Where Dreams Come From

Aug 13 2021 3

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Where Dreams Come From features brief conversations hosted by professor and documentary filmmaker Sanjeev Chatterjee. These intimate conversations, with diverse individuals, attempt to track the origins and evolution of following a dream in life. Occasionally, Chatterjee speaks with experts who provide commentary and opinions on what it takes to pursue dreams.Where Dreams Come From is produced by Media for Change, a Florida based non-profit organization founded by Sanjeev Chatterjee that is focused on using stories as bridges in a divided world.

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Deirdre Barrett (English)

Aug 13 2021 24 mins

So far in this podcast, most of my guests have told us about their aspirations in life and their quest to achieve their dream. My guest today, Deirdre Barrett, is different. She studies dreams. She writes books about the dreams people have in their sleep and she teaches classes at Harvard about those dreams. Deirdre has been interested in dreams from a very young age and her search

Jeremy Sherman (English)

Aug 05 2021 26 mins

Jeremy Sherman set out, fairly early in life – to be a hippie. He now asserts that science is his spiritual path. Possessing a naturally questioning mind, Jeremy abandoned the quest for undefined enlightenment to seek out answers to higher truths by applying scientific methods. Working closely with Harvard and Berkley neuroscientist and biological anthropologist Terrence Deacon h

Michael Smolens (English)

Jul 29 2021 26 mins

Michael Smolens has been a serial entrepreneur all his life. He says he went with his gut at every stage. The motivation was never money, it was to do things that were never done before. Even when he fell down, he just continued. Now, approaching the fourth quarter of life, he has labeled himself Collector of Puzzle Pieces. Give it a listen.Support the Show.

Ruby Hembrom (English)

Jul 24 2021 23 mins

Ruby Hembrom is the founder of Adivaani – a platform for indigenous people’s expression in India. She, has been awarded the Asia Foundation Development Fellowship and an Atlantic Fellowship – among other honors. However, Ruby did not set out in life imagining she would become a publisher and archivist of indigenous literature and culture in India. Born into a Santal tribal fa

Ruth Jeannoel (English)

Jul 15 2021 22 mins

Ruth Jeannoel’s mother fled the oppressive Duvalier regime in Haiti and settled in Boston, Massachusetts where Ruth was born. From all accounts, it was hard to be a single mother, without knowing any English and never having had faced the brutal New England winters. Ruth, who learnt Haitian Creole at home and English at School became her mother’s interpreter, as she tried to ma

Bijayini Satpathy (English)

Jul 01 2021 23 mins

Bijayini Satpathy, came of age as a classical Odissi dancer at Nrityagram – a dance village in South India, founded in 1990 by the socialite and danseuse Protima Gauri Bedi.When Bijayini decided to leave Nrityagram and strike out on her own in 2018, she told Marina Harss of the New York Times that she had a (I quote) “strong urge to push into an untouched and unexplored dimensi

Ulrike Reinhard (English)

Jun 26 2021 23 mins

Imagine you are walking along a road in rural Central India, in the state of Madhya Pradesh. A place where infrastructure is sparse and people continue to live in poverty, many excluded by circumstance to fully participate in India’s heady economic development. It’s quiet, and then you hear the unmistakable low rumble of a Royal Enfield Bullet motorbike’s 4-stroke engine. The

Rahul Ram (English)

Jun 16 2021 25 mins

Almost four decades ago, while still in college in India, I played bass in a rock band. My guest today, Rahul Ram, was the bassist in a rival band. Then we lost touch, until one day, in the early 2000s, the song Bandé by the band Indian Ocean for the Bollywood film Black Friday came bursting into the scene. Rahul Ram was ostensibly the band’s front man. In our conversation, he o

Loretta Long (English)

Jun 08 2021 25 mins

In November 1969, when Sesame Street premiered on Public Television, my guest Dr. Loretta Long was there. As we will hear, based on her fortitude and thinking on her feet, she had landed the role of Susan Robinson - a housewife. Later, her character developed into a working nurse and mother to an adopted son. Sesame Street was pathbreaking in that it aimed to be an influential educ

Steven Lavine (English)

May 31 2021 23 mins

Steven Lavine spent 29 years of his working life as the president of California Institute of the Arts – CALARTS. Having grown up in a small Wisconsin town, Steven could not wait to go out into the world. As he puts it, invoking his distant cousin Bob Dylan, he wanted to explore where the wind was blowing. After attending Ivy League institutions and becoming a professor for a whil