HT Smartcast Spotlight cover art

HT Smartcast Spotlight

HT Smartcast Spotlight

Written by: HT Smartcast originals
Listen for free

This playlist brings together conversations with brands, companies, and people across business, technology, finance, health, and all the genres you can think of. From small wins to lessons learned, we keep it real and relatable. If it inspires, impacts, or sparks fresh thinking, you’ll find it here. Economics Leadership Management Management & Leadership
Episodes
  • What a setback teaches you that success never can | Dr. Deepa Malik

    What a setback teaches you that success never can | Dr. Deepa Malik
    Oct 6 2026
    What does a setback teach you that success never can? In this episode of Live Your Best Life Unscripted, Dr. Deepa Malik, Paralympic silver medallist and former President of the Paralympic Committee of India, talks about building resilience one choice at a time. From living with chest-below paralysis for 27 years to turning a missed London Paralympics into the push towards a medal, she shares why she calls herself wheelchair-liberated, not wheelchair-bound, and why it all begins with learning to love yourself.
    Show More Show Less
    55 mins
  • Who Funds Indian Railways? 40 Years, ₹5 Lakh Crore, Zero NPA | IRFC CMD & CEO Manoj Kumar Dubey

    Who Funds Indian Railways? 40 Years, ₹5 Lakh Crore, Zero NPA | IRFC CMD & CEO Manoj Kumar Dubey
    Sep 16 2026
    New tracks, new trains, new coaches, 99.6% electrification. Where does the money for all of it actually come from? Most people have never heard of the Indian Railway Finance Corporation. Yet more than 80% of the coaches and wagons Indian Railways has bought since 1986 came through IRFC money, and trains you have travelled in, Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Vande Bharat among them, sit on IRFC's books to this day. In this episode, host Rahul Makin sits down with Shri Manoj Kumar Dubey, CMD and CEO, IRFC, for a conversation that explains the invisible financial engine behind Indian Railways. What we cover: How IRFC was set up in 1986 and why the leasing model was built the way it was Why a balance sheet of ₹5 lakh crore is run by a team of just 70 people Zero NPA, and how that lets IRFC borrow cheaper than its peers What happened in 2023 when Indian Railways stopped needing IRFC's money, and how IRFC 2.0 was born Funding metro rail, Rapid Rail, bullet train corridors and dedicated freight corridors The ₹20 lakh crore of rail investment expected over the next 5 to 10 years IRFC's role in renewable energy and the 2030 and 2050 targets
    Show More Show Less
    35 mins
  • Live Your Best Life, Unscripted: Discipline Beyond the Uniform ft. Lt. Gen. D. S. Hooda

    Live Your Best Life, Unscripted: Discipline Beyond the Uniform ft. Lt. Gen. D. S. Hooda
    Jul 23 2026
    What does it really take to lead under pressure? In this episode of Live Your Best Life, Unscripted, Ajay Khanna sits down with Lt. Gen. D. S. Hooda, former GOC-in-Chief of the Indian Army's Northern Command, for a candid conversation on discipline, resilience and courage. From his early days at the National Defence Academy to leading relief efforts during the Bhuj earthquake, Lt. Gen. Hooda shares how true leadership is built — not through titles, but through consistent discipline, calm decision-making, and staying focused under pressure. He also redefines courage: "Fear is a natural human emotion. Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is your ability to overcome fear and continue doing what needs to be done." A conversation about far more than military life — this episode is about the everyday discipline that shapes lasting success, at work and beyond.
    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 8 mins
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
No reviews yet