Tirthak Saha is a Business Strategy Consultant. He has been working as a solo consultant for several pre-series A global startups to help founding teams develop their GTM strategies and build data-driven MVPs. He was also the co-founder of Trolysis – an American clean energy startup developing innovative solutions to the world's Energy and Climate Change problems.

Previously to this, He lead a program to design a multi-million-dollar portfolio of Smart Grid technology projects at American Electric Power and also conducted research projects in the Space Systems sector, working with NASA (Pennsylvania Space Grant Commission).

Nikin Tharan believes in using technology and leveraging existing resources to challenge the status quo and impact lives. He is currently the CEO and co-founder of Medsix, a medical device startup based in Boston.

Growing up in India, Nikin discovered he had a talent for electronics and started working at a lab affiliated with the Border Security Force at 9 y/o and secured a scholarship to study university in the US at 16 y/o. After graduating, he worked at a startup building novel radiation detectors backed by NASA before founding Medsix.

Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and author. As of 2019, he is a member of the board of India's Central Board of Film Certification.

Neeraj Arora is a famous Chartered Accountant and teacher by passion. He runs multiple YouTube channels with hundreds and thousands of subscribers. He is also the co-founder of Fin Learn Club and EDU 91.

Prakhar was invited to speak about what it's like to be an internet entrepreneur and the future of modern media entrepreneurship in India.

Ruchir Sharma is an award-winning public policy and political advocacy professional with experience in police reform, counterterrorism, and climate change at the intergovernmental level and campaign strategy at the party-level.

With an academic background in Marxist theory, the history of terrorism, and Cold War geopolitics, he has also worked as an advisor to a major political party and in recent years, he has been making waves with his piercing articles on history, culture, and international politics, in the Huffington Post, Firstpost, Swarajya, and Russia Insider.

Amish Tripathi is the Director of the Nehru Centre in London and a columnist, and author. He is very well known for his books The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of the Nagas, The Oath of the Vayuputras, Scion of Ikshvaku, Sita: Warrior of Mithila, Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta and Legend of Suheldev: The King Who Saved India.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:12 The Indic Storytelling Style

05:28 Being open to many truths - Indian Liberalism

12:13 The complexity of Dharma

16:37 Liberalism and Infighting

27:48 The "inaccessible" wisdom in our mythology

31:53 Reconnecting the education system to the Indian roots

39:39 Finding a distinct spiritual instinct in life

45:06 A marriage of religiosity and liberalism in India

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra is a defense analyst and a cultural-political commentator.

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00:10 India GDP vs Bangladesh's GDP

13:36 India mai ‘Chalta Hai’

18:26 Tanishq Ekatvam Ad

22:43 The Future of Hindu-Muslim relationship in India

40:29 Politics, Society and Culture of Central Asia

49:58 China, Taiwan and what should India do

59:41 Pakistan Civil war?

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Tavleen Singh is an Indian columnist, political reporter, and writer.

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

00:58 The Sushant Singh Rajput Political Fiasco

04:55 What does Bollywood stand for in the Indian culture

10:50 The forgotten wounds of Indian history

15:05 Tavleen Discusses Modi's Report card

24:04 "What do you think about politicians is wrong"

33:32 The modern Media situation alarms Tavleen Singh

37:15 The perfect educational specimen for India

43:09 What happened to 'Messiah Modi'?

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Wendell Wallach is a consultant, ethicist, and scholar at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and a senior advisor to The Hastings Center. He is also a fellow at the Center for Law, Science & Innovation at the Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law (Arizona State University) and a fellow at the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technology.

Mr. Wallach has an international reputation as an expert on the ethical and governance concerns posed by emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence and neuroscience. He was featured along with Honda's Asimov in the award-winning short film Living with Robots, and has been interviewed and quoted often in leading news media including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and BBC News. He has also been interviewed on MSNBC, FOX, the FOX Business Channel, PBS and countless national and local radio shows.