Bharatvaarta

The Pegasus expose has caused a huge scandal for Indian journalists and  politicians. With the high-tech modern approach of this virus, we need  to take a big-picture geopolitical view of this complex situation.  Today, our guests are Surya Kanegaonkar and Karan Datta. Surya is a  finance professional passionate about Indic culture and global  geopolitics, and a columnist for many prominent news outlets. Welcome to  the podcast Surya.  Karan has over 25 years of experience in the Financial Service industry  and has held leadership positions at Goldman Sachs, Axis Mutual, and  more. He is also a speaker on India and prominent geopolitical issues.

26th July is celebrated every year as Kargil Vijay Diwas. On this podcast, we look back at some of the events that unfolded 22 years ago on perhaps the toughest terrain in the world, and speak about some the history and significance of a war that everybody deemed impossible to win.  To discuss this, we have Aadit Kapadia, who runs MyIndMakers, a website discussing Indian policy, politics and culture. We also have Mohal Joshi, who hosts the India Rising podcast with Kishore Narayan. He also has a deep interest in geopolitics and defence.   Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfBfBd-1kvCOPxVll8tBJ9Q/join

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Jayant Sinha is the Member of Indian Parliament and formerly the  Minister of State for Finance and the Minister of State for Civil  Aviation in the Government of India. Sinha ji is currently the  Chairperson for Standing Committee on Finance and a member of the Public  Accounts Committee for 2019-2020. He has also been an investment fund  manager and management consultant.  He is also a global expert on Entrepreneurship and Technology and has  published articles in leading magazines and newspapers such as Harvard  Business Review, Business Today and more.   He has submitted a private member’s bill to parliament for India to  commit to net zero emissions by 2050. According to Sinha ji, this has  the capability to attract millions of dollars in investment and make  India a carbon-neutral nation.     In this episode, we delved deeper into the net zero emissions proposal  and how it can impact India as a whole. This podcast is available on  YouTube, Apple, Google, Spotify, Breaker, Stitcher, and other popular  platforms. If you like this episode, then please rate, subscribe and  share! For more information, do check out www.bharatvaarta.in.

The media landscape has changed drastically in the last 10 years with  the rise of independent media that offers an alternative to mainstream  media narratives. MyIndMakers, started in 2015, is one of the most  eminent examples of this movement. It has become one of the most popular  news sources for the Indian diaspora and beyond. In this episode, we  hosted Dr. Haritha Pusarla and Shri. Pramod Buravalli, two of the  founders of the site.

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On this episode of the #LongIndia series, we are pleased to have with us  Shri. NK Chaudhary ji, who is the Chairman & MD of Jaipur Rugs.  Jaipur Rugs is one of India's biggest manufacturers of hand-knotted  rugs. The company's operations span across 600 villages in India, with  the product being distributed to over 40 countries. The company manages  around 40,000 artisans.    He is often held up as a prime example of social entrepreneurship; one  of the main focuses of this episode. We also delved into his life's work  as the leader of Jaipur Rugs, hoping to pick up on some of the lessons  he received from the University of Hard Rocks of Life.   In this insightful episode, we explored the unique challenges that come  with solving for last-mile connectivity. We also delved into the founder  mentality, balancing talent management and optimization for profits,  and how to scale social enterprises.

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Of late, we don't just see debate on social media, but debate about it. There has been plenty of controversy about regulation, freedom of speech, big tech,  sovereignty and so on. In this podcast, we explored some of these nuances with Abhishek Ashtana.  Abhishek Asthana is an entrepreneur and founder of Ginger Monkey LLP and is a social media influencer with over 1Million followers on twitter.  In this wide-ranging podcast, we tackled issues such as the influence and power of social media. We delved into how it has evolved and grown over the past 10 years, along with discussing the nature of social engineering that allowed them to reach the ubiquity they boast today. We also discussed the nature of social media platforms, weighing whether they are platforms or publishers. We also discussed nuanced subjects such as the problem of regulating content, establishing redressal mechanisms and other similar systems, as well as how brands are viewing social media today. Finally, we concluded with discussing India's role as a market for  Big Tech companies and developing indigenous social media platforms. 

America celebrates 245 years of Independence this month, and in this  episode, we take a look at some of the social and political changes that  have taken place since the last few years. We tackled issues such as  the Trump election, the COVID-19 pandemic, wokeism, and much more.   Ruchir Sharma is an international affairs and social entrepreneurship  expert across India and Europe, with experience ranging from research at  IIM-Ahmedabad to public policy and security sector reform with a Swiss  inter-governmental agency, and from business innovation in the German  technology sector to international environmental advocacy with one of  Europe’s oldest NGOs and at the United Nations.  In 2017, he was selected as an MIT Global Entrepreneur and Indo-German  Young Leader, and in 2018, named a Climate Reality Leader by Al Gore’s  Climate Reality Project and helped ProVeg International win the UN  Momentum for Change Award for Planetary Health.   Velina Tchakarova is Head of Institute at the Austrian Institute for  European and Security Policy (AIES) in Vienna, Austria. She holds a M.A.  in political science/political science of South Asia from the  University in Heidelberg, Germany and a B.A. in international relations  from the University of World and National Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria.  Her work includes research, consulting and lectures on the global system  transformation and geostrategy of global actors as well as the EU  foreign, security, and defence policy.