Being The Change

Dr Sheetal Gagrani (Founder of Brush of Hope) & Amrita Deora (Founder of The Designera) share their personal experience on how they lost their loved one “Swara” who was pursuing her NEET Exams and died due to suicide.  This happened because an online stranger threatened Swara to leak her images & other private belongings online on Social Media... Listen to this episode so you don’t let the...

Since the olden days, we have witnessed artforms bringing cultures together, overcoming differences and finding common ground. Remember that time when two kings would meet for talks? But these talks would always begin by a friendly warmth of being introduced to the host’s native culture and tradition On this episode of Being The Change, host Rohan Thakar wishes to touch these roots once again, and...

The moment one hears that the person or someone in the close circuit has been diagnosed with it, for the majority, the earth would shake beneath them. Cancer today is one of the leading causes of death, 1 in every 6 deaths is due to this! And as of October 2022, over 20Lakh cancer-related deaths have been reported in India, and a big percentage of these are women! It’s a staggering figure and it i...

We always fret over the past and worry about the future... In this episode, we decided, instead of talking about problems, let's talk about possibilities of the future, with the future makers centered out of India. Listen to host Rohan Thakar, and speak with Pranay Luniya, founder of Quintrans Hyperloop, Asia's first hyperloop project that aims to help you and goods deliver across cities in a matt...

We love the opportunities that the metropolitan cities bring to us, however, with that, it also gives us a big pain- TRAFFIC! How can we tackle this? Is public transport sufficient? What about using a bicycle to work? Can this solve our problems? On this episode of Being The Change, listen to Rohan Thakar chat with Arjit Soni , Founder & CEO- MyByk, it is India's first bicycle commute platform...

Today when we look at healthcare, we see Hospitals, Dispensaries, Clinics, operation theatre, Doctors, and some really dull & strong medicines. In the last 100 years, we have seen an incredible amount of development toward increasing the human lifespan, but has it been just about increasing the survival rate enough or there’s more to that? In this episode of Being The Change, host Rohan Thakar...

Dr. Binish Desai is very popularly known as the "Recycle Man of India". The spark to invent and curiosity to build eco-friendly tools that lit when he was just 10 years old watching Captain Planet, and today he is transforming society and removing the dependency on plastic through his company Eco Eclectic Tech, where they create bricks, home decor, houses and a lot of interesting products out of r...

India for centuries has been known as an agricultural nation. The term “Organic Farming” was not a buzzword, it was a way of life. Every home also had its own produce! In Fact, even today if you go to the countryside, you will find this practice. However, we metro kids have had everything easy, except the quality of life. So, what is the “better life”? Let's find out on the premier episode of Bein...

Problems are everywhere, its true, some catastrophic, some small, some of us succumb to it, while some try to adjust and start co-existing with them, and then there are those who stand against the tide and try to change the status quo. They will either win, or die trying, but they would never quit. Their work does bring a change not just for themselves, but to everyone around and beyond them.  Wha...

A try becomes an action, repeated actions become habits, and habits can change your life. Curiosity to try out a drink or smoke quickly becomes an addiction. How does it affect one's life? Why is it that it’s become so cool to do such activities? In this episode of Being The Change, Rohan Thakar chats with Shailesh Kamat who completely changed his life 13 years back, and is always working to...

Every day almost 8million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into the oceans. What can be done about it? In this episode of Being The Change, host Rohan Thakar is chatting with Santa Cruz, California based, Christian Shaw who is the Founder & Executive Director of PlasticTides , A Non-Profit Organisation that has been closely involved with research for plastic pollution in the oceans b...

India has been fighting Hunger, much before COVID, much before the Global Recession, Much Before we became REPUBLIC, much before we became INDEPENDENT. A few facts from The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, 2020 report India is at 102 out of 117 on the Global Hunger Index. A report says, around 14% of our population is undernourished 20% of children under 5 are underweight 34.7% o...

We are always attracted by what the west introduces, be it in technology or fashion But close to home, here in India, we have one of the most intrinsic, Rich heritage of clothing that comes from handloom Now looking at a time like this, its more important than ever to encourage our local artisans by choosing to use Indian… It's interesting to see that world's 95% of the handwoven fabric com...

Dr. David Pillai changed the face of medical education in India by making it more affordable and accessible to people who could not afford it through Transworld Educare. This means more opportunities and more talent inflow. Learn more about them on https://transworldeducare.com/   You can follow us and leave us feedback on Facebook , Instagram , and Twitter @eplogmedia, For partnerships/queri...

Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide brings a lot of questions to people's minds. One of which being, why does such a successful person need to take his life?  We need to start having a conversation about mental health and keep open communication with our closed ones. In this episode of Being The Change podcast, host Rima Sadashiv Amarapurkar speaks with the renowned counselor, psychiatrist, and Di...

Nothing in the world can make you feel anything you don’t choose to, We choose it. You make your own reality. In this episode, host Rohan Thakar chats with Divyanshu Ganatra, he's a serial entrepreneur, a clinical psychologist, a thrill-seeker & extreme adventure sports enthusiast & is running a non-profit organization called Adventure Beyond Barriers Foundation (ABBF). What's amusin...

In this episode Being The Change, host Rohan Thakar chats with Vandana Sethhi who is the founder of Mumbai based ad-agency Water Communication. She had conceptualized the concept of Gaali-Free India , a digital campaign against the use of abusive words. So far 50,000 people have signed up & pledged that they would not use cuss words.  Vandana says, what we speak reflects our personality a...

Today we can see an atmosphere of fear, uncertainty and the frustration of being in lockdown. A tiny micro-organism has shaken the world, shattered the global economy and brought everything that man do to a halt.   In this episode of Being The Change podcast, host Rohan Thakar and co-host Rima Sadashiv Amarapurkar chats with the renowned counselor, psychiatrist, and Director of the Institute...

The Planet is heating up at a rapid pace. Glaciers are melting, forests are burning, the sea level is rising! Humans with its creations have done a lot of damage to nature. But, nature itself is its solution. In this episode of Being The Change, host Rohan Thakar chats with Andrew Hines , Co-Founder of Cleanmax , a solar power production company that was started 10 years ago by Kuldeep Jain along...

This episode is dedicated to commemorate 550th year of Guru Nanak Jayanti and to highlight the universal appeal that is envisaged as per the teachings in Guru Granth Sahib. We all talk about God, in the name of God we do a lot of rituals, philanthrophy etc. People of all religion say God is One but, when it comes to following, we all have our own preferences. God is indeed ONE, the One and only On...

Education plays a very important role in the life of a person. In an ideal scenario, education is supposed to instill the skills and mindsets in a person to make him/her ready to take on the world and become a better human being. However, the meaning of education today has become merely about marks and results. To change that system, our guest Rahul Adhikari started an organization, Better Plus Ed...

This week on Being The Change podcast, host Rohan Thakar is joined by renowned city planner and social activist, Mr. PK Das. He is responsible for notable open spaces of Mumbai like the Lands End in Bandra or the Bandra Reclamation promenade. We talk about the diminishing open spaces of Mumbai and what makes a city successful. We also discuss the recent Aarey Forest cutting and building of Metro c...

In this special episode of Being The Change podcast, host Rohan Thakar is joined by filmmaker, Rima Sadashiv Amarapurkar co-hosting this episode and we share the story of Chetna Gala Sinha, who grew as a South Bombay girl and moved to a remote village called Mhaswad, in the state of Maharashtra in India while being actively involved in social movements to uplift the lives of women during the 80s....

The term "Mental Health" can be very confusing, especially because, we cannot see it! Rajvi Mariwala, Director of Mariwala Health Initiative joins us to talk about her journey as a social entrepreneur and what led her to start the initiative of raising awareness about mental health. Being a certified animal behaviorist is also one of the works that she does. In this episode, we discuss what mental...

It is said that we are what we eat. Food not only gives us energy through nutrition, but it also plays an important role in our holistic development. To demystify and tell us the importance of ancient food science, diet & exercise consultant, Jinal Shah from Team Rujuta Diwekar joins us on the episode. She talks about the simple Indian food culture that our grandparents used to follow would stay h...