Episodes
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In Episode 6 on the business of news in India, Ramanathan S and Rohan Venkat speak with Jaya Oberoi, who currently runs digital content distribution for German broadcaster Deutsche Welle in India and Sri Lanka, about selling branded content and more. Before moving to a foreign publisher, Oberoi spent many years in the Indian news media, focusing on the advertising side of businesses.
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On Episode 5 of 'The Business of News', Rohan Venkat and Jayant Sriram speak with Ritu Kapur, co-founder and CEO of 'The Quint', an award-winning digital news organisation that has carved out a unique voice in India’s media space about building a digital business and staying the course on advertising revenue.
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Vikash Keshri, a medical doctor with expertise in public health and health policy, joins Kiran Kumbhar in this episode to speak on MBBS and MPH training systems in India, focusing specifically on the discipline of community medicine (also known as preventive and social medicine), its role in the medical education system, existing challenges and areas of potential reform, and its relationship with the broader the public health system in the country.
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The Hindu took the bold step of introducing online subscriptions long before any other major newspaper did in India. The model has been a lighthouse example of business acumen for many news publishers. Ramanathan Subramanian and Jayant Sriram speak with LV Navaneeth, CEO of The Hindu Group on the process and challenges faced by a legacy newspaper in transforming into a thriving digital news publisher.
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Jayant Sriram speaks with Nikhil Kanekal and Vignesh Vellore, co-founder of The News Minute, on collaborations among media organisations, joint strategy for achieving growth, and the way forward.
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Kiran Kumbhar speaks with Veena Shatrugna on the challenges of anaemia and undernutrition in India, on recent attempts to dilute the diagnostic standards for anaemia, and on decolonisation in global health. Dr Shatrugna is a medical doctor, public health researcher, and former Deputy Director of the National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad.
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Foreign aid, especially American aid, to India has always been a testy matter. We speak to Gaurav Garg, assistant professor of History at Ashoka University, on why foreign aid has a chequered history, and a plan to convert Calcutta into Pittsburgh.
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Rohan Venkat speaks with Gaurav Arora, Chief Operating Officer at Jagran New Media and Ramanathan S, head of revenue and product at The News Minute, on how programmatic ads and brand studios have evolved and what challenges are anticipated over the coming years.
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Does news in India have a viable model today? Jayant Sriram and Rohan Venkat begin this RePivot podcast series on the Business of News by discussing different revenue trends in news organisations today.
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Kiran Kumbhar speaks with Amar Jesani on the discipline of bioethics, on ethical issues in the medical publishing world, and on activism and action in healthcare reform. Dr. Jesani is a bioethicist, health analyst and activist, and editor of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics.
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Sudha Rajagopalan, historian of Russian culture at the University of Amsterdam, talks about how Bollywood films, Soviet books, and gestures of camaraderie shaped how Indians and Russians came to see each other as firm friends.
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In this episode host Kiran Kumbhar discusses metrics, statistics, and numbers in public health and demography with Aashish Gupta who is a sociologist, demographer, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford.
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A conversation with Aashique Ahmed Iqbal on India's early experiments with flying, why we haven't mastered manufacturing aeroplanes, and what the past can tell us about the future of aviation.
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Public health researcher Indira Chakravarthi speaks about the private healthcare sector, public-private partnerships (PPPs), Ayushman Bharat, and right to health, with host Kiran Kumbhar.
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In the last episode of this season exploring films, we speak with Prof SV Srinivas about the recent discussions surrounding hypermasculinity and violence in films like Kabir Singh and Pushpa. Prof Srinivas teaches at Azim Premji University in Bangalore, and is the author of two books on south Indian stars called Megastar and Politics as Performance.
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In the third episode of our latest podcast season exploring films, Madhava Prasad discusses 'cinepolitics' in south India. Mr Madhava Prasad is a cultural theorist and film scholar, whose worked as a Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies in The English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad.
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In the second episode of our fourth season exploring themes related to films, we speak with Ritika Kaushik about the state's role in film-making and distribution in India, specifically taking a deeper look at the histories of the Films Division of India and the National Films Archive. Ritika Kaushik is a doctoral scholar at the University of Chicago and her research interests include film history, documentary films, and archival practices.
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In the first episode of our new season exploring films, we speak with Shrayana Bhattacharya about what film icons and fandoms can tell us about intimacy and women's independence.
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In this episode on finance and data privacy, Rohan Jahagirdar, an independent fintech consultant working with organisations specifically in the banking industry, discusses regulation of data collected by fintech companies, the recent introduction of the Account Aggregator system, as well as the Non-banking Financial Company–Account Aggregator Framework introduced by RBI in 2016.
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In this week's episode on reproductive health surveillance, we’re joined by Ambika Tandon who is a researcher with the Centre for Internet and Society.
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