Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhy your Diwali shopping is more important than implementing MDR on UPI
Episode 863
Around mid-September, shops in parts of Ghaziabad started putting up signs: carry cash, because UPI wouldn’t be accepted.
They were protesting a new …
2 hours ago
After making a fortune at the dock, Adani's next bet is a fleet of 100 ships going offshore
Episode 862
In October last year, a ship owned by Adani Ports slowed to less than one knot near Malta. It held that position for over seven days, directly above …
1 day, 3 hours ago
Air India needs saving. Singapore Airlines is playing saviour
Episode 861
Air India's recent losses nearly doubled to 22,000 cr rs, and Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran keeps showing up at its Delhi Headquarters.
Singapor…
2 days, 3 hours ago
What happens when you put Indian business on a 2x2?
Episode 860
In this Daybreak x Two by Two crossover, host Snigdha Sharna turns the tables on Praveen Gopal Krishnan to look beyond individual companies and indus…
5 days, 3 hours ago
India’s food inflation has layers. The onion is only the first
Episode 859
On October 12, government data showed India’s food inflation rose to 7.7% in September, led by onion prices that more than doubled from a year earlie…
6 days, 3 hours ago
7-Eleven promised "Everything essential". It still lost to India's corner shops
Episode 858
“Mile har cheez zaruri.” Everything essential, right here.
That was the promise on the signs inside India’s first 7-Eleven, which opened in Mumbai fi…
1 week ago
Karnataka can’t fix its potholes. So it’s building an AI city
Episode 857
Every morning, a senior official in Mysuru’s city corporation swerves past the same potholes on his way to the office responsible for fixing them. Ov…
1 week, 1 day ago
Bollywood wants to offend nobody. AI is happy to help
Episode 856
In India, even the phantom of the censor board is enough to make filmmakers rewrite scenese at the very last minute, including those making shows for…
1 week, 2 days ago
Why your next IIT, IIM reunion will feel like a sales pitch
Episode 855
What happens when India's top institutes start treating reunions as fundraisers?
The Ken's Santhom and Mutasim, both from IITs themselves, write abou…
1 week, 5 days ago
Apple and Google's app stores are the next battleground for protests
Episode 854
On October 3, Jack Dorsey's Bitchat disappeared from Apple's App Store in India after the IT ministry demanded its removal. It vanished from Google P…
1 week, 6 days ago