The OoruLabs Podcast

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, host of the podcast talks to housing expert Manikandan KP on how we can fix the housing problem in cities for the people who are being increasingly priced out. We think through whose job is it to provide housing and why we are...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, host of the podcast and Raj Dugar of civic group, C4C, delve into the pervasive issue of honking and noise pollution in urban India, exploring its psychological impacts, cultural roots, and the legal framework surrounding it....

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, host of the podcast talk to Jagan Shah Urban Expert and ex director of NIUA about the National Commission on Urbanisation setup almost 4 decades ago whose report was never made public. The report is quite revolutionary when it...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, host of the podcast and Vinay Sreenivasa a researcher at Alternate Law Forum and a civic right activist, on the 68th anniversary of Karnataka State formation also called Kannada Rajyotsava, discuss issues of dignity, equity, a...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, host of the podcast speaks with Prerna Mehta of WRI India on redefining Public Spaces for adolescents. The conversation explores the challenges and opportunities for adolescents in urban spaces, focusing on their needs, safety...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, host of the podcast speaks with civic activist from Pune Ar. Sarang Yadwadkar around the human caused follies leading to flooding like many other Indian cities. But its geography has a story to tell as well. Sarang unpacks the...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, host of the podcast and Rajiv Prakash, Advisor Rainmatter Foundation have a free ranging conversation on cities, ecology, economy and systems. This episode reflects the kind of offline conversations I have been having around c...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, host of the podcast and Divya Narayanan, Executive Director of Jhatkaa discuss how friendly Indian cities are for women. The entire gamut of social, infrastructural, financial, political and personal issues come into play in h...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, Host of the podcast speaks to Arun Murugesh of Saahas Zero waste on the seemingly insurmountable waste problem. From trying to understand the severity of the crisis to solving it with market participant and consumers, in t...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, Host of the podcast speaks to Jenny Pinto, a filmmaker, story teller, environmentalist and green entrepreneur on her latest book for children, The Magical Everything and everything else we get wrong about climate change. I...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, a free ranging conversation between Sathya Sankaran, Host of the podcast and Sriram Kuchimanchi of Smarter Dharma explores the role of buildings, their contribution to our current problems and their role in the future of cities. Buildings...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, Host of the podcast talks to Niranjan Aradhya who, with guidance from transport expert Satyajit Arikuthram, is building a back to the future Nagara Metered Autorickshaw app on ONDC. They claim to bring back street hailing...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, a free ranging conversation between Sathya Sankaran, Host of the podcast and Susheel Nair leads them on a discovery of how widespread our current climate and natural crisis is. Betweeninefficient bureaucracy, bad politics and horrible citi...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, Host of the podcast talks to Madhav Pai, CEO, WRI india, on India’s road to net zero. The mind boggling amount of opportunities that exist for entrepreneurs and reforms that need to be done to get us there.  The conversati...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   Did you know the disaster in Wayanad and other places like that have a strong link to people in urban areas? On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, Host of the podcast and Siddarth Rao, an Ecologist and conservation biologist try to unravel the link and how urb...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, Host of the podcast tries to understand from Vijayan Menon, the President of Citizens Action Forum why the recently proposed Greater Bengaluru Authority will not work. Vijayan lays out the case for a constitutionally valid...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, Host of the podcast asks Saurabh Chandra of Ati Motors, will robots and self driving cars take over our cities and our jobs? Check out why he think India will lag developments in automation even if there intent and talent....

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, Host of the podcast and Susheel Nair debate the need for branding the city and who gets to define this brand? The conversation explores the concept of branding a city and the role of taglines in defining a city's ident...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, Host of the podcast speaks with Alok Prasanna Kumar of Vidhi legal on the Draft Karnataka platform based gig workers, social security and welfare bill that is to be tabled in the July 2024 Karnataka monsoon assembly sessio...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, Host of the podcast speaks with Hari Marar, MD and CEO of Bengaluru International Airport Limited about how a 4000 acre township with an airport has managed to achieve LEED platinum level sustainability and what the rest o...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, Host of the podcast speaks with Srikanth Narasimhan of Bengaluru Navanirmana Party about how despite knowing cities can be made or broken by municipal government, national politics lives rent free in our heads. How do we f...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, Host of the podcast and Susheel Nair of Artand talk about cycling in the city and its nuances. In this episode of the Ooru Labs podcast, Sushil and Satya discuss the importance of cycling as a solution to urban transportat...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, Host of the podcast speaks with Manjunath Sekhar of the German Development Cooperation - GIZ about the concept of Living Labs and the approach GIZ is taking in India. This is a part of the India Germany Green Urban Mobilit...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, Host of OoruLabs speaks with Arvind Balasubramaniam on complexity and wickedness of governance. They exchange thoughts with urban traffic and other issues as an anchor to understand complex systems. This episode explores h...

***Support the podcast, become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksnReFEAAK47cTVZBVQJrw/join   On, OoruLabs, India's premier urban issues podcast, Sathya Sankaran, Host of OoruLabs speaks with Arvind Balasubramaniam on complexity and wickedness of governance. They exchange thoughts with urban traffic and other issues as an anchor to understand complex systems.  The conversation explo...