Bharatvarsh: The Destinations for Spiritual Wellness Journeys
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QuoteUnquote with KK and Dr Devdutt Patnaik, India’s top mythologist and author discusses on our bet #our Bet #22 discusses mythological/pilgrimage wellness/health that is going to be a major trend in the next 5 years from our 2024 India healthcare and lifesciences investment manifesto. Devdutt, clears the issues on Bharatvarsh, sprituality, spiritualism, the Great Indian Pilgrimage, destinations across Hindu, Jain, Buddhist followers, ancient practices and modern beliefs. He also discusses various emerging counter trends around non-traditional spirituality, conspirituality amongst the extreme rightists and wokes, fake narrative emerging out of AI and ChatGPT and how belief systems are being altered around practice of spirituality and religion.
Excerpts
What is Spirituality?
How is Religion Different from Spirituality?
How is Bharatvarsh defined by Politicians, Pilgrims and Vedas?
Mooring Around the Future of Chips in AI-dominated India
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QuoteUnquote with KK and Nitin Dahad, Tech Evangelist, Editor embedded.com, Writer
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Raghu Panicker, CEO of Kaynes Semicon, gives us some background to the origins of the current semiconductor industry in India from the 1980s by two key figures: M.J Zarabi and Wally Rhines.
Hitesh Garg, India country manager for NXP Semiconductors, talks about key markets for NXP globally and in India, particularly automotive and industrial.
Satya Gupta, a veteran of the Indian electronics industry in India. He has several influential roles in the industry and in policymaking
Bhanupriya Krishna, founder and managing director of Perceptives Solutions, talks about the lack of talent for addressing the semiconductor manufacturing industry in India
Pradeep Vajram challenges the current thinking in India to develop chips and IP for India only, highlighting that scale is key for investors in Indian semiconductor startups
Growing the Investments in India Stack and Ecommerce
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QuoteUnquote with KK and Kevin T Carter, Founder and Chief Investment Officer, EMQQ Global, An Emerging Markets and Indian Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) on NYSE
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Agri Revolution 2.0: Debunking the Poor Farmer Politics and Growing High Nutritional Food
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QuoteUnquote with KK and Harish Damodaran, Agri Expert, Editor, Author
In this podcast we discuss the dire and immediate need for an Agri Revolution 2.0 in India. As our population is ageing and health acuity increasing towards food intolerance and diet restrictions, we now need to also start producing more nutritious and healthy food not just for the elite classes but the masses as India enters mid-income countries club and the food basket of the people of India improves towards better dietary habits and food consumption. This may mean we may have to start growing new varieties of foods.
Fake, Fakier, Fakiest? Who is going to Eventually Win the Race?
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QuoteUnquote with KK and Prof Salvatore Babones, American Author, Sociologist , China Expert, Associate Professor @ University of Sydney and Founder Indian Century Roundtable (ICR) Think Tank https://www.indiancentury.org/
In this podcast we discuss the fake narrative on economic, population, societal transformation, supply chain decoupling, labour and unemployment, control over private enterprises, technology, environmental issues, dedolarisation, digital currency, political narrative, negative propaganda, global dominance and iron fist between China under Authoritarian Xi Xinping and Democratic India under Fascist Modi using the PESTC framework and who will win the global race?
Confused about which personal mobility option to select. The traditional petrol/diesel option, or the hybrids or fully electric vehicles. The post covid scenario globally for the automotive and mobility industry is not so clear. QuoteUnquote with KK and Chetan Maini, Co-Founder and Chairman at Sun Mobility and Creator of Reva, India First Electric Car in 1999 we discuss about where the future of the automotive and mobility is moving. This is on the backdrop of Elon Musk and Tesla announcing a USD 10Tn investment to make the earth more sustainable. Chetan’s keynote presentation at Nasscom Product Conclave 10 years ago looked like a cut and paste in #Tesla Investor Day Presentation.
The Future of Indo-US Relations. Growing Positively by ‘Quad’rapuling
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QuoteUnquote with KK and Dr. Mukesh Aghi, President and CEO, US-India Strategic Partnership Forum where we discussed Trump arrest, India’s NATO membership, US Visa issues, geo politics, trade, investment and fostering a growth-oriented relationship between the two countries.
Bidenomics and Pivoting Indo-US Geopolitics and Investments
Asian Trade and Geo Politics in the Face of Russia-Ukraine Conflict
QuoteUnQuote with KK and Dr. Parag Khanna Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap and Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum www.paragkhanna.com
World in Biden Era – Indo-US Relations, Geopolitics and Investments
QuoteUnquote with KK and Sridhar Chityala, Chairman and Managing Partner Elevate Innovation Partners. He is a thought Leader on Indo-US GeoPolitics, Trade and Investments and globally recognized leader in the financial services industry on the future of Indo-US ties
In a world which is getting more lonelier, QuoteUnquote with KK provides a hug of “Human Connect” across various dimensions with Manoj Gursahani, Author, Business Coach, Global Strategist Home | Manoj K Gursahani (manojgursahani.com)
The World Happiness Report from 2021 has been highlighting the increasing loneliness in the world and its impact on happiness in humans.
It’s in our human DNA and brain to connect with other humans as we are most evolved species on earth. Human connection lowers anxiety, depression, and suicide ideation, and how improving our connection with ourselves helps us better connect with others. Lily neurosciences. cpp human capital did an international study in 2008 and they asked the question of people tell me about conflict do you have it in your life 85 percent of the respondents said yes they have conflict with other human beings at times in their life 29% nearly one-third say they have conflict with others in their life always or frequently they asked why is there conflict between you and others 49% nearly have said it’s because of personality clashes or ego as I study that I see for me that personality clashes is the result of ego. So does human connect vary human personality type to type. How do we increase our human connection quotient.
The Human Connect https://amzn.eu/d/bXcZ3Kq
World Happiness Report 2022
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QuoteUnquote with KK and Sanjay Nekkanti is the CEO and founder of Dhruva Space Private Limited, the company behind sending the private satellite into space from India 2023
We have all dreamt about going into space. Listen to India’s space entrepreneur who dreamt it and launched India’s first private satellite into space. In this podcast, we discuss the India’s private space and satellite program, space research, innovation and start up ecosystem, growth opportunities for Indian space entrepreneurs, future space race and economy how can India win the race.
On December 20, 2021, Oracle Corporation and Cerner Corporation jointly announced an agreement for Oracle to acquire Cerner through an all-cash tender offer for $95.00 per share, or approximately $28.3 billion in equity value. Cerner is a leading provider of digital information systems used within hospitals and health systems to enable medical professionals to deliver better healthcare to individual patients and communities.
My Tryst with Cerner and Oracle Along with My Journey
Cerner has been a leader in the health information systems since it was founded as PGI & Associates (after its three founders Patterson, Gorup and Illig) who quit their jobs from Accenture (then Arthur Andersen) in 1980s. I had the chance to work closely with Neil Patterson when Cerner expanded outside of US in Gulf region with the implementation at Saudi Aramco (now Saudi Aramco-John Hopkins) in early 2000s.
During the same time, I had worked with Oracle leadership in the Gulf region on several roll outs in the Government sector.
In early 2000s, Saudi Aramco, world’s largest producer of crude oil was migrating from mainframe environment and had embarked on world’s largest big bang implementation of SAP and corporate performance improvement program in the world. To migrate and manage its in-house healthcare delivery to its employees, contractors and their dependents in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and overseas, the choice was between SAP Healthcare and Cerner. Neil Patterson, the co-founder of Cerner made multiple visits to Dharan, the headquarters of Saudi Aramco to pitch and win the first major implementation overseas. That’s was the beginning of my personal friendship with Neil. As Neil would visit Dharan on quarterly steering body meetings, we would share a quiet dinner and discuss his vision about Cerner and his international growth initiatives before he boarded his private jet to Kansas City. Over the years, Cerner witnessed major growth outside of the US, including some inorganic growth acquisitions like Siemens HMIS and starting their offshore development centers in Bangalore, the largest base after Kansas City. Unfortunately, Neil succumbed to cancer in 2017. I lost a fantastic friend and mentor forever who had guided me in my career at different points in time.
While at KPMG Consulting in the Gulf, I made several bids with Oracle to the various governments in the Gulf. Oracle was great with their database and their product architecture; their major issue was that they lack clinical prowess to manage healthcare either in hospitals or with state healthcare. It was around this time that I was associated with Sam Rao who was Head of Business Development and Large Deals at Oracle. Although, he understood healthcare, but the product deficiencies of Oracle was just not a great fit for running eHealthcare initiatives for the population of GCC countries. Later Sam and I collaborated to start out XY Clinics (an innovative nutri-genomics and diagnostics venture) in GCC and India and had a great run and exit
Flash forward: Many of Cerner and Oracle leadership in the US and Rest of the world either worked with me or had been a partner with me on some of the healthcare initiatives. One of them being Dr John Glassier who I also invited on my podcast QuoteUnQuote With KK.
How Cerner Acquisition Helps Oracle and Vice-versa
Oracle has always had a weak presence in the clinical healthcare information management system. Although it has a great rooster of clients not only in the us but around the world. A mega-29 billion dollar deal will signal that Larry Ellison, Oracle’s founder is serious about getting a big leap into the healthcare sector once again. Its earlier acquisitions in healthcare were small and somewhere did not change Oracle in its ways of doing business with healthcare clients. Therefore Oracle Returns. In the post-pandemic era, as healthcare providers and Government healthcare systems, step up to spend more on their digital and clinical transformation, Oracle-Cerner would definitely be a very strong option. I am informed from my ex-colleagues and industry insiders that Cerner will be kept as a dedicated business unit within Oracle. This would be a very positive development both for Cerner and Oracle as independence of Cerner in the larger Oracle would be a critical success factor for this acquisition. As for Cerner, Neil vision and dream of taking Cerner globally as a leading healthcare information systems player will come true posthumously.
Wishing Oracle and Cerner All the Very Best in their combined journey!
