Revealing India's Space Secrets ft. Tapan Misra | ISRO
Tapan Misra is an Indian scientist who was the director of Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). He was involved in design for the development of C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) of the RISAT-1. He wrote an algorithm for real-time processing of SAR data during his stint as a guest scientist in the German Aerospace Agency in 1990. He was also associated with development of the multi-frequency scanning microwave radiometer instrument of Oceansat-1 and Scanning Scatterometer of Oceansat-2. He served as the deputy director of microwave remote sensing area of Space Applications Centre (SAC) before being appointed as the director in February 2015. In January 2021, Misra claimed through a Facebook post that he was poisoned with arsenic trioxide on 23 May 2017, when he was in a promotional interview at ISRO headquarters in Bengaluru. He also added that the attack might have been carried out by people who have feared the loss of contract from the Indian government due to low cost technology of ISRO.
15 Jun 2021
Manvendra Singh Gohil | India's Gay Prince
Manvendra Singh Gohil is an Indian prince who is the son and heir of the Maharaja of Rajpipla in Gujarat. He is the first openly gay prince in the world. He runs a charity, the Lakshya Trust, which works with the LGBT community.
15 Jun 2021
In Conversation with Scam 1992 Star Pratik Gandhi
Pratik Gandhi is an Indian theatre and film actor who primarily works in Gujarati theatre and cinema. He is widely recognized for playing Harshad Mehta in the 2020 Sony LIV biographical series Scam 1992.
15 Jun 2021
Sanal Edamaruku on Terrorism & the Concept of Secularism
Sanal Edamaruku is an Indian author and rationalist. He is the founder-president and editor of Rationalist International, the president of the Indian Rationalist Association and the author of 25 books and other articles.
15 Jun 2021
The Price of Justice ft. Deepika Singh Rajawat
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15 Jun 2021
INA and Netaji's Women Warriors ft. Subhashini Ali
In this insightful conversation, Subhashini Ali, daughter of INA veterans Capt. Laxmi Sahgal and Col. Prem Sahgal shares interesting anecdotes about the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose led Azad Hind Fauj, especially the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, and shares the sacrifices made to free India from the clutches of the British.
15 Jun 2021
Being a Dalit Woman in India ft. Kiruba Munusamy
Kiruba Munusamy is an advocate practicing in the Supreme Court of India. She is a social, political and judicial activist striving for social justice by eliminating all forms of discriminations, oppressions and inequalities in the society. She is working against various human rights violations in India that includes caste and gender based discriminations, caste based atrocities against Dalits, violence against women, discrimination in the academic spaces, death penalty, state repression and prohibition of the inhuman practice of manual scavenging. Through her activism she works for the annihilation of caste and supports Dalit women empowerment, indigenous rights, LGBTQI rights, minorities, advancement of disadvantaged groups, and freedom of expression. She has filed several public interest litigations before the Indian courts of law to bring judicial intervention in the issues of grave violation of human rights and to restore the fundamental rights of the public at large. Apart from the legal framework, she organizes and conducts awareness campaigns, workshops to bring awareness and educate the downtrodden, sexual minorities (LGBTQI) and dalit women about their fundamental human rights and legal remedies on violation.
15 Jun 2021
Life Lessons from Dr Kalam ft. Arun Tiwari
In this exclusive interview, Arun Kumar Tiwari reminisces the times spent with former President and Missile Man Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. Arun Kumar Tiwari is an Indian missile scientist, author, and professor. He has been an aide of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam for almost 30 years and co-authored 5 books with him, including Wings of Fire, the autobiography of Dr. Kalam. Tiwari developed India's first Titanium air bottle used in ‘Trishul’ and ‘Akash’ missiles and designed Airframes for both the missiles and India's first Coronary Stent with Cardiologist Dr. B Soma Raju well known as Kalam-Raju Stent. He is also credited for structuring and setting up India's first satellite-based telemedicine system.
15 Jun 2021
Tara Kaushal on Why Men Rape
Tara Kaushal is a writer and media consultant. Her first book, Why Men Rape: An Indian Undercover Investigation was published by HarperCollins on the 22nd of June, 2020. Part of the multimedia gender journalism and activism project Why Men Rape (www.whymenrape.com) that she’d started in 2017, it has been widely and well received. This reputed international publishing house is also publishing her second book, a work of narrative nonfiction in the human-rights and gender-justice space.
15 Jun 2021
Narendra Nayak on Religion & Rationality
Narendra Nayak is a rationalist, sceptic, and godman debunker from Mangalore, Karnataka, India. Nayak is the current president of the Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations. He founded the Dakshina Kannada Rationalist Association in 1976 and has been its secretary since then.
27 Sept 2020
Dr Kafeel Khan On His Illegal Detention and Why the Yogi Government is After Him
In this episode of #IndiaUncut, Dr Kafeel Khan speaks to us on how he was illegally detained and tortured in jail, the fault lines in the system and his path forward.
19 Sept 2020
Rajdeep Sardesai On Rhea Chakraborty and Media Trials
Rajdeep Sardesai is an Indian news anchor and author. He is a consulting editor at the India Today group, and is an anchor for India Today Television. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Global Broadcast News, that included CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat, before resigning in July 2014. In this interview, he talks about his controversial #RheaChakraborty interview and the state of the media.
15 Sept 2020
Kannan Gopinathan On Democracy, Dialogue and the Need to Dissent
Kannan Gopinathan is a former Indian Administrative Service Officer and an activist from Kerala. He resigned from the services as a mark of protest against the restrictions imposed in Jammu and Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370 last year. Since then, he has been one of the leading voices of dissent and played a major role in the anti- CAA-NRC Movement. In this interview, he opens up about the fault lines in bureaucracy, his realizations after resignation and why it is important to keep holding the government accountable.
11 Sept 2020
Anil Swarup on Corruption, Education Mafia & Life as an Honest Bureaucrat
Anil Swarup is an Indian author and retired Indian Administrative Service officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre and 1981 batch. Mr.Swarup in his 38 years of career has served in various capacities and later went on to become the Coal Secretary and School Education Secretary to the Government of India.
5 Sept 2020
Dreams for a New World ft. Nobel Laureate Md. Yunus
Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans.
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