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Past Imperfect Episode 32 features Dinyar Patel, Associate Professor of History at SPJIMR, in conversation with Ramachandra Guha, Distinguished University Professor at Krea University and author of Arguments with Gandhi.

In India and abroad, Mahatma Gandhi has been the object of veneration and endless encomiums. Guha wants us to remember something else: that Gandhi has been deeply controversial, both in his time and ours. Arguments with Gandhi delves head-first into how Gandhi wrestled with some of the world’s greatest questions. This went beyond anti-imperialism and religious harmony to include gender and race relations, caste, economics, and the environment. Perhaps no other individual in recent times has had such a breadth of opinions on so many subjects. Those opinions, quite naturally, have incited sharp reactions, both positive and negative. Was Gandhi racist and casteist? Was he against modernity? Were his views on religion and nonviolence counterproductive? As Guha tells us, the answers are oftentimes complicated and surprising.

Past Imperfect Episode 31 features Dinyar Patel, Associate Professor of History at SPJIMR, in conversation with Sudev Sheth, Senior Lecturer at the Lauder Institute, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and the author of Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India.

Sheth unearths the remarkable story of how one family, the Jhaveris of Ahmedabad, navigated business and politics under Mughal rule. As prominent diamond merchants, the Jhaveris prospered under the protection of the Mughals, becoming partners in empire. Once the Mughal Empire disintegrated, however, they faced enormous risks and opportunities: state violence but also new leverage in influencing politics. In a manner familiar to any contemporary Indian business tycoon, the Jhaveris had to cultivate diverse political ties while conducting their commercial activities, all while managing the delicate task of family succession. And they largely succeeded: the family, now known as the Lalbhais, remains in business today, some fourteen generations later.

Past Imperfect Episode 30 features Dinyar Patel, Associate Professor of History at SPJIMR, in conversation with Aparajith Ramnath, Associate Professor of History at Ahmedabad University and the author of Engineering a Nation: The Life and Career of M. Visvesvaraya.
 
M. Visvesvaraya was much more than India’s most famous engineer. As Ramnath details, he was a risk-taking diwan of Mysore, a liberal statesman, and a tireless advocate of mass education and industrialisation in India. Engineering a Nation provides us with a critical chapter in modern India’s development trajectory, telling us how Visvesvaraya presided over the construction of big dams, ironworks, factories, bureaucracies, education systems, and the scaffoldings of democracy. His vision for India was highly technocratic, one that embraced economic planning and top-down leadership. This technocratic vision helped lay the foundations for things like India’s IT economy—but it also, as Ramnath is careful to note, came with some significant costs.

Past Imperfect Episode 29 features Dinyar Patel, Associate Professor of History at SPJIMR, in conversation with Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University and the author of Capitalism: A Global History.
 
“A radical departure and discontinuity in human affairs”: this is how Beckert describes capitalism. Capitalism: A Global History spans centuries and continents to piece together a continuous revolution in economic affairs, one which has involved slaves and plutocrats, entrepreneurs and bureaucrats, and communists and committed neoliberals. Consciously avoiding the Eurocentrism of earlier histories, Beckert takes us to early Islamic hubs of capitalists like twelfth-century Aden and visits textile production centres in modern Cambodia. Along the way, he stresses how none of this would have been possible without the state. The free market, in Beckert’s telling, is fiction. It was through state power that a loose, marginal network of capitalists turned into the juggernaut that is modern capitalism.

Past Imperfect Episode 28 features Dinyar Patel, Associate Professor of History at SPJIMR, in conversation with Pronoti Datta, author of In the Beginning There Was Bombay Duck: A Food History of Mumbai.
 
Mumbai, the Maximum City, is arguably also the city of maximum food variety. Where else do people put shrimp in banana cake and make biryani out of patrel? In the Beginning There Was Bombay Duck chronicles Mumbai’s astonishing diversity of cuisines, both past and present. Datta describes how the city’s food options developed through British and Portuguese inputs, the arrival of new communities bringing their distinct masalas, and the bounty of the sea. Food provides a unique window into the city’s complex socioeconomic tapestry. On the one hand, Mumbaikars have been united in their craze for tasty pao bhaji and chaat. On the other hand, rich and poor have rarely ever eaten in the same places, and particular food items, like vada pao, have become politically charged. Datta’s food history goes beyond the contents of our plates to exemplify the people and communities which have made Mumbai’s food so delicious and complex.

Past Imperfect Episode 24 features Dinyar Patel, Associate Professor of History at SPJIMR, in conversation with Sam Dalrymple, author of Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia.

The Partition of 1947 was not carried out in isolation. Dalrymple’s Shattered Lands reconstructs a longer and much more complex story: how the British Indian Empire, which once stretched from modern-day Yemen to Myanmar, was sundered through five distinct and traumatic separations. Between 1937 and 1971, twelve nation-states emerged from the rubble of empire—yet their creations were not inevitable. Shattered Lands is a story of cosmopolitan connections, opposition to partitions, and several missed opportunities which could have changed the course of South Asia’s very violent twentieth century.

Past Imperfect Episode 23 features Dinyar Patel, Associate Professor of History at SPJIMR, in conversation with Padraic X. Scanlan, Associate Professor at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources at the University of Toronto and the author of Rot: A History of the Irish Famine.

Between 1845 and 1851, a famine of unimaginable proportions ravaged Ireland. At least a million people died and at least a million more Irish emigrated. The Great Famine, Scanlan argues, was a product of both colonialism and global capitalism. A rigid adherence to free market principles utterly blinded British policymakers about relief efforts. Stunningly, as Ireland starved, the country continued to export agricultural goods. Relief operations even discouraged Irish from growing their own food, lest such food interfere with market forces. Scanlan’s narrative of the Great Famine reminds us that this was a thoroughly modern event: one that was repeated in other parts of the British Empire, including in India.

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 saviour 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 centralisation of power, recalibrations of economic policy, breakdowns in political norms, constitutional crises, anti-democratic tendencies, and violent insurgency.

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 20 features SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel in conversation with Manu S. Pillai, author of Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity.

In a book beginning with Vasco da Gama and ending with V. D. Savarkar, Pillai looks for evidence of how modern Hindu nationalism developed. Gods, Guns and Missionaries is an account of how the interaction between Hinduism and European Christianity—mediated, on the one hand, through Western missionaries, scholars, and colonial administrators; and, on the other hand, through Hindu reformers—produced a new avatar of one of the world’s oldest faiths. Hindu leaders countered the prejudices and Eurocentrism of their colonial masters, but they also borrowed many of their religious ideas. This resulted in new interpretations of Hindu religious texts, modified practices, and, above all, a new attitude of defensiveness.

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, 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 knits together so many different people through bonds of labour, political activity, and marriage.

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 epitomised capitalism and globalisation 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 centre of a much broader transformation of global capitalism, one which sprouted the roots of today’s economy.

Past Imperfect episode 17 features SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel in conversation with Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin and author of Making Empire.
 
Question: What unites a European island country of 5 million people and a subcontinental nation of 1.45 billion? Answer: A remarkably deep and complex history. Jane Ohlmeyer explains how the Irish—as both colonial victims and members of the colonial elite, army, and bureaucracy—shaped British India from the 1600s onwards. Ireland gave India some of its staunchest allies, such as Annie Besant, and its most recalcitrant colonial governors, like Michael O’Dwyer of Punjab. And the Irish have influenced modern India in some profoundly unexpected ways. Bombay’s second governor—the Irishman Gerald Aungier—instilled its commercial ethos and transformed the city into a cosmopolitan entrepot. India’s ‘City of Dreams’ retains several reminders of Irish inputs from nearly four centuries ago.

Past Imperfect Episode 16 features SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel in conversation with Ashoka Mody, formerly a deputy director at the International Monetary Fund and a visiting professor at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and author of India is Broken.

When Ashoka Mody published India is Broken two years ago, it stoked fierce controversy. Instead of describing the promise of the ‘India story’—a buoyant economy, a growing middle class, and great potential for manufacturing and service sector growth—Mody portrayed a country which systematically refused to get the basics right. India, Mody argues, remains trapped in a jobs crisis, and its failure to meaningfully invest in quality education, public health, and other public goods condemns it to continued high rates of unemployment and underemployment. In this episode, Mody explains how his views have evolved in the past two years and why he believes that India is even more broken today.

Past Imperfect Episode 15 features SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel in conversation with Nico Slate, a Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. They discuss Prof. Slate’s latest book, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: The Art of Freedom.

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was one of the most remarkable leaders of twentieth-century India, someone who was unafraid of shattering taboos, speaking her mind, and linking together campaigns for social justice around the world. Nico Slate’s new biography, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: The Art of Freedom, traces a political career which lasted nearly seven decades. She was an outspoken advocate of women’s rights, a socialist firebrand, a global ambassador for India, and a towering personality in the world of Indian handicrafts and arts. Slate’s book investigates Kamaladevi’s multifaceted career, allowing us to better appreciate the words she lived by: “Beauty is the soul of freedom.”

This edition features SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel in conversation with A.R. Venkatachalapathy, Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies.

How did one man take on one of the world’s biggest multinational corporations of the early twentieth century? A.R. Venkatachalapathy’s Swadeshi Steam traces the life of V.O. Chidambaram Pillai, who, in 1906, founded the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company to break a British shipping monopoly. Swadeshi Steam was powered by both patriotism and remarkable business acumen: it canvassed shares from across India and the global Indian diaspora. And it nearly succeeded in disrupting British commercial interests—the primary reason for why Swadeshi Steam was eventually crushed by the British Indian government.

This episode features Prof. Dinyar Patel in conversation with the independent historian Murali Ranganathan. Over the past fifteen years, Murali Ranganathan has trawled archives and libraries looking for material on Mumbai’s history in Marathi, Gujarati, Urdu, and Persian. And he has assembled some remarkable finds into a series of books and articles covering everything from print history to pandemics.

His latest book, The First World War Adventures of Nariman Karkaria, is a translation from Gujarati of a Parsi soldier’s rollicking accounts of his world travels and battle experiences. And it provides a window into a broader discussion of Mumbai and its people.

How has the city changed and stayed the same over the centuries? What is the longer history of controversies over naming, identity, and belonging in the Maximum City? How do Mumbaikars understand their city’s history?

How much of history is mythmaking? In this episode, Taylor Sherman, author of Nehru’s India: A History in Seven Myths, tackles some shibboleths of India’s first seventeen years of independence. How nonaligned was nonalignment? Could socialist policies actually widen socioeconomic disparities? Was Nehru really the architect of modern India? The answers, Sherman discovers, are far messier and more complex than we imagine.

SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel is in conversation with Aditya Balasubramanian, Senior Lecturer in History at Australian National University

The Swatantra Party, established in 1959, briefly became India’s chief opposition party before disintegrating in the early 1970s. What explains its rise and fall? Aditya Balasubramanian’s Toward a Free Economy charts one of democratic India’s earliest experiments in viable opposition politics: how a diverse cast of political leaders articulated the need for an alternative to a dominant political party. Swatantra’s clarion call was for a ‘free economy’, one unshackled from the license-and-permit raj. But the party was equally concerned with unchecked political power, rising corruption, and the long-term health of India’s democracy.

SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel is in conversation with Ashok Gopal

In B. R. Ambedkar, India possessed a phenomenal intellectual powerhouse. Drawing on ideas and thinkers from the subcontinent and around the world, he stirred India’s conscience, pointing to the devastating legacies of caste and untouchability while raising urgent questions about the viability of democracy in India. Ambedkar’s ideas could be unsettling and uncomfortable—and that is precisely why he remains so relevant today. In A Part Apart, Ashok Gopal has written the definitive English-language biography of Ambedkar, the product of fifteen years of close research and study. Gopal’s book charts the evolution of Ambedkar’s career and thought, from his engagement with Hindu social reform to his embrace of Buddhism as a religion truly compatible with social. democracy.

SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel is in conversation with Isabel Huacuja Alonso, Columbia University.

Before the internet and television, South Asia tuned in to the radio, and the radio helped South Asians forge a shared sense of belonging. Isabel Huacuja Alonso’s Radio for the Millions chronicles the history of broadcasting from the beginnings of All India Radio (AIR) in the 1930s to the heights of Radio Ceylon’s film music-powered popularity from the 1950s through the 1970s. Governments tried to use radio to project state power, but listeners regularly used their sets and transistors as tools of defiance or resistance. This was particularly the case after 1947, when film songs and Hindustani broadcasting helped bring together people divided by Partition.

SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel is in conversation with Ulbe Bosma, International Institute of Social History and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

What can sugar teach us about global history? Plenty, as Ulbe Bosma demonstrates in his new book. ‘The World of Sugar’ is a sweeping narrative of how sugar emerged from India and China to conquer the world, generating both enormous riches and endemic poverty, powered by sophisticated networks of capital and technology as well as brutal labour regimes. Bosma examines how the human penchant for sweetness has shaped politics and economics for centuries, laying the foundations for modern capitalism and globalisation.

The series is brought to you by SPJIMR’s Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL).

In the latest episode of Past Imperfect, SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel discusses with Prof. Vinayak Chaturvedi, University of California, Irvine, the role of history in shaping Hindutva, including the ideas of V.D. Savarkar. Chaturvedi’s work engages with Savarkar’s ideas and perspectives, which may be viewed as innovative, controversial, or challenging. The podcast highlights the significant role of history in shaping the concept of Hindutva, and Savarkar’s insights into the account provide context for understanding this ideology.

The series is brought to you by SPJIMR’s Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL).

Priya Atwal, Author and Professor at the University of Oxford, is in conversation with SPJIMR faculty Dinyar Patel. Women’s voices are absent from so much of South Asian history. In ‘Royals and Rebels’, Priya Atwal recovers the remarkable roles that royal women played in the affairs of the Sikh Empire (1799-1849). Ranjit Singh might have been the Sher-e-Punjab, but Atwal demonstrates that his empire owed much of its success to female power.

Robert Stephens, Author and Architect, RMA Architects, is in conversation with SPJIMR Prof. Dr Dinyar Patel.

The architect Charles Correa once described Bombay/Mumbai as a great city but a terrible place. In ‘Bombay Imagined’, Robert Stephens, an American-born architect at RMA Architects, chronicles several centuries of unfulfilled plans to make the city both greater and less terrible. ‘Bombay Imagined’ demonstrates that smelly sewage, awful infrastructure, paltry open space, and inadequate housing are not simply modern problems: Bombay citizens have established a long tradition of devising plans to mediate these perennial headaches, unfortunately, with limited success.

Author and Professor, Georgetown University, Dr Joseph Sassoon, is in conversation with SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel. Joseph Sassoon’s ‘The Global Merchants’ charts the meteoric rise and calamitous collapse of the Sassoon family, Jewish refugees from Baghdad who built a world-spanning business empire out of Bombay, London, and Shanghai. Sassoon’s book is full of fascinating characters: opium traders, horse racing aficionados who rubbed shoulders with British royalty, and perhaps the first woman to lead a global commercial enterprise.

Dr Nikhil Menon, Author and Professor, University of Notre Dame, is in conversation with SPJIMR Prof. Dinyar Patel.

In ‘Planning Democracy’, Nikhil Menon takes us to the summit of Nehruvian planning in the 1950s and 1960s—and what we find there might surprise us. The story of India’s first Five-Year Plans involved a genius professor, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis; deft Cold War diplomacy; and the introduction of India’s first computers. But it was also about so much more: an attempt to make planning ‘democratic’, a project which involved rural volunteers, Bollywood talent, and even sadhus.

Historian and Author Linda Colley is in conversation with SPJIMR Prof. Dr Dinyar Patel.

Linda Colley’s ‘The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen’ is a wide-ranging exploration of the development of constitutions, a book which demonstrates how increasingly violent warfare led to the worldwide spread of these documents between the 18th and early 20th centuries. In this episode, Colley discusses global influences on Indian constitutional thought, the relevance of constitutions today, and why historians need to write accessible books.

‘Past Imperfect’ explores leadership from a historical perspective while bridging the past and present. The series is brought to you by SPJIMR’s Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL) and features conversations with authors of recent works of global and Indian history and explores political and economic leadership in unusual or unconventional situations.

In a new SPJIMR podcast series, ‘Past Imperfect’, our Faculty member Dr Dinyar Patel is in conversation with Historian Dr Ramachandra Guha.

They discuss the dearth of good biographies in India and South Asia. Dr Guha emphasises why biographies should not be written with a political agenda but draw on rich and original research as well as a perceptive frame of analysis. They talk about his new book, ‘Rebels Against the Raj’, and the insights it provides into relations between India and the West and India’s story as a country searching for its identity and liberty beyond British colonial rule.

Prof. Surya Tahora is in conversation with Neha Chatwani, an organisational psychologist. In this talk, they discuss that in a world of turbulence, it is imperative that we reassess 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.

Tune in to the latest episode of the podcast series Sapience presented by SPJIMR Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL).

The new edition of Sapience features Prof. Surya Tahora in conversation with Dr. Knut O.J. Ims, Professor Emeritus in Business Ethics at the Norwegian School of Economics, and Hege Tuen Seglem, Founder of Being Mindful. They discuss how mindfulness, defined by Jon Kabat-Zinn as purposeful, present, and non-judgemental awareness, can address interconnected systemic crises in the Anthropocene, such as environmental, social, and economic challenges. It argues that mindfulness can foster conscious, value-driven choices, breaking habitual behaviours to promote sustainability and deeper connections with nature, others, and oneself.

In this episode, Prof. Surya Tahora speaks with Christian Mayhofer, Co-founder of CCG-Conscious Consulting Group. They explore the evolving role of consulting amidst technological advancements, societal shifts, and the rise of AI. Key challenges such as intergenerational conflicts, ethical leadership, sustainability, and fostering equality and inclusion are discussed. The conversation highlights the importance of empowering organisations and tackling global issues through continuous learning, innovation, and conscious leadership.

Tune in to the latest episode of the podcast series Sapience presented by SPJIMR Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL).

This edition features Prof. Surya Tahora in conversation with Mr. Sai Sambat, Co-founder, Institute of Indic Wisdom. The Institute of Indic Wisdom, promoted by INDICA, amplifies the global permeation of Indic Wisdom through partnerships, alliances, self-organising networks and eventually, an Indic Wisdom Movement.

Mr. Sambat’s journey began with intensive work at the Indian Society for Individual and Social Development in the 90s, leading to deep personal transformation and ongoing spiritual exploration.

Prof. Surya Tahora is in conversation with renowned Leadership Advisor Rajesh Kamath. Mr. Kamath is a Keynote Speaker, Storyteller, Consultant, Facilitator, Columnist, Teacher, Coach and Lifelong learner. In this episode, he discusses elevating leadership and transforming organisations by adapting timeless principles from Indian wisdom, with a focus on the ancient Indian text Arthashastra.

The discussion touches on its historical context, authorship, and relevance to modern leadership. The conversation also explores specific tools and frameworks from the Arthashastra that can be applied in organisational contexts. Join us in the latest episode of Sapience to gain insights about implications and wisdom related to leadership. The series is presented by SPJIMR Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL).

This edition features Prof. Surya Tahora in conversation with Prof. Chris Laszlo, Department of Organisational Behaviour, Weatherhead School of Management. In this engaging discussion, Prof. Laszlo reflects on the evolving role of business in society, emphasising the integration of ethical behaviour, market forces, and individual transformation. Explore the importance of personal practices and experiences in driving transformative change, drawing parallels with wisdom traditions that recognise the interconnectedness of self, others, and the world.

Tune in to the latest episode of the podcast series Sapience presented by SPJIMR Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL).

Prof. Surya Tahora is in conversation with Prof. Judith Gluck, University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Prof. Gluck offers an insightful perspective on the different approaches to wisdom in the field of research, drawing parallels to the well-known fable of the blind men and the elephant. Listen in as she shares her journey towards developing a unified model of wisdom and its various interpretations. Join us for a thought-provoking and informative conversation on the latest episode of Sapience. The series is brought to you by SPJIMR’s Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL).

In our latest episode of Sapience, SPJIMR Prof Surya Tahora is in conversation with Prof Monica Ardelt, University of Florida. Monica Ardelt takes us on a journey into the heart of wise organisations. Drawing from her Three-Dimensional Wisdom model, she breaks down the components of a wise organisation, from leadership and decision-making to the sharing of profits. She also explains why wise organisations are the way of the future and how they can create a better, more sustainable world for future generations.

The series is brought to you by SPJIMR’s Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL).

Faculty member Surya Tahora is in conversation with Howard Nusbaum, University of Chicago. They discuss how, despite its long history, there is still much to learn about wisdom and how it can be applied in the real world. They also scrutinise how wisdom researchers from various disciplines and backgrounds can collaborate to identify commonalities in their theories and develop a more comprehensive understanding of wisdom. This understanding can then be used to assist people in making wiser decisions that consider the impact of their actions on others.

Faculty member Dr Surya Tahora is in conversation with Dr David Rooney, Macquarie University. They discuss whether there is a way to overcome the existential threat that young executives feel and what wisdom practices they can adopt. The series is brought to you by SPJIMR’s Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL).

Faculty member Dr Surya Tahora is in conversation with Dr Justin Brienza, University of Queensland Business School.

They discuss why, despite extensive work on wisdom research, it is yet to percolate to the Organisations. They also talk about how ‘wise reasoning’ can benefit organisations where intelligence, emotional intelligence, and cognitive ability fail. The series is brought to you by SPJIMR’s Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL).

In our new podcast series, ‘Sapience’, Faculty member Prof. Surya Tahora is in conversation with Leadership Development Advisor, Dr. Elizabeth King

They dive into the many aspects of mindfulness; does the evidence match the hype, and can we distinguish between mindfulness’s peripheral and deeper sides? They discuss the implications for organisations, what goes on in senior leadership rooms, and whether those decisions serve the greater good.

The series is brought to you by SPJIMR’s Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL).