Bharatvaarta

Aashish Chandorkar works as counsellor at the Permanent Mission of India to the World Trade Organization in Geneva. He is a lateral entrant to the government, having spent more than two decades in the management consulting and financial services industries working around the world. He has been writing on public policy in the domestic and international media for several years.

Suraj Sudhir works in the field of computer systems and machine learning in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. He has maintained an avid interest in modern global and Indian economic history, with a particular focus on understanding the quantitative underpinnings of development. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he tracked and wrote extensively about the progress of the Indian vaccination effort

In this episode we talk to them about India's fight against a raging pandemic and how policies, the government and the public came together in a time of crisis. 

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Topics: 
00:00 Sneak Peak
01:00 Introduction
02:32 How Aashish came to write the book
06:22 Challenges and constraints in vaccine development
09:30 Early days of the vaccine drive
15:12 Learnings from previous vaccination efforts 
18:28 Traditional vaccines v/s mRNA vaccines
21:35 Importance of having an indigenous vaccine
25:24 Strategy behind Vaccine procurment
35:30 Challenges in Vaccine Administration
40:09 India & the US' contrast in approach towards vaccine drives
46:40 What went right?
52:17 Role of Public digital infrastructure
54:42 What did the naysayers miss?
58:39 Benefits of Vaccine Maitri
01:01:24 Leadership lessons from the vaccine drive
01:06:57 Key Personalities in the vaccine drive
01:12:01 Aashish and Suraj's most memorable moment while writing the book

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Raghava has spent 21 yrs in game development, learning and entrepreneurship. He was the co-founder and Assoc Dean academics at Rashtram school of public leadership. He is currently the founder and CEO of Brhat.

Pankaj is the Co-founder and Director at Bṛhat, an author on Hindu temples, arts, literature, history and culture. He has a deep interest in cultural anthropology, evolutionary biology and ecology, and has visited more than 1200 Hindu temples.

In this conversation they talk about the cultural engine to power creatives, research and design rooted in the Indian civilizational consciousness with Sharan Setty. 

Topics:
00:00 Sneak Peak
01:30 Introduction
02:24 What is Brhat?
07:28 Brhat's understanding of Culture 
16:49 Importance of inculcating culture in our policies
30:54 Importance of aesthetics in culture and policy 
39:16 The plan ahead for Brhat
45:39 Closing comments

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This episode is in partnership with   @Swarajyamag 

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This weekly we take a look back on 2022 and discuss the highlights of the year with Aashish Chandorkar, Nirav Kanodra, Abhishek Paul and Hosting them, Roshan Cariappa. 

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2022 started off on a high note in the world startups with funding and valuations at the peak. Then came the correction, IPOs were postponed, valuations shrank and funding slowed down. As the year comes to an end, we called Rajeev Mantri and Nimish Joshi hosted by Roshan Cariappa to try and understand how and why startups performed the way they did. They also spoke about where startups are headed in 2023 and what we can be optimistic about and more.

Topics:
00:00 Sneak Peak
01:24 Introduction
01:42 Startup activity this year
02:53 Startups in 2021 vs 2022
07:39 Musk effect, back to office 
14:26 Emulating Silicon Valley practices 
16:31 Where will VC money go?
19:12 Tech Stocks Crash, Funding and Valuation
25:58 Has Startup Building been Corrupted? 
28:26 Are Incentives Misaligned?
35:25 Delayed tech IPOs; Temporary Blip or Failed Dream?
40:27 Key sectors to watch out for
59:46 The Future of Crypto
01:05:36 What to be optimistic about in 2023

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Since his takeover, Elon and Twitter itself have been the talk of the town almost everyday. With the release of The Twitter Files, a lot of what people suspected about it's policies has come into light. Aashish and Amit, returning guests on the podcasts join us to help us understand where Twitter currently stands as a global platform, what its future might be and more!

Topics:
00:00 Sneak Peak
01:01 Introduction
02:08 Twitter and its Impact on India
08:03 Key issues plaguing Twitter 
13:53 Elon's takeover of Twitter
18:39 Elon's vision of a free speech platform
23:24 Content Moderation
26:31 What should Govt.'s attitude towards Twitter be?
30:53 Aashish's take on The Twitter Files
37:02 Could India have its own twitter?
41:13 Things twitter can do better
49:25 Accounts to follow
52:03 Amit's take on Twitter blue

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Alexander Stahel is a value investor in energy, real estate, transport, and banks. He is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Burggraben Holding AG, a value investor in public and private companies. He has spent several decades researching and investing in commodities all over the world. Prior to founding BGH, he was a private equity investor for infrastructure and energy assets at Babcock & Brown, an international investment and specialized fund and management group. In this conversation with Velina Tchakarova, he spoke about the impacts of ban on Russian crude oil, Europe's energy crisis and more!

Topics:
00:00 Sneak Peak
01:10 Introduction
01:53 The Ban on Russian crude oil & EU's price cap on Russian oil
21:19 Who can compensate for the missing oil in the EU markets?
24:35 Possible black markets for Russian Oil
30:11 Impact on energy markets from China's reopening from 0 covid 
33:59 European Gas markets & energy crisis
51:54 Are Europe's current energy reserves enough for the coming winter
56:39 Europe's nuclear and renewable energy dilemma
01:15:39 Closing comments

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