films, he worked as an associate creative director for an a...

2021-12-0323 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay How Do We Solve Social Communication Inside The Gaming Industry?A lot of games have sexualisation of characters that put women gamers off or they face explicit harassment online. And this extends to racism for Asian, Hispanic and other gamers across borders. While there were companies looking to solve the problem, there was little really being done. How can we solve this? Gamestacy is a game developer studio that is working towards enhancing gaming experience for all users, regardless of gender, race, or class. In its early days, Bangalore-based Gamestacy was a part of few accelerators, where Danish was asked to focus his business around a particular...

2021-12-0321 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Is This India's Official No. 1 Fast Food? ft. Diksha PandeIf you had to pick.. what is a fast food that represents the entire length and breath of India? I think we might have found it. Bangalore-based startup Samosa Party, founded by Amit Nanwani and Diksha Pande, is building a D2C brand using one of India's most humble snacks – Samosa. They are on a mission to take Samosas to the world. They serve Hot and Crispy samosas in 15 varieties with freshly made condiments and accompaniments. With Samosa Party, the co-founders want to create a differentiated experience for the urban millennial customers who value convenience, hygiene, and qu...

2021-12-0310 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Meet The 'Young Wildlife Photographer Of The Year 2021'!Vidyun R Hebbar is a 10 years old Photographer. He has been clicking photographs since he was 3 years old. He’s passionate about macro photography, but also likes to click all sorts of pictures from birds to onions. He has learnt his photography skills from his father. He usually clicks photos in the beautiful gardens of Bangalore. He along with his father visit nearby parks to capture photographs of insects and bugs. He also likes to photograph in forest-like areas near his grandfather’s place in Sringeri. Vidyun has won the highly commended award in 10 years and under of W...

2021-12-0312 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay The 19 Year Old Helping Leverage The Power Of Opinions! ft. Nakshatra SanjaiLaunched in 2019 by 19-year-old Nakshatra Sanjai, noo-gah! is a gamified social media platform that rewards and encourages users to connect via two-minute opinion-driven videos. The platform aims to be a unified podium where everyone can come and voice their opinion, ushering in change — opinion by opinion. The idea was the outcome of a 22-year loyalty programme run by Nakshatra’s father, Sanjai Velayudhan, with global brands. That mostly included global airlines, premium hotel brands, retail behemoths etc. He has always been a proponent of a dialogue between brands and end-consumers. The opinion aggregator allows seamless sharing of opinions, thoughts, and...

2021-12-0314 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Leaving The Corporate World For Wildlife! ft. Suyash KeshariSuyash Keshari is a 25 year old wildlife presenter and filmmaker. Wildlife has fascinated him his entire life. It began at a very tender age of four, under the influence and tutelage of his late grandfather. He spent his childhood in the Central Indian States of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh where his affection for wildlife was ignited. What began as disgust for animals kept in captivity slowly transformed into love and thirst for learning about the last remaining wild places on our planet. In the summer of 2019, Suyash quit his Political Advocacy job in Washington D.C., USA, with one...

2021-12-0317 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay The Journey To Building India's Longest Racetrack ft. Shana ParmeshwarShana Parmeshwar is a pilot, motorcar racer, and an entrepreneur. Shana and her partner Anush Chakravarthi, are on the track to build India’s longest racing track of 5.5 km in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh. From circuits in Malaysia to Sweden to England, Shana has driven various race cars, including Volkswagen, Porsche, and Lamborghini. She is a well-known and popular figure in the automotive community, with a large following of her own. She was also an integral part of the K1000 rally between 2005 and 2009 in India. Shana moved to New Zealand for aviation training and has taken up opportunities of flying to...

2021-11-0716 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay How Is Technology Solving The Food Wastage Endemic In India? ft. Shriya KumarRoti Bank Foundation is a non-profit, tech-driven food rescue organization currently operating in 23 cities. One of the founding team members of the organization – Shriya Kumar, has developed the ‘Roti Bank Foundation’ application, which is now helping immensely in identifying hunger pockets and diverting surplus food to where there is none. Shriya Kumar – an investment banker, is a visionary towards adapting technology for solving India’s hunger problem. Her idea of mapping hunger pockets across the country for large-scale operations led to the app’s innovation. The app uses artificial intelligence to find out the hunger pockets. The app assesses the map of a...

2021-11-0718 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Want To Ace Bengaluru Slang? Listen To This Now!Slangaluru is a social media page started by Ikyatha Yerasala that’s teaching non-Bengalureans witty Kannada slang. To help her friends and others like them learn the local slang, Ikyatha started the social media pages in 2018. Slangaluru as of now has 9000+ followers on Instagram and 1000+ followers on Twitter. Though Ikyatha herself knows a fair bit of slang, she does not shy away from learning more words from other people. She also collaborates with illustrators to help people understand the meaning of these words through fun illustrations. She believes in clearly differentiating between witty slang and abusive slangs. Sl...

2021-11-0716 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay One Of India's First Young Opera Singers To Come Out of The Country ft. Pallavi Seth!Pallavi Seth is one of India’s first performers to specialize in this genre (opera). Delhi-bred Pallavi Seth is one of the first young opera singers to come out of the country. She moved to New York for a formal undergraduate degree in Opera and Vocal Performance from the prestigious Mannes School of Music. Her music journey started with learning technicalities of Hindustani classical music, but later on she developed interest in exploring more genres of music. Performances at the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall saw Seth transitioning from her passion for music to making it a profession. It wa...

2021-11-0718 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Bengaluru Now Has An Exclusive Green Solution For First & Last Mile Connectivity! ft. Kaaman Agarwal & Girish NagpalMetro lines have been plying in some of the top metro cities in India for some time now, but they are not yet accessible by many. Girish Nagpal and Kaaman Agarwal faced this problem not just in India, but on a global level. A resident of South Bengaluru, Girish faced this problem when he tried using the Namma Metro service from JP Nagar to reach his office in the CBD area. Surprisingly, his friend Kaaman Agarwal, who was based in the East Bay in California, also faced a similar issue while using BART (Metro rail...

2021-11-0721 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay India's Marketplace For Plant-Based Snacks & Foods Has Grown To Be A Mammoth Business! ft. Kirti YadavKuKClean is a marketplace for plant-based snacks, foods, and essentials founded in 2021 by Kirti Yadav. It all started, when Kirti wanted to make healthy plant-based and vegan food for her daughter. She and her husband, Akar started working together on this mission. While Akar focuses on Taste, Kirti (who is also a certified holistic nutritionist) focuses on nutrition. Having faced difficulties in sourcing healthy, vegan food products in Bangalore, Kirti started out on this journey of exploring vegan food and snacks and finding the best and healthy sources for them in Bangalore. To burst the myth of ‘he...

2021-11-0716 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Meet India's Fastest Female Motorcycle Racer!27-year-old Kalyani Potekar holds the record of being India’s fastest female motorcycle racer. She recently achieved the title with a record 2.08-minute lap on NCR’s Buddh International Circuit. This is the second time Kalyani Potekar has made the record by beating her previous record of 2.16 minutes atop a Ducati Panigale V4 superbike, proving that her only competition is herself. She belongs to a royal family that has always been into adventure sports. They exposed her to several sports, from horse riding to paragliding, skiing, etc. And the racing was technically passed on to her by her dad, who...

2021-11-0715 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Every Woman You Know Should Know How To Screen For Breast Cancer! ft. Dr. Jayanti ThumsiDr. Jayanti Thumsi is one of the very few lady surgeons specializing in Breast Oncology Surgery and women-related surgical problems. She has 21 years of experience in complete breast care with impressive training from some of the most prestigious institutions in India. Dr. Thumsi completed her MBBS and MS (General Surgery) from Grant Medical College and JJ group of Hospitals, Mumbai. She has also received Breast Oncology training from the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai (Breast Unit) and training in Breast Reconstruction Surgery. Her current area of focus remains in Breast related diseases and has performed over 3500 Breast surgeries...

2021-11-0714 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay World Vegan Day: Can You Create A Sustainable Business With Veganism?D2C brand Crave By Leena is one of the first vegan bakeries in Bengaluru, which makes cakes and desserts with gluten and sugar-free ingredients. The brand did a year of R&D to get the taste, aroma, and texture right, using substitutes from locally grown organic and sustainable businesses as much as possible. Leena Mathai always loved baking, which prompted her to take a professional baking course in Tafe in Sydney, Australia. She continued as a cake decorating artist at the renowned Sydney Baking Institute, Planet Cakes, under Paris Cutler's guidance in 2011. Her vegan cake journey...

2021-11-0711 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay The BIG Hurdle Mental Health Professionals Face In India ft. Shweta Srinivasan & Mani KumarThe biggest hurdle that mental health professionals face while using an online platform: COMMISSION. How can we solve this? A friend of Shweta Srinivasan, who identifies as queer, could not find a therapist they could talk openly to about their identity and how it may have impacted their mental well-being. Another woman had told her therapist about going through abortion only to get judged and never open up again. Shweta, who is also a professional therapist, had come across one too many cases of mental health professionals coming with judgements that do more...

2021-10-1717 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay This 70 Year Old Solo Traveller Will Leave You Wanting To Travel This Instant! ft. Sudha MahalingamSudha Mahalingam is a resident of Bengaluru and currently a full-time professor at a reputed think-tank. She has always believed in real travel, which she has been indulging in, for as far as she can remember. Not any aspect of her personal life or professional life spanning over 35 years, could come in the way of her travels through 66 countries on the map, some multiple times. She believes that her career in fact fueled, funded, and enabled her travel journeys to a great extent. Most of her travels have been solo – but she does company from time to time. For he...

2021-10-1718 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Why Is Discussing Mental Health Such A Problem For India? ft. Priyanka M.B.Inspiron, India’s first Psychological well-being café transforms the way mental healthcare is accessed and delivered. Their Tech-driven solution model and team of mental health experts address the entire gamut of mental health conditions through scientifically proven methods. Inspiron’s expression- based approach also entails art, dance, music, theatre into therapy. This has been leveraged by more than 2, 00,000 people through individual therapy sessions, educational institutions and corporate enterprises. Their goal is to impact 5 million lives in the next 5 years. Priyanka believes that unfulfilled childhood memories and dreams are the driving forces that shape our personality. Based on psych...

2021-10-1714 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Meet India's Fourteen Year Old Palaeontologist! ft. Aswatha BijuIndia’s youngest palaeontologist, Aswatha Biju loves to learn new things. For the past four years, the 14-year-old has been teaching palaeontology lessons to school and college students. The youngster has now added another feather to her cap. She has collected 136 fossils and is officially India's Youngest Palaeontologist! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gmbwithkay/message

2021-10-1715 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Is Online Counselling and Therapy The Way To Solve Mental Health Infrastructure In The Country?The Mood Space, is an online counseling platform catering to mental health needs with utmost confidentiality, convenience, and affordability. Founded in 2019 by Vidhi Tamboli and Rhea Sawhney these virtual services enable people to seek help from the comforts of their home via audio, video & text support sessions. With the help of The Mood Space, Vidhi Tamboli and Rhea Sawhney aim to build a mentally healthy generation that sees no stigma. The brand strives towards adopting a hybrid model where automation and coordinates work hand-in-hand to support the client and therapist's needs. --- Send in a voice message...

2021-10-0817 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Can Young Graduates Make A Mark In The Professional World?The CEO Rally’s mission is to empower young creatives to build powerful personal brands to help create a renowned name for themselves and what they do. We have had engaging talks at NIFT, Wipro, and PESU over the month. Harshita is a Communication Design Graduate, who graduated in the middle of the 2020 and began freelancing and working with several advertising agencies in New York. During this time, she realized that she wanted to build a brand that she could call her own, and lead creative projects. She currently is a consultant at Estée Lauder alongside runn...

2021-10-0815 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Is Co-Parenting The New Trend For Divorced Parents?Sheela Balan is a practising counselling psychologist from Bangalore, India. From a very young age her ambition and goal was to get into the world of psychology and be a therapist. After her bachelor’s degree at Mount Carmel College in Bangalore, she had a short stint in the corporate world before pursuing my Master’s program. Her one to one private counselling sessions focuses on rapport building, effective communication, creating an environment of acceptance & empathy, inculcating self-awareness and multicultural competence, equipping those in question with problem-solving skills while inhabiting a compassionate and approachable space, irrespective of the curve balls...

2021-10-0816 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Is Multi-Layered Plastic Killing India Slowly?Ricron Panels is an innovation-driven company from India, that converts low-value plastic waste into quality sustainable materials for furniture, building, and construction applications, The company has received commendable recognition and awards such as the Nestle Creating Shared Value (CSV) Prize. Ricron Panels has previously also been presented with the prestigious "Climate Solver Award 2019" for Technology and Innovation by The World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) and "WE SDG Empowerment Award" by the United Nations. Ricron Panels manufactures sustainable building materials for furniture, building, roofing and construction applications, and is becoming a top choice among architects, builders, developers and consumers.

2021-10-0813 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Do Young Indians Need A Guide To Sex?Niyati Sharma is committed to empowering the youth to make informed decisions and has been working in the domain of sexuality education in India for the past three years. Recipient of the 2021 Diana, Princess of Wales Award, she has led diverse educational and awareness centric interventions at Pratisandhi Foundation, impacting over 15,000 young minds. She has authored a book, Under The Carpet, that gives us the sex-Ed we all needed growing up. Her work has been featured in Forbes and Femina India among other notable platforms. Her book, Under The Carpet, is a glimpse into comprehensive s...

2021-10-0814 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Is The Future Of Partying 'House Parties'? ft. Shrinivas ShindeShrinivas Shinde was waiting for his Uber ride one Friday evening in LA in 2016 and he chanced upon a group of young people with bags full of beverages going to a house party. This brought a sense of nostalgia and the eureka moment for his startup Playace, which aims to be the Airbnb for house parties. Launched in 2017, the Mumbai-based platform connects people looking to attend house parties with those willing to host one. It has now enabled more than 1000 house parties across major cities in India. The idea, Shrinivas says, is to create real-time...

2021-10-0815 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay The Nine Year Old Who 'Wow-ed' Alicia Keys!When a TikTok user who goes by the name "Danny B" hosted an online talent show, he probably wasn't expecting to be blown away by a nine-year-old, but Megan Rakesh, from Bengaluru, managed to do just that. Megan, who has been singing with her father since she was two, took everyone by surprise with her rendition of Fallin' by Alicia Keys. Footage that has gone massively viral online shows the talent show hosts reacting in shock and surprise as the nine-year-old girl began singing, while her father accompanied her on the guitar. Her powerful rendition of the Alicia Keys...

2021-10-0818 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay The Cyclist Travelling India And Feeding The Hungry!Philem Rohan Singh is a 24-year-old social activist who cycles across India to feed the poor amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Through his “Feeding the Hungry” campaign, Philem Rohan Singh cycled from Kolkata to Delhi, covering Chennai and Bengaluru, to feed the poor amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. During his first cycling excursion called “Pollution Free India” in January 2018 from Delhi to Imphal, he spread awareness on how people can contribute towards a cleaner and healthier environment and make a pollution-free society for the next generations. About a year ago, when the pandemic was at its peak, Rohan started a 'Feeding the Hung...

2021-10-0817 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Indie Artist Spotlight: Peekay!Creative minds often collaborate with others on the same wavelength as them, in order to bring their vision to life. When Hyderabad-based singer Peekay aka Pranati Khanna, planned the release of her new single ‘You Don’t Have To’, she immediately knew she wanted the clothes she adorned for the video, to be from the sustainable, made-from-waste label Cancelled Plans, also based in Hyderabad. The final result is a striking and creative look that makes a strong impression. Check out conversation with her! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gmbwithkay/messag

2021-10-0813 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Do Kids Need To Focus On Emotional Intelligence At All? Ft. Juhi SharmaJuhi Sharma is the founder of Light Up (EMF) and Unbottle Emotions. She is also an entrepreneur and educator. Light Up is one of the first few social ventures that is focusing on harnessing the emotional intelligence (EI) of children, parents and, teachers by developing their social and emotional competencies, and providing them with tools necessary to form a cohesive, collaborative, non-violent, and caring community. Unbottle Emotions, which is an extension of Light Up (EMF) hosts workshops that are experiential in nature and all about addressing one’s emotional health. Unbottle Emotions focuses on advocacy and awareness of...

2021-10-0818 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Do You Believe In The Supernatural? Meet India's Paranormal Activity Investigator!Jay Alani is a renowned Indian full-time paranormal investigator. He has investigated over 100 haunted locations like Bhangarh fort, Kuldhara, Lambi Dehar Mines in Mussoorie, etc. Jay Alani’s podcast ‘Paranormal Reality’ streaming over popular platforms like Gaana, Spotify, iTunes, Wynk etc. has been heard over 12 Million times and counting. He has also created a two-season non-fiction horror web-series ‘Dark Destinations’ streaming on the OTT platform ‘Watcho’. Jay Alani’s book ‘Haunted’ co-authored by Neil D’ Silva and published by Penguin India, talks about his real-life encounters with ghosts and spirits. He has also initiated a paranormal volunteer programme targeting over 1000 volunteers i...

2021-10-0813 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Abused Homeless Animals Get A Home Away From Home!The NGO, Humane World For Animals was founded by Nikitha and co-founded by Bindu Rani, Shivendra Prathap Singh, and Akash Kumar as a rescue and rehabilitation centre for sick, injured, and abused homeless animals. It is working to create a compassionate community by encouraging people to take care of the animals in their surroundings. The organisation is also working on animal birth control and an anti-rabies vaccination programme for stray dogs. It also started its own veterinary clinic for pets where a basic fee is charged for the services. The profits from this clinic are used for the...

2021-10-0816 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Bangalore Boys Score Big At The Great Himalayan Ultra Race!Four Cyclists from Bangalore: Raghu Reddy, Rajaneesh KN, Vaibhav Shinde & Shankar, make up for the only team from Karnataka to have conquered the 3rd edition of The Great Himalayan Ultra Race brought together by Inspire India, which started on the 11th of September, 2021. The Great Himalayan Ultra Race is the World’s highest Ultracycle race - A 600 km road race starting and finishing in Leh, Ladakh. It comprises solo and relay team categories. Solo is a RAAM Qualifier for racers, finishing within the cut-off will qualify for The Race Across America. The Relay team category is RAAM style. The Rac...

2021-10-0815 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay India's First Microlight Flying Instructor!Audrey Maben set a record for being the only woman in India to fly solo for 2400 kms in 5 days on a Microlight. In 1993-94 she was adjudged All India Best Glider Pilot at The Republic Day Parade. She went on to qualify as a private pilot. She co-founded aero sports firms, Mysore Aero sports Pvt. Limited and Bangalore Airports Pvt Limited. She is also a mother and an educator. She set a record in the the Air Race 2003 being the only woman flying as Pilot in Command, solo. In 2008, she became India’s first Microlight flying instructor. She logged 1,100 hour...

2021-10-0820 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay How Can Tech Help Bridge The Inadequcies In The Indian Health Sector ft. Amit SingalIn 2019, a year before the pandemic, entrepreneurs Amit Singal and Amit Vyas had started working on the digital transformation of the healthcare sector. Nexus Healthtech — popularly known by its product name Maatri — is a digital health platform to help mothers track the health of their children along with other family members. It provides health-related update information, health monitoring, teleconsultation, and maintains health records, among others. Maatri is divided into several segments. The CEO explains that it helps mothers with children less than five years to track their growth as per the World Health Organisation (WHO) standards. It acts as a...

2021-10-0818 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Are Indians Still Fixated On Skin Colour? ft. Kavitha EmmanuelThe Dark Is Beautiful campaign was started in 2009, by Women Of Worth, a non-profit based in India, as an awareness and advocacy campaign to fight colourism. It seeks to draw attention to the unjust effects of skin colour bias, shaped by societal attitudes and reinforced by media messages that are corroding the self-worth of countless people, young and old. In the 10 years since its inception, the Dark Is Beautiful campaign has gained international recognition and garnered support from celebrities and recognition and mention in various major media publications in India and around the world.

2021-09-1817 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Do The Youth Hold The Key To New Age Storytelling? ft. Manan KathuriaManan Kathuria is a Golden Youth for Child Rights Award 2018 winner for his short film 'Chiraiya Chaahe Aasmaan' at the Jharkhand Children Film Festival 2018, presented by UNICEF and Prabhat Khabar. His Second Short film, 'Kon Shudh, Kon Ashudh?' has bagged two International Selections at the Lift-Off Network, 2019. Manan is a 100% Scholarship holder, as a B.A. (Journalism and Mass Communication) student at Amity University, Noida with an experience of over 5 years in the field of Film Production, Photography and Writing. He is always travelling in different directions of life. The journey includes some artistic and aesthetic roa...

2021-09-1818 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Can AI Replace 'Managing Everyday Tasks'? ft. Madhavi ShankarIn this era of technological advancements where there is an app for almost everything, managing everyday tasks and communication within student housing facilities or hostels should be a seamless process. However, most hostels and student housing communities follow archaic methods of data management, reporting, maintenance of paper records, and other standard practices. These old school methods result in ineffective and chaotic operations and communication between educators, students, parents and hostel administrators. In addition to this, due to these manual processes, key decision makers at educational institutions do not have the required data driven insights for forward planning, leading to ve...

2021-09-1318 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay How To Break Through Stagnation By Chasing Your Passion ft. Sangeetha JairamFor 50-year-old Sangeetha Jairam, yoga instructor and motorcyclist, life’s lessons have always been through motorcycle metaphors. She got her adventure streak while growing up in the hills of Kodagu (formerly Coorg) and the motorcycle bug from her motorcyclist father, who, by the way, rode his BMW R25 all the way from Munich to India in the 1960s. Following in his footsteps, she learned to ride on the classic bike while she was still in her teens. Sangeetha lives in Udhagamandalam (formerly Ooty) and teaches yoga to young children at The Lawrence School, Lovedale, the same school she went to...

2021-09-1316 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Indians HATE Talking about Sexual & Reproductive Health.. But Why? ft. Achitha JacobMany women across India hesitate to seek help when it comes to their menstrual, reproductive and sexual health. For some, it’s the absence of a trusted physician but for many, it’s the uneasy and judgmental questions on marital status, pregnancy termination and pre-marital sex that they are asked. From puberty to menopause, women are exposed to a number of health risks during their lifetime. The stigma attached to seeking help has stopped many women from being proactive in managing their menstrual, sexual and reproductive health issues. Proactive For Her was founded with an aim to empow...

2021-09-1316 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Is Emotional Intelligence Really THAT Important? ft. Nitin D.C.Nitin D.C. is a professional coach certified by the ICF and is a leadership development expert at Samsung. He is a post-graduate in Human Resources Management, a graduate in Mechanical Engineering with a post-graduate certificate in Advanced Software Engineering. He has been working for 15 years at Samsung Research in Bangalore. Recently, he was interviewed on America Tonight with the Emmy-award-winning journalist, Kate Delaney. His book is called "Human Connect Through Emotional Intelligence". This book is for any reader irrespective of the field of work or background they come from. It is a book written straight from...

2021-09-1314 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Drones Are Solving The Mosquito Menace And Covid-19 Pandemic In Chennai.. But How? ft. K. Senthil KumarThe Greater Chennai Corporation on Saturday started using drones, on an experimental basis, to spray larvicide along the waterbodies to control the mosquito menace. The civic body was collaborating with Dr. Kalam Advanced UAV Research Centre on the MIT campus of Anna University for this activity. Corporation Commissioner Gagandeep Singh Bedi and other senior officials monitored the spraying through drones along the Cooum near Langs Garden Road on Saturday. With the help of drones, he said that spraying of the anti-larval oil can be done in a faster and safer manner. K. Senthil...

2021-08-2013 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay What Does It Mean To Be 'Bangalored'? ft. Gayatri ChandrasekharanBangalored explores the fledgling romance between the protagonists in the backdrop of Bangalore. Radha Iyer is battling to make her mark in the male-dominated world of the IT industry as she straddles the two worlds of traditional and modern India. She is fiercely independent and has strong views on things she cares about. When she works on a big sales deal for the sake of a friend, she encounters James Rutherford, devilishly handsome, infuriatingly superior and blatantly flirtatious. James Rutherford is visiting India from England on work. Circumstances throw him together with Radha Iyer, a...

2021-08-2014 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay 'Ishq' Is In The Air! ft. Saba AzadSix directors have come together to roll out a new Netflix series, Feels Like Ishq, to show us what love feels like with relatable and heartwarming episodes. The anthology series streamed on Netflix on July 23. I caught up with Saba to chat about it all! Saba Azad is an Indian actress, theatre director and musician. She is one half of Mumbai-based electro funk duo Madboy/Mink. Saba is known for her leading role in the romantic comedy film Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge (2011). The film was a sleeper hit in India, gaining a cult following among college students all over...

2021-08-2019 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Making Public Healthcare Affordable & Accessible For India ft. Anshuman SahooIndia is the largest provider of generic medicines globally, and the Indian pharmaceutical sector supplies over 50 percent of global demand for various vaccines. Globally, India ranks third in terms of pharmaceutical production by volume and 14th by value. However, despite this, the pharmaceutical supply chain in the country has been underutilised and scattered, according to 23-year-old Anshuman Sahoo. To solve this problem, Anshuman, along with his friend Ashish Rawat, started Impact Health in 2020. The startup aims to connect end-to-end points in the public healthcare system and make it affordable and accessible for everyone, especially for...

2021-08-2018 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Is The Coding World In For A "No-Code App Development" Revolution? ft. Gautam NimmagaddaQuixy is a cloud-based no-code application development platform that allows business users with no coding skills to automate workflows & processes, and build enterprise-grade applications, using simple drag and drop design, ten times faster compared to the traditional approach. Quixy provides dozens of pre-built solutions for various sector from education to finance and FMGC to Tech. Quixy, an industry and department agnostic, no-code platform is a tool that can be used to build and develop software applications without the need for coding or having to hire a software developer. While digital transformation doesn’t happen overnight, no-code platforms can help financ...

2021-08-2018 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay India Rising: How This Mother-Son Duo Raised Over 50Lac in Covid-19 Relief ft. Varun & Purnima AgarwalMayank Agarwal was just 29 when he breathed his last at one of Bengaluru's hospitals last month. He had been put on a ventilator as his condition deteriorated after he tested positive for COVID-19. After battling the virus for 20 days, he passed away on April 26. An enterprising young man, Mayank had a beautiful life with a flourishing career, a loving family, and countless friends. Always ready to extend a helping hand, he was the go-to person in a crisis. When he contracted the disease, his family had to bear witness to the trials and tribulations, making headlines, of people burning...

2021-08-1320 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Aditi Ashok At The Olympics & The Future of Golf in India ft. Tarun SardesaiIndian Golfer Aditi Ashok mesmerized the nation with a brilliant show at the Tokyo Olympics 2020. Holding the position of World No. 200, she entered the top 5 in the women's individual stroke play on Saturday and missed a medal by a whisker to finish 4th. Aditi Ashok narrowly missed out on being the first Indian golfer to win an Olympic medal in the women's individual stroke play of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 on Saturday. When the fourth and final round got underway on Saturday morning, the Bangalore golfer had maintained her second position and was just behind USA's Nelly Korda. As...

2021-08-0915 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay 'Feels Like Ishq' With Sanjeeta BhattacharyaWith the theatres being closed, over the top platforms have seen a boom in content, be it regional or mainstream. With the constrain of earning big at the box office gone, and the audience being more accepting of actors who are not popular stars, it has given filmmakers the push to experiment with brave stories. Stories that would otherwise have been unfeasible to show on the big screen. And the production of anthology series has taken this whole process of telling risky stories a step further. So here we have collated a list of such features from within some...

2021-08-0813 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Tokyo Calls Niranjan Mukundan!Para swimmer Niranjan Mukundan has been granted a bi-partite quota for the upcoming Tokyo Paralympics, the national governing body said on Tuesday. The International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) decision to offer a quota place to Mukundan would mean that India will have two para swimmers in its 54-member contingent, the largest ever. Niranjan Mukundan is an award-winning professional para-swimmer who was born with Spina Bifida, a neural tube defect which affects the spine, leaving him paralyzed below the hips. In 2018 Mukundan won a bronze medal in men's 50m butterfly at the Berlin World Series, and created an Asian r...

2021-08-0513 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Bengaluru student wins Oxford award for effort to make portable energy affordable! ft. Prerna WadikarPrerna Wadikar, a student who hails from Bengaluru, has won the Vice Chancellor’s Social Impact Award at the University of Oxford. The recognition was for her work in making portable energy access more affordable by developing a technological model using a lithium-ion battery. The technology developed by her resembles a power bank that can be charged using either a solar panel or an electric grid, both embedded in the device itself. She also highlighted that the device was less than 500 grams heavy and that a daisy chain of 10 such units could even generate power to run a...

2021-08-0512 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Swimming Into The Olympics with Hakimuddin Shabbir Habibulla!As we enjoy all the Olympic action.. Hakim joins me on the show to talk about his experience at the Olympics when he represented India years ago. Hakimuddin Shabbir Habibulla (born 25 September 1979) is an Indian former swimmer, who specialized in middle-distance freestyle events. He represented India at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and later became a co-founder of GoSports India Pvt. Ltd., a sports management company based in Bangalore. He was also the Founder Trustee of the GoSports Foundation. Habibulla competed only in the men's 200 m freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He received a Universality place from FI...

2021-08-0527 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Can Your Data Be Hacked If You Fill Out An Online Form? ft. Wilson BrightEver since the internet came into existence, digital privacy has been a battle. Whether it is securing companies from cyber threats or protecting individual’s information from data breaches and data leaks, the fight has been hard. It becomes all the more critical when collecting sensitive data on surveys like mental health, sexual health, activism, and others. Although there are platforms like Google Forms, Survey Monkey, and TypeForm, among others, the data here is stored in an unencrypted manner in a centralised database, increasing the vulnerability. Bengaluru-based startup BlockSurvey looks to make a disruption here. La...

2021-08-0514 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Is Cheesecake Overrated? ft. Khushboo GuptaAlthough the original Cheesecake Day was conceived and first celebrated in 1985, it didn’t really take off until 2001 when the power of the internet helped its cause. It then gained traction and became a sensation that is now celebrated all over the world. Dating back to its invention by the Ancient Greeks, probably around 200 A.D., cheesecake was believed to have been one of the first “sweet” desserts in the world. Or at least, it was one of the first to be written down. In its earlier time, this dish was originally made from a soft cheese but was probabl...

2021-08-0511 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Just Keep Swimming.. Into The Olympics! ft. Nisha MilletNisha Millet (Head Coach & Founder) is one of the most recognized names in Indian swimming with a career spanning 15 years and more than 600 gold medals to her credit. A brief summary of her achievements are as follows: -First Indian swimmer to qualify for the Olympics in 200 mtrs freestyle and represented India at the 2000 Sydney Olympics - Awards won - Arjuna Award (2000), Rajyotsava Award (2001), Ekalavya Award (2002), - Represented India at the World Swimming Championships(1998 & 2004), Asian Games (1998), SAF games (1999), Australian Nationals (2003 & 2004) With the Olympics at hand, I spoke with her and what a fun chat that...

2021-07-3128 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Ex-Olympic Shooter From India on Tokyo 2020 ft. Prakash NanjappaPrakash Nanjappa (born 29 February 1976) is an Indian shooter who competes in the 10 metre air pistol and 50 metre pistol events. He was the only Indian to win a medal in the 2013 ISSF World Cup, when he won bronze with a very minor difference between the second place in 10 metre air pistol event in Changwon, South Korea. In the same event, he won the silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Nanjappa won a bronze medal in the 2013 ISSF World Cup in Changwon, South Korea, in the 10 metre air pistol event having scored 180.2 points in the final. In the same...

2021-07-3121 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Two Olympians From India Sailing Into Tokyo 2020 ft. KC Ganapathy and Varun ThakkarThe team of KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar will aim to create history when they take part in the 49er event. The duo had also qualified at the Oman event. They had made it to the Tokyo Games after topping their field. The team of Ganapathy and Thakkar had won a bronze medal at the Asian Games 2018 in the 49er event. Spoke to them on the show and what a fun bit of conversation! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gmbwithkay/message

2021-07-3112 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Cyclists To The Rescue ft. Sathya Sankaran & Relief Riders (Kay's Spotlight)How are cyclists making a difference in Bengaluru in the second wave of Covid-19? Well, they're trying to save lives in their own way! I sat down with Sathya Sankaran, the 'Bicycle Mayor of Bengaluru', to discuss the same! A group of cyclists in the city, Relief Riders, have come to the rescue of senior citizens who are forced to stay indoors during the lockdown to curb the second wave of Covid-19.As Karnataka tackles the second wave of coronavirus, many are finding it difficult to get access to medicines and other essentials. That has inspired a...

2021-06-0813 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Bengaluru is running out of water?!? ft. Ganesh Shanbhag & Dr. Hariharan Chandrashekar(Kay's Spotlight)Bengaluru has been reported to be one of the top water-scarce cities in India. With a population of 120 lakh, the city uses 200 crore litres of water every day. The usage is at the household level, commercial levels such as for construction, and in educational and office spaces. I spoke to Ganesh Shanbhag & Dr. Hariharan Chandrashekar on the show to speak about the problems and real solutions to the same. To help the city save water, replenish water sources, and reduce the money spent on purchasing resources, Dr. Hariharan has launched a collective citizen initiative called the World...

2021-06-0416 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay A 14 year old best-selling author?!?!? ft. Prabhsimrat Gill (Kay's Spotlight)Can a 14 year old inspire you to live better? I think this little kid just inspired me and I hope he inspires you! This young author made it into the Asia Book of Records for being the youngest non-fiction self-published author! Meet Prabhsimrat Gill, a Class VIII student from Oakridge International School, Mohali, whose first self-published non-fiction book – Explore the New YOU — has set a world record. He made it into the Asia Book of Records for being the youngest non-fiction self-published author. Earlier, he broke the national record for the same in OMG Book of Records. This...

2021-05-2813 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay A Dream That Happened Because of Healthy Snacking ft. Rukmini Banerji (Kay's Spotlight)What inspires an entrepreneur to follow their dream? Is it all about solving one simple problem? Meeting the Mommy-Lawyer turning heads in the healthy snacking space! Mumbai-based Rukmini Banerji started The Growing Giraffe in 2018 to make healthy, nutritious snacks for children but adults don’t shy away from their cookies and health bars either. In this day and age of social media marketing, Rukmini has so far managed to stay away from spending money on marketing. What amazed me about this story is that her entrepreneurial journey began from a place of total honesty- her son. I ho...

2021-05-2713 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay Earning Millions Through Whatsapp ft. Shanmuga Priya(Kay's Spotlight)Have you struggled in making money in the lockdown? Using WhatsApp, this woman has been selling sarees over three years and slowly built a band of more than 2,000 resellers. Social media is a double-edged sword. Use it right and it can cut the crap and reward you. That is what Shanmuga Priya found when she started using Whatsapp to sell sarees online. In three years, she has sold sarees worth $400,000, says a study by WhatsApp. Not only has she brought prosperity to her life, but she has also empowered many women struggling to make ends meet by making them...

2021-05-2515 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay International Day For Biological Diversity ft. Dr. Krithi Karanth (Kay's Spotlight)What should we be doing to conserve or biological diversity? Is there any point in doing it? Are we too late? Why should we bring kids into it? On International Day for Biological Diversity, I sat down with Dr Krithi K Karanth, Chief Conservation Scientist at Bengaluru-based Centre for Wildlife Studies (CWS), to understand all this. She has been chosen as the first Indian and Asian woman for the 2021 'WILD Innovator Award'. This award given by the 'WILD ELEMENTS Foundation' brings together a coalition of innovators, advocates and partners to "disrupt the status quo and identify solutions...

2021-05-2415 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay A First-Hand Account of the 26/11 Terror Attacks on National Anti-Terrorism Day ft. Varsha Talreja Kansara (Kay's Spotlight)"We were a group of eight friends celebrating one of our friend’s birthday and.." That's how it all started. Varsha Talreja Kansara recalls what it was like on the fateful day of the 26/11 terrorist attacks in Mumbai. She was very close to the the Taj while it happened and was sweet enough to share her story with me on account of National Anti-Terrorism Day. Her voice was breaking at points and she was extremely nervous as she recalled the entire thing. I truly admire her for sharing her story so openly with me. When we...

2021-05-2115 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay The 26 Year Old Feeding The Homeless In A Pandemic ft. Shreyas M. Reddy (Kay's Spotlight)Shreyas M Reddy is an amazing human from Bangalore you have to hear about! He's 26 years old and is out everyday on the streets of Bangalore feeding the homeless as India buckles under the pressures of the second wave of Covid-19. Why does he do it? Where did it all begin? How can you be a part of it! Well, listen to find out! Make his story known to more people! Share it! "Project Seva" is what Shreyas calls it and with the help of more people, he feels we can strongly achieve #BeyondZeroHunger. Contact...

2021-05-2013 min

Good Morning, Bangalore with Kay The 100k Deeds Challenge ft. Bindu & Ambi Subramaniam (Kay's Spotlight)Brother sister duo from the SaPa Academy, Bindu & Ambi Subramaniam joined me on the show and I hope you love the conversation! In 2017, SaPa started the 10,000 deeds campaign with UNICEF partner organisations. The idea was to take small steps to achieve the bigger Sustainable Development Goals (for instance, if the SDG is eliminating poverty, some smaller steps you can take are donating clothes in good condition regularly). In 2020, the team from MUN Impact scaled this project to the 100,000 deeds challenge open to kids across the world. This summer, they are working with s...

2021-05-1912 min

Off Air with Kay Ep. 6: The World As We See It ft. Shraddha SrinathIf there was one thing you could change about a generation of people, what would it be? Is the problem with us or with varied ideologies about the upbringing of kids? These are just some of the questions we touch upon in this episode of ‘Off Air with Kay’ as we speak to Indian Film Actress and eternal optimist, Shraddha Srinath. To the world, Shraddha is a lawyer turned actress who first made her debut in the Kannada hit film, 'U-Turn' directed by Pawan Kumar. Since then, she has starred in many Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam films. Shraddha Srinath is k...

2021-05-0950 min

Off Air with Kay Ep. 5: Just 'Wing It'!Ever believed that "spontaneity" is an art that can be learned? Know someone who is constantly "winging it"? If you stumble, make it part of the dance! 'Go with the flow', you hear them say, but how? In this episode, we discover some essential secrets to 'winging it' and prepared spontaneity, and how you should embrace it to lead a fuller and more fulfilling life. Another episode of "Off Air with Kay" is LIVE! So get with the flow, hit that play/follow button and come join the family! I'm sure you'll enjoy this one!...

2021-04-1821 min

Off Air with Kay Ep. 4: The Silver Lining ft. Madhuri BraganzaHave you ever been in a horrible situation and tried to see the good in it? Struggled and then gave up? 'The Silver Lining' in a situation is a myth, right? Or is it? If you've been a person who has consistently focused on the dark clouds rather than "The Silver Lining", my guest on the podcast will really help you with that! To the world, Madhuri Braganza is a Malayalam & Kannada movie star; She is a special educator, has a huge love for music, the stage and cats! To me, Madhuri is someone whom I first met when we...

2021-04-1149 min

Off Air with Kay Ep. 3: GratitudeDo you have gratitude in you or is it learned? Do you wish to cultivate gratitude in your life, but you don't know how and where to start? Is the grass always greener on the other side? Well, your brain can be trained to think, learn and believe ANYTHING you want it to! Don't believe me? Listen to this podcast NOW to find out how! In this episode of 'Off Air with Kay', Kasturi and I deep dive into one of my most favourite emotions on the entire spectrum: Gratitude! Looking for a reason to be smile today? You're...

2021-04-0320 min

Off Air with Kay Ep. 2: Ideas Of Love feat. RJ PrithviDo you believe in 'love'? We all have different views on love we don't talk about openly. Could that be the reason that the institutions of love, marriage, sex and relationships are so fragmented? On this episode of 'Off Air With Kay', I speak to Bangalore radio legend, RJ Prithvi! He opens up about his two marriages, his two divorces and the different ideas of love prevalent in the world today. Whether you know Prithvi or not, whether you know me and my language of love, or not - this episode will speak to you regardless, on a level...

2021-02-0743 min

Off Air with Kay Ep. 1: Uncharted Territory“It takes courage to go into unchartered territory and look for really new solutions” Episode 1 of Off Air with Kay traverses the path we're all walking simultaneously, and one that is pretty much undivulged - that of life, of purpose and of meaning. Through narrations of touching and inspiring stories of persons that paved their own way into uncharted territories, Kay explores simple truths of taking risks into the unknown leading to imaginative intellect and self-discovery. Maybe you're not lost.. maybe you are undiscovered. When was the last time you did something for the first time...

2021-01-2325 min

SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE with Vinay Kumar Ep 5: Kay Machado 'RJ Kay' on the Art of Staying PositiveSend us a textIn the ongoing turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become essential, more than ever, to stay positive and keep moving forward, because move forward, we must. So, we decided to invite someone who keeps not only himself in the best of spirits, day in and day out, but an entire city! Catch Vinay in conversation with Kay Machado, the award-winning host of Radio One 94.3 FM’s daily morning show, ‘Good Morning, Bangalore’. [00:14s] Quote of the Day [01:01s] In conversation with Kay...

2020-07-0232 min