Today my guest is Prof Sachidanand Tripathi. Dr Tripathi is an acclaimed

My guest today is Dinesh Thakur. Dinesh Thakur trained as a chemical engineer before becoming a whistleblower against the pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy. While working at Ranbaxy, he witnessed extensive data fraud and reported this wrongdoing. His actions led Ranbaxy to plead guilty in an American court in 2013 to violating US law. The company paid a $500 million dollar penalty as part of its guilty plea. For his whistleblowing efforts, he received the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage and the ACFE Cliff Robertson Sentinel Award. Since 2014, he has advocated reforming India's outdated Drugs & Cosmetics Act from 1940. He founded an advocacy group called Citizens for Affordable, Safe & Effective Medicine (CASEM) to campaign for these reforms. Dinesh also established the Thakur Family Foundation, a philanthropic organization that funds public health research and health journalism in India. He serves as the Foundation's President.
In this episode I talk to Dinesh about the work of Y K Hameid and Cipla, How india became the generic drug manufacturing capital of the world and pros and cons of it. We also talk about the Ranbaxy case and few other important cases which expose the shady side of big pharma companies, the lack of regulations for clinical trials in India and many more things. So stay tuned to the episode. Do show your support to this show by subscribing on Spotify or wherever you get your podcast and buy me a coffee at buymeacoffee.com/shortcastovercoffee

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Today my guest is Baradwaj Rangan. Baradwaj is a National Award winning Film Critic and the Editor-in-Chief of @GalattaPlus. He is also the author of two books 'Conversations with Mani Ratnam' and Dispatches from the Wall Corner: A Journey through Indian Cinema.

Today my guest is Pranav Radhakrishnan. Pranav is a terrific science communicator and the man behind the popular YouTube channel Science is Dope, where he talks about pseudoscience and analyzes some popular conspiracy theorists. Pranav is an engineering graduate from the National Institute of Technology Calicut. I found out that he also grew up in Kozhikode, the city where I did a lot of my schooling. I talk to Pranav about atheism, debunking pseudoscience, alternative medicine, and

Salaam-e- Krish Ashok! Ashok has been a part of the show earlier where we spoke at length about food homeopathy veganism and Carnatic music and I highly recommend you check the episodes out . I’ll link them in the show notes. Ashok recently made a food trip to Lucknow and I thought I need to ask him in detail about the Mughal and the awadhi dishes he tried there. So here we are. Like most of my episodes we do digress quite a bit but I hope the episode is engaging and entertaining as we talk about Lucknow the city and how the Mughals influenced Indian cooking.

Today my guest is Parth MN. Parth is an independent journalist based in Mumbai, India. He mainly covers rural India for multiple publications. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, People's Archive of Rural India, Times of India Digital, among other

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Today my guest is Dr Shruti Rajagopalan. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where she leads the Indian Political Economy Program and Emergent Ventures India. In this episode I talk to Shruti about the initiatives she works on at Mercatus, economics research in India and the US and we dive deep into the good and the bad aspects of the goods and services tax in India also known as GST

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Today my guest is Nitin Sundar. Nitin was a sub-editor with Cricinfo and has been an avid follower of the game since the mid 90s. I will talk to Nitin about his career at Cricinfo and everything cricket pretty much… from stadium experience to commentators to the 2023 World Cup

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My guest today is Sreedhar Pillai. Sreedhar is a trade analyst and film critic and has been a journalist in the movie industry for over 35 years. I will talk to Sreedhar about the economics of the South Indian movie industry today - from ticket pricing to film distribution to OTT and satellite rights. We'll discuss the changes that have occurred in the business side of South Indian cinema over the past few decades. Sreedhar's depth of knowledge and experience covering the entertainment industry will provide insightful perspective on the financial landscape and strategies of South Indian movie studios and distributors. I look forward to an interesting conversation about the numbers, deals, and dollars behind Kollywood and the other regional film industries in South

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