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Mental health can affect daily living, relationships, and physical health. However, this link also works in the other direction. Factors in people’s lives, interpersonal connections, and physical factors can all contribute to mental health disruptions. Looking after mental health can preserve a person’s ability to enjoy life. Doing this involves reaching a balance between life activities, responsibilities, and efforts to achieve psychological resilience. Dr. Bhooshan is a Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist practicing in Pune, India. With 23 years of clinical experience, he has worked with children, adolescents, and their families to help them deal with their personal and professional/school lives.  He also creates awareness that people with mental health issues can have a meaningful life too. He has also trained various professionals who need to address mental health issues in their line of work.   In this episode of Bharatvaarta, he speaks about important topics on mental health such as how mental fitness is measured, the impact of the age of influencers on mental health, the importance of social parenting, the dangers of multitasking, and many more relevant issues. 

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Last mile delivery is one of the biggest problems of India. Due to the scale of required operations, the last mile is usually close to unreachable with the resources that the government has. Even though the government undertakes many social welfare programmes, these fail to make an impact on the ground, where they are the most needed.  This is where companies like Haqdarshak come in. They provide an agent-based welfare scheme linkage at the last mile. By using assisted tech and linking schemes to those who need it, they make sure that the social welfare programmes reach to those who need it the most.  Today we have guest Aniket Doegar, the Co-Founder & CEO, Haqdarshak, an organization using tech to ensure last mile delivery of social welfare schemes. He was also featured in Forbes 30 under 30 Asia and is a graduate from Stanford University School of Business. 

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Velina Tchakarova in discussion with Gray Connolly, a lawyer and writer on politics, military affairs, and geopolitics, in Sydney, Australia. Gray advises on, inter alia, energy, resources, and Admiralty law, and has advised the Australian Government on national security matters.  He previously served as a naval intelligence officer in the Royal Australian Navy.  All of Gray’s opinions are his own and not those of the Australian Government.

Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) is an initiative aiming at promoting open networks for all aspects of exchange of goods and services over digital or electronic networks. ONDC is to be based on open-sourced methodology, using open specifications and open network protocols independent of any specific platform.  T Koshy is the CEO of ONDC where he focuses on building digital solutions to population scale problems. He also has a long background in the finances space, having worked in NSDL and EY for over 30 years. He is a graduate of IIM-B.  Nikhil Kumar is the Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist at Setu. Nikhil was earlier with the iSPIRT Foundation, where he worked on building a vibrant developer ecosystem for Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN). Before starting up, Nikhil worked together with Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani on the “India Stack" of Aadhaar and UPI. 

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We often hear of the demographic dividend, that we have 800 million people or so under the age of 35 years. But that also poses a huge challenge in terms of skilling, development, education and employment. And the nature of work and employment itself has changed, especially post-covid. So how do we think about jobs and more generally creating work opportunities for our country?  To discuss this we have Rameesh Kailasam, who is the President & CEO of IndiaTech.org, a think tank and industry group. Joining him is Munish Chawla is the Co-Founder of Jeevitam, a platform that is redefining the way people seek work, find work and get hired. Munish is also an industry veteran with 3 decades of work at various corporate organizations.  In this episode, our experts tackle topics such as the statistics of employment data in India, designing new job seeking opportunities for the new generation, the policymaking direction being taken by the government for jobs, and more. 

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