Welcome to Season 4 of Truth Shots with Kapil – where we don’t decorate conversations with buzzwords, and we don’t serve watered-down truths. We serve them raw. Episode 6 was a masterclass in career reality-checks. My guest, Kaushik Mitra, is the CFO of PepsiCo India and South Asia. A man who has spent decades in […]
We live in a world obsessed with numbers. IQ scores, boardroom titles, paychecks, followers — we worship digits as if they are the final proof of success. But here’s a bitter pill: Einstein never even took an IQ test. Yet his ideas changed the course of humanity. So the real question isn’t how high your […]
You know how everyone loves to say “the system is broken”? Here’s the truth — it’s not broken. It’s doing exactly what it was designed to do. In Episode 4 of Truth Shots with Kapil, I sat down with Yamini Aiyar, President of the Centre for Policy Research and one of India’s sharpest minds on […]
Truth Shots Season 4 was never intended to be courteous. Guest: Samara Mahindra (Founder, CARER Program | Integrative Oncology Expert) And episode 2 confirms it. If you have ever mistaken sickness as purely physical, this conversation will punch you in the gut—in a good way. Meet Samara Mahindra. Not only is she an integrative oncology […]
Welcome to Season 4 of Truth Shots. Guest: Sundeep Sharma (MD, Accenture – ESG | Marathoner) That’s right, we’re back. New season. New stories. Same unapologetic truth. If you thought we were going to ease you in, sorry-not-sorry. We’re jumping straight in, with a guy who runs niggling marathon times for fun and drives ESG […]
I have always maintained that the problem in our country has been apathy. It has not been corruption, it’s not been poverty, it’s not been population. It’s been apathy. This was before we got into the social media world. The apathy has now been further aggravated by 24/7 electioneering. A world where everyone has a […]
Rahul Gandhi, the Congress party’s golden boy and self-proclaimed messiah of the people, has yet again graced us with his profound wisdom. In his latest address, Gandhi spoke about ‘Shakti’ in Hinduism. The devout Shiv bhakt probably didn’t know that Shakti in Hinduism is Nari and the power of women. While his intentions may have […]
In the realm of infectious diseases, pneumonia takes center stage, and my thoughts gravitate towards the World Health Organization (WHO) and its role in this ongoing battle. Having stumbled before, critics argue that the WHO, led by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, might not be the beacon of clarity we need. As we confront pneumonia,. India contributes […]
In the tumultuous landscape of conflict and geopolitics, the Israel-Gaza War stands as another chapter in a historical narrative echoing with the apathy of the first world. Drawing parallels with wars like Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Nicaragua, and Cambodia, a common thread emerges — a selective concern for casualties that often overlooks the suffering of those […]
For a very long time, I have believed IPL to be the best scripted reality show. In fact, the most socialist scheme ever, where the rich invests money and poor gets entertainment. Be it Bollywood movies, TV shows, reality shows or cricket, nowadays it is becoming difficult to differentiate between all of them. Cricket has […]