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WISE Tech Insights Episode 01: Fizz to Frenzy—Decoding India's explosive energy drink craze by SPJIMR Podcast

Past Imperfect Episode 21 features SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel in conversation with Rosinka Chaudhuri, Professor in Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) and the author of India’s First Radicals: Young Bengal and the British Empire.

In the early 1830s, a cohort of graduates from Calcutta’s Hindu College began transforming Indian society. Later dubbed Young Bengal, this generation embraced a range of radical and heterodox ideas, questioning everything about the world around them. Their parents were outraged by their abandonment of orthodox Hinduism. Commentators around India either thrilled at their advocacy of equality and liberty or condemned them as drunkards and beef eaters. Amidst these sparks, Young Bengal set out an agenda for fearlessly defending principles like freedom of speech, equality, liberty, and secularism. Its members condemned British colonial rule and even took a British administrator to court. Chaudhuri explains how Young Bengal upturned colonial India—often at great personal cost, but with far-reaching implications which resonate today.

Past Imperfect Episode 20: Manu S. Pillai on Missionaries, Reformers, and the Making of Modern Hinduism. by SPJIMR Podcast

Prof. Surya Tahora is in conversation with Neha Chatwani, an organisational psychologist. In this talk they discuss, in a world of turbulence it is imperative that we re-assess some of the management and leadership assumptions in organisations, so that we can leverage our collective intelligence with meaning and purpose, intentionally, for enabling agility through learning.

Tune in to the latest episode of the podcast series Sapience presented by SPJIMR Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL).

Past Imperfect Episode 19 features SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel in conversation with Amrita Shah, author of The Other Mohan in Britain’s Indian Ocean Empire.

What does Mohanlal Killavala have in common with Mahatma Gandhi? Both men migrated to South Africa. Both men were Gujarati professionals who smarted at racial prejudice in the British Empire, protested against unjust laws, and spent time in jail. There were important dissimilarities, as well—dissimilarities which add nuance to the story of the Indian diaspora. Amrita Shah’s The Other Mohan traces the story of her great-grandfather, Killavala, as he joined thousands of other Indians seeking better opportunities abroad in the early twentieth century. While reconstructing Killavala’s travels, she also tells a much more complex story of how the Indian Ocean knit together so many different people through bonds of labor, political activity, and marriage.

Past Imperfect Episode 18 features SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel in conversation with Rosemary Wakeman, Professor of History at Fordham University and author of The Worlds of Victor Sassoon.

Victor Sassoon (1881-1961) called three cities home: Bombay, London, and Shanghai. These three cities, as Rosemary Wakeman explains, best epitomized capitalism and globalization in the 1920s and 1930s. In The Worlds of Victor Sassoon, Wakeman uses the life and fortunes of the Baghdadi Jewish businessman to tell a much larger story of cosmopolitanism and global cities. Bombay, London, and Shanghai resembled one another more than their own countries: they became international hubs of finance, technology, media, and the leisure economy. This was a world of horse races and aviation, real estate speculation and the movie industry, and art deco architecture and investment banking. Victor Sassoon stood at the center of a much broader transformation of global capitalism, one which sprouted the roots of today’s economy.

Prof. Surya Tahora is in conversation with Dr. Knut O.J. Ims, Professor emeritus in business ethics at the Norwegian School of Economics and Hege Tuen Seglem, Founder of Being Mindful. In this talk they discuss how mindfulness, defined by Jon Kabat-Zinn as purposeful, present, and non-judgmental awareness, can address interconnected systemic crises in the Anthropocene, such as environmental, social, and economic challenges. It argues that mindfulness can foster conscious, value-driven choices, breaking habitual behaviors to promote sustainability and deeper connections with nature, others, and oneself.

Past Imperfect Episode 17 features SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel in conversation with Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smiths Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin and author of Making Ireland.

Question: What unites a European island country of 5 million people and a subcontinental nation of 1.45 billion? Answer: A remarkably deep and complex history. Jane Ohlmeyer explains how the Irish—as both colonial victims and members of the colonial elite, army, and bureaucracy—shaped British India from the 1600s onward. Ireland gave India some of its staunchest allies, such as Annie Besant, and its most recalcitrant colonial governors, like Michael O’Dwyer of Punjab. And the Irish have influenced modern India in some profoundly unexpected ways. Bombay’s second governor—the Irishman Gerald Aungier—instilled its commercial ethos and transformed the city into a cosmopolitan entrepot. India’s “City of Dreams” retains several reminders of Irish inputs from nearly four centuries ago.

In this episode Prof. Surya Tohara explore the topic conscious consulting with Christian Mayhofer, Co-Founder, Conscious consulting group

Sapience Episode 9: Inner presence and wise leadership by SPJIMR Podcast