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en_01_seg000 | The more I read and travel, the more I realized that the world is changing all the time, and everything around us is recent.
We look at Falana and we look at Dimkana, and it feels like they've been around forever, but no, both Falana and Dimkana were born yesterday.
Both Falana and Dimkana did not exist two days ago.... | indian_english | en-IN | conversational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -16.9 | |
en_01_seg001 | radical, even ridiculous as a conception. Look at law firms for example. The landscape of law in India today, especially corporate law, is centuries removed from how it looked 30 years ago. Today's episode is about the one firm that changed everything. It was founded 26 years ago, adopting a partnership model that was ... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -16.7 | |
en_01_seg002 | And this episode is not just about law, it's about appending the status quo, it's about leadership and trust.
It's about companies and people and ecosystems, it's about a changing India.
And my guest today is one of the founders of this firm, a fine lawyer, a good human being, a clear thinker, India's best Jaitley.
... | indian_english | en-IN | conversational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.8 | |
en_01_seg003 | and behavioral science. Please welcome your host, Amit Varma.
Welcome to the scene and the unseen. My guest today is Akshay Jaitley, a founder of Tri Legal, who now also runs Trustpage, which he talks about in this episode. Akshay's been on the show before to discuss his life and to discuss his ideas around policy. I... | indian_english | en-IN | formal | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.5 | |
en_01_seg004 | an excellent book, Trilegal, which chronicles how this extraordinary firm was set up and how it succeeded. In the space of 2 and a half decades, Trilegal disrupted and then dominated the Indian legal space. And I've found the story of how it happened to be super insightful, not just for those interested in law, but for... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25.22 | -16.7 | |
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en_01_seg007 | writing. That's India uncut.com/clear writing. Being a good writer doesn't require God given talent, just a willingness to work hard and a clear idea of what you need to do to refine your skills. I can help you.
Akshay, welcome back to the scene and the unseen. Thanks Amit, good to be back.
So I think we last recorde... | indian_english | en-IN | conversational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -20.6 | |
en_01_seg008 | So it's like 3 and a half years at least. What have you been up to in the meantime? Oh, uh, I've been up to quite a lot. It feels like I've started a new career almost. Uh, rejoined Trilegal, which is the firm that I helped to start in the year 2000. Uh, we started an organization called Trustbridge along with Karan Si... | indian_english | en-IN | conversational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.3 | |
en_01_seg009 | and a common friend Renuka Sane came on to lead the organization and Trustbridge works on rule of law as it relates to the economy. The idea being that economic reform is all well and good, but you have to do it in accordance with the principles of the rule of law. Otherwise, you know, you're trying to fix the symptoms... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.1 | |
en_01_seg010 | through interdisciplinary research with law economics and data that doing the right thing in terms of rule of law is also good for the economy. And sometimes you have to encourage people to take a slightly medium term, longer term view, but sometimes you can almost show that, you know, results can be pretty immediate. ... | indian_english | en-IN | motivational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17 | |
en_01_seg011 | regulator or the other. And the and regulators function in a very different way compared to many other kinds of organizations. So, you know, that's that's the focus of what Trustbridge is doing. We've grown to about 25 people. And I'm also doing sort of lots of policy work on my own as well. Let's double click on that ... | indian_english | en-IN | formal | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.4 | |
en_01_seg012 | Sure, I've forgotten if we brought it up in our last episode, but the question that often intrigues me is that at one level when you're a lawyer, what you're really engaged with is understanding the law and figuring out how to navigate it on behalf of your clients and how to optimize for the client according to what th... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -16.8 | |
en_01_seg013 | that as you, as one progresses down one's journey as a lawyer, do you sort of lose sight of the bigger questions? And in this case, it would seem that your founding perspirage is actually centered around the bigger questions. What should the law be like? Like, where is our law and where is our policy ecosystem deviatin... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.2 | |
en_01_seg014 | So Flog, what do you mean by the principles of the rule of? I think that actually it's I've seen this happen in the reverse way with many people, which is that when you're younger, you're dealing with the tools of the trade, which is the law, and as you said, you're fashioning solutions for clients around what the law ... | indian_english | en-IN | conversational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.4 | |
en_01_seg015 | There is a lot of policy implication and energy and infrastructure. My area of practice is full of policy. You sort of realize that what you're doing very often is the quote unquote law that you're structuring around or you're helping your clients work with isn't the optimal version of itself and it could be a lot bett... | indian_english | en-IN | formal | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.3 | |
en_01_seg016 | to structure around what exists, I'd much rather be doing more and more transactions which I'm convinced would happen if the law was easier to navigate. So that's the that's the sort of I think a lot of lawyers and it comes through pattern recognition. So a lot of lawyers recognize these patterns over the hundreds of ... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.1 | |
en_01_seg017 | See a lot of lawyers as they become more senior, they start doing policy related work. So, uh, most people tend to do it in their individual capacity, but some people will, you know, do it in a more structured institutional sense and that's what, that's what Trustbridge is about. Uh, by rule of law it is, it's what, wh... | indian_english | en-IN | formal | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.2 | |
en_01_seg018 | with that. That's the very fundamental understanding. So, it but it embodies within it the ideas of predictability, of transparency, of accessibility. You have to know what the law is. It has to be available for you to be able to follow it. I know there's this presumption in most common law countries that ignorance of ... | indian_english | en-IN | conversational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.2 | |
en_01_seg019 | so that, you know, people have, have they chosen to avoid knowing about the law? Is it just hard for them to know? And in our country where we have statutes, we have the constitution above everything else. Then we've got statutes, below that you've got policies, guidelines, they have notifications, you have office orde... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17 | |
en_01_seg020 | ask a citizen or a corporation to follow that is in some sense against the rule of law because you don't know what the law is. So it's all of these elements which lend themselves to a better functioning economies. That's the sort of principle behind what we're doing. And does good law emerge from the bottom up or from ... | indian_english | en-IN | conversational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.3 | |
en_01_seg021 | from some greater notion of individual rights and autonomy and the state's role and all that, or you can arrive at it from the bottom up by thinking about what works, uh, you know, for a stable society or a prosperous society or whatever. What is therefore the correct way to think about it? | indian_english | en-IN | motivational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.3 | |
en_01_seg022 | more consistent if it doesn't have a set of principles or values top down guiding it. But I think the expression of those values in any particular society or in any country, I think should be dictated from by what's coming from the bottom up. So the manner in which you implement those values should necessarily differ i... | indian_english | en-IN | conversational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.4 | |
en_01_seg023 | don't apply in the same way in Sweden as they would in India. Uh, and there is a, there's a, there are political economies in India which have to be dealt with. And you can either look to change the political economy and then implement a law, or you can look at taking the political economy as, as given and then saying ... | indian_english | en-IN | motivational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.3 | |
en_01_seg024 | never get a perfect answer, but I think you have to be thinking of both to get a law which is both sustainable in principle as well as in practice. So I think both are both are critical. You mentioned about how the task of persuading people to make their laws better is also demonstrating that it's good for the economy ... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17 | |
en_01_seg025 | economy and society in the long run. But, um, you know, as a hypothetical, what if it wasn't? You know, would you still try to push your notion of what a rule of law would be even if it doesn't necessarily, even if you can't necessarily show good outcomes down the road, or do there always have to be good outcomes predi... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -16.9 | |
en_01_seg026 | According to what leads to good outcomes or economic growth? That's, it's a good question, but I think, I think that I would, the way I would look at it is to say that I don't necessarily want the best possible outcome, but I want the predictability and I want the consistency and I want everyone to be equal in front of... | indian_english | en-IN | formal | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.7 | |
en_01_seg027 | get, you know, us having the second best good option, then I would probably accept that because if what is to say that you would actually achieve the best outcome by not following the rule of law. And in whose eyes is that the best option? So, I would sort of think of it as the process sifting out the best option rathe... | indian_english | en-IN | motivational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.4 | |
en_01_seg028 | the best option. That's some form of central planning in some ways. To say I think this is the best option, but if you say that oh look, most human beings would want to be governed by a set of principles which would look somewhat like the following and that being the principles of the rule of law, then the outcomes tha... | indian_english | en-IN | conversational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 26.26 | -17.4 | |
en_01_seg029 | So, rule of law after all is about being fair. So society needs to be fair and it needs to be as efficient as possible. I tend to believe that fairness in the long term will lead to efficiency, but if it leads to the second best option of efficiency, I'm happy with that.
And how much when you think about laws in India... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.4 | |
en_01_seg030 | in time, and once it is there, it is there, and therefore, uh, you know, change can only come through amendments in the constitution, which is really a political process and not really, uh, you know, often not subject to intellectual discourse. So, um, how much of an issue is that like before the before we started offl... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17 | |
en_01_seg031 | you know, the last version of our directive principles happened to have that added in, whereas the previous one didn't, and as you wisely pointed out that Gandhiji had been assassinated in between those two, so maybe that's why they put it in. You were speculating. I hope I'm not giving away things I'm not supposed to.... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -16.8 | |
en_01_seg032 | many years down the line and there are good things in our constitution, but there are also bad things in our constitution. So, you know, how do you think of that? Is it like a huge constraint you have to keep in mind or are there ways around it? I think it probably feels like a bigger constraint than it is because our ... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17 | |
en_01_seg033 | In order to achieve a certain outcome and often very often that outcome was fairness of some kind. So, in any legal system, the you can't take away the take out the human element, the judge out of the system. And if the judge, the judge is in some ways an embodiment of the popular morality as well on an issue at a part... | indian_english | en-IN | motivational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.3 | |
en_01_seg034 | So the constitution might say something, but if it is felt that for various set of reasons, an alternative or a slightly tweaked explanation of the constitution will lead to what is quote unquote the right outcome in the eyes of the judge, the judge will find a way to come out with a decision that will say that either ... | indian_english | en-IN | conversational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.2 | |
en_01_seg035 | it'll in some cases, it'll actually say the times have changed. Uh, like, you know, certain provisions of the law have been read down, homosexuality for example. Uh, so, you know, things can, things can change and in fact they should change because the popular, the what is the constitution is not, I'm sort of quite aga... | indian_english | en-IN | motivational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.1 | |
en_01_seg036 | The context, especially of the US Constitution, was so particular in the context of slavery, just having run away from a repressive religious regime in Europe, all sorts of things. So the expression of the morality of the time is what the US Constitution is, and that has changed over time, and likewise for our Constitu... | indian_english | en-IN | conversational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.4 | |
en_01_seg037 | But we should know why we are changing it and you know, it shouldn't be purely on political basis as you suggested in the beginning. Yeah, but if you're if reflecting public morality as an individual judge may be doing, if reflecting public morality is part of you know, what you should aim for, then that can lead us to... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17 | |
en_01_seg038 | Absolutely. So that's it, it is a double-edged sword, and it doesn't mean that you reflect every version of the public morality, but and and you don't sort of throw out freedom of expression because public morality is against it, but you might temper the freedom of expression in a certain way, uh, which I might not per... | indian_english | en-IN | emphatic | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.4 | |
en_01_seg039 | One of the biggest fights I remember having with my father was when Satanic Verses came out and it was banned. And my father who was an absolute liberal said yes, he was agreed with the fact that it had been banned. And I couldn't believe he'd said that and I sort of took him up on that. And he turned around and ultima... | indian_english | en-IN | motivational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.2 | |
en_01_seg040 | tomorrow. So should I care about that or should I care about the principle? Now, I would still argue that one should care about the principle and I know that he did as well, but you can see that practical dilemma in the eyes of the administrator and therefore in the eyes of the judge, and it would be foolish to expect ... | indian_english | en-IN | motivational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.5 | |
en_01_seg041 | Yeah, you know, I'm fully with you on upholding the principle over the blood on the streets argument, which is a very Bob Dylan-ish argument. Are you into I mean blood on the tracks? Yes, of course. I I once in the summer of 1987, summer holidays, I listened to blood on the tracks back to back for about a month. Wow. M... | indian_english | en-IN | excited | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17 | |
en_01_seg042 | because I discovered it in my parents' record collection, it had never been played in front of me, and I discovered it and to me it's just one of the best pieces of music of all time. Masterpiece, simple twist of fate, up to me, etcetera, etcetera. Every song, every song. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can, if we start swapping l... | indian_english | en-IN | conversational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -16.8 | |
en_01_seg043 | evaded by me incursion into talking about trilegal, but just to stick on stay on this subject for a moment, you know, can you give me an example of the kind of areas in which trust which therefore works? Like what is it that is an example of a bad law that you're trying to change and what are you trying to change it to... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.1 | |
en_01_seg044 | important part of our rule making and adjudicatory landscape. In fact, the reason why regulators are particularly interesting and important is because it's one of the few places within the life of our country where the idea of separation of powers is deliberately violated. So a regulator makes law, a regulator implemen... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.3 | |
en_01_seg045 | So the way in which a regulator functions is very important, not just because the subject matter what they're regulating being important for the economy, but because of the fact that the rule of law isn't being or rather the separation of powers isn't being followed in the way that it normally would be.
So so the wa... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.3 | |
en_01_seg046 | questions we ask ourselves is how do you evaluate the performance of a regulator? How do we know whether a regulator is doing well or not? Uh, and if we were to focus on the adjudicatory part, which is a very important one because it implicates the lives of many companies. Uh, we said okay, let's look at the orders tha... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25.34 | -17.8 | |
en_01_seg047 | More and more, but the methodology that we've developed is to say, okay, we will use AI to study the quality or rather the regulatory orders based on the statute itself will require that a regulatory order on a certain issue contain within us certain elements to make up, which make up the offense that is being. | indian_english | en-IN | conversational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.3 | |
en_01_seg048 | claimed. So, for instance, as far as SEBI is concerned, SEBI requires four elements to make up an insider trading case. Are those four elements there? Have they been expressed in the proper fashion? That's a question that you can get train an AI to ask of the universe of all regulatory orders on insider trading. Based... | indian_english | en-IN | motivational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.6 | |
en_01_seg049 | the regulator loses, is that being appealed? How many of those matters are being appealed and how many of those appeals is the regulator losing? So, so you can you then get a metric of how good the quality of the order is based on how successful they ultimately are and the appeal could go to the pellet body of the regu... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.4 | |
en_01_seg050 | regulators, we've used it for SEBI's certain kinds of SEBI orders. And we've developed a methodology that will which you can then use for any regulator. And we've written detailed manuals on how to do this, how to extract the key elements of an order, how to translate that into into metrics, how to evaluate those metri... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.1 | |
en_01_seg051 | to be able to see why it's not working. So it could be because procedure wasn't followed. It could be because there was an error of law made or that precedent wasn't followed, etcetera. So that's one important area of work that we're doing. We're also looking at the power sector inevitably because that's an area of dee... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.5 | |
en_01_seg052 | When Ajay Shah was also here, we were talking about a big paper that we'd written on big principles of reform. We're looking now at how do we break some of those things down into different elements of reform, which as we were discussing earlier, the principles that we are using is that regulation should be correcting f... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.1 | |
en_01_seg053 | quote unquote, over a period of time given the realities of the political economy. So that's another sort of part of the work that Trustbridge is doing. I'll of course link our past episode from the show notes as well as everything is everything episodes that we did on regulation, on the rule of law, all of those thing... | indian_english | en-IN | conversational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.4 | |
en_01_seg054 | You're playing a long game, uh, the work you do is not measurable immediately, it'll never be attributable perhaps. A lot of the changes will happen silently over a period of time. So what drives you to do this? Like in the sense that where does, where has, how has your sense of purpose evolved over the years if it is ... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -16.9 | |
en_01_seg055 | getting to where you get. But, um, you know, whatever sense you have of how your sense of purpose has evolved, tell me about it. Mine has evolved quite severely. I used to, I used to be absolutely hung up on how is my great idea going to be implemented tomorrow. Uh, that was my sort of slightly, uh, arrogant if you lik... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.9 | |
en_01_seg057 | the problem and change the law and make it right, the world will be a better place tomorrow. Uh, so my frustration was when things were not being done correct, uh, correctly. I've now gone sort of quite in the other direction, which is I really don't care about the outcome of my work. Quite in a quite a quite a fundame... | indian_english | en-IN | conversational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.6 | |
en_01_seg058 | is opposed to the way that we would have thought that the world would be and many of us are not happy with the way things are. Uh, whether it's in our country or overseas or, you know, geopolitics, etc. So this was not the movie we thought we would be watching when even 10 years ago. So you can either, you know, beat y... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.2 | |
en_01_seg059 | was to be bought at this born at this time where at this peak moment of my career when I have all these great ideas and experience, no one is listening to me. You can either do that, which is of limited use and nobody cares, or you can say look, in front of me is the opportunity to do these three pieces of work. I know... | indian_english | en-IN | motivational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.2 | |
en_01_seg060 | Just do that piece of work that's in front of my nose and and see what happens. And if something happens, great. If it didn't, it was above my pay grade. So above my pay grade is now one of my most favorite things to say because I, you know, I've realized that almost everything is above my pay grade. There are very, ve... | indian_english | en-IN | storytelling | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.5 | |
en_01_seg061 | Do your best at in that moment with as much sincerity and effort as you can and see what happens. And what I've actually found is that once I've taken that sort of attitude, uh, I've my quality of my work and my thinking is improved. I don't feel the pressure to to achieve something out of it. And uh, I found that uh, ... | indian_english | en-IN | motivational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.5 | |
en_01_seg062 | to be going along with and one of the great things about about the trust which experience so far is the number of institutions, organizations and people who are keen to work collaboratively with us and to you and who appreciate the kind of work we're doing and who actually are doing work in the field or on the ground w... | indian_english | en-IN | emphatic | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.1 | |
en_01_seg063 | people that we are, we could. So we either we are practitioners or researchers. We are not people who have worked with government or in the not-for-profit sector. So that pathway to implementation is what is difficult for us. But luckily, we've found ourselves in an ecosystem of organizations and people that are very h... | indian_english | en-IN | formal | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.1 | |
en_01_seg064 | All of these groups, we are providing the intellectual fodder that they can then see the pathway to implementation based on their interactions with government. And they're to be fair, there are lots of people, central government, state governments who want to make things better. I think that we haven't built up the int... | indian_english | en-IN | formal | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.2 | |
en_01_seg065 | recognize that there are people outside government who with the best of intentions want to support these efforts and you find the opportunities to do them. I'm also at the age where a lot of my pals from college etcetera are reasonably senior in government. So if I go to them and say hey look here's an idea what do you... | indian_english | en-IN | formal | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17 | |
en_01_seg066 | positive. And we've got, you know, we're doing a couple of things with government directly as a consequence of that. So that's my long-winded answer to that sense of purpose. So my sense of purpose now is limited to what's the piece of work in front of me and, you know, how well is it being done. I love the way you use... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.3 | |
en_01_seg067 | uncontrollable. So this is above my pay grade, you know. So in a sense, in a nutshell, what you're doing is you're showing agency towards what you can control and a kind of Buddhist acceptance towards what you can't control. Buddhist or even Gita or whatever, you know, it's it's it's which actually if you think about i... | indian_english | en-IN | motivational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.2 | |
en_01_seg068 | face over and over again, uh, to not see that you can't control it and then to be angry because you can't or to be frustrated, upset, sad, depressed, whatever, is really a form of madness. So, uh, you know, so, so the way out of it is just to say what is what can I do? And maybe what I can do today, I can only conceive... | indian_english | en-IN | motivational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 27.3 | -17.2 | |
en_01_seg069 | It also helps Amit not to be overly invested in the future of the human race in general.
So I'm I'm you know, I'm ambivalent to the future of the human race.
So I'm going to sort of dig a little deep into that question of what you can control because what you can't control you know, right?
If you're smart enough ... | indian_english | en-IN | motivational | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17.3 | |
en_01_seg070 | I really am probably revealing my own flaws of character when I say that sometimes you overestimate what you can control. Like it would be natural for someone like me to say that I can control what I do. I can sit and write for 4 hours a day if I want to and I can tell myself that. But actually how much can I control e... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 25 | -17 | |
en_01_seg071 | as we think and we don't control ourselves as much as we think. We were discussing before this how neither of us believe in free will, but we live as if we do. Uh, but you know, so even when you think of the controllables, it can get frustrating because you don't actually control all the things you think you control, b... | indian_english | en-IN | questioning | The Seen and the Unseen | conversational_podcast | 20.88 | -17 | |
hi_01_seg000 | आपको यह बताते हैं कि हमारे देश के युवाओं को इस देश की सरकार से क्या चाहिए।
वह आखिर कड़ी मेहनत करते हैं, दिन रात एक करके एग्जाम देते हैं।
ऐसे बच्चे जो भारत का भविष्य है।
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hi_01_seg001 | अगर हम ये मान लें कि हर छात्र के परिवार में कम से कम चार सदस्य भी होंगे तो ये आंकड़ा 25 करोड़ हो जाता है और ये कोई छोटा आंकड़ा नहीं है।
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hi_01_seg002 | भारत में केंद्रीय और राज्य स्तर पर हर साल कम से कम दो परीक्षाओं के पेपर लीक हो जाते हैं।
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ये आंकड़े सिर्फ भर्ती परीक्षाओं के हैं।
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hi_01_seg003 | पेपर लीक हुआ? कहानी खत्म नहीं हुई। ये कहानी यूं ही चलती रहती है और इसके किरदार में नाम बस बदलते रहते हैं। कभी नीट यूजी का पेपर लीक होता है, कभी सीबीएसई की परीक्षा में गड़बड़ी, कभी सरकारी नौकरियों का पेपर लीक होता है और कभी कुछ और। कल्पना कीजिए जिन बच्चों ने ईमानदारी से पूरे साल मेहनत की हो, खाना पीना सब भूल कर पढ़ाई की... | hindi | hi-IN | questioning | Aaj Tak | news_formal | 25.77 | -30.2 | |
hi_01_seg004 | और ये भी सोचिए कि पेपर चोरी होती कैसे है। आज हमने पेपर लीक से जुड़े कई मामलों को देखा जिनमें ये बात निकल कर आई कि पेपर लीक करने और कराने वाले लोगों की संख्या ज्यादा नहीं होती है। ये 0.1% से भी कम होते हैं जो 99.9% ईमानदार मेहनती छात्रों का भविष्य अपनी बेईमानी से बर्बाद कर देते हैं। और यहां बात सिर्फ इन बेईमानों की नहीं... | hindi | hi-IN | questioning | Aaj Tak | news_formal | 25 | -28.1 | |
hi_01_seg005 | सेंटर्स भी ऐसे हैं जो ईमानदार टीचर्स और कोचिंग सेंटर्स की मेहनत को निगल जाते हैं।
और इसके बाद ये खुद को मसीहा बताते हैं।
जैसे नीट यूजी का जो पेपर लीक हुआ उसमें तीन आरोपियों को आज अदालत ने 15 जून तक के लिए जेल भेज दिया है।
इनमें भी सीधा-सीधा कोचिंग सेंटर का कनेक्शन निकला है।
एक है डॉक्टर मनोज शिरूरे,
दूसरे है तेजस शाह औ... | hindi | hi-IN | formal | Aaj Tak | news_formal | 27.79 | -29.3 | |
hi_01_seg006 | इनमें तेजस शाह पुणे के एक कोचिंग इंस्टिट्यूट में फिजिक्स के टीचर्स थे।
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इस... | hindi | hi-IN | questioning | Aaj Tak | news_formal | 25 | -29 | |
hi_01_seg007 | पेपर को एक कोचिंग इंस्टिट्यूट के टीचर को बेच दिया।
खरीदने वाला कौन? कोचिंग इंस्टिट्यूट का टीचर।
और इसीलिए हम लगातार आज तक पर कोचिंग माफिया के खिलाफ अपनी आवाज बुलंद कर रहे हैं।
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hi_01_seg008 | इंस्टिट्यूट के टीचर को सारे सवाल लिखवाए और बाद में कोचिंग इंस्टिट्यूट के इस टीचर ने यही सवाल नोट करके लीक कर दिए।
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hi_01_seg009 | नीट यूजी परीक्षा का पेपर लीक हुआ था, तब भी गुजरात पुलिस ने रॉय ओवरसीज नाम के कोचिंग सेंटर के छह लोगों को गिरफ्तार किया था।
जो इस बेईमानी में शामिल थे।
2024 में ही जब उत्तर प्रदेश में सिपाही भर्ती परीक्षा का क्वेश्चन पेपर लीक हुआ, तब भी इसके पीछे लखनऊ का एक कोचिंग सेंटर था।
जिसके टीचर्स को पुलिस ने गिरफ्तार किया।
जबकि 2... | hindi | hi-IN | formal | Aaj Tak | news_formal | 25 | -29.3 | |
hi_01_seg010 | सरकारी टीचर्स की भर्ती परीक्षा का पेपर लीक हुआ तब भी इसमें कोचिंग माफिया का नाम सामने आया था।
और ये लिस्ट बहुत लंबी है।
तथ्य बताते हैं कि पेपर लीक के अधिकांश मामलों में कोचिंग माफिया की सबसे बड़ी भूमिका होती है जो पेपर बेचकर पैसे कमाना चाहते हैं।
भारत में कोचिंग इंडस्ट्री इसलिए फैली क्योंकि हमारी सरकारी | hindi | hi-IN | questioning | Aaj Tak | news_formal | 25.79 | -28 | |
hi_01_seg011 | जो व्यवस्था है।
सरकारों ने इस शिक्षा पर ध्यान ही नहीं दिया।
अगर हमारे देश में सरकारों की ओर से शिक्षा पर ध्यान दिया गया होता, तो कोचिंग इंडस्ट्री कभी भी इतनी बड़ी नहीं होती, जितना हमारे केंद्रीय शिक्षा मंत्रालय का 6 महीने का बजट है।
2022 में भारत की कोचिंग इंडस्ट्री 58000 करोड़ रुपए की थी, जो 2 साल बाद 2028 में ₹133000... | hindi | hi-IN | formal | Aaj Tak | news_formal | 25.07 | -28.1 | |
hi_01_seg012 | जबकि पूरे देश के लिए केंद्र शिक्षा मंत्रालय का बजट ही ₹1,39,000 करोड़ का है।
अब कोचिंग इंडस्ट्री का ऐसा विस्तार कोई बहुत बड़ी उपलब्धि नहीं है।
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hi_01_seg013 | ये कोचिंग सेंटर्स आपको अच्छे-अच्छे विज्ञापन दिखाते हैं। दावा करते हैं कि अगर आपने अपने बच्चों को इनके यहां भेजा तो वो यूपीएससी, नीट, जेईई, सरकारी नौकरी की परीक्षा जरूर पास कर लेंगे। कई बार तो विज्ञापनों में दो-तीन कोचिंग इंस्टिट्यूट्स एक ही बच्चे की तस्वीर लगा देते हैं और कहते हैं ये मेरे कॉलेज में पढ़ा, ये मेरे कॉलेज ... | hindi | hi-IN | formal | Aaj Tak | news_formal | 27.55 | -28.9 | |
hi_01_seg014 | उदाहरण के लिए, केंद्र सरकार ने यूपीएससी की तैयारी कराने वाले दो बड़े, बहुत बड़े कोचिंग संस्थान पर जुर्माना लगाया।
जुर्माने का कारण क्या था?
इन कोचिंग संस्थानों ने इन छात्रों को भी अपना छात्र बताकर अखबार में बड़े-बड़े विज्ञापन छपवा दिए थे जो उनके यहां पढ़े ही नहीं थे।
और ऐसा सिर्फ एक मामला नहीं है।
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hi_01_seg015 | और इसीलिए हम ये आवाज बुलंद कर रहे हैं कि अगर इस देश की शिक्षा व्यवस्था को संभालना है,
तो हमें #coachingmafia का अंत करना ही होगा।
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hi_01_seg016 | उन बच्चों ने कंप्लेंट की जिसके बाद ये कार्यवाही की गई।
लेकिन सोचिए उन माता-पिता के साथ कितनी बड़ी बेईमानी है जो इन कोचिंग संस्थानों के झांसे में आकर अपने बच्चों को पढ़ने के लिए भेज देते हैं।
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hi_01_seg017 | ये कोचिंग सेंटर्स अपने स्कूल में ही चलाते हैं। कई प्राइवेट स्कूल्स के टीचर्स इन कोचिंग सेंटर्स को अपने तौर पर चलाते हैं और पेरेंट्स से कहते हैं कि क्लास में आपका बच्चा ठीक नहीं कर रहा, आप कोचिंग सेंटर में डाल दीजिए, इसको हम लोग अच्छे मार्क्स ले आएंगे। अब सवाल यही है कि आप स्कूल की भी फीस दे रहे हैं। यानी ड्यूल फीस। | hindi | hi-IN | formal | Aaj Tak | news_formal | 25 | -28.6 | |
hi_01_seg018 | दो फीस कमाई करने का यह पूरा फार्मूला बन गया है।
हैरत की बात यह है कि यह कोचिंग संस्थान बच्चों के मसीहा बनते हैं लेकिन इसकी फीस का कोई हिसाब नहीं होता।
सरकारी मेडिकल कॉलेजेस में दाखिले के लिए नीट की तैयारी पर एक छात्र जानते हैं कितना खर्च करता है ₹4 लाख औसतन।
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hi_01_seg019 | सारा पैसा कोचिंग संस्थानों के पास जाता है।
एसएससी,
बैंकिंग,
रेलवे,
पीएससी, ऐसी सरकारी नौकरियों की तैयारी पर एक से दो लाख रुपए खर्च होता है और जब ये छात्र कोचिंग संस्थानों के वादों के बाद भी फेल हो जाते हैं, तो मसीहा बनने वाले ये कोचिंग संस्थान कभी फेल हुए छात्रों की फीस वापस लौटाते हैं क्या?
तब सारा का सारा ठीकरा इन बच... | hindi | hi-IN | questioning | Aaj Tak | news_formal | 26.15 | -29.8 | |
hi_02_seg000 | नमस्कार दोस्तों, पहलगाम की बैसारन वैली जिसे भारत का मिनी स्विट्जरलैंड कहा जाता है। इस टूरिस्ट स्पॉट पर एक खौफनाक आतंकी हमला हुआ जिसे देखकर पूरे देश की रूह कांप गई है।
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Indian TTS Dataset — Hindi + Indian English
A curated, single-speaker TTS training dataset with 144 segments (~60 minutes total) sourced from YouTube, transcribed using Sarvam AI ASR, and annotated with emotion/style tags.
Dataset Summary
| Split | Segments | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Indian English | 71 | 29.6 min |
| Hindi | 73 | 30.8 min |
| Total | 144 | 60.3 min |
Audio Specs
- Sample rate: 16 kHz
- Channels: Mono
- Format: WAV (16-bit PCM)
- Segment length: 20–28 seconds
Columns
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
audio |
Audio segment (16kHz mono WAV) |
transcript |
ASR transcript (Sarvam saarika:v2.5) |
language |
indian_english or hindi |
language_code |
en-IN or hi-IN |
emotion_tag |
Emotion/style label |
source_channel |
YouTube channel name |
style |
Content style (news_formal, conversational_podcast, etc.) |
duration_s |
Segment duration in seconds |
mean_dbfs |
Mean audio level in dBFS |
Emotion Distribution
| Emotion | Count |
|---|---|
| questioning | 56 |
| formal | 27 |
| informational | 19 |
| motivational | 18 |
| conversational | 17 |
| emphatic | 2 |
| excited | 2 |
| storytelling | 1 |
| angry | 1 |
| sad | 1 |
Sources
Indian English: The Seen and the Unseen
Hindi: Aaj Tak, Dhruv Rathee, Josh Talks Hindi
Pipeline
- Audio downloaded via
yt-dlp, converted to 16kHz mono WAV viaffmpeg - Silence-based segmentation into 20–28s chunks
- Transcription via Sarvam AI
saarika:v2.5ASR - Automated QC: SNR check, transcript length, ASR artifact detection
- Emotion tagging: rule-based classifier on transcript + source style
See the full pipeline code at: https://github.com/itsharshi/indian-tts-dataset
License
Audio sourced from YouTube under fair use for research/educational purposes. Dataset annotations (transcripts, tags) are released under CC BY 4.0.
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