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Suhel Seth is one of India's most recognisable public voices, a marketing man, author, and commentator who has spent decades in the rooms where power actually sits. He has advised prime ministers, briefed Vajpayee's 1999 campaign, and counts the Tatas among his closest associations. His new book, WTF India: Are We Losing the Plot, turns that insider's eye on everything urban India complains about and then forgets by morning. Blunt, funny, and completely unwilling to let anyone, including himself, off the hook.

In this episode, Vinamre and Suhel discuss:

• Why "jugaad", "chalega", and "don't worry" are the three phrases killing India, and the Anand Mahindra tweet that started it all

• The Gurugram rant that went viral, flood deaths, leaking new airports, and 71 of India's top 100 companies sitting in a city that doesn't work

• Bribes as a way of life, from a death certificate for his own mother to the cop who arrested the DJ instead of the complainant

• Indira Gandhi, the licence Raj, and why he blames her for ruining "the idea of India"

• The Cancer Express, free treatment nobody knows about, and his unbuilt idea for a 3,000-bed hospital on Ayodhya land

• Education versus knowledge, Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, and why he reads a book a day

Is India even a democracy, 42% vote shares, election spending in the crores, and what politicians confess to him in private

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Intro

00:02:34 – Suhel Seth On Jugaad Culture

00:05:19 – Leaking Parliament And Monsoon Flooding

00:07:18 – Delhi Air Pollution And Gurugram

00:09:50 – Civic Sense At Taj Bengal

00:12:46 – Star News And Rupert Murdoch

00:15:13 – Gurugram Rant That Went Viral

00:18:14 – Bribes, Speed Money, Death Certificates

00:21:14 – WTF India Is About Solutions

00:25:54 – What Politicians Admit In Private

00:28:35 – Dhan Mill And Sainik Farms Illegal

00:29:35 – How Indira Gandhi Damaged India

00:31:44 – Cancer Express And Tata Hospitals

00:34:47 – Education As India's Change Agent

00:43:34 – Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Housing

00:48:08 – Sofitel Smoking Bluff Story

00:53:01 – Is Indian Democracy Really Democratic

01:00:57 – India As A Civilizational Legacy

01:04:27 – Audience Q&A

01:16:09 – Chandrasekaran And Tata Sons Future

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Vinamre Kasanaa is a writer at heart, podcaster and entrepreneur by craft.

He spends a significant part of his time reading and researching.

With over 500 podcasts under his belt, he’s interviewed everyo