Dec 29, 2022
Has the world become more or less safe over the years? How do we
measure risk in these times of crazy change? Neeti Bhalla Johnson
joins Vasant Dhar in episode 52 of Brave New World to share her
thoughts on how professionals do it!
Useful resources:
1. Neeti Bhalla Johnson on LinkedIn and Liberty
Mutual.
2.
Dec 15, 2022
The brain and the gut are connected -- and our well-being
depends on it. Emeran Mayer joins Vasant Dhar to speak about the importance of the
gut in our physical lives -- and our emotional ones!
Useful resources:
1. Emeran Mayer on Google
Scholar, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and his
own website.
2. The
Mind-Gut...
Dec 1, 2022
India has achieved a technological miracle by empowering
hundreds of millions of people with the power of identity. Pramod
Varma joins Vasant Dhar in episode 50 of Brave New World to discuss
his pioneering role in setting up large scale digital public
infrastructure.
Useful resources:
1. Pramod Varma on LinkedIn and
Nov 17, 2022
We need to change the way we do philanthropy: it should be about
sharing, not giving. Anshu Gupta joins Vasant Dhar in episode 49 of Brave New World to
discuss his journey in building Goonj -- and why we need to rethink
our frames.
Useful resources:
1. Anshu Gupta on Goonj, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and his
own...
Nov 3, 2022
Is Bitcoin just a bubble, or the first face of the future? What
about blockchain and DeFi? Hanna Halaburda and Yannis Bakos
join Vasant Dhar in episode 48 of
Brave New World to dig deeper into these questions.
Useful resources:
1. Hanna Halaburda
at NYU
Stern, Twitter and Google
Scholar.
2. Yannis Bakos at