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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 has extensively written and edited features for different publications. In this episode, I talk to Prem about his growing up days, his journey with addiction and how he overcame it, his early career in journalism, covering cricket and...

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 position of a professor and postgraduate teacher. Dr. Nagral has contributed significantly to the field through extensive publications on surgery, public health, and medical ethics issues. We invite you to like, share, and subscribe...

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 his parents, T.T. Narasimhan and Padma, visited him. They had bad news - their business was struggling and they were borrowing at 40% interest. Jagannathan had to leave everything and come back to India to steady the ship. And h...

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 I talk to Jagan about his early days in standup comedy, tamil film music and standup comedy in regional languages More about Jagan https://www.eventz.co.in/events-list/jagane-thandhiram---tamil-standup-comedy https://www.instagram.c...

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 Seen and the Unseen. Amit also co-hosts the popular YouTube show 'Everything is Everything' with his close friend, economist Dr. Ajay Shah. A prolific writer, Amit blogs at India Uncut and authors the must-read newsletter &...

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's top science award, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, for his work. He is an elected fellow of the country's major science academies and holds the prestigious J.C. Bose Fellowship. His research focuses on Earth's atmosphe...

My guest today is Dinesh Thakur. Dinesh Thakur trained as a chemical engineer before becoming a whistleblower against the pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy. While working at Ranbaxy, he witnessed extensive data fraud and reported this wrongdoing. His actions led Ranbaxy to plead guilty in an American court in 2013 to violating US law. The company paid a $500 million dollar penalty as part of its guil...

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 'Conversations with Mani Ratnam' and Dispatches from the Wall Corner: A Journey through Indian Cinema. Support me here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/shortcas... About Baradwaj https://twitter.com/baradwajrangan https://en.wikipedia....

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 pseudoscience and analyzes some popular conspiracy theorists. Pranav is an engineering graduate from the National Institute of Technology Calicut. I found out that he also grew up in Kozhikode, the city where I did a lot of my school...

Salaam-e- Krish Ashok! Ashok has been a part of the show earlier where we spoke at length about food homeopathy veganism and Carnatic music and I highly recommend you check the episodes out . I’ll link them in the show notes. Ashok recently made a food trip to Lucknow and I thought I need to ask him in detail about the Mughal and the awadhi dishes he tried there. So here we are. Like most of my ep...

Today my guest is Parth MN. Parth is an independent journalist based in Mumbai, India. He mainly covers rural India for multiple publications. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, People's Archive of Rural India, Times of India Digital, among other outlets. He is the recipient of the Indian Express group's Ramnath Goenka Award, as well as the European Com...

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Today my guest is Dr Shruti Rajagopalan. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where she leads the Indian Political Economy Program and Emergent Ventures India. In this episode I talk to Shruti about the initiatives she works on at Mercatus, economics research in India and the US and we dive deep into the good and the bad aspects of the goods and servic...

Today my guest is Nitin Sundar. Nitin was a sub-editor with Cricinfo and has been an avid follower of the game since the mid 90s. I will talk to Nitin about his career at Cricinfo and everything cricket pretty much… from stadium experience to commentators to the 2023 World Cup More about Nitin https://linktr.ee/knittins Reach out to the host https://www.instagram.com/bala.deva06/

My guest today is Sreedhar Pillai. Sreedhar is a trade analyst and film critic and has been a journalist in the movie industry for over 35 years. I will talk to Sreedhar about the economics of the South Indian movie industry today - from ticket pricing to film distribution to OTT and satellite rights. We'll discuss the changes that have occurred in the business side of South Indian cinema over...

Meghnad or meghnerd on YouTube is one of India’s most recognized political analyst and commentator. Now an independent content creator, previously Meghnad was a writer and a journalist for Newslaundry. His show for them called Consti-tution is filled with wacky humor along with a lucid explanation of things you missed in your civics class. Before Newslaundry, Meghnad was a part of PRS Legislative...

Meghnad or meghnerd on YouTube is one of India’s most recognized political analyst and commentator. Now an independent content creator, previously Meghnad was a writer and a journalist for Newslaundry. His show for them called Consti-tution is filled with wacky humor along with a lucid explanation of things you missed in your civics class. Before Newslaundry, Meghnad was a part of PRS Legislative...

Donate to this podcast at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/shortcastovercoffee Check out my material at https://linktr.ee/shortcastovercoffee?utm_source Our guest today is Shruti Jahagirdar, a passionate fitness trainer, entrepreneur, and nutritionist. Shruti was a competitive national level volleyball player and holds an MBA from ESMT Berlin. She specializes in low-carb, high-fat diets. Shruti and I...

As the relations between India and Canada hit an all time low, here is a brief history about Sikh Immigration to Canada

Slipping on a banana peel is a cliché, a vintage vaudeville gag. But its origins weren’t just slapstick comedy. Before it became a comedy trope, banana peels menaced New Yorkers for decades. This is how bad the trash situation was in the early 1900s. Today, all we need to do is segregate waste and the trucks comes to pick it up certain days of the week like clockwork. But how did we get here? That...

Today we have a very special guest who is inspiring thousands across India to rethink how we manage waste. My guest is none other than Vani Murthy, aka "Worm Rani." On Instagram. Vani's unlikely journey from homemaker to an environmentalist began a decade ago. While visiting the massive landfill on the outskirts of Bangalore, she was moved by the millions of tons of rotting garbage....

I talk about the origin of Google Maps and how people navigated in sparsely populated countries like US and Australia pe-GPS era Support me here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/shortcastovercoffee https://venmo.com/u/shortcastovercoffee

My guest today is Murali Neelakantan. Murali is a graduate of the '96 batch of the NLSIU and was one of the first India educated lawyers to have become a partner in an English law firm. After moving back to India, he worked as a Senior Partner at Khaitan and Co before joining Cipla as a Global General Counsel. After Cipla, Murali is currently focusing on a variety of policy, education, and oth...

My guest today is Murali Neelakantan. Murali is a graduate of the '96 batch of the NLSIU and was one of the first India educated lawyers to have become a partner in an English law firm. After moving back to India, he worked as a Senior Partner at Khaitan and Co before joining Cipla as a Global General Counsel. After Cipla, Murali is currently focusing on a variety of policy, education, and oth...

Today my guest is standup comedian GK. He is not just a standup comedian though; he is a full time engineer and a part time theater artist and movie maker based out of the Bay Area in California. In this episode I will talk to him about his journey to standup comedy and his recent venture, Bldg 18 comedy club, where GK, along with other co-founders, offers a great platform for budding comics. More...