Past Imperfect Episode 18 features SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel in conversation with Rosemary Wakeman, Professor of History at Fordham University and author of The Worlds of Victor Sassoon.

Victor Sassoon (1881-1961) called three cities home: Bombay, London, and Shanghai. These three cities, as Rosemary Wakeman explains, best epitomized capitalism and globalization in the 1920s and 1930s. In The Worlds of Victor Sassoon, Wakeman uses the life and fortunes of the Baghdadi Jewish businessman to tell a much larger story of cosmopolitanism and global cities. Bombay, London, and Shanghai resembled one another more than their own countries: they became international hubs of finance, technology, media, and the leisure economy. This was a world of horse races and aviation, real estate speculation and the movie industry, and art deco architecture and investment banking. Victor Sassoon stood at the center of a much broader transformation of global capitalism, one which sprouted the roots of today’s economy. 

Past Imperfect Episode 18: Rosemary Wakeman on the Interwar Worlds of Bombay, London, and Shanghai

Past Imperfect Episode 19 features SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel in conversation with Amrita Shah, author of The Other Mohan in Britain’s Indian Ocean Empire.

What does Mohanlal Killavala have in common with Mahatma Gandhi? Both men migrated to South Africa. Both men were Gujarati professionals who smarted at racial prejudice in the British Empire, protested against unjust laws, and spent time in jail. There were important dissimilarities, as well—dissimilarities which add nuance to the story of the Indian diaspora. Amrita Shah’s The Other Mohan traces the story of her great-grandfather, Killavala, as he joined thousands of other Indians seeking better opportunities abroad in the early twentieth century. While reconstructing Killavala’s travels, she also tells a much more complex story of how the Indian Ocean knit together so many different people through bonds of labor, political activity, and marriage.

Past Imperfect Episode 19: Amrita Shah on Ancestral Journeys Across the Indian Ocean

Prof. Surya Tahora is in conversation with Neha Chatwani, an organisational psychologist. In this talk they discuss, in a world of turbulence it is imperative that we re-assess some of the management and leadership assumptions in organisations, so that we can leverage our collective intelligence with meaning and purpose, intentionally, for enabling agility through learning. 
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Past Imperfect Episode 20: Manu S. Pillai on Missionaries, Reformers, and the Making of Modern Hinduism.

Past Imperfect Episode 21 features SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel in conversation with Rosinka Chaudhuri, Professor in Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) and the author of India’s First Radicals: Young Bengal and the British Empire.

In the early 1830s, a cohort of graduates from Calcutta’s Hindu College began transforming Indian society. Later dubbed Young Bengal, this generation embraced a range of radical and heterodox ideas, questioning everything about the world around them. Their parents were outraged by their abandonment of orthodox Hinduism. Commentators around India either thrilled at their advocacy of equality and liberty or condemned them as drunkards and beef eaters. Amidst these sparks, Young Bengal set out an agenda for fearlessly defending principles like freedom of speech, equality, liberty, and secularism. Its members condemned British colonial rule and even took a British administrator to court. Chaudhuri explains how Young Bengal upturned colonial India—often at great personal cost, but with far-reaching implications which resonate today.

Past Imperfect Episode 21: Rosinka Chaudhuri on Young Bengal’s Fearless Radicalism

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Past Imperfect Episode 22 features Dinyar Patel, Associate Professor of History at SPJIMR, in conversation with Srinath Raghavan, Professor of International Relations and History at Ashoka University and the author of Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India.

Indira Gandhi has been one of modern India’s most controversial leaders, a savior to some, a power-hungry autocrat to many others. Above all, she was deeply consequential in shaping so much of today’s political and economic landscape. Raghavan examines Gandhi’s prime ministership during what he calls the long 1970s, a period of profound crisis for Indian democracy, one which was joined at the hip to global events. While the Emergency remains the most infamous chapter in Gandhi’s rule, it was only one part of a longer story of steady centralization of power, recalibrations of economic policy, breakdowns in political norms, constitutional crises, anti-democratic tendencies, and violent insurgency.

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SP Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR) is a constituent of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and is ranked among the top ten business schools in India. It is in the top 50 ranks in the Financial Times (FT) 2020 business school rankings and is placed 3rd in India and 36th in the world. As a premier school of management, SPJIMR is noted for pedagogic innovations and pioneering programmes, which have helped the Institute stand out for its unique and distinctive path in management education. SPJIMR's mission is to 'influence practice' and 'promote value-based growth'. The Institute currently operates from its 45-acre campus in Andheri, Mumbai, and a campus in New Delhi.  

Taking forward the SPJIMR motto of thought leadership, SPJIMR Thoughtcast showcases the 'influencing practice' principle of the institute and features an expert SPJIMR faculty in a reflective conversation with a senior industry leader on management and business.

WISE Tech Insights episode 02: In the name of health, The promise and peril of Nutraceuticals

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