The VM Podcast, a Vichaar Manthan project looking to explore modern day issues through a Dharmic lens. Through in-depth interviews with some of the best thinkers of our time, the podcast explore how we can better understand dharma, our lives, and recapture the ancient and classical ideals of sustainability, liberty and flourishing. Tune in, for an earnest conversation! - Hosted by VM fellow Sumit Sharma, who you can email on podcast@vichaarmanthan.org Join the conversation at https://www.vic ...
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EP32 - Threads of Discourse: Dharma, Politics, and Society with Kushal Mehra
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EP31 - Planetary Transgression and why we need Climate Healers, with Dr. Sailesh Rao
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Dr. Sailesh Rao has over three decades of professional experience and is the Founder and Executive Director of Climate Healers, a non-profit dedicated towards healing the Earth’s climate. A systems specialist with a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Dr. Rao worked on the internet communications infrastructure for twenty yea…
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EP30 - Simplicity, Spirituality and Service to Others with Mahimarnava Das, at Bhaktivedanta Manor
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EP29 - Being Different, Live in Conversation with Rajiv Malhotra
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Being Different, Live in Conversation with Rajiv Malhotra, eminent author and founder of The Infinity Foundation. ------------------------------------------------------------ The VM Podcast is a Vichaar Manthan project exploring modern-day issues through a Dharmic lens. Through in-depth interviews with some of the best thinkers of our time, the pod…
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EP28 - Rebuilding Communities: 18 States and Counting with Kiran Chukkapalli
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Our social persona and acceptance throughout our lives are often defined by how well we ‘fit in’ to society. Yet every society has those who reject social conventions - or in the eyes of some, social restrictions - in favour of absolute ‘freedom’. There are even those who defy all stereotypes, using their freedom to undertake spiritual sadhana (jou…
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EP27 - Seeking Sanctity, Finding Dharma with Fred Stella - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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A lot of our childhood memories and curiosities are forgotten as we grow older. We get comfortable in our surroundings, are influenced by friends and family, and our identity generally freezes to resemble that of our closest circle. But for some, early experiences are filled with uncommon questions that turn into a journey of seeking, leading to ro…
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EP26 - Discipline, Dedication, Dharma with Dev Dutt Sharma - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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The internet is full of advice, ‘life hacks’, self-help blogs, vlogs, ‘How I live my life’ videos from 20,000 different people and whatnot. We have access to all sorts of ‘quick fixes’, and with technology expanding all around us every day. Machines are now handling mundane tasks, and online tools writing automatically for us, all available widely,…
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EP25 - Mother Earth Bhumi Global - with Gopal Patel - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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The idea of ‘One World’ or ‘One Family’ - ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ - is one of the central themes in the Hindu philosophy. And no other issue has highlighted this truth in recent times as has the effects of climate change that the world has been experiencing lately. Changing weather patterns, natural disasters, melting glaciers and the rising water …
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EP24 - Kautilyanomics with Sriram Balasubramanian - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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Historically, Bharat was a thriving centre of trade and commerce, contributing to a major percentage of the world GDP. Exploring some of the architects of this vibrant economy, the name of Kautilya or Chanakya is very often invoked. While many of Kautilya’s political policies are popular, few authors have studied Kautilya’s economic policies. Indee…
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EP23 - Inclusive and Sustainable Finance, Leadership, Ethics and Culture with Professor Atul K Shah - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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Global financial institutions have again been making the news in recent times. And given the interconnected complex structures of global financial and trade networks, the effects of disturbance to any part of these networks is felt by the common man in almost every part of the world. Whether through government spending tax collections on bailouts o…
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EP22 - Reading, ’Riting, & ’Rithmetic: Is culture the missing piece in a sustainable education system? - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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Register Now for this live event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reading-riting-and-rithmetic-registration-558272527157 In early January 2023, the UK Government announced plans to make post-16 mathematics education compulsory to equip everyone with the skills needed in a world increasingly shaped by data and statistics. But does this add up in prac…
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EP21 - The Accidental Author, The Epics Unravelled with Ami Ganatra - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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Entire generations of Hindus have grown up with the epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata. These stories have seeped into our lives and our psyche through popular narrations and TV. And many incidents, characters and stories taken from the epics are blamed for current societal issues. In fact, ‘weaponisation of narratives’ is being used for political e…
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EP20 - MULTICULTURALISM - The Hindu Perspective - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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The demographic diversity of the United Kingdom has grown significantly over the last 70 years. The 2021 Census points to a twenty-year decline in residents of England and Wales identifying with an ‘English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish or British’ identity. Immigrant communities from across the world, especially from the former Commonwealth hav…
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EP19 - BUSINESS LEADERSHIP DECODED, the secrets to success with Anil Puri - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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Growing and sustaining a business, especially in the manufacturing industry, is a challenge. To do so in a place away from your native land, facing a variety of different variables, is inspiring. What vision does it take to achieve this? What role do ethics play in this long journey, and where do they lead? Can a Dharmic outlook offer some lessons …
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EP18 - VEGANISM, a trend, a virtue, or a fad? with Dina Aherne - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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“Veganism isn’t about the mock meat, about replacing life for life, veganism is about whole food and plant-based. So when we talk about vegan foods assisting your health, and giving you a multitude of health benefits, we are talking about pulses, lentils, rice, seeds, nuts, fruits, and vegetables. We are not talking about having fake chicken or fak…
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EP17 - YOGA BUSINESS with Anand Parekh - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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Little & Often Yoga has become popular in the last decade, especially in the west, glamourised some would say, it's hip, cool, and sexy, it has benefited millions of people both physically and mentally, and claims not to be a new science, but a tried and tested method passed out from the depths of India. How do we take this ancient, multi-dimension…
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VMSN 11 - Introducing Civics - The End of Family- For Better or Worse? - Sustainable Narratives Conference 2022
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VMSN 10 - Introducing Political Theory - Nationalism vs Internationalism - Is There a Middle Way? - Sustainable Narratives Conference 2022
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VMSN 09 - Introducing Political Economy - How Do We Democratise Capital? - Sustainable Narratives Conference 2022
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VMSN 08 - Introducing Governance - How Do We Sustainably Govern Emerging Tech? - Sustainable Narratives Conference 2022
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VMSN 07 - Introducing Culture & Literature Panel Discussion: Is Indian History Truly ‘Indian’? - Sustainable Narratives Conference 2022
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VMSN 06 - Introducing Culture & Literature Fireside Conversation: Seeing the Literature From the Scripture - Sustainable Narratives Conference 2022
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VMSN 05 - Introducing Religion Panel Discussion: Does Religion Subjugate Women? - Sustainable Narratives Conference 2022
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VMSN 04 - Introducing Political Economy Fireside Conversation: Carbon Tax - Crafting the Silver Bullet - Sustainable Narratives Conference 2022
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VMSN 03 - Introducing Wealth Fireside Conversation: Markets - Panacea or Wilful Ignorance? - Sustainable Narratives Conference 2022
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VMSN 02 - Introducing Civics Fireside Conversation: Can We Reimagine Education and Its Purpose? - Sustainable Narratives Conference 2022
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VMSN Podcast 01 - Vichaar Manthan Presents Sustainable Narratives Conference 2022
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EP16 - FUNDING CHANGE with Yajur Haria - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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“A lot of these clients will have different ambitions, but what I can do as a consultant is I can help them reach their ambitions around ESG that they care about and that we care about that do help move the world forward. If they want to get at net zero, you can either not help them to get to net zero or you can. But the question is, are you helpin…
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EP15 - DHARMA & ADVOCACY, A View from America with Suhag Shukla - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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“Academic freedom comes with academic integrity” Hinduism is characterised by an open, seeking and enquiry-based learning of life. Indeed, Hinduism has the potential to be an integrative platform, bringing in the values of acceptance, individual freedom and societal upliftment, to an increasingly polarised and fragmented society today. However, we …
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EP14 - UPANISHADS - THE HINDU LIBRARY with SIddharth Krishna - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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“(The Upanishads speak of)...the sutra-atman, the threading breath, the breath that threads all of us together. Like in a rosary, all the different beads have been thread together by a thread, similarly, this breath threads all of us together. It is that connecting entity which connects all of us …” In this episode of The Vichaar Manthan Podcast, w…
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EP13 - TODAYS YOUTH TODAYS LEADERS with Bhavya Shah - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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University years form a core of our life experience: this is a time we step out of our homes into the world, absorb the multitude of ideas around us, which shapes our identity and our contributions to the society. Indeed, having access to a safe space for exploring one’s identity becomes a critical need. This is the key vision of the National Hindu…
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EP12 - LIBERTY & FREEDOM; ARE YOU FREE? with Dr Sachin Nandha - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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We go about our lives, making our way through a ton of choices everyday, and rarely give a second thought to the ideas of liberty and freedom, as the society we live in celebrates these as guarantees to its citizens. But do we live with ‘absolute liberties’? Can we always say what we want? - There are certain rules, often unstated, that are observe…
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EP11 - BUILDING OUR GREEN FUTURE with Judy Ling Wong - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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Our everyday life contains consumables drawn out from nature and earth. While shopping is a favourite pastime, we are now facing the consequences of our consumerist lifestyle in the form of global warming. While we might think environmental protection is an issue for governments to solve, it affects every bit of our lives: from weather patterns, th…
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EP10 - BHAGWAD GITA - THE HINDU LIBRARY with Siddharth Krishna - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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Despite the Bhagavad Gita being 5000 years old, it remains the first text we think of when we look at Hindu literature. Why would that be? What makes it relevant today and how does it take us beyond the dichotomy of good and bad? We look at these questions in this episode, where we explore the vast ocean of Hindu literature as applicable to the mod…
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EP09 - DHARMA THROUGH CINEMA with Aditya Patwardhan - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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In the exuberating world we live in today, where a lot of choices are cultivated through pop culture and cinema, how can we see dharma through the same 90mm lens? What responsibility do we have to ensure the transition from ‘real and reel’ has a seamless amalgamation, rather than a paradoxical one? We have with us Aditya Patwardhan, a critically ac…
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EP08 - FROM BANKING TO BENARES with Divya Prabha - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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Born in the UK, Divya Prabha did her first B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University and worked for top American Investment Banks until 1999. Having booked a ticket to India, intending to stay for a year, she remains there 21 years later, finishing her PhD in Ancient Grammar. Divya Prabha delivers lectures all around the world on yoga and Sanskrit whils…
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EP07 - SUSTAINABLE CONTRIBUTIONS with Dr Bansri Lakhani - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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How do we define a flourishing society? How can society help those who are most in need? Is a flourishing society one that helps those who are most in need? How do we reflect the Hindu value of Sewa (selfless service) in our actions? And how do we translate our personal success into giving back to society in the years to come? In this episode, we e…
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EP06 - THE HINDU LIBRARY with Siddharth Krishna - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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Hindu civilization and its rich vedic culture have produced many books, scriptures and prayers from an ancient oral tradition through to vast texts such as the Ramayana, Mahabharata and the Gita with which we are familiar today. What are these texts?, and is there a main ‘Hindu book’? How do the Vedas fit together? What is smriti? There are how man…
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EP05 - HOW TO NAVIGATE THROUGH LIFE USING DHARMIC PRINCIPLES with Dharmesh Chheda - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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Life is inherently uncertain. If nothing else, the COVID pandemic has highlighted our inability to navigate a world full of uncertainty and novel experiences. How do we enhance our relationship with others, and with the world around us? How can the principles of dharma help us navigate through life in the 21st century? In this episode, we are joine…
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EP04 - THE APPLICATION OF DHARMA IN RELATIONSHIPS with Dr Sachin Nandha - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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Whether you are a parent, a child or a friend, no man is an island. As we traverse life we navigate a web of complex and sometimes challenging relationships, but how should we approach them? From alcoholic fathers to financially irresponsible spouses, we explore the practical lessons that Dharma can teach us when it comes to creating wholesome rela…
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EP03 - WOMANHOOD with Drishti Mae - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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Today is International Womens Day 2021 and so today we release EP03 on WOMANHOOD. In the world of identity politics, gender neutrality and female empowerment, what does it really mean to be a woman? What are the narratives that surround the emancipation of woman? Are women now emancipated? Do women no longer need men? In this episode, we dig deeper…
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The official launch of The Vichaar Manthan Podcast ------------------------------------------------------------ The VM Podcast, a Vichaar Manthan project looking to explore modern day issues through a Dharmic lens. Through in-depth interviews with some of the best thinkers of our time, the podcast explore how we can better understand dharma, our li…
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EP02 - DHARMIC WEALTH with Ravi Lakhani - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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In the era of Intrapreneurs and Bitcoin millionaires, how can the principles of Dharma help us cut through the noise? In this episode, we are exploring and understanding the fundamentals of wealth through a Dharmic lens with Ravi Lakhani. Ravi Ji is a senior Private Equity Analyst, currently studying at London Business School and the co-ordinator f…
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EP01 - EXPLORING DHARMA with Dr Sachin Nandha - The Vichaar Manthan Podcast
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In our very first episode, we are exploring and understanding Dharma with Dr Sachin Nandha. Sachin Ji has a PhD in political philosophy, is an public philosopher and is the international coordinator of Vichaar Manthan. We take a deep dive into the meaning of Dharma, its origins and its application today. We tidy up some of our linguistic hygiene an…
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