Sundeep Waslekar offers a nuanced view of the push and pull that is shaping the world around us

• Play Time : 46 mins

• Tags
• Middle East
• US-China rivalry
• AUKUS
• The World in 2021
• Afghanistan
• geopolitics

September 10, 2021: A deep dive into the State Vs Big Tech; The education emergency; The Space Age

• Read Time : 4 mins

• Tags
• Lee Kuan Yew
• G Venkat Raman
• Anurag Behar
• terrorism
• Pakistan-terror nexus
• online learning
• State Vs Big Tech
• Afghanistan
• online education

September 6, 2021: The opportunity cost of Covid-focus; Afghanistan: Ground report; How God thinks

• Read Time : 3 mins

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• Zeeshan Ali
• Matshidiso Moeti
• vaccine-derived poliovirus
• incentives
• Vijay Kelkar
• Ajay Shah
• policy making
• Afghanistan

September 1, 2021: Why the US lost Afghanistan; How to learn better by moving around; How WhatsApp works

• Read Time : 3 mins

• Tags
• Matt Stoller
• Simon Sinek
• the price game
• Learning
• Afghanistan
• War Machine
• Katie Headrick Taylor

August 24, 2021: Changing Times; Another view of Afghanistan; What’s in a name?

• Read Time : 3 mins

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• Taliban
• Jonathan Neale
• Marshall Rosenberg
• Nancy Lindisfarne
• reflection
• Pradeep Guha
• behaviour change
• Anthony de Mello
• J Krishnamurti
• Afghanistan

August 18, 2021: Dr Soumya Swaminathan on preparing for a third wave and opening schools; Understanding tech-speak; What fast food really is

• Read Time : 4 mins

• Tags
• Mark Bowden
• tech jargon
• Soumya Swaminathan
• Afghanistan
• Covid-19 third wave

August 17, 2021: How Giant Bicycles became a leading brand; The power of digital vouchers; What Indians want

• Read Time : 4 mins

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• Chris Hedges
• Dan Breznitz
• The Great Game
• Innovation
• Ashok Pal Singh
• digital vouchers
• Giant Bicycles
• Afghanistan
• e-RUPI
• RS Sharma

July 23, 2021: On silence, reporting from a war zone, climate change, and the thing about dads

• Read Time : 3 mins

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• Anuj Chopra
• Robert Caro
• climate change
• extreme weather
• Interviewing skills
• Afghanistan

The April-June quarter saw Biden making significant diplomatic moves vis-a-vis Europe, Russia and China; the Middle East saw two significant elections in Israel and Iran; China showed ascendancy in space; and there are developments in India’s neighbourhood, especially in Afghanistan. Sundeep Waslekar deciphers the implications

• Play Time : 55 mins

• Tags
• China space station
• Pakistan
• US-China relationship
• US-China rivalry
• Afghanistan
• Biden's Summitry
• Iran election
• US-Russia Strategic Stability Dialogue
• Artificial Intelligence
• Israel election
• the US Innovation and Competition Act
• geopolitics

July 16, 2021: Survival of the shameless; Looking beyond the boundaries; Think like a boss

• Read Time : 3 mins

• Tags
• Robert McLean
• Rod Carnegie
• Charles Conn
• crowdsourcing
• power
• politicians
• Rutger Bregman
• Afghanistan
• Taliban