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Episode 35 is LIVE! Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/UshaChaumarEp35?sid=FBIn this episode, we celebrate Usha Chauma...
19/05/2022

Episode 35 is LIVE! Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/UshaChaumarEp35?sid=FB

In this episode, we celebrate Usha Chaumar. Usha is a social worker from Alwar, Rajasthan, India. From age 7, she used to work as a manual scavenger, or do the work of maila doni as it is called in her region. She is the President of Sulabh International Social Service Organisation, the non-profit arm of Sulabh International. In 2020, she received the Padma Shri honour from the Government of India for her contribution in the field of social work. Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak was instrumental in her journey, you can listen to his journey in episode 11 here - https://link.chtbl.com/anewkindofcelebrityS01EP11?sid=FB

Episode 34 is LIVE now! Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/AnoopParikEp34?sid=FB Education has many obvious benefits, ...
25/04/2022

Episode 34 is LIVE now! Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/AnoopParikEp34?sid=FB

Education has many obvious benefits, but did you know that Universal secondary education could virtually end child marriage, or that each year of education reduces the risk of conflict by around 20% or that one extra year of schooling increases an individual's earnings by up to 10%.

Learn how our guest Anoop Parik works to do this for his students in an area of Mumbai, India where 78% of the population lives in slums, the life expectancy is 38 years and which has a human development index of 0.05.

Anoop Parik is a librarian, teacher, and football coach who has been working with the children and youngsters of Shivaji Nagar for over a decade. He quit teaching in the formal education sector in 2019 and since then has set up a youth community centre, The Next Page, library, and sports programme with the help of youngsters in the community. He was working as an academic counsellor in a college in Ohio before he moved back to India for the Teach For India Fellowship.

NOTE - This conversation was recorded over Zoom. In case you have feedback or guest suggestions, please write to [email protected]. If you want technical or consultancy support to launch your podcast, write to [email protected]

Venil Ali Teach For India

Episode 33 is live. There are 7000+ different languages in the world, and 4200+ different religions, faith groups, tribe...
18/04/2022

Episode 33 is live. There are 7000+ different languages in the world, and 4200+ different religions, faith groups, tribes etc. Our guest, Deborah Levine, speaks about how to thrive, appreciate and encourage such diversity.

Deborah Levine is the founder and editor in chief of American Diversity Report. She is an award-winning author of 15 books, Forbes Magazine Diversity And Inclusion Trailblazer. Deborah has 33 years experience as a change maker in challenging times. Deborah is a Designer of Cognitive Diversity using emotion metrics, neuro-communication, and decision-optimization. With her considerable experience in program planning, community interface, teaching and management, she designs DEI projects that boost inclusion efforts on multiple levels. Deborah has also founded Chattanooga’s Women’s Council of Diversity. She has received awards from the Women's Federation for World Peace International and Nation of Women.

In the episode we speak about her journey, personal background that influenced her work as a Diversity specialist, along with strategies to build diversity appreciation.

NOTE - This conversation was recorded over Zoom. In case you have feedback or guest suggestions, please write to [email protected]. If you want technical or consultancy support to launch your podcast, write to [email protected]

Episode 33 is live! Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/DeborahLevineEP33?sid=FB. There are 7000+ different languages i...
18/04/2022

Episode 33 is live! Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/DeborahLevineEP33?sid=FB. There are 7000+ different languages in the world, and 4200+ different religions, faith groups, tribes etc. Our guest, Deborah Levine, speaks about how to thrive, appreciate and encourage such diversity.

Deborah Levine is the founder and editor in chief of American Diversity Report. She is an award-winning author of 15 books, Forbes Magazine Diversity And Inclusion Trailblazer. Deborah has 33 years experience as a change maker in challenging times. Deborah is a Designer of Cognitive Diversity using emotion metrics, neuro-communication, and decision-optimization. With her considerable experience in program planning, community interface, teaching and management, she designs DEI projects that boost inclusion efforts on multiple levels. Deborah has also founded Chattanooga’s Women’s Council of Diversity. She has received awards from the Women's Federation for World Peace International, UN Office and Nation of Women.

In the episode we speak about her journey, personal background that influenced her work as a Diversity specialist, along with strategies to build diversity appreciation.

NOTE - This conversation was recorded over Zoom. In case you have feedback or guest suggestions, please write to [email protected]. If you want technical or consultancy support to launch your podcast, write to [email protected]


Venil Ali Women's Federation for World Peace USA

Presenting our March month guests. Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/anewkindofcelebrity?sid=GLFB In this month, we h...
23/03/2022

Presenting our March month guests. Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/anewkindofcelebrity?sid=GLFB

In this month, we have Chitra Vishwanath, an Indian architect based in Bengaluru who works on themes related to ecology and architecture. We also have Zohair Diwan, who is a metal artist and founder of Nobody Ever Sleeps Hungry (NESH), an NGO which is addressing the hunger issue of Mumbaikars who are needy and financially challenged.

As always we would love to hear feedback from you, it is very encouraging for us as well as for our guests.

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NESH Nobody Ever Sleeps Hungry

Episode 32 is LIVE! Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/ZohairDiwanEp32?sid=FBGlobally, about 9% of the world’s populat...
21/03/2022

Episode 32 is LIVE! Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/ZohairDiwanEp32?sid=FB

Globally, about 9% of the world’s population - 811 million people, go to bed on an empty stomach each night. Every thirteen seconds, a child dies from the effects of hunger. On the other hand, it is estimated that nearly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year gets lost or wasted.

In this episode, we celebrate Zohair Diwan. Zohair Diwan is a metal artist and the founder of the organisation Nobody Ever Sleeps Hungry (NESH). NESH Nobody Ever Sleeps Hungry started with providing food to people in need in some communities in Mumbai and evolved during the pandemic to provide oxygen cylinders, medicines in addition to food. NESH is now a huge community of various stakeholders united by a common purpose.

We speak about the evolution of NESH from feeing 100 meals to over 100,000 meals, the motivation and the operations to start something like this. We speak about the building of a network and community which replicated the idea of NESH across the entire city.

Note - This conversation was recorded over Zoom. In case you have feedback or guest suggestions, please write to [email protected]. If you want technical or consultancy support to launch your podcast, write to [email protected]

Venil Ali

Episode 31 is LIVE! Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/ChitraVishwanathEp31?sid=FBDid you know that the construction s...
07/03/2022

Episode 31 is LIVE! Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/ChitraVishwanathEp31?sid=FB

Did you know that the construction sector contributes to 23% of air pollution, 40% of drinking water pollution, and 50% of landfill wastes? It doesn't have to be this way, Chitra Vishwanath builds differently.

In this episode, we celebrate Chitra Vishwanath . Chitra is an Indian architect based in Bengaluru who works on themes related to ecology and architecture. She has been running her own architectural firm since 1991, working with other architects on many projects in India and Africa. She is currently the Principal Architect and Managing Director of BIOME Environment Solutions.

She has been involved in more than 800 projects encompassing construction of buildings of all sizes and water harvesting and sanitation structures with specific relevance to the ecology of the sites. BIOME has pioneered the usage of natural elements like earth as the main construction material, along with a focus on other natural elements and water harvesting. Her own house has many interesting features like no air conditioning or fan, dry toilets, farming on the terrace, solar powered house and water harvesting.

In the episode, we speak about her experiments building her own house, rediscovering earth as a material to build, using design to leverage natural light, air and water to reduce dependencies on additional non renewable resources. We speak about the impact water harvesting can have on entire cities and much more.

Note - This conversation was recorded over Zoom. In case you have feedback or guest suggestions, please write to [email protected]. If you want technical or consultancy support to launch your podcast, write to [email protected]

Venil Ali

Episode 30 is LIVE! Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/Bookmarks5EP30?sid=FBHave you been meaning to listen to one of ...
28/02/2022

Episode 30 is LIVE! Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/Bookmarks5EP30?sid=FB

Have you been meaning to listen to one of our episodes but haven't found the time yet? Do you want to know the high level insights across the past episodes? Then this episode is for you, curated bookmarks from the past five episodes?

Our last five episodes have had guests like Naresh Kumar Sijapati working on empowering migrants, Erin Ganju, building Rooms to Read across the world, Viren Rasquinha, chasing Olympic Gold Medals, Joyita Mondal, the first transgender judge and Mohd Tarique working to dignify the homeless and destitute.

In this conversation, Venil Ali is joined by an educator, social sector professional and a dear friend, Kanika Saraff. Kanika Saraff has worked in the education sector for over a decade and currently works in a Child rights organisation. They both started their journey in the social sector in 2009 with the Teach For India Fellowship, teaching in neighbouring classrooms 3A and 3B in Govandi, Mumbai. They often discuss issues, ideas and theories and wanted to share some of their bookmarks on the patterns, ideas and insights that they took away from the five episodes with all of you.

We would love to include your questions, reactions and thoughts in our next Bookmarks episode. So do leave us feedback and thoughts after you listen to any of our episodes. You can leave us feedback on any of our social media pages - Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter, or you can email us at [email protected].

NOTE - This conversation was recorded over Zoom.
If you are thinking of launching your podcast and need consultation services or production/post production services you can write to [email protected]

Episode 29 is LIVE. Link to listen in bio. Based on the Indian Census 2011, there are 1.77 Million homeless people in In...
19/02/2022

Episode 29 is LIVE. Link to listen in bio.

Based on the Indian Census 2011, there are 1.77 Million homeless people in India. However, civil society organisations peg the number at above 3 Million. The complexity of the problem is increased by the intersectionality of caste and poverty. In one study done, it was seen that 80% of the homeless people were from Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes. Listen to this episode to hear how we as individuals as well as the system as a whole can improve.

In this episode, we celebrate Mohd Tarique. Mohd Tarique is the founder of Koshish. Koshish is a TISS Field Action Project that works on the upliftment of the quality of institutions for the homeless and persons in beggary and advocates for the abolishment of the Prevention of Beggary Act, which is there across 20 states (but not all have adopted) that has a broad and vague defition of begging that crimilises poverty. Mohd Tarique is part of multiple drafting committees to formulate newer policies, he has co authored multiple academic papers and research studies on Urban poverty. He is also an Ashoka Fellow.

In the episode, we talk about the incidents that led Mohd Tarique towards this work. We hear about the amazing organic journey of growth of the organisation. The plethora of different programs and initiatives that Koshish offers for the upliftment of the destitute. We hear the stories of persuasion, influence and relationships that made bureaucratic systems agile and adaptive.

Note - This conversation was recorded over Zoom. In case you have feedback or guest suggestions, please write to [email protected]. If you want technical or consultancy support to launch your own podcast, write to [email protected]


Listen to Joyita Mondal speaking about her journey here - https://link.chtbl.com/E28JoyitaMondal?sid=FBContAn interestin...
19/02/2022

Listen to Joyita Mondal speaking about her journey here - https://link.chtbl.com/E28JoyitaMondal?sid=FBCont

An interesting survey done by Buzzfeed and Ipsos lays out perceptions of rights across 23 countries.
The data shows that in Spain, our most-supportive country, just 25% of respondents reported being familiar with a trans person. Only a few countries where a majority of respondents said they think transgender people "have a form of mental illness": Russia, India and Turkey.

Venil Ali

Episode 29 is LIVE. Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/MohdTariqueEp29?sid=FBBased on the Indian Census 2011, there ar...
14/02/2022

Episode 29 is LIVE. Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/MohdTariqueEp29?sid=FB

Based on the Indian Census 2011, there are 1.77 Million homeless people in India. However, civil society organisations peg the number at above 3 Million. The complexity of the problem is increased by the intersectionality of caste and poverty. In one study done, it was seen that 80% of the homeless people were from Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes. Listen to this episode to hear how we as individuals as well as the system as a whole can improve.

In this episode, we celebrate Mohd Tarique. Mohd Tarique is the founder of Koshish. Koshish is a TISS Field Action Project that works on the upliftment of the quality of institutions for the homeless and persons in beggary and advocates for the abolishment of the Prevention of Beggary Act, which is there across 20 states (but not all have adopted) that has a broad and vague definition of begging that criminalises poverty. Mohd Tarique is part of multiple drafting committees to formulate newer policies, he has co-authored multiple academic papers and research studies on Urban poverty. He is also an Ashoka Fellow.

In the episode, we talk about the incidents that led Mohd Tarique towards this work. We hear about the amazing organic journey of growth of the organisation. The plethora of different programs and initiatives that Koshish offers for the upliftment of the destitute. We hear the stories of persuasion, influence and relationships that made bureaucratic systems agile and adaptive.

Note - This conversation was recorded over Zoom. In case you have feedback or guest suggestions, please write to [email protected]. If you want technical or consultancy support to launch your own podcast, write to [email protected]


We are excited to share our February month guests. Listen to our previous episodes if you haven't heard yet here - https...
14/02/2022

We are excited to share our February month guests. Listen to our previous episodes if you haven't heard yet here - https://link.chtbl.com/anewkindofcelebrity

In this month, we have Mohd Tarique, Director at Koshish that works for protection & promotion of rights & dignity of homeless and destitute citizens. The next episode will be 'Bookmarks #5', a conversational recap episode between Kanika Saraff and Venil Ali, which covers their bookmarks, patterns and insights from past 5 episodes.

As always we would love to hear feedback from you, it is very encouraging for us as well as for our guests, so do continue to share your feedback. We would love to feature your feedback and questions in our Bookmarks episode.

Subscribe to our podcast and follow our page to get updates as soon as we go live.


Episode 28 is LIVE now! Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/E28JoyitaMondal?sid=FBIn India, 92% Transgender people are ...
07/02/2022

Episode 28 is LIVE now! Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/E28JoyitaMondal?sid=FB

In India, 92% Transgender people are unemployed and close to 80% drop out of school. In 2014, the NALSA judgement was passed which acknowledged Transgenders as a third gender and affirmed their fundamental rights. In 2019, Transgender Person Act was passed which provided for the protection of rights of Transgender people. The lack of data adds to the invisibility of Transgender people.

In this episode, we celebrate Joyita Mondal. Joyita Mondal is the first transgender judge at a Lok Adalat in Dinajpur, West Bengal. A Lok Adalat is an alternative dispute resolution mechanism in India. In addition to this role, she works as an activist, social worker and founded her own organisation called Dinajpur Notun Alo, which means Dinajour New Light which is currently reaching out to thousands of transgender people in her state.

In the episode Joyita shares her journey growing up, her hobbies and her friends. She then speaks about running away from home and starting from scratch in another city. She tells us what led to her re starting her education, starting social work and finally becoming a judge. Joyita shares her hopes and wishes for her community.

Note - This conversation was recorded over Zoom. In case you have feedback or guest suggestions, please write to [email protected]. If you want technical or consultancy support to launch your own podcast, write to [email protected]


Episode 27 is LIVE now! Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/EP27VirenRasquinha?sid=FBBlueCAt the Tokyo Olympics, the to...
06/02/2022

Episode 27 is LIVE now! Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/EP27VirenRasquinha?sid=FBBlueC

At the Tokyo Olympics, the top 10 countries in the medals tally won 54% of all the medals and eight of them are high-income countries.
The size of the economy, focus and gender equity is strongly linked to a country's performance at the Olympics.

Listen to Rasquinha, CEO at Olympic Gold Quest, speak about how OGQ has contributed to almost ~50% of the medals India won at the Tokyo Olympics.


We are excited to share our January month guests of this year. Listen to our previous episodes if you haven't heard yet ...
26/01/2022

We are excited to share our January month guests of this year. Listen to our previous episodes if you haven't heard yet here - https://link.chtbl.com/anewkindofcelebrity?sid=JG2022FB

In this month, we have Viren Rasquinha, CEO at Olympic Gold Quest that is on a journey to build future Olympic Champions. He is the former captain of Indian hockey team. We also have Joyita Mondal, judge at Lok Adalat, West Bengal. She is the first transgender judge of India.

As always we would love to hear feedback from you, it is very encouraging for us as well as for our guests, so do continue to share your feedback. We would love to feature your feedback and questions in our Bookmarks episode.

Subscribe to our podcast and follow our page to get updates as soon as we go live.

Venil Ali

Episode 27 is LIVE! Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/EP27VirenRasquinha?sid=FBDid you know that a country's GDP is a...
25/01/2022

Episode 27 is LIVE! Listen here - https://link.chtbl.com/EP27VirenRasquinha?sid=FB

Did you know that a country's GDP is a predictor of performance at the Olympics? Higher income countries have consistently had a higher medal tally as compared to lower income countries. Hear this episode to discover how an organisation is breaking this trend.

In this episode, we celebrate Viren Rasquinha. Viren Rasquinha is an Indian hockey player. He is the former captain of the Indian hockey team and was a member of the team that finished 7th at the Athens Olympics in 2004. He pursued management studies and now is the CEO of an organisation called Olympic Gold Quest that is on a journey to build future Olympic champions.

We speak about his journey of pursuing sports professionally, getting selected into the Indian team, playing at the Olympics. He speaks of his failures as defining learning moments. We then spoke of how Olympic Goal Quest is on a mission to beat the statistics and deliver on identifying and providing world class training for high performance sports. Listen to the episode to learn more about how Olympic Gold Quest has contributed to almost ~50% of the medals India won at the Tokya Olympics.

Note - Conversation recorded over Zoom.

For any podcast requirements write to [email protected]. For any guest recommendations reach out to [email protected]



We are set to introduce more celebrities in 2022! Our new episodes are coming up from next week. We are grateful to all ...
20/01/2022

We are set to introduce more celebrities in 2022! Our new episodes are coming up from next week. We are grateful to all of our guests and listeners from 2021, looking forward to growing our tribe this year. Do share suggestions for any guests with us too.

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