Lockdown Leadership Harappa Education

We speak to Professor Dheeraj Sanghi, Director, Punjab Engineering College, who acknowledges the limitations of our education system and is pushing for change. We find out: how are students and faculty responding to the crisis? How are colleges dealing with jobs and grades? And what’s a ‘good’ education anyway?

Motivated by her family’s struggle with schizophrenia, the founder of India Art Fair Neha Kirpal went on to co-found InnerHour—a mental health app that provides self-help tools to half a million users in 100+ countries. Today, the app is making mental health support accessible to everyone who needs it.

We speak to Saikat Datta, an award-winning journalist, de-risking specialist and public policy expert who leads a COVID-19 Integrated Command Center, bringing together citizens, the police and private companies for relief work. He's a citizen warrior who has previously worked with Indian Express, HT and Outlook Magazine.

We speak to Srikant Sastri, Board Member at Incubation Centres of IIT Kanpur and IIM Calcutta Innovation Park. He is co-leading an ambitious project to provide 30,000 ventilators for critical COVID-19 patients in India, in a market that—surprisingly—lacks regulation.

Our first episode is inextricably linked to our current crisis. We talk to Prashant Tandon, CEO of India’s leading online pharmacy 1mg, to find out how consumer behavior is changing, how leadership is adapting to this change, and what’s next for healthcare?