The Prakhar Gupta Xperience

Ankur Warikoo is an Internet entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and angel investor based in India. He was the co-founder of Nearbuy. Warikoo was previously the CEO of Groupon India. He is an active angel investor and invests in early-stage tech startups and mentors the founders on Product-Market-Fit, Talent hiring & retention, and the founder mindset.

Time Stamps: Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction 00:27 - Provocative nature of Twitter 01:35 - What is “String”? 07:56 - The state of political discourse and nationalism 11:00 - How “An open letters” political leaning evolved 14:35 - Has the Godi media always existed in India? 24:20 - Need for reducing government intervention 32:30 - Discussing Rinku Sharma murder controversy 41:12 - The legacy media...

Tirthak Saha is a Business Strategy Consultant. He has been working as a solo consultant for several pre-series A global startups to help founding teams develop their GTM strategies and build data-driven MVPs. He was also the co-founder of Trolysis – an American clean energy startup developing innovative solutions to the world's Energy and Climate Change problems. Previously to this, He lead a pro...

Nikin Tharan believes in using technology and leveraging existing resources to challenge the status quo and impact lives. He is currently the CEO and co-founder of Medsix, a medical device startup based in Boston. Growing up in India, Nikin discovered he had a talent for electronics and started working at a lab affiliated with the Border Security Force at 9 y/o and secured a scholarship to study u...

Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and author. As of 2019, he is a member of the board of India's Central Board of Film Certification.

Neeraj Arora is a famous Chartered Accountant and teacher by passion. He runs multiple YouTube channels with hundreds and thousands of subscribers. He is also the co-founder of Fin Learn Club and EDU 91.

Prakhar was invited to speak about what it's like to be an internet entrepreneur and the future of modern media entrepreneurship in India.

Ruchir Sharma is an award-winning public policy and political advocacy professional with experience in police reform, counterterrorism, and climate change at the intergovernmental level and campaign strategy at the party-level. With an academic background in Marxist theory, the history of terrorism, and Cold War geopolitics, he has also worked as an advisor to a major political party and in recent...

Amish Tripathi is the Director of the Nehru Centre in London and a columnist, and author. He is very well known for his books The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of the Nagas, The Oath of the Vayuputras, Scion of Ikshvaku, Sita: Warrior of Mithila, Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta and Legend of Suheldev: The King Who Saved India. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:12 The Indic Storytelling Style 05:28 Being ope...

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra is a defense analyst and a cultural-political commentator. ### Timestamps 00:10 India GDP vs Bangladesh's GDP 13:36 India mai ‘Chalta Hai’ 18:26 Tanishq Ekatvam Ad 22:43 The Future of Hindu-Muslim relationship in India 40:29 Politics, Society and Culture of Central Asia 49:58 China, Taiwan and what should India do 59:41 Pakistan Civil war? You can also watch this episode on yout...

Tavleen Singh is an Indian columnist, political reporter, and writer. Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 00:58 The Sushant Singh Rajput Political Fiasco 04:55 What does Bollywood stand for in the Indian culture 10:50 The forgotten wounds of Indian history 15:05 Tavleen Discusses Modi's Report card 24:04 "What do you think about politicians is wrong" 33:32 The modern Media situation alarms Tavleen Singh...

Wendell Wallach is a consultant, ethicist, and scholar at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and a senior advisor to The Hastings Center. He is also a fellow at the Center for Law, Science & Innovation at the Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law (Arizona State University) and a fellow at the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technology. Mr. Wallach has an international reputation...

Kushal is the founder of Indian Defence Research Advancements INDRA You can also watch this episode on [Youtube.com/pgradio](https://youtu.be/YbVBcbLJlYI) Kushal is the founder of Indian Defence Research Advancements INDRA. Kushal Sinha, 21, is currently an undergrad student in International Relations and Criminology. He started off his journey with an aim to become a diplomat only to later find h...

Sattvik is the CEO and co-founder of Scoopwhoop, India's biggest online media company. Sattvik was an early mover in the alternate media playing field in India, when he and his co-founders moonlighted with writing small articles on the internet while working for an Ad Agency. Now Scoopwhoop is a global phenomenon in terms of content and influence. 0:00 Start 3:31 What should new creators create? 1...

Raj Shamani is an entreprenuer, marketing strategist and keynote speaker. A native of Indore, India, Raj has represented India in United Nations, Vienna, Austria and travels across the world for his speeches. Timestamps 00:00 How did Raj start reading? 03:50 Identifying your current problem 08:10 How did Raj start out? 14:31 Starting a business at 16 26:59 Dealing with self doubt 33:00 Initial day...

Aatish Ali Taseer is an American writer and journalist. In 2019, he wrote the article ‘Divider in Chief’ criticizing Modi and the BJP Government in India for Time Magazine. Taseer has also written for the Time, Prospect, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times, amongst many, He has also authored several books including Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands (200...

Aarti Tikoo Singh is a New Delhi based journalist. She is the Foreign & Strategic Affairs Editor at Indo-Asian News Service. She has been a reporter and editor for the last 15 years. Her areas of interest are international relations, Indian politics, economic and foreign policy. She also focuses on conflict, war, and terror. Earlier, she reported from the conflict-ridden state of Jammu and Kashmir...

Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and author. As of 2019, he is a member of the board of India's Central Board of Film Certification. Watch clips from episodes on Instagram: https://instagram.com/pgradio.live Timestamps: 00:00 The Bollywood of the 80s-90s 09:04 Page 3 and the Charm of Bollywood 13:00 Filmmaking is a "dirty" business 18:05 Stardom and the celebrity cu...

Anand Gandhi is an Indian filmmaker, entrepreneur, media producer, innovator and systems researcher. He is also the founder/CEO of the Goa-based new media studio and systems think tank Memesys Culture Lab Timestamps 0:00 Who is Anand Gandhi? 2:44 Is art a prescription or a representation? 12:29 "Art precedes and succeeds science" 21:45 How do we go about achieving a non-predatory future? 35:21 Wha...

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra is a defense analyst and a cultural-political commentator. 0:00 Intro 2:15 Episode starts 3:46 Abhijit doesn't appreciate "Third-Ratedness" 8:20 The hypocrisy of the Islamist and the Liberal side 15:08 Do we need economic narratives over culturally identitarian narratives in Indian Politics? (w.r.t Modi's Gujarat Model) 22:20 "Godhra was a tragedy of omission not a crime of comm...

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Sudhir Kakar is an Indian psychoanalyst, novelist and author in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion. A leading figure in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion, as well as a novelist, Dr. Kakar’s person and work have been profiled in The New York Times, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Neue Zuricher Zeitung, Die Zeit and Le Nouvel Observateur...

J. Sai Deepak is an engineer-turned- lawyer practising as an arguing counsel primarily before the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court. Sai has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Anna University (2002-06) and a bachelor’s degree in law from IIT Kharagpur (2006-09). In over a decade’s practice since 2009, Sai has carved a niche for himself in Civil Commercial litigation, Intellect...

Kushal Mehra is the host of the Carvaka Podcast. On this episode of the podcast, Kushal and Prakhar opine about Indian politics, Social Justice movements and the meta aspects of podcasting.

Sudhanshu Kaushik is an international youth activist known for founding Young India Foundation and his work on youth participation and author of The Future Is Ours, forthcoming by Amazon-Westland. Kaushik works on seeking political representation for young people and believes he has created a youth rights movement in India. You can also watch this episode on Youtube.com/pgradio