
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
- Connect with Bipindra NC
- Defence Capital
- The Indian Armed Forces
- Gen. Bipin Rawat
- Defence.Capital Impact: India releases policy on simulators for armed forces training
- Zen Technologies
- Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX)
- Defence Innovation Startup Challenges
- ideaForge
- Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE – IIT Bombay)
- NewSpace Research and Technologies
- Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
- Agni Missiles
- Arjun Tanks
- Siachen
- Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment(SASE, Chandigargh)
- Department of Defence Protection
- Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)
- Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)
- Bharat Dynamics Limited
- Defence Acquisition Council (DAC)
- Ordinance Factory Board
- Palantir Technologies
- In-Q-Tel (VC arm of CIA)
- Anduril Industries
- DARPA
- Sputnik
- List of Technologies developed by DRDO
- Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
- Embraer
- MKU (Kanpur, Personal Protection Kit)
- Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare
- New Education Policy
- Steve Jobs – Walter Issacson
- Dr. Ajay Kumar (Defence Secretary of India)
Show Notes
- On the origins of Defence.Capital
- Transformations in the Defence sector fuelled by Startups
- iDEX – The Startup Capital for Defence Technology
- Opportunities to build Unicorns in Defence Tech
- The Structure of the Indian Defence Ecosystem
- Differences between India and the United States’ Defence Product Development
- Possibilities of India setting up it’s own version of DARPA
- How Should India should structure its own Defence Development Initiatives?
- Knowledge and Skills Veterans bring to the Private Sector
- On why fields such as Nuclear Engineering, BioTech, and Earth Sciences are underrated
- Favourite Book
- What the word successful means to Bipin
- Four Guests Bipin would invite for his Dream Dinner
- Advice Bipin would give a student entering University today
- The best piece of advice received by Bipin
- A guest Bipin would like to see on ContraMinds
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