Meet Sachin Ravi, co-founder of QShala, a company that helps children like me do what we love doing the most: quizzing. 

In this episode, we discuss how Sachin started QShala, its future plans, importance of being multilingual, how to be inclusive, importance of talking gibberish with your sibling and how he changed his career from being a lawyer to be a founder.

Welcome to season 2 of A Thirsty Mind. It has been a little over a year since I started the podcast. To make the launch of second season special we have an unusual candidate running for the post UN Secretary General, Arora Akanksha. Did you know that UN has never had a woman Secretary General so far? Come join us as we talk about the way UN works, the issues across the world and how we can work together to change the world. 

Sorry folks, the 20th episode got a bit delayed because we were busy with a whole host of things at personal front. But then, to make up, I talk to a future restaurateur, a fellow Among Us player and my dear friend Agastya Kiran. We talk about the Nizam city, Hyderabad, how we children can learn to be sensitive to siblings with special needs and his future plans of taking on his father's restaurant business.
PS: I am going to be on a break for sometime. Will be back with more fun in season 2.

Did you know that Eucalyptus is not suitable for Indian forests? Jacob Cherian and I discuss how it came from outside of our habitat along with lantana and is growing in the wild uncontrolled.  Meet Jacob, founder of TerreGeneration. He is a plogger and a tree planter. He loves dogs, hates plastic misuse and over use, is in need of support, funds and time from people like us to clean up the world we live in. 

Join my brother Abhinav and me, as we "co-ghost" our wonderful guest, Grechen Huebner, the co-founder of Kodable, our favorite coding app. We discuss javascript, swift, functions, sending a drone to space, beach clean ups, her plans to improve Kodable and her love for Taco. Stay tuned till the end, when Grechen chooses to become the host on our show.

Meet my friend Dariya Chewane from Mumbai, who lives in the company of books. In this episode we talk about books, what she learnt from them, beauty of Ukraine, online classes and a Russian surprise. 

A dancer, Yoga enthusiast and a baker all rolled into one makes Abhigna Arvind. She is my cousin who lives in Saudi. Join our conversation as we discuss life in Saudi, her love for baking tutti-fruity cake, how she misses Indian street food and her family (including me) back home. 

I used to think that only my mom thought her son to be the best actor, until I spoke to Chaitra Chidanand, who thinks her son Pranav is the best actor because he does a lot of drama. We sons love all the drama, join me in conversation with Chaitra in the upcoming episode where we talk about working in Infosys, meeting Sudha Murty and Narayan Murthy, her experience of starting up couple of companies, how to get into Stanford and importance of volunteering.

Listen to the latest episode of my podcast to understand what pathos and logia means, as Dr N Jayaram, managing director of Anand Diagnostic Laboratory starts talking to us. We also discuss how to become a pathologist, inhibitions one has to shed, different specialisations, how Covid has impacted the medical testing labs, AI and data science in pathology, difference between autopsy and biopsy, transplantation and its uses, a balanced body and mind and importance of following a dream and achieving it. Stay tuned till the end for a musical surprise.

I have decided to spend 24 hours in every new place I visit when I grow up. Thanks to Brian Yessian, Chief Creative Officer of Yessian Music, I learnt that this could be a fun way of experiencing food, people and cultures all over the world. Come join us on a musical journey as we talk about music as a career, various options in the music industry, creating jingles, music for theme parks, songs and television commercials in the new episode of A Thirsty Mind.