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Ashif Panakkat chats with Indian leaders in business, policymaking, and community development to get a pulse of what's going on right now in our communities. The talks are extended, wonky-on-purpose, and get into the nuances beyond the headlines. Find us on all popular podcast channels like Apple, Google, and Spotify. Send us your feedback at apanakkat@gmail.com, and follow us on twitter @wedesipodcast
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Ashif chats with Dr. Shridhar Narayanan, one of India's foremost pharmaceutical R&D scientists, and director at the Foundation for Neglected Disease Research (FNDR.IN). Shridhar shares his expertise on the COVID outbreak, but also lays out the drug discovery and development process. How the new drug development business model leaves out disease bur…
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Ashif chats with Hari TN, HR leader and author of "Saying no to Jugaad". Starting in the 80s at Tata Steel, Hari's career has closely proxied the growth of post liberalization India - through BPO, IT services, and eCommerce domains. He is also vary of the "activity trap" - the assumption that governments and bureaucrats need to be proactive in mana…
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This episode is part 2 of Ashif's chat with Mekin Maheshwari - one of the architects of Flipkart's explosive success, and founder at Udhyam - an NGO working in the space of grassroots entrepreneurship.
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Ashif chats with Mekin Maheshwari - one of the architects of Flipkart's explosive success during its first decade. Beginning 2015, Mekin started growing disillusioned with his role in the corporate world, which led him through a journey of learning. Culminating in his founding Udhyam - an NGO working to make us all grass roots learners and entrepre…
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Ashif talks with Swagata Raha – an Oxford educated lawyer, teacher, and activist representing the most disadvantaged sections of Indian society. We talk about Swagata’s areas of interest in child rights and protection of children from abuse, but also the rights of children who are in conflict with the law. We also discussed why NGO’s always seem to…
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Ashif chats with Ishani Roy - an established mathematician who got her doctorate from Brown university and did her post-doc at Oxford. But for the last five years, Ishani, through her start-up Serein has been using data to preach the gospel of diversity and inclusion at the Indian workplace. This is a wide ranging talk – from all the ways computati…
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Ashif talks with Divya Sreenivasan. Divya is executive director at Anand Rathi wealth management, where over the last decade plus, she has advised HNIs on investment and capital preservation. In the past, Divya was one of the few Indian advisers to have managed a portfolio of over 1000 Crores. Today we talk about the basics of investing, and how we…
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Ashif interviews T Ashwin Kumar - Senior VP at Entrust – one of the top family offices for HNI wealth management. Ashwin has also been a GM of finance and treasury at Bosch where he managed their large corpus and is the author of a widely read finance and investing newsletter. Today we will chat about the macro economic trends that’s driving the cu…
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