SPJIMR Podcast

Past Imperfect Episode 17 features SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel in conversation with Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smiths Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin and author of Making Ireland. Question: What unites a European island country of 5 million people and a subcontinental nation of 1.45 billion? Answer: A remarkably deep and complex history. Jane Ohlmeyer explains how the Irish—as both...

In this episode Prof. Surya Tohara explore the topic conscious consulting with Christian Mayhofer, Co-Founder, Conscious consulting group

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Past Imperfect Episode 16 features SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel in conversation with Ashoka Mody, formerly a deputy director at the International Monetary Fund and a visiting professor at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and author of India Is Broken. When Ashoka Mody published India is Broken two years ago, it stoked fierce controversy. Instead of describing the pro...

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was one of the most remarkable leaders of twentieth-century India, someone who was unafraid of shattering taboos, speaking her mind, and linking together campaigns for social justice around the world. Nico Slate’s new biography, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: The Art of Freedom, traces a political career which lasted nearly seven decades. She was an outspoken advocate of women’...

How did one man take on one of the world’s biggest multinational corporations of the early twentieth century? A.R. Venkatachalapathy’s Swadeshi Steam traces the life of V.O. Chidambaram Pillai who, in 1906, founded the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company to break a British shipping monopoly. Swadeshi Steam was powered by both patriotism and remarkable business acumen: it canvassed shares from across...

Over the past fifteen years, Murali Ranganathan has trawled archives and libraries looking for material on Mumbai’s history in Marathi, Gujarati, Urdu, and Persian. And he has assembled some remarkable finds into a series of books and articles covering everything from print history to pandemics. His latest book, The First World War Adventures of Nariman Karkaria, is a translation from Gujarati of...

How much of history is mythmaking? In this episode, Taylor Sherman, author of Nehru’s India: A History in Seven Myths, tackles some shibboleths of India’s first seventeen years of independence. How nonaligned was nonalignment? Could socialist policies actually widen socioeconomic disparities? Was Nehru really the architect of modern India? The answers, Sherman discovers, are far more messy and com...

As part of CWIL's podcast series, ‘Sapience’, Faculty member Dr Surya Tahora is in conversation with Dr Chris Laszlo, Professor, Department of Organizational Behavior at Weatherhead School of Management. In this engaging discussion, Dr. Laszlo reflects on the evolving role of business in society, emphasizing the integration of ethical behavior, market forces, and individual transformation. Explore...

In this episode of ThoughtCast, Dr. Sushmita Srivastava in conversation with Ms. Payal Nanjiani talks about the impact of coaching in unlocking the full potential of an individual. With a rich experience of over a decade, Ms. Payal shares insights and anecdotes from her enriching journey and key takeaways for emerging business leaders. Tune in to this latest episode to know more!

SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel is in conversation with Aditya Balasubramanian, Senior Lecturer in History, Australian National University The Swatantra Party, established in 1959, briefly became India’s chief opposition party before disintegrating in the early 1970s. What explains its rise and fall? Aditya Balasubramanian’s Toward a Free Economy charts one of democratic India’s earliest experiments in...

Faculty member Dr Surya Tahora is in conversation with Leadership Advisor, Rajesh Kamath. Rajesh Kamath is a Keynote Speaker, Storyteller, Consultant, Facilitator, Columnist, Teacher, Coach and Lifelong learner. His purpose is to apply principles from eternal global wisdom to modern organizations. He is known for combining the best of western and Indian management science to provide Leadership con...

In B. R. Ambedkar, India possessed a phenomenal intellectual powerhouse. Drawing on ideas and thinkers from the subcontinent and around the world, he stirred India’s conscience, pointing to the devastating legacies of caste and untouchability while raising urgent questions about the viability of democracy in India. Ambedkar’s ideas could be unsettling and uncomfortable—and that is precisely why he...

In our new Podcast Series ‘Sustainable Futures, ’ Prabhat Pani, Executive Director, CISD, is in conversation with Anil G. Verma, Executive Director & CEO of Godrej & Boyce. In this thought-provoking podcast episode, we delve into the topic of India's privately owned mangroves and the efforts to preserve them. Tune in now and be part of the conversation.

SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel is in conversation with Isabel Huacuja Alonso, Columbia University Before the internet and television, South Asia tuned in to the radio, and the radio helped South Asians forge a shared sense of belonging. Isabel Huacuja Alonso’s Radio for the Millions chronicles the history of broadcasting from the beginnings of All India Radio (AIR) in the 1930s to the heights of Radio...

SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel is in conversation with Ulbe Bosma, International Institute of Social History and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam What can sugar teach us about global history? Plenty, as Ulbe Bosma demonstrates in his new book. “The World of Sugar” is a sweeping narrative of how sugar emerged from India and China to conquer the world: generating both enormous riches and endemic poverty, pow...

SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel is in conversation with Dr Vinayak Chaturvedi, University of California, Irvine. As the political fortunes of Gandhi and Nehru have waned in the past decade, those of V. D. Savarkar have skyrocketed. In Hindutva and Violence, Vinayak Chaturvedi confronts head-on a liberal proclivity to avoid engaging with Savarkar, his writings, and his ideas. What he finds is the powerfu...

Beyond The Bottomline Episode 1: Is India ready for CBDC? Join us for our new podcast series, Beyond the Bottomline, where SPJIMR's Prof. Varun Yadav discusses India's readiness for CBDCs and their impact on the digital economy, securities and contingencies, and technology and design choices. Technological advancements have enabled the creation of a new form of money, the Central Bank Digital Curr...

Faculty member Dr Surya Tahora is in conversation with Dr Judith Gluck, University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Dr Gluck offers an insightful perspective on the different approaches to wisdom in the field of research, drawing parallels to the well-known fable of the blind men and the elephant. Listen in as she shares her journey towards developing a unified model of wisdom and its various interpretatio...

Our new podcast series, 'Sustainable Futures,' brings to the fore remarkable, pathbreaking sustainability initiatives in India Inc.  Very few corporates worldwide can claim to sequester ten times the carbon they generate in their operations. From zero depletion of groundwater in their operations, mitigating human-elephant conflict to digitally tagging its coffee bushes and scientifically assessing...

Faculty member Dr Surya Tahora is in conversation with Dr Monica Ardelt, University of Florida. In our latest episode of Sapience, Dr Monica Ardelt takes us on a journey into the heart of wise organisations. Drawing from her Three-Dimensional Wisdom model, she breaks down the components of a wise organisation, from leadership and decision-making to the sharing of profits. She also explains why wis...

Dr Priya Atwal, Author and Professor, University of Oxford, is in conversation with SPJIMR Faculty Dr Dinyar Patel. Women’s voices are absent from so much of South Asian history. In “Royals and Rebels,” Priya Atwal recovers the remarkable roles that royal women played in the affairs of the Sikh Empire (1799-1849). Ranjit Singh might have been the Sher-e-Punjab, but Atwal demonstrates that his empi...

Faculty member Dr Surya Tahora is in conversation with Dr Howard Nusbaum, University of Chicago They discuss how, despite its long history, there is still much to learn about wisdom and how it can be applied in the real world. They also scrutinise how wisdom researchers from various disciplines and backgrounds can collaborate to identify commonalities in their theories and develop a more comprehen...

Robert Stephens, Author and Architect, RMA Architects, is in conversation with SPJIMR Prof. Dr Dinyar Patel. The architect Charles Correa once described Bombay/Mumbai as a great city but a terrible place. In ‘Bombay Imagined,’ Robert Stephens, an American-born architect at RMA Architects, chronicles several centuries of unfulfilled plans to make the city both greater and less terrible. ‘Bombay Ima...

Is there a way to overcome the existential threat that young executives feel and what wisdom practices can they adopt? Catch the new episode of SPJIMR’s podcast series 'Sapience' where Dr David Rooney, Macquarie University in conversation with Dr Surya Tahora discusses applications of Wisdom Research in Leadership. The series is brought to you by SPJIMR's Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL).