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| February 21st, 2011
On this episode we talk to Raj Janagam, the founder of Cycle Chalao. Cycle Chalao is a bicycle sharing program that Raj started at Kelkar College in Mulund to rent bicycles to students at two points: the railway station and the college... -
| February 14th, 2011
On this episode we talk to Nancy Barry about microfinance and her work with Enterprise Solutions to Poverty. The scandal with SKS Microfinance has plunged India into a state of doubt regarding the ethics and viability of this model - we ask Nancy... -
| February 13th, 2011
On this anniversary episode of TiffinTalk, we briefly reflect on the past year and what lies ahead - including the plans of our network, Dabba Radio, to create much more content on the path to free and open radio in India. We then turn to Kabi.... -
| February 13th, 2011
On this episode we talk to Mitesh Panchan who has been volunteering in Sanjay Gandhi National Park for the last decade. Mitesh talks about the importance of the park, things that need to be done to allow it to continue to thrive, as well as ways to... -
| February 13th, 2011 On this episode we talk to Mitesh Panchan who has been volunteering in Sanjay Gandhi National Park for the last decade. Mitesh talks about the importance of the park, things that need to be done to allow it to continue to thrive, as well as ways to...
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| February 13th, 2011
On this episode we talk to S. Narayan, the Director of the Mumbai Film Festival, which kicked off on October 21, 2010 with the screening of The Social Network. We talk to him about the progress of the festival, this year’s initiative to screen... -
| February 13th, 2011
On this episode we talk to Imad Ahmed, a journalist from Pakistan who has written for The New York Times, Boston Globe, Internationale Politik, and was a Features Editor for The Friday Times in Pakistan. He talks to us about the government of... -
| February 4th, 2011
On this episode we talk to Narayana Murthy, the founder of Infosys, about governance in India and some of the views he expressed in his book A Better India, A Better World. We also ask him about the recent visa hikes and what he thinks should... -
| February 4th, 2011
On this episode we talk to Abheek Bhattacharya, an editorial writer at The Mint, about Independence Day and the state of India on this 63rd anniversary of independence. We discuss internal and external security, his take on the Commonwealth... -
| February 4th, 2011
On this episode we talk to Sumana Ghosh, the head booker for Elite Model Management, about the changing face of beauty in India. People released their list of the 100 Most Beautiful People in June and TiffinTalk asks about the trends in beauty... -
| February 4th, 2011
On this episode we talk to Neeraj Thakur, a correspondent for DNA who covers the Oil and Gas Industry, about the effects of the BP oil disaster on the Indian market. BP finally put a temporary cap on the well on July 15, ending the previously... -
| February 4th, 2011
On this episode we catch up with what happened in the renewed dialogue between Pakistan and India. July 16 saw the conclusion of the highest level talks since 26/11 between the two rival nations. India Minister of External Affairs, and... -
| February 4th, 2011
On this episode we talk to Arvind Narrain and Aniruddh Vasudevan on the one year anniversary of the Delhi high Court decision that de-criminalized homosexuality. Arvind is the director of the Alternative Law Forum in Bangalore and was one of... -
| February 4th, 2011
On this episode we talk to Michael Delfs, one of the minds behind a recent partnership between the NBA (National Basketball Association, USA) and Mahindra to bring the sport to India. They launched a community basketball league right before... -
| February 2nd, 2011
On this episode we talk to Paul Folmsbee, Consul General of the US Consulate in Mumbai, about US-India relations and Secretary Geithner's visit last month. SMS “INNOVATION” We then begin a series on mobile phone innovation by talking to Nandu... -
| February 2nd, 2011
On this Episode we talk to Manjeet Kripalani, the founder of Gateway House - India's first fully independent and non-government supported think tank. We also talk to Jeff Wilson and Dhananjay Mohabey, two paleontologists who discovered a... -
| February 2nd, 2011
On this episode we talk to Anand Mahindra, Managing Director of the Mahindra Group, about Mahindra's role in social infrastructure and his plans for other aspects of his company including the Mahindra United Football Club and his movie production... -
| December 8th, 2010
On this episode we talk to Rishi Jaitly, former head of Public Public and Government Affairs for Google in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, about government regulation of the internet. Google has been in the headlines for their decision to... -
| November 24th, 2010
In the last few weeks we have heard stars from Shahrukh Khan to Sachin Tendulkar speak out against the nativist policies advocated by the Shiv Sena. We talk to Dr. Patrick Heller, a sociologist from Brown University, about what types of... -
| November 24th, 2010
On this week’s episode we talk to William Dalrymple, author, historian, and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival. We chat with him about what it takes to organize the Jaipur Festival, his take on Indian literature and how, as a festival...
Thane Richard
Profile
Thane is the creator of TiffinTalk, Mumbai's first independent talk radio show. Inspired by its success, he is currently working on creating a larger network of radio in India - something that has not been allowed to flourish under the Indian government's ban on news and current events on private radio.
The project is called Dabba Radio - after Mumbai's famed dabbawallahs who seamlessly deliver hundred's of thousands of lunches across the city daily without the vast majority of them knowing how to read. Their impeccable service record has made them worthy of a six-sigma rating and a HBS case study that was done in 2008. Like the dabbawallahs, Dabba Radio aims to accurately deliver relevant discussion on everything from news and politics to art and music to Mumbai and India, what Thane calls "the NPR of India."
Thane was raised in Bozeman, Montana and earned his B.A. from Brown University in 2009. Thane led a team that bicycled from the Atlantic to the Pacific for affordable housing, tested fluid dynamics on NASA's fabled zero gravity plane, cowboyed on a ranch outside Yellowstone Park, and conducted oceanographic research on-board the SSV Corwith Cramer in the Caribbean. After traveling around India and doing a brief stint at St. Stephen's College in Delhi, Thane moved back to the subcontinent to work for the Mahindra Group. He currently resides in Mumbai.
