SPJIMR Podcast

Past Imperfect Episode 29 features Dinyar Patel, Associate Professor of History at SPJIMR, in conversation with Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University and the author of Capitalism: A Global History. “A radical departure and discontinuity in human affairs”: this is how Beckert describes capitalism. Capitalism: A Global History spans centuries and continents to piece tog...

SPJIMR WISE Tech Talks: Episode 2 | Future-proofing India's healthcare ecosystem by SPJIMR Podcast

Past Imperfect Episode 28 features Dinyar Patel, Associate Professor of History at SPJIMR, in conversation with Pronoti Datta, author of In the Beginning There Was Bombay Duck: A Food History of Mumbai. Mumbai, the Maximum City, is arguably also the city of maximum food variety. Where else do people put shrimp in banana cake and make biryani out of patrel? In the Beginning There Was Bombay Duck ch...

Past Imperfect Episode 27 features Dinyar Patel, Associate Professor of History at SPJIMR, in conversation with Joshua Ehrlich, Associate Professor of History at the University of Macau and the author of The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge. Google has one thing in common with the East India Company: it sees itself as not just a business but a promoter of knowledge. In The East Ind...

Past Imperfect Episode 26 features Dinyar Patel, Associate Professor of History at SPJIMR, in conversation with John Cassidy, staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World. Although the term “capitalism” only dates from the 1830s, people have been analyzing it—and, quite often, condemning it—for over 250 years. Capitalism and Its...

Past Imperfect Episode 25 features Dinyar Patel, Associate Professor of History at SPJIMR, in conversation with Avrati Bhatnagar, Instructor in the Department of History and International Comparative Studies Program at Duke University, and Sumathi Ramaswamy, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of History at Duke University. Bhatnagar and Ramaswamy are the editors of Photographing Civil Disobedie...

Past Imperfect Episode 24 features Dinyar Patel, Associate Professor of History at SPJIMR, in conversation with Sam Dalrymple, author of Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia. The Partition of 1947 was not carried out in isolation. Dalrymple’s Shattered Lands reconstructs a longer and much more complex story: how the British Indian Empire, which once stretched from modern-...

WISE Tech Insights Episode 9: The unicorn paradox: Why Indian agritech requires integration, not disruption

WISE Tech insights episode 8: Fintech: Beyond the unicorns, the untold story

Past Imperfect Episode 23 features Dinyar Patel, Associate Professor of History at SPJIMR, in conversation with Padraic X. Scanlan, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources at the University of Toronto and the author of Rot: A History of the Irish Famine. Between 1845 and 1851, a famine of unimaginable proportions ravaged Ireland. At least a million people die...

WISE Tech Insights episode 06: AI in Cancer detection — Promise of a Revolution? by SPJIMR Podcast

WISE Tech Insights episode 05: India's next digital leap: From Public Infrastructure to public Intelligence by SPJIMR Podcast

WISE Tech Insights episode 04: The green dilemma why we don't buy what we believe In by SPJIMR Podcast

Fast on fashion, slow on responsibility? From Zara’s weekly drops to Shein’s 6,000 designs a day, fast fashion has redefined style and access. But behind the bargains and trends lies a pressing question: What’s the true cost of cheap, rapid fashion — on the planet, on workers, and on society? In this latest edition of WISE Tech Insights, we explore: 🌍 The environmental toll — CO₂, water, and micr...

Past Imperfect Episode 22 features Dinyar Patel, Associate Professor of History at SPJIMR, in conversation with Srinath Raghavan, Professor of International Relations and History at Ashoka University and the author of Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India. Indira Gandhi has been one of modern India’s most controversial leaders, a savior to some, a power-hungry autocrat to many others....

Listen in to discover how SPJIMR's TaSIC 2026 explores innovation through the lens of wise, purpose-driven impact. TaSIC 2026 brings together global researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to explore how fast-moving technologies can serve society ethically, inclusively, and sustainably. Hosted by WISE Tech, the conference will take place on February 20–21, 2026 and invites research that blend...

WISE Tech Insights episode 02: In the name of health, The promise and peril of Nutraceuticals by SPJIMR Podcast

Past Imperfect Episode 22 features Dinyar Patel, Associate Professor of History at SPJIMR, in conversation with Srinath Raghavan, Professor of International Relations and History at Ashoka University and the author of Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India. Indira Gandhi has been one of modern India’s most controversial leaders, a savior to some, a power-hungry autocrat to many others....

WISE Tech Insights Episode 01: Fizz to Frenzy—Decoding India's explosive energy drink craze by SPJIMR Podcast

Past Imperfect Episode 21 features SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel in conversation with Rosinka Chaudhuri, Professor in Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) and the author of India’s First Radicals: Young Bengal and the British Empire. In the early 1830s, a cohort of graduates from Calcutta’s Hindu College began transforming Indian society. Later dubbed Young B...

Past Imperfect Episode 20: Manu S. Pillai on Missionaries, Reformers, and the Making of Modern Hinduism. by SPJIMR Podcast

Prof. Surya Tahora is in conversation with Neha Chatwani, an organisational psychologist. In this talk they discuss, in a world of turbulence it is imperative that we re-assess some of the management and leadership assumptions in organisations, so that we can leverage our collective intelligence with meaning and purpose, intentionally, for enabling agility through learning. Tune in to the latest e...

Past Imperfect Episode 19 features SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel in conversation with Amrita Shah, author of The Other Mohan in Britain’s Indian Ocean Empire. What does Mohanlal Killavala have in common with Mahatma Gandhi? Both men migrated to South Africa. Both men were Gujarati professionals who smarted at racial prejudice in the British Empire, protested against unjust laws, and spent time in jail...

Past Imperfect Episode 18 features SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel in conversation with Rosemary Wakeman, Professor of History at Fordham University and author of The Worlds of Victor Sassoon. Victor Sassoon (1881-1961) called three cities home: Bombay, London, and Shanghai. These three cities, as Rosemary Wakeman explains, best epitomized capitalism and globalization in the 1920s and 1930s. In The Worl...

Prof. Surya Tahora is in conversation with Dr. Knut O.J. Ims, Professor emeritus in business ethics at the Norwegian School of Economics and Hege Tuen Seglem, Founder of Being Mindful. In this talk they discuss how mindfulness, defined by Jon Kabat-Zinn as purposeful, present, and non-judgmental awareness, can address interconnected systemic crises in the Anthropocene, such as environmental, socia...