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A few days back Twitter announced that it had purchased Revue, a newsletter platform for writers and publishers. Facebook too is reported to be working on something like that and both are expected to give competition to Substack and a few others already in this business. With more and more people opting for better quality content and spending on it via subscriptions - social media platforms seem to have noticed to strong shift and are trying to be a part of this game before it's too late for them. So it looks like that attention economy based social media now making a conscious shift towards serious non-intrusive, subscription-based content? Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kajmasterclass/message

Latest data available with India’s Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) show that the number of companies incorporated during April-December 2020 went up by nearly 21% to over 1.1 lakh, compared to a 5.2% increase witnessed during the corresponding nine month period in 2019, as per a newspaper report today. A rising number of entrepreneurs is a good sign for rising India. Listen in to my podcast as to why I think so.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kajmasterclass/message

Hope your Valentine's Day preparations have begun well with Rose Day today. Or was it a Thorn Day sorta start for you?:) Listen in to my take on Rose Day, in Magahi. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kajmasterclass/message

Recently, the UC Berkeley physics department received $35,000 from an anonymous donor to create the Sushant Singh Rajput Memorial Fund in Physics. SSR was a National Physics Olympiad winner and was passionate about astrophysics as well. UC Berkeley is known for its astrophysics graduate program and the fund will help support campus graduate students studying astrophysics. In my opinion, spreading education, enabling someone to study further could be the best tribute to anyone's memory. Listen in to why I think so! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kajmasterclass/message

India has slipped two places to 53rd position in the latest Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) 2020 Democracy Index global ranking. India's overall score has fallen from 6.9 in 2019 to 6.61 in the Index that provides a snapshot of the current state of democracy worldwide for 167 countries. India has been classified as a 'flawed democracy' along with countries such as the US, France, Belgium and Brazil. This means that India and the US - the world's largest and biggest democracies - are "flawed democracies", as per EIU's report. Time for some deep introspection? Listen in!  (Please do subscribe, like, comment, and share if you liked this episode/channel) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kajmasterclass/message

According to the just-released Oxfam’s ‘Inequality Virus Report,’ India's billionaires increased their wealth by 35% during the lockdown whereas millions lost their jobs during the same period. The first casualties when there is a wide gap in income levels is the attention to healthcare and education, mainly by the people at the lowest strata of society. It is time we put our priorities right and fix our system now!  Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kajmasterclass/message

2020, even though gone, will stay with us forever. Obviously for the pain it inflicted on many but also teachings and being a blessing in disguise in several things for humanity as well as individuals. So as we take our step into time, it will all depend on our own selves what we carry with us.   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kajmasterclass/message

Controversy broke out early this week in India when it was reported that the country's apex planning body Niti Aayog's CEO Amitabh Kant had said at an event that  “tough” reforms are “very difficult in the Indian context,” as “we are too much of a democracy”. Later Mr. Kant clarified that he did not mean the way it was reported and that he was speaking in the context of reforms in India via a vis China. Whatever that was all about, the larger point I discuss here in this podcast is as to how much democracy becomes too much that it starts stalling the growth and development process in a country. Or is it that this is just an excuse used by political establishments at many places to propagate their line of thought or to hide their incompetencies and inefficiencies. India slipped 10 places to 51st position in the 2019 Democracy Index's global ranking, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit, which cited "erosion of civil liberties" in the country as the primary cause for the downtrend. Is it "too much democracy" or a "flawed" one as the index put it, that is stalling the process of reforms? Do we need more of it or less of it? Let's talk about this. Let's discuss this. Listen in!  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kajmasterclass/message

Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine outside of a trial in Britain on Tuesday. She enthusiastically received the Pfizer-BioNTech shot at her local hospital, a week before she turns 91. This has given realistic hopes to billions across the globe of getting the vaccine soon that can help them get back to their lives like the one they lived not so long ago.  In my part of the world - the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine producer by volume, is close to signing a supply contract with the country’s central government and likely to fix prices at 250 rupees per dose of the vaccine, as per a report.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kajmasterclass/message

It's a rude wake-up call for us all. Brazil's environmental ministry has released preliminary figures showing that deforestation in the Amazon has hit its highest rate in a decade. Between August 2018 and July 2019, approximately 11,088 square kilometers of rainforest was destroyed, a 9.5 percent increase on the previous year.  The dense rainforests of Brazil consume an enormous amount of the world's Carbon Dioxide and release Oxygen in return. The latest data is big blow to all those who are fighting to save the environment and the planet - our only home. Faraway in India, high pollution is a big issue all around the year, especially in winters. According to the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago's Air Quality Life Index, the average Indian loses 5.2 years due to particulate pollution. India secured 168 rank in the 12th edition of the biennial Environment Performance Index (EPI Index 2020) — that measured the environmental performance of 180 countries — and was released by the Yale University in June 2020.  In 2018, India's rank was 177. Let's wake up before it’s too late... (Please do subscribe, like, comment, and share if you liked this episode/channel) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kajmasterclass/message

As the war of words on the upcoming Film City in UP continues, in this episode I explain as to why a world-class Film City in UP is a win-win development for the people of both UP and Maharashtra. And for the country. Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kajmasterclass/message

Small Business Saturday is a day dedicated to supporting small businesses and communities. There are 3 very important reasons why small businesses should thrive more 1) Every touch of theirs is personalized. They love to have a one to one connect with their buyers to know their likes and preferences. 2) Small businesses adapt very easily to changes. 3) Small businesses need you and your support more than ever. Small businesses get overlooked by many customers who get enticed by larger companies, and this can adversely affect the local economy in more negative ways than might appear on the surface level. This trend is on the rise almost everywhere in the world creating new challenges for local businesses, economy, and livelihoods.  According to the MSME Ministry’s FY19 annual report, the Indian MSME sector is dominated by micro-enterprises. India has 6.33 crore MSMEs out of which 6.30 crore -- 99.4 percent are micro-enterprises. This Small Business Saturday let's pledge our local businesses more of our support, especially during these hard Covid times. (Please do subscribe, like, comment, and share if you liked this episode/channel) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kajmasterclass/message

India's DRDO is now helping Indian textile industries produce yarns to end its dependence on Chinese and other foreign clothing for military uniforms. There is a big use of technical textiles such as glass fabric, carbon fabric, aramid fabric, and advanced ceramic fabrics in defence application. For Indian army's summer uniform alone, the approximate requirement of the fabric is 55 lakh meters and if all the requirements of Navy, Air Force, and Para Military forces are added then the requirement may go well beyond 1.5 crore meters per annum, as per a report. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kajmasterclass/message

Comedian Bharti Singh and her husband's arrest has brought into discussion once again the issue of the rising drug menace in Bollywood as well as in the country and a strong need for a check on this.  They were arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) over alleged possession and use of marijuana and were granted bail by a Mumbai court today. Their arrest came as part of the NCB expanded probe into the alleged drug use in Bollywood, which started after the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput in June.   In the last few months, top Bollywood actors - Arjun Rampal, Deepika Padukone, Sara Ali Khan, Rakulpreet Singh, and Shraddha Kapoor - have been questioned by the NCB as a part of the probe. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kajmasterclass/message

In this special Great Indian Ethnic Clothing Landscape podcast series, we talk about the wide ethnic Indian clothing scene and everything associated with it all - in as colorful words as they are.  In today's episode, we talk about Bhagalpuri Silk which is also known as the queen of all fabrics. And not for nothing has it got that name. Listen in! *Follow KAJ Studio Podcast and get notified when new episodes are released* About podcast host Khudania Ajay Ajay is a #writer and #podcaster based out of New Delhi. He hosts the KAJ Studio Podcast. In his 20 plus years in #media, he has worked with CNBC India, Reuters, Press Trust of India (PTI), and others, and is now into building the #CreatorEconomy. He monitors with special interest the rapidly evolving #ContentLandscape, the rising CreatorEconomy, and the role of various platforms like Substack, Revue, Medium, Patreon, and others. *Look forward to your views on the content posted by me. If you enjoy my content please remember to like, subscribe and share with others who may find it useful.* I also hold regular discussions on the above-mentioned topics on Spotify Greenroom and Clubhouse. Do join me on Content Conversations on Spotify Greenroom and Clubhouse whenever possible. Let’s brainstorm! *NOTE FOR FELLOW PODCASTERS AND CONTENT CREATORS* I would be happy to be a guest on your show. Feel free to reach out to me. I can talk on issues related to politics, business especially on #PersonalFinance, Retail, and ecommerce. Please see my LinkedIn profile for more. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajaykhudania/ For more about my videos and podcasts please visit my Linktree link: https://linktr.ee/thekajstudio Connect with me here or drop in a line at connect@thekajstudio.com *NOTE FOR CONTENT MARKETERS &ADVERTISERS FOR ENGAGEMENT / COLLABORATION* Let’s work together on your next project. Boost your Content Marketing & Target Audience Engagement efforts with my media insights. Please see my LinkedIn profile for more. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajaykhudania/ For more about my videos and podcasts please visit my Linktree link: https://linktr.ee/thekajstudio Connect with me here or drop in a line at connect@thekajstudio.com (Please remember to like, subscribe and share my content with others who may find it useful. A big Thank You to each one of you for all the love and support.) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kajmasterclass/message