My guest today is Dr Ajay Shah. Ajay is a prominent Indian economist and researcher who has made significant contributions in the field of public policy. He is a Senior Research Fellow and Co-Founder of XKDR Forum, an independent research organization. He co-hosts the podcast Everything is Everything on YouTube with veteran writer Amit Varma.

He graduated with a BTech in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Bombay and a PhD in Economics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His past experience includes Professorship at the National Institute for Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, and Consultant, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi (2001-2005).

About Dr Ajay Shah

https://xkdr.org/

https://www.mayin.org/ajayshah/

Everything is Everything : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RHpE-B89Qg&ab_channel=amitvarma

Dr Shah's research https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2C0fkiUAAAAJ&hl=en

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00:00 Introduction

1:43 Ajay about XKDR

10:26 Meeting demand and supply in research

14:52 Philanthropy in India

21:00 Funding for Research in India

23:14 Climate change and electricity generation

40:17 States championing solar energy

45:19 on Indian Courts

47:35 Govt Contracting

54:27 Indian Corporations and Research

1:03:00 Conclusion and Remarks

Today my guest is stand-up comedian Srijan Kaushik. Srijan has been creating waves in stand-up comedy circles with his poker-faced delivery of hilarious jokes. Not only that, he has an MBA from the Indian School of Business, one of India's premier institutes for management, and works full-time for the international Finance Corporation, a private arm of the World Bank. We will touch on all this and more in this episode, so let's get into it without further delay. The advertising revenue from this episode will go to The Ocean Cleanup. Check out their organization at www.theoceancleanup.com.

About Srijan

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC47V0gb3xW1ttnlDCJknQNg

https://www.instagram.com/srijan.kaushik/?hl=en

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My guest today is neurobiologist Dr. Vidita Vaidya, a professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1998 and did postdoctoral research at the Karolinska Institute and Oxford University before joining TIFR in 2000.

Dr. Vaidya is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, the Indian Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences, India. She has received the National Bioscientist Award (2012), Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (2015), the J.C. Bose Fellowship (2021), and a Nature award for excellence in mentoring (2019).

In this episode, I speak with Dr. Vaidya about moving back to India to set up her lab at TIFR, her research on early childhood trauma, and the potential use of psychedelics as therapeutics.

About Dr Vaidya

https://www.tifr.res.in/~dbs/faculty/V_Vaidya.html

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Today’s is a Tales from the Past episode. Tales from the past unearths fascinating and little-known stories from history. In each bite-sized episode,

Today we have with us Dr. Annapurni Subramaniam, the director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics.

Dr. Subramaniam received her Ph.D. in Physics - Astronomy in 1996 from the Indian Institute of Science. She has contributed significantly to research on the Magellanic Clouds, among numerous other areas. She is also an accomplished violinist.

In our conversation today, we will be talking about Dr. Subramaniam's career and meteoric rise from humble beginnings, the past, present and future of astronomy, India's moon mission Chandrayaan, and astrology.

About Dr Subramaniam

https://www.iiap.res.in/people/personnel/purni/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurni_Subramaniam

https://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/13515/

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Today’s is a Tales from the Past episode. Tales from the past unearths fascinating and little-known stories from history. In each bite-sized episode,

Today we have with us an exceptional young violinist, Kamalakiran Vinjamuri. Though only in his early twenties, he has already gained recognition for his prodigious talent and moving performances. Kamalakiran initially trained under his father, the renowned violinist Subhash Vinjamuri, before taking lessons from the legendary violinist A. Kanyakumari. Kamalakiran has toured internationally, including performances at prestigious venues like Carnegie Hall in New York. He represents the next generation of talent continuing the rich legacy of Indian classical violin. In this episode, we go through his experience learning the violin from the great guru A. Kanyakumari and some technical aspects to look for while learning the violin, among many other things.

Know more about Kamalakiran here

https://www.instagram.com/kamalakiran/

The 12 year old prodigy : http://tinyurl.com/ymnc2dyy

https://www.richmondfolkfestival.org/2022-folklife-performers/2022/9/6/kamalakiran-vinjamuri

Guru A.Kanyakumari

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Kanyakumari

http://tinyurl.com/3bsr8xb4

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Today we are starting a new series called Tales from the Past - that unearths fascinating and little-known stories from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents

If you are a coffee connoisseur, this episode is just for you. Not many people start their day without a cup of coffee, it maybe drip coffee from a nearby convenient store or a fancy white chocolate mocha.

I sit down with Social anthropologist and the author of the book Making Better Coffee Dr. Edward Fischer to discuss the history, evolution and waves of coffee culture. This is part 1 of a two part episode. In this part we focus on the history and evolution of coffee culture. Dr. Fischer is a professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and his research focuses on political economy, wellbeing and social economy. He is a highly cited researcher and expert in his field who also co-founded the social enterprise Mani+ that develops and produces locally sourced complementary foods to fight malnutrition.

Dr Fischer's works:

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520386969/making-better-coffee

https://as.vanderbilt.edu/anthropology/bio/ted-fischer

Third Wave Coffee:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-wave_coffee

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This episode is not quite a shortcast, as we are joined by internet