Such Conversations Matter (SCM)

Meet Pallabi Ghosh, a human rights activist specialising in work related to anti-human trafficking  activism. She completed her studies from Lady Shree Ram College, Delhi University and then decided to embark on the journey towards Human Rights Activism. She is a UN Woman, is on the board of and is a consultant to many Civic Society Organisations, and has set-up a trust with some renowned philanthropists, journalists and leaders in society. Her work gets featured in media across the world. Her work takes her all across India and the under bellies of our cities and villages. She is an ardent supporter of education and she is a core part of ANNEducation, where I met her and we have been working together ever since.

Know more about her - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pallabi-ghosh-b2b9a349/https://www.facebook.com/pallabighosh90.lsr

ANNEDuction - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgpV1n51zr0zywFQK17Zi7A 

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“Now the onus of choosing subjects and careers is also on a 13 year old on top of all other things…” - Dr Itishree Misra

Please meet Dr Itishree Mishra, one of India’s pre-eminent psychometricians. She has completed her studies and research under some of India’s pioneering psychologists and educationists such as Prof Vimala Veeraraghavan. She is a gold medalist and PhD from Delhi University and has mentored over 100,000 students in over 2 decades of her work across schools, universities and geographies in India. She has helped set up schools, set up career development centres and processes at various organisations and is regularly featured as an advisor at various research forums in both public and private sectors in India.

Know more about her - http://mapmycareer.in/about-us 

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“SDGs will not be successful if they are not transformed into ’Student Driven Goals’ or ‘School Driven Goals’ !” - Samarth Pathak

Please welcome Samarth Pathak, the Communications Officer (South Asia) and Regional Focal Point (Education for Justice Initiative) at UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime). Since 2020, he has spearheaded the Lockdown Learners program in India and South Asia under the Education for Justice Initiative.His work experience encompasses public advocacy, content-driven outreach, multilateral diplomatic engagement, youth mobilization on SDGs, community engagement, network-building, management of external and internal communications, institutional brand-building, news production and analysis on issues related to security, human rights and development. Prior to UNODC, he was associated with the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the Aspen Centre India, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Reuters Television.

Know more about him - https://www.linkedin.com/in/samarth-pathak-0332b54b/

Education for Justice Initiative - https://www.unodc.org/e4j/Lockdown

Learners India - https://www.unodc.org/e4j/en/about-e4j/e4j-around-the-world/lockdown-learners-india.html

UNODC - https://www.unodc.org/southasia/

UN SDGs - http://sdgs.un.org 

Cyber Bullying - https://www.ipsos.com/en/global-views-cyberbullying

Cyber Bullying in India - https://www.jagranjosh.com/articles/cyber-bullying-all-you-need-to-know-1600087117-1

Cyber Bullying or COVID Anxiety - https://www.jagranjosh.com/articles/is-it-covid-anxiety-or-cyber-bullying-expert-speak-saurabh-nanda-1622716764-1

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"If you are not working towards lessening your carbon footprint, you are not literate." - Dr Navneet Bhullar

Meet Dr Navneet Bhullar, founder of Action Group Against Plastic Pollution (AGAPP) in Jalandhar, Punjab, India. She divides her time between the US and India. She is activist at heart. She has previously volunteered at Doctors Without Borders. Last year after the lockdown, she could observe more and more plastic being used and could not stand our environment being destroyed by bad plastic waste management and that’s when she together with other doctors, counsellors to create AGAPP and start getting to the bottom of the problem and create more awareness. I am following her lead and have joined AGAPP as a member and we are trying to create more awareness around plastic waste management.

Watch this Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2TDHqpqiEpQ

Know more about her - https://www.todayshospitalist.com/finding-a-much-broader-perspective/

Plastic Waste Management in India (AGAPP Report) - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-r3W7LkgiQwElxvkJrbVcGUNe0fCjzeo/view 

Japan Pollution - https://www.ft.com/content/5cf68c84-afeb-11ea-94fc-9a676a727e5a

John Oliver Episode on Plastics - https://youtu.be/Fiu9GSOmt8E 

Malaysia Refuses Plastic Waste - https://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/malaysia-sent-4120-tons-of-plastic-trash-back-to-13-rich-countries-saying-it-refuses-to-be-the-rubbish-dump-of-the-world/articleshow/73486811.cms

Tauktae Cyclone Throws back trash - https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/cyclone-tauktae-garbage-mumbai-beach-b1851451.html

Sunderlal Bahuguna - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahuguna

Sant Seechewal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balbir_Singh_Seechewal

KS Pannu - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ludhiana/punjab-government-may-soon-set-new-pollution-parameters/articleshow/77762463.cms

AGAPP - https://www.facebook.com/AGAPPMissionplasticfreeJalandhar

The second season we also launch our new music background score created by the very talented Sharad Joshi - https://linktr.ee/SharadJo 

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Season 2 of SCM will begin in the first week of May. With better production quality and renewed enthusiasm, the conversations would revolve around the small movements which will become part of our immediate future - a future we all deserve.

This teaser is an attempt at summarising the discussions which were held at SCM in Season 1.

Season 1 Guests -

Arti Anand Ashish Rana Anurag Bhandari Amandeep Rajgotra Harshita Suneja Jim Bouman Suneel Jangir Bettina Buchholtz Ankit Kapoor Emily Bailey Yasuka Inoue Siddhant Chaudhary Terrie Lloyd Micky Chen Robinder N. Sachdev Michele Bezzi Yuumi Okuda Daisuke Kaneko Vidyadhar Prabhudesai, FRSA Narendra Joshi Priyank Sharma Elizabeth Masamune PSM GAICD (Dr) Raman K. Attri Saurabh Nanda

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“Indian systems we continuously need external intervention…and that external intervention will not come from outside India…there needs to be a systemic change at scale” - Saurabh Nanda Please welcome Mr Saurabh Nanda, founder of Such Conversations Matter and co-founder of Universal Native. He is a computer science engineer from NIT Jalandhar, Masters in Clinical Psychology and is currently pursuing a diploma in Sustainability Sciences. He is an educator, career consultant and UN SDGs proponent. He has impacted the lives of more than 14,000 students and parents across India, Denmark and Japan. Last year, he was selected for the Awaji Youth Federation international fellowship in Awaji, Japan. He believes that education should empower. This has driven him to the cause of using technology to ensure easy access of information for all citizens. He has co-founded a non-profit called Universal Native, with 3 other innovators who have similar passion for this: Amandeep Rajgotra, Anurag Bhandari and Ashish Rana. Aman and Anurag have been kind of to take my interview in this episode where we discuss in detail about Universal Native, Such Conversations Matter and much more. This episode is also the finale of SCM Season 1! Know more about Saurabh - https://snanda.in #SuchConversationsMatter #UniversalNative #SaurabhNanda #Information #Democratisation #AccessToInformation #sustainability #changemakers #careerconsultant #careeradvice #careercounselling #careercounseling

"Organisations need to spend more amount of money on developing learning ecosystems which can help learners rather than on separate trainings..." - Dr Raman K Attri Please welcome Dr Raman K Attri, an expert on Expertise Acceleration! He is a double doctorate, author of 20 books, corporate training leader and scientist who currently resides in Singapore but has worked in many European countries, the USA and many Asian economies. He has more degrees, diplomas, licenses and certifications than one can comfortably count. He manages the global corporate learning and training programs for KLA-Tencor. He has his own proprietary research and training methodology. Most importantly, he is still the same humble curious engineering student that he has always been - hungry to know more. He is an alumnus of NIT Jalandhar from the class of 1994 (erstwhile, REC Punjab) and he has kindly agreed to be on our show as a caring senior! This teachers day episode is special because of him. Know more about Dr Raman K Attri - https://www.speedtoproficiency.com #SuchConversationsMatter #Technology #Learning #CorporateTraining #Hololens #VR #AR #Proficiency #Training #TechnicalTraining #Leadership #TeachersDay2020 #TeachersDay #SaurabhNanda #careerconsultant #careeradvice #careercounselling #careercounseling

"I hope that when the effective vaccine is developed, the world shares that with everyone...I believe that middle powers such as India, Japan, Australia and others need to form some kind of an alliance that would help to provide some balance..." Please welcome Ms Elizabeth Masamune, a former diplomat, advisor to governments, companies, universities and non-profits. She is the Senior Managing Director of the Awaji Youth Federation (AYF) in Japan. AYF is a unique place which brings young innovators from around the world in contact with very accomplished mentors who are former diplomats, UN leaders, corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, professors and niche experts. Elizabeth is the recipient of the Public Service Medal by the Australian government. She is a passionate advocate for the power of cultural diversity and developing the next generation of the custodians of our planet. She is a cultural intelligence expert and a wonderful mentor! Know more about her - https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-masamune-psm-gaicd-7159a94/ #SuchConversationsMatter #fellowship #awajiyouthfederation #ayfjapan #awaji #japan #Leadership #SDGs #sustainability #changemakers #Leader #SaurabhNanda #careerconsultant #careeradvice #careercounselling #careercounseling

“COVID-19 has made people ask some questions which people should have asked long back! Things don’t change till people protest to change the systems… the privilege of protest is limited to certain kind of people…” - Priyank Sharma Priyank is an engineer from NIT Jalandhar, a Masters in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, an MPhil from National Institute of Education Planning and Administration, Delhi and most recently, a researcher in education - who was supposed to pursue his research studies in the US on side effects of Education systems. But the COVID-19 crisis forced those plans to change and he is currently continuing his research at NIEPA itself. Priyank likes to go into the depth of topics and find out the fundamental reasons for any practice or policy. You can read more about his thoughts from his semi-blog on facebook - fb.com/arandomeducator And, he created the education forum, of which I am a co-creator now! ANNEducation - https://www.youtube.com/c/ApproachingtheNewNormal/ #SuchConversationsMatter #ANNEducation #Education #EducationResearch #EducationInIndia #NEP2020