India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to have a mixed economy, one that assimilated the best of capitalism and socialism. Nearly 70 years down the line, many believe India adopted the worst of both worlds.From the 1990s onwards we’ve seen the emergence of cronyism in India, where governments act in a manner that benefits the privileged few. But is there hope for change? CREDITSHost: Dr Trent BrownGuest: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta (Editor, Economic and Political Weekly)Producer: Kog RavindranAudio Engineer: Gavin NebauerThis podcast is brought to you in association with the Australia India Institute @ Delhi and founding partners La Trobe University and the University of New South Wales.

"I can't help imagining how a 100 rupee note might have been worth 80 rupees one month, 85 the next, then 90, 95 and finally the day came when real value and printed value aligned and it acquired its 'true worth'." - Professor Craig JeffreyCREDITSHost: Professor Craig JeffreyProducer: Kog RavindranAudio Engineer: Gavin NebauerThis podcast is brought to you in association with the Australia India Institute @ Delhi and founding partners La Trobe University and the University of New South Wales.

Despite two decades of economic growth, more than 70 percent of urban Indian workers don’t have formal sector jobs. Entrepreneur Sahil Shekhar explores inefficiencies in the education and labor markets that prevent matching the right candidate with the right skills for the right job. CREDITSHost: Dr Trent BrownGuest: Sahil SekharProducer: Kog RavindranAudio Engineer: Gavin NebauerThis podcast is brought to you in association with the Australia India Institute @ Delhi and founding partners La Trobe University and the University of New South Wales.

"Youth across the world are putting their political effort into 'being the change they want to see in the world' – a phrase that is misattributed to Gandhi.""The Occupy Movement is a good example. Rather than spending time petitioning politicians, Occupy activists sought to build an ideal society – a ‘better tomorrow’ - realised through such activities as free yoga classes, lectures, and democratic debates. Scholars refer to this as ‘prefigurative politics’: the channelling of political energy into performing now one’s vision of a better world." - Professor Craig JeffreyCreditsThis podcast is brought to you in association with the Australia India Institute @ Delhi and founding partners La Trobe University and the University of New South Wales.Host: Professor Craig JeffreyProducer: Kog RavindranAudio Engineer: Gavin Nebauer

Much of the health economics literature in India has focused on the pervasive problem of malnutrition and infectious diseases. However, a topic that has garnered considerably less attention is the rising phenomenon of obesity.CREDITSHost: Souresh RoyGuest: Professor Pushkar MaitraProducer: Kog RavindranAudio Engineer: Gavin NebauerThis podcast is brought to you in association with the Australia India Institute @ Delhi and founding partners La Trobe University and the University of New South Wales.

"Young people often reproduce pernicious systems. But they alsoundermine them. Even forms of political action that can be ushered quite quickly into the categories of ‘progressive’ or ‘retrogressive’ often contain within them contradictory impulses and potentials." - Professor Craig JeffreyCreditsThis podcast is brought to you in association with the Australia India Institute @ Delhi and founding partners La Trobe University and the University of New South Wales.Host: Professor Craig JeffreyProducer: Kog RavindranAudio Engineer: Gavin Nebauer

As India continues its quest get one billion Indians online by 2020, filmmaker Andrew Garton discusses his new film 'Ocean in a Drop' which explore the impact of broadband internet on rural India. CreditsThis podcast is brought to you in association with the Australia India Institute @ Delhi and founding partners La Trobe University and the University of New South Wales. CreditsThis podcast is brought to you in association with the Australia India Institute @ Delhi and founding partners La Trobe University and the University of New South Wales.Host: Dr Trent BrownGuest: Andrew GartonProducer: Kog RavindranAudio Engineer: Gavin Nebauer