In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Resmi Bhaskaran talks about making career choices. She discusses the pleasures of taking the road less travelled, selecting among the many opportunities available and what happens to dreams that get left behind and how it feels, when those dreams come true. Dr. Resmi Bhaskaran is a development economist, who is able to tell stories through both qualitative and quantitative data, making her rare among the community of data storytellers. A selection of her...

In the 1990s, India achieved a milestone, which she has never celebrated. She ensured, that for the first time in recorded history, majority of girls were in school and learning. One of the architects of that success, Dr. Vimala Ramachandran, was at the age of 34, the first national director of India’s most influential empowerment through education programme, the exceptional Mahila Samakhya. She reminisces about the changes, she helped pilot, later influenced, and most recently observed in a...

Listening, the singular experience on which this podcast is anchored, is taken for granted until we no longer have the ability to hear. Unlike other forms of disability,  deafness the disability is invisible, what is visible are the related educational and social widening gaps. Arun Shah, the Director, Development of the All India Federation of the Deaf, shares with Baroque his engagement with visibilising the invisible disability. He has been supporting non-profits, in marketing,...