Lockdown Leadership

May 20 2020 1

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Harappa Founder & CEO Shreyasi Singh talks to leaders at the helm of providing essential services during COVID-19. Remotely recorded, the show explores questions about timely leadership, rapid innovation, and social responsibility during tough times, and the mental models leaders fall back on when things get rough. Really rough.

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The University

May 20 2020 36 mins

We speak to Professor Dheeraj Sanghi, Director, Punjab Engineering College, who acknowledges the limitations of our education system and is pushing for change. We find out: how are students and faculty responding to the crisis? How are colleges dealing with jobs and grades? And what’s a ‘good’ education anyway?

The Support Network

May 13 2020 28 mins

Motivated by her family’s struggle with schizophrenia, the founder of India Art Fair Neha Kirpal went on to co-found InnerHour—a mental health app that provides self-help tools to half a million users in 100+ countries. Today, the app is making mental health support accessible to everyone who needs it.

The Command Center

May 06 2020 37 mins

We speak to Saikat Datta, an award-winning journalist, de-risking specialist and public policy expert who leads a COVID-19 Integrated Command Center, bringing together citizens, the police and private companies for relief work. He's a citizen warrior who has previously worked with Indian Express, HT and Outlook Magazine.

The Ventilator

Apr 28 2020 35 mins

We speak to Srikant Sastri, Board Member at Incubation Centres of IIT Kanpur and IIM Calcutta Innovation Park. He is co-leading an ambitious project to provide 30,000 ventilators for critical COVID-19 patients in India, in a market that—surprisingly—lacks regulation.

The Pharmacy

Apr 13 2020 29 mins

Our first episode is inextricably linked to our current crisis. We talk to Prashant Tandon, CEO of India’s leading online pharmacy 1mg, to find out how consumer behavior is changing, how leadership is adapting to this change, and what’s next for healthcare?