The jhana Podcast

In this episode of the jhana Podcast, host Priyadarshini Shetty speaks with Pramod Rao — former Executive Director at SEBI and ex-Group General Counsel at ICICI Bank — about India's Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) revolution in the securities market. 00:00 — Introduction & welcome 07:17 — The three layers of SMART ODR: Pre-conciliation → Conciliation → Arbitration 20:39 — The Open Innovati...

In this episode, our host Priyadarshini Shetty speaks with Pramod Rao — former Executive Director at SEBI and ex-Group General Counsel at ICICI Bank — about India's Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) revolution in the securities market. Pramod Rao breaks down how SEBI's SMART ODR platform is transforming the way investor grievances and disputes are handled, cutting resolution times from 42 da...

In this episode, Priyadarshini, Pallavi & Anya sit down for a fireside chat to talk about their journey from law to legal tech, gaps in today’s legal workflows, and where India stands in the evolution of legal technology. 00:00 - Introduction 02:42 - India's positioning in the global legal tech landscape 04:18 - Tech solutioning for legal problems 09:04 - Adoption challenges amongst lawyers 10...

In this episode, Priyadarshini Shetty, Pallavi Kishore & Anya Batra sit down for a fireside chat to talk about their journey from law to legal tech, gaps in today’s legal workflows, and where India stands in the evolution of legal technology.

In this episode of the jhana podcast, we chat with Mridul Kumbalath, real estate partner at Trilegal, about different aspects of real estate law and their touchpoints with ordinary citizens. We discuss what parties should do when transacting in real estate, Supreme Court judgments that have shaped real estate practices, the governments digitization efforts of land and revenue records and much more...

How do you really know who owns the land you’re buying? From verifying titles to navigating Court cases, real estate law shapes some of the most crucial and confusing decisions ordinary citizens make in their lives. In our upcoming episode of the jhana podcast, we speak with Mridul Kumbalath, Real Estate Partner at Trilegal, to unpack the laws, reforms, and digitisation efforts that are quietly tr...

In this episode, we chat with Valay Singh, Co-Founder and lead at the India Justice Report about the 4 pillars of the Indian justice system, (i) the judiciary, (ii) the police, (iii) the prisons, and (iv) legal aid. The India Justice Report is a publication that reviews each of these 4 pillars against defined benchmarks to assess its performance. The broad points we discuss in the episode along wi...

What happens when the very system meant to deliver justice is itself under strain? India’s courts are clogged. Police forces are stretched thin. Prisons are overcrowded. And legal aid often doesn’t reach those who need it most. In our latest episode, we sit down with Valay Singh, Co-Founder of the India Justice Report, to uncover why the backbone of our democracy - the justice system - is struggli...

Introducing… The jhana Podcast 🎙️ Where world leaders, innovators, and changemakers share unfiltered insights on AI, leadership, and the future of work. 🚀

In our inaugural episode of the jhana podcast series, we chat with Sachin Malhan, co-founder at Agami, an access to justice organisation that creates social capital for transformation in the law and justice space. The broad points we discuss in the episode along with the corresponding time stamps are referenced below.   ·      00:00 - Introduction ·      2:15 – Sachin’s personal growth strategy th...