The Modern India's Podcast

It is not going to be easy dealing with the high-powered “P5” at the tallest table in the world. But when Norway joins the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on 1st January 2021, we can absolutely make a positive difference – possibly with India – in promoting human rights, gender equality, sustainable development and social justice as preconditions for lasting peace and security! 

This was a clear message from Tove Gravdal when she spoke to Det Moderne India last week. 
Tove is a journalist specializing in global affairs and served as a diplomat at Norway’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations the last time we were member of THE COUNCIL.  She recently published a highly acclaimed book on Norway in the UN Security Council.  

This week she will speak with Thoralf Stenvold, our own expert on these issues. Wanna be in the know?

New data is made available by innovative new satellites that could benefit both societal needs and new business plans. It is important to merge data available from ground with space data in order to enable new services in various fields like maritime surveillance, property monitoring, agriculture, construction, finance and insurance. Space solutions, satellites and launchers have become cheaper, paving the way for a new generations of experts and entrepeneurs entering the space arena with new concept and business ideas both building and using satellite data in a more efficient way. This is what we call NEW SPACE.

We elaborated on the Indian regulatory regime and the opening of the commercial space community in India. Concretely, we mentioned maritime surveillance and micro-launchers as possible Indian-Norwegian cooperation opportunities. 

Finally, we talked about the new sense of entrepreneurship, integration of IT and space domain involving players in the cloud and data processing value chain and the need for a wide variety of competences in the new race for space data.  

What happens when you put two global guys - one from metropolitan New Delhi, the other from a village in the North of Norway - on the same rooftop in the Barcode of Oslo?  They solve all the world’s problems.  At least for a moment. That’s what occurred the other day, when Det Moderne India invited Sony Kapoor, the re-knowned thinker and international adviser on economic and political affairs, for a chat Thoralf Stenvold, our editor of the month. Their subject was Sustainability.  The two gentlemen, both alumni of the London School of Economics with truly transnational careers, touched upon India’s transformation, the Nordic model, climate change, inequality and global governance, including with an eye to the UN Security Council, where both their countries will take a seat in the coming year.  

In this episode, we have with us H.E Dr. Bala Bhaskar, Indian Ambassador to Norway interviewed by our Host Sundeep Singh, a consultant at McKinsey Norway.

On India's Independence Day, we are happy to launch our podcast series, Det Moderne India Podcast.

We have with us, MD & Country Manager, Statkraft India, Bredo Erichsen, sharing his experience as a Norwegian leader in India with Dr. Navreet Kaur, First House. 

This podcast is in Norwegian.