About Bipindra N.C.

Bipindra N.C. has over 25 years of experience as a Journalist.

He has worked previously as the India Defence Correspondent for Bloomberg News, the Defence Affairs Editor of The New Indian Express and The Sunday Standard, the Senior Assistant Editor with Indo-Asian News Service, and Chief Defence Correspondent of The Press Trust of India, all based out of New Delhi.

Bipin is the Founder and Editor of Defence Capital and Political Capital.

He is an alumnus of Madurai Kamaraj University and Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College, Chennai.

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Selected Links and Show Notes

Selected Links

1. Connect with Bipindra NC
   1. Twitter
   2. LinkedIn
2. Defence Capital
   1. Website
   2. Twitter
3. The Indian Armed Forces
   1. Army
   2. Navy
   3. Air Force
4. Gen. Bipin Rawat
5. Defence.Capital Impact: India releases policy on simulators for armed forces training
6. Zen Technologies
   1. Website
   2. Twitter
   3. LinkedIn
7. Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX)
   1. Website
   2. Twitter
8. Defence Innovation Startup Challenges
9. ideaForge
   1. Website
   2. Twitter
   3. LinkedIn
10. Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE – IIT Bombay)
    1. Website
    2. Twitter
    3. LinkedIn
11. NewSpace Research and Technologies
    1. Website
    1. LinkedIn
12. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
    1. Wikipedia
    2. Website
    3. Twitter
    4. LinkedIn
13. Agni Missiles
14. Arjun Tanks
15. Siachen
    1. Glacier
    2. Conflict
16. Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment(SASE, Chandigargh)
17. Department of Defence Protection
    1. Website
    2. Defence Public Sector Units
18. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)
    1. Wikipedia
    2. Website
    3. Twitter
    4. LinkedIn
19. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)
    1. Wikipedia
    1. Website
    2. Twitter
    3. LinkedIn
20. Bharat Dynamics Limited
21. Defence Acquisition Council (DAC)
22. Ordinance Factory Board
23. Palantir Technologies
    1. Wikipedia
    2. Website
    3. Twitter
    4. LinkedIn
24. In-Q-Tel (VC arm of CIA)
25. Anduril Industries
    1. Wikipedia
    1. Website
    2. Twitter
    3. LinkedIn
26. DARPA
27. Sputnik
28. List of Technologies developed by DRDO
29. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
30. Embraer
31. MKU (Kanpur, Personal Protection Kit)
32. Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare
33. New Education Policy
34. Steve Jobs – Walter Issacson
    1. Paperback
    2. Kindle
35. Dr. Ajay Kumar (Defence Secretary of India)

Show Notes

1. On the origins of Defence.Capital
2. Transformations in the Defence sector fuelled by Startups
3. iDEX – The Startup Capital for Defence Technology
4. Opportunities to build Unicorns in Defence Tech
5. The Structure of the Indian Defence Ecosystem
6. Differences between India and the United States’ Defence Product Development
7. Possibilities of India setting up it’s own version of DARPA
8. How Should India should structure its own Defence Development Initiatives?
9. Knowledge and Skills Veterans bring to the Private Sector
10. On why fields such as Nuclear Engineering, BioTech, and Earth Sciences are underrated
11. Favourite Book
12. What the word successful means to Bipin
13. Four Guests Bipin would invite for his Dream Dinner
14. Advice Bipin would give a student entering University today
15. The best piece of advice received by Bipin
16. A guest Bipin would like to see on ContraMinds

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