Media

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Talks, television interviews and podcast conversations on education reform, NEET, the economics of becoming a doctor in India, and national development through individual development.

Talks & Interviews

On the record

Where the argument gets made out loud — on television, on campus, and to camera.

Featured Interview · SumanTV Kannada

Macaulay's Minutes 1835: The Document That Changed India Forever

The 1835 Minute on Indian Education redirected how a civilisation learns. Dr Murthy traces what it set in motion — and which of its assumptions are still sitting inside Indian classrooms today.

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Seminar address · Town Hall, Bengaluru

Vyakti Nirman Se Rashtra Nirman: Rebuilding India by Rebuilding the Individual

The address to the 10th National Seminar on Transformation for the Nation — why national development has to begin with individual development, what a systematic route from the one to the other looks like, and the thinking behind the Rebuild India anthem, Amrutha Sishu.

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Talk · Dr Varun Murthy

Grades Don't Define Success: The Shift Towards Knowledge and Skills

Why a marksheet is a poor proxy for capability — and what the shift from grades to knowledge and skills actually asks of students, parents and schools.

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Constitution Day · REVA University, School of Legal Studies

Honoring the Constitution with Future Legal Minds

The Constitution Day address at REVA University's School of Legal Studies — on the Constitution of India and the citizen's part in keeping it more than a document.

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Short · Rebuild India

Rebuild India is not just a vision — it's a national mission

The distinction between a slogan and a mission, and what changes the moment you treat it as the latter. Under a minute.

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Address · CVMS debate competition

Coming Together, Serving Better: A Blueprint for National Development

An address to student debaters, delivered after judging them. The blueprint in three moves: power lies in coming together and staying together; service does not become effective until you learn how to serve; and capability is not a place you arrive at but something you keep building.

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Podcasts

Podcast appearances

Long-form conversations — where the argument gets tested rather than delivered.

SSSE Podcast · Sri Siddhartha School of Engineering, Tumakuru

What's Wrong With India's Education System? A Doctor-Turned-Educator Speaks

Eighty minutes with an engineering campus asking the questions — what the system is actually optimising for, why it keeps producing marks rather than capability, and what a doctor sees when he looks at a classroom. Related reading: Nobody Wants to Be Here.

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#AskShivaKrishna · Shiva Krishna

Why “If You Fail” Is Ruining an Entire Generation of Students

The fear economy built around a student's anxieties, why academic performance is a poor proxy for development, what comparison does to a child — and the order Dr Murthy asks parents to hold to: food, activity, rest, and only then education. Related reading: The Child Who Does Not Wake.

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Rebuild India · Podcast

Indian Knowledge System, Dharma & Nation Building

What the Indian knowledge tradition actually holds, why dharma is not the same thing as religion, and how both bear on the work of building a nation. Related reading: Dharma, Pantha, Mata.

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Kadakk Talks · Episode 20

Cost of Becoming a Doctor in India? Medical Seat Scam & More

What a medical education in India actually costs a family — fees, seats, and the economics almost nobody explains before a student commits their adolescence to it.

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SumanTV Kannada · Rebuild India Foundation

Are You Struggling with NEET Preparation?

What actually goes wrong for NEET aspirants — and why the fix is usually routine, mentorship and character before it is more hours of content.

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Dr Murthy speaks as a practitioner — a physician who runs schools, a residential NEET campus, a youth movement and a government NEET programme. Topics: education reform, medical education and the NEET economy, youth character and capability, social trust, and education-driven national development. Available in English, Hindi and Kannada.

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