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Prakash Wakankar reflects on his 30-year cricket commentary journey and the upcoming T20 World Cup
Welcome to yet another episode of Shortcast Over Coffee. Today, my guest is Prakash Wakankar. Prakash has been a familiar voice on radio across the world for over 30 y...
How Ati Motors is bringing autonomous moving robots to industry floors ft Saurabh Chandra of Puliyabaazi
Today, I'm excited to have Saurabh Chandra join me. Saurabh co hosts the famous podcast puliyabaazi with Pranay Kotasthane. This episode, however, is all going to be a...
The Chitale Bandhu story : Going global with Indian sweets and Bakarwadi and ft Indraneel Chitale
Today, I'm thrilled to have Indraneel Chitale join me. Indraneel is the managing partner of Chitale Bandhu Mithaiwale, a company with an annual turnover exceeding 200 ...
Understanding India through data: The Data for India project ft Rukmini S
Today, my guest is Rukmini S. Rukmini is an independent data journalist based in Chennai. She and her team have built DataForIndia.com, which aims to expand everyone’s...
Praan.io is cleaning the air we breathe : How Angad Daryani built his climate tech startup
Today, my guest is Angad Daryani. Angad is the founder of Praan.io, a deep tech startup bringing clean air to corporate spaces and homes. Praan’s products Hive and Mac...
Guy Kawasaki on working with Steve Jobs, Remarkable people and life lessons
oday, I'm delighted to have Guy Kawasaki as my guest. Guy is the Chief Evangelist of Canva and the host of the Remarkable People Podcast. With a remarkable career jour...
Ep 75 Ek Cup Chai ho Jaye : 'Tea'totalism with Scientist Ajit Bhaskar
Today my guest is Tea Scientist Ajit Bhaskar. Ajit has been researching on tea for over a decade. Ajit is also a marathon runner, a podcast host and a foodie. In thi...
Ep 74 Raffi Krikorian on Twitter, Uber, AI policy and ethics
Today, my guest is Raffi Krikorian. Raffi has had a distinguished career in tech, a career most would dream of. He graduated from MIT and went on to work in senior lea...
How Climate Change AI is addressing the hardest problem of our times using machine learning ft Utkarsha Agwan
My guest today is Utkarsha Agwan. Utkarsha is a core team member of Climate Change AI, a global nonprofit that catalyzes impactful work at the intersection of climate ...
Ep 72 How Voltpost is transforming the urban EV charging infrastructure ft Luke Mairo and Jeff Prosserman
Today my guests are the co founders of the startup Voltpost Jeff Prosserman and Luke Maira. Voltpost is a hardware-as-a-service company that transforms lampposts into ...
Ep 71 How Ridepanda is changing urban mobility and sustainable transportation in the US ft Chinmay and Charlie
Today, my guests are Chinmay Malaviya and Charlie Depman, the co-founders of the exciting startup Ridepanda. Ridepanda is a digital platform offering e-bikes, e-scoote...
Ep 70 Akash Banerjee ( The Deshbhakt) on the 2024 elections, Pran-Pratishtha and 9 years of Modiji
Today my guest is Akash Banerjee. Akash is political and social satirist. He established and hosts #TheDeshbhakt, recognized as India's most influential and widely vie...
Ep 69 Gaurav Mittal on the Politics of Urban Transportation in India
Today my guest is Gaurav Mittal. Gaurav Mittal is a Researcher in Mobility Governance. His research interests lie at the intersections of urban transformations, politi...
Ep 68 Andrew Revkin on reporting for the New York Times, Amazon Rainforests and the obsession of startups over Carbon Capture
Today my guest is Andrew Revkin. Andrew is best known for his groundbreaking work at The New York Times, where he covered climate change and environmental issues, brin...
Ep 67 David Roberts (Volts Podcast) on Moving away from Fossil Fuels, Climate Policy and the Inflation Reduction Act
Today's guest is David Roberts, an influential writer and communicator on clean energy and climate change policy. David Roberts has spent over 15 years covering energy...
Ep 66 Karthik Kumar on Evam and Aansplaining
Today my guest is Karthik Kumar. Karthik is an actor, director, writer, standup comedian, and an entrepreneur. He is the well known founder of Evam. He has acted in po...
Ep 65 Dr. Taya Cohen on the Truth about Honesty in Relationships and Workplace
Dr. Taya Cohen, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Business Ethics at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. An award-winning research...
Ep 64 Apar Gupta on his fight for Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality and Privacy Protection
Today my guest is Apar Gupta. Apar Gupta is a lawyer who serves as the executive director of the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), a nongovernmental organization that...
Ep 63 Clinton Cerejo and Bianca Gomes, aka The Shor Police on Independent Music, AR Rahman and Coke Studio
Today, my guests are Clinton Cerejo and Bianca Gomes of the band Shor Police. The duo has composed music for notable recent movies like "Jane Jaan," "Bob Biswas," and ...
Ep 62 Nathan Goodman on Climate Migration
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Ep 61 Pranay Kotasthane from Puliyabaazi talks about Semiconductors and Geopolitics
Today my guest is Pranay Kotasthane. Pranay is deputy director of the Takshashila Institution and chairs the High Tech Geopolitics Programme. He co-writes "Anticipatin...
Ep 60 Prem Panicker looks back at Life, Cricket and Journalism
Today my guest is Prem Panicker. Prem has been a journalist for over 30 years and was one of the seven journalists who were part of the Rediff.com start-up team. He ha...
Ep 59 Talking Medical Ethics and Organ Transplantation with Dr Sanjay Nagral
Dr. Sanjay Nagral is a prominent Indian surgeon and expert in medical ethics, specializing in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery. He is based in Mumbai and holds the...
Ep 58 How TTK Prestige Became a Billion Dollar Company with TT Jagannathan
Today it's my great honor to have T.T. Jagannathan on the show. T.T.J., as people call him, is a gold medalist from IIT Madras. He was pursuing his PhD at Cornell when...
Ep 57 Talking Tamil Stand Up Comedy and Music with Jagan Krishnan
Today my guest is Jagan Krishnan. Jagan is a stand up comedy artist and writer based in Chennai and currently touring with his piece Jagane Thandhiram. In this episode...
EP 56 Seeing the Unseen Amit Varma (The Seen and The Unseen Podcast & Everything is Everything)
Today my guest is Amit Varma. Amit hosts one of India's most popular podcasts, touching on economics, public policy, history, and culture. The podcast is called The Se...
Delhi Air Pollution : This IIT Kanpur Lab is Working on Making a Difference
Today my guest is Prof Sachidanand Tripathi. Dr Tripathi is an acclaimed Indian scientist in atmospheric sciences. He is a professor at IIT Kanpur and has won India'...
The Little Known Shady Face of Indian Pharma with Dinesh Thakur
My guest today is Dinesh Thakur. Dinesh Thakur trained as a chemical engineer before becoming a whistleblower against the pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy. While working...
Baradwaj Rangan Looks at Indian Movies
Today my guest is Baradwaj Rangan. Baradwaj is a National Award winning Film Critic and the Editor-in-Chief of @GalattaPlus. He is also the author of two books 'Conver...
Let's talk Pseudoscience, Atheism and Sadhguru with Pranav Radhakrishnan
Today my guest is Pranav Radhakrishnan. Pranav is a terrific science communicator and the man behind the popular YouTube channel Science is Dope, where he talks about ...