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Wings
by Asha & Milind Agnihotri
Year 1991 marked the beginning of a New India, a year that kick started a democratisation process of a new kind, one that rode the waves of Internet, Television Broadcast Networks & Mobile Telecommunications. This has shaped a new generation of youth deeply anchored in Indian values yet having global aspirations, a cohort for whom the world is a playground. Wings podcast is an attempt to bring forth stories of these youth where they share how they see themselves and the world they inhabit, their hopes and fears, their dreams and aspirations. The storytellers in Wings podcast are Young Indians across socio-economic strata, from urban and semi-urban India, living across the globe, ones who have found their own Wings or are in the process of discovering them with an aim to take them far and wide. Wings podcast began its journey in January 2022. After 108 episodes over 5 seasons that have been listened to in about 114 countries, the p
Episodes
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S6E2: Inverted Telescope
The idea of an ‘Inverted Telescope’ represents a shift in consciousness where observation is focused on an inner location which tries to see and comprehend the external world instead of looking at it as a distant object to be studied. For many, this idea manifests as a rich and impactful journey…
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S6E1: New Beginnings
Transitions are rarely simple switches. They are profound processes of reorientation and follow a pattern involving three stages: Endings - involves letting go of an old identity / situation; Neutral Zone - marked by uncertainty where old realities get dismantled and new possibilities take shape;...
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S5E8: The Next Level
"Take it to the next level" is an idiom that means - to significantly improve, expand a skill, business or relationship, making it more successful, advanced, or professional than it was before. This requires a vision, goal, focus, hard work, commitment and perseverance. It is however easier said...
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S5E7: Pilgrimage
Merriam-Websters dictionary defines ‘pilgrimage’ as a journey to a shrine or a sacred place with words such as travel, trek, journey, voyage being synonyms. In simple terms though it brings together a path, a traveller, a goal and a call to adventure. Many a discoveries await the one who responds...
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S5E6: Wheels & Wings
"Today, life on wheels has become longer than one on the feet. An innocent, bubbling life of an 18 year old got constricted by shoulder down paralysis caused by a surprise accident, bringing it to a standstill. Freedom & joy got replaced by shock, helplessness, anger, agony and pain. How did I…
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S5E5: (Com)Passionate Vet
“She set out to do something that she never imagined she had the capacity to. Ended up achieving way more than what she had set out for.” Personal stories seldom have these words as its opening line. One’s that do, have “Passion” as a sub-text that repeats in every chapter of the story. Along the...
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S5E4: Her Reflections
Fundamental human rights of justice, liberty and equality are enshrined in the Indian Constitution for all its citizens. Yet women of the country, across socio-economic divide, continue to experience discrimination and denial in their personal and social contexts. Over last few decades a lot has...
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S5E3: VishnuNaad
Indian music is said to have originated in ancient times as a confluence of three broad streams - music performed in temples for devotion, music performed in palaces and royal courts for entertainment and music that flowed freely in farms, fields and forests, for its own sake. At its core, it...
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S5E2: Band, Baaja, Baaraat
Weddings are a significant indicator of Indian culture. Though centered around the bride and groom, this special event tacitly focuses on sustaining and strengthening the community, ‘jaat-biradari,’ as it is popularly termed in India. And, that’s how it has been for centuries. Add to it the pomp...
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S5E1: Rooted in Senses
Welcome to a conversation with Neeta Mittal, an innovative entrepreneur and co-founder of LXV Wine. This conversation takes us on a sensory journey from the vineyards of Paso Robles, California to the spice markets of India, exploring the art of human connection in a fast-paced digital world. In...
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S4E25: I believe I can fly
All things are possible for those who believe. This is however easier said than done. Beliefs get tested, some quite severely and some over a long period of time leaving a deep mark on our psyche. How do we hold firm in our beliefs and yet be flexible? How can we shift the needle from ‘Can I?’ to...
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S4E24: Fear - what art thou?
Fear has been a constant companion of human race since hunter-gatherer days. It is a powerful force that creates as well as destroys. Unlike the animal kingdom, however, humans have an innate gift to understand fear in all its entirety. How does fear manifest in everyday life? What about moments…
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S4E23: Celebrating Me!
Much of who we are is shaped by our personal, work and social roles which evolve in a given context and over a period of time. These roles feed on each other and are further influenced by our choices and compulsions. How does this process manifest in the early stages of life? How does married…
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S4E22: Being Regge
Today, music & dance are an integral part of weddings, corporate events, nightlife or private celebrations with professional DJs at the centre stage. They know exactly how to get everyone swaying to their beats, keeping energy high on the dance floor and to provide non-stop entertainment! What…
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S4E21: Raghu's World
Finding one’s way through the forest, metaphorically and physically, happens to a chosen few. Every step calls for curiosity, courage, experimentation, openness to learn and constant adaptation. What if this is one’s calling in life? What world’s does it open up? How does a ‘beginner’s mind’...
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S4E20: I'm Arundhati
An unwavering commitment to the ideals of ‘rasa nishpatti' has ensured survival and growth of ancient Indian art forms much beyond an artist’s life and times. This however has necessitated democratisation, modernisation & institutionalisation of art through structures, systems and processes…
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S4E19: Tapasya
Raga framework in Indian Classical Music is said to be an ocean replete with mysteries & treasures. A Sangeet Saadhak (student of music) committed to a triad of Taalim (disciplined lessons), Riyaaz (diligent practice) & Adaakaari (authentic performance) gets a chance to experience these mysteries...
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S4E18: Fabric called...DEI
Human context is imbued with certain timeless themes that need periodic revisit, reexamination and renewal. Diversity, Equality & Inclusion (DEI) is one such theme. This would include gender and identity, neurodiversity, social and professional diversity, cultural and ethnic diversity etc. How do...
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S4E17: Jungle Routes
It is said that lot happens in a forest. While the focus could be more on all that is seen at the eye level, there’s lot that goes on above and below this plane. It takes a lot of patience, sensitivity and understanding to comprehend a forest, skills that are equally important in the world of...
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S4E16: Dancer-Healer
It is said that dance is an artform that frees human spirit. Through movements in space & time the dancer aims to break the shackles of earthly existence. What is the mystical space one discovers as one moves with the accompanying melody & rhythm? What really happens when our feet, knowingly or...
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S4E15: The Booklet Guy!
The world of self-help, personal growth books is ever expanding. At one end are books with simple insights, offering easy steps as ‘chota recharge’ to daily life. While at other end are books with profound answers to deeper questions, offering steps that may be life transforming. In a post-truth...
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S4E14: ta...kita...ta
Musicians, vocalists or instrumentalists, dwell simultaneously in two worlds - an external world of practice and performance and an internal world of self doubts, dilemmas, contentment and possible bliss. The canvas becomes intense if the context is Indian classical music - Khyal or Carnatic. How...
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S4E13: Mind your.....'Mind'
It is said that human mind is fuelled by an intricate triad of thoughts, emotions and actions. Further, research has pointed to primacy of emotions in this triad as the cause as well as consequence of our realities. What are emotions, what do they do to us? Why do we need a rich emotional...
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S4E12: Incy Wincy Spider
For years you work hard to face the ‘big moment.’ The moment arrives, you come out as a winner, years of commitment and perseverance has paid off. But the next moment brings in a surprise - a crash, a collapse! It’s back to square one. How does one reconcile with such realities? How does one pick...
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S4E11: Keeping it simple
Conversations can be formal and structured with a specific agenda and outcome in mind. On the other hand, they can be informal and exploratory based on the underlying energy felt by those conversing. The latter could involve varied subjects such as friendship, family, work, travel and all that is...
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S4E10: Role Transitions
Role transitions is a feature of life be it in personal, professional or social spaces and is important for one’s growth. It often involves a complex web of relationships, responsibilities, boundaries, power, authority, choices and constraints. All this is further anchored in a socio-cultural...
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S4E9: Karondi to Hyderabad
Gender based roles practiced over several generations and centuries has created a society with certain structure, order and continuity. On the flip side, the “should’s & must’s” of such a society, held as non-negotiable, have unleashed dysfunctional sides of power, authority and control. In…
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S4E8: tête-à-tête
Today, India stands at a confluence of a rich past, an industrious present and a bright future, with all its underlying paradoxes. Those engaged in the freedom struggle envisioned a nation with goals that were focused inwards. The next generation strengthened this foundation in context of a...
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S4E7: In my 30's .....
For many people, a lot happens in their 30’s. It’s a decade marked by expansion in almost all realms of one’s life. Marriage, children, caregiving, workplace responsibilities, social obligations .… there is action on all fronts. It’s an intense phase in exploration of identities, roles, purpose…
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S4E6: Pursuit of happiness
A childhood filled with love & care at home and camaraderie at school shapes a mind that seeks harmony and justice at all times. It fosters aspirations based on acceptance of the ‘as-is’ in order to create value for everyone. Its nemesis however is a utilitarian world that’s designed as a...
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S4E5: She Matters!
Poor literacy rates amongst children, especially girls, is one of the primary reasons behind socio-economic inequities in India. It sets in motion a life long experience of discrimination, denial and deprivation for the girl child that impacts much of her adult life in terms of identity and...
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S4E4: What's my legacy?
Over the last two decades India has seen rapid urbanisation resulting in social, cultural, economic and ecological dilemmas for today’s young Indians. One seems to be getting lost in the din of everyday life where emotional safety of a joint family is giving way to a nuclear family and its…
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S4E3: Being Anchored & Free
Women participation in the Indian Armed Forces is a relatively recent phenomena. There are very few women who consider army as their first career choice. What are the challenges of navigating such a career? In the process, what if she finds a marriage partner within the army but from a different...
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S4E2: Reconciliation & Love
Riding on the successes of earlier generations, today, many Indians are migrating to other countries to build their careers and lives. Such migrations are imbued, in general, with challenges of inclusion, understanding and acceptance and, in specific, when the situation involves a cross-cultural,...
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S4E1: Moving On.....
Toxic marriages are a global reality that largely remain unacknowledged with women often finding themselves at the receiving end. In India, fortunately, the subject has received due attention especially in metros and few other cities. Women are making conscious choices to find ways out of their...
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Wings: Behind the Scenes
In this BTS episode, show producers and creators Asha & Milind Agnihotri go down the memory lane on what happened behind the scenes in making of Wings podcast. They share their personal experiences, joyous and nervous moments, in putting together 75 guest episodes aired each Friday over 3…
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S3E24: Here's my story...
In this episode of Wings Podcast we will meet Anushree Nande a Mumbai-born writer, editor, and publishing professional who has studied and worked in England, Spain, and the US. Her fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, football writing, literary essays and articles have been published in various...
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S3E23: My ManchPravesh!
In this episode of Wings Podcast we will meet Gautami Deshpande from Mumbai who recently finished her Master's in Biochemistry and is now planning to pursue her Ph.D. She is a professional classical dancer in Odissi with a formal training and practice of over 17 years, having done her...
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S3E22: Those Special Moments
In this episode of Wings Podcast we will meet Natasha Ralkar Ghate, a Chartered Accountant with a Masters in Global Marketing management from Boston University, US. She currently works as a Brand Manager and Business Development Executive in a startup marketing agency. “For 25 years I was first…
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S3E21: Shapeshifter's Tale
In this episode of Wings Podcast we will meet Kunal Khanna. Born into the mad-hum in Mumbai, raised amongst the monkeys and mountains of Panchgani and made independent in an adulthood in Australia, Kunal has returned back to his roots running a permaculture farm and developing ALT EFF to become a...
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S3E20: Karmayogi Teacher
In this episode of Wings Podcast we will meet Rajnikant Mendhe from Nagpur, working since 2018 as a primary school teacher at the Zilla Parishad (ZP) school in Gorhe Budruk, a village located on the banks of Mutha river in Haveli Taluka of Pune district. Rajnikant started his career as a primary...
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S3E19: Lights...Camera...Play!
In this episode of Wings Podcast we will meet Naina Dargan, a dubbing artist for Doordarshan at the age of 10, a choreographer and cheerleader for the IPL Cricket Team - Delhi Daredevils at 14, a primary school teacher at 21, a graduate from St.Stephen’s College, Delhi where she studied…
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S3E18: Dare to Dream
In this episode of Wings Podcast we will meet Ryesh Venkatraman, a professional youth football coach with nearly a decade of experience across some of India's premier football clubs and academies. He has coached Bengaluru FC's youth academy and FC Bengaluru United to win major youth leagues…
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S3E17: AI, Tamarind & I
In this episode of Wings Podcast we will meet Sumedh Ghaisas who lives in London and since 2018 works as a research engineer at DeepMind, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. His work focuses on AI research at the intersection of arts, culture and science with a goal to improve everyday life. In…
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S3E16: Girl from Nivendi
In this episode of Wings Podcast we will meet Dr. Sanjeevani Joshi, an Auyurvedic medicine practitioner from Nivendi, a small village located along the Konkan coast in Ratnagiri District of Maharashtra. She practices under her own brand ‘Swasthyadaa’ which operates at the intersection of...
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S3E15: Pragmatic Researcher
In this episode of Wings Podcast we will meet Vibhav Mariwala a historian and anthropologist who enjoys exploring cities and the sea. An avid reader and writer, he spends his free time curating heritage walks, exploring marine forts around Mumbai and collecting rare books & maps. Vibhav works in...
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S3E14: Fun Loving Orthopaedic
In this episode of Wings Podcast we will meet Dr. Chaitrali Gundawar, a Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon who is passionate about her professional work whilst being equally committed to her ‘me time’ moments. This includes her unabashed love for cooking, dancing and being surrounded with friends, be...
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S3E13: Navigating the Maze
In this episode of Wings Podcast we will meet Tanvi Jain, an aspiring Film Producer and content specialist who currently works for a leading Bollywood Production House. Hailing from the temple city of Ujjain, Tanvi completed her Master's in International Film Business from the London Film School....
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S3E12: A New Outlook
In this episode of Wings Podcast we will meet Akshay Agrawal from Guwahati, an entrepreneur passionate about the water sector and wants to raise awareness on the subject. He joined his family business - SRK Metals & Plastics Pvt. Ltd. in 2009, where he has participated in executing more than...
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S3E11: My 'Kanegi' Moments
In this episode of Wings Podcast we will meet Simran Suri, an entrepreneur who is currently building her startup venture ‘KANEGI’ that hopes to offer India's first mindful tools and portable spaces for meditation. KANEGI is currently incubated at N. S. Raghavan Center for Entrepreneurial Learning...
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Year 1991 marked the beginning of a New India, a year that kick started a democratisation process of a new kind, one that rode the waves of Internet, Television Broadcast Networks & Mobile Telecommunications. This has shaped a new generation of youth deeply anchored in Indian values yet having global aspirations, a cohort for whom the world is a playground.
Wings podcast is an attempt to bring forth stories of these youth where they share how they see themselves and the world they inhabit, their hopes and fears, their dreams and aspirations.
The storytellers in Wings podcast are Young Indians across socio-economic strata, from urban and semi-urban India, living across the globe, ones who have found their own Wings or are in the process of discovering them with an aim to take them far and wide.
Wings podcast began its journey in January 2022. After 108 episodes over 5 seasons that have been listened to in about 114 countries, the p
HOSTED BY
Asha & Milind Agnihotri
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