Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIndia is training doctors in AI. Can they build what tech bros can’t?
Episode 716
India's hospitals have been slow to adopt AI.
Its government, however, has not.
A new programme aims to train 50,000 doctors in artificial intelligen…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Bengaluru’s apartment complexes would rather rely on the “tanker mafia” than subsidised water
Episode 715
Bengaluru's water utility loses a third of everything it pumps. It owes Tokyo Rs 10,000 crore. It bleeds Rs 80 crore every month.
Its answer to all of…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Would you trust AI to be your money-whisperer?
Episode 714
From platforms like Cred, Zerodha, and Groww integrating AI assistants, to Sebi-registered advisors now using AI to generate personalised investment …
7 months ago
A thorium fuel made for India's nuclear reactors is here. India didn't make it
Episode 713
Seventy years ago, Homi Bhabha designed a three-stage nuclear plan built around one idea: that India's future was thorium, not uranium. The science w…
7 months ago
How are companies with no spectrum winning India's 5G game?
Episode 712
India's telecom operators have spent decades controlling how signals reach customers indoors but that arrangement is now under serious pressure.
A new…
7 months ago
India's Northeast millionaires have BS detectors. Wealth managers are learning that the hard way
Episode 711
India's Northeast has always had money. Wealth managers are only now showing up to court it, and finding the welcome chillier than expected.
Post-GST…
7 months ago
China's raising OpenClaw lobsters. India's testing the waters first
Episode 710
Last Friday, Razorpay CEO Harshil Mathur hosted 150 founders at Razorpay's Koramangala headquarters — not to talk payments but to let them showcase w…
7 months ago
Wake up, Neo. There’s a glitch in the pharma matrix
Episode 709
The next time you pick up a strip of tablets at your neighbourhood pharmacy, consider this: the drug you just bought for Rs 170 may have left the fac…
7 months, 1 week ago
In Kerala, remittance built a world that war can now undo
Episode 708
In 1955, a man from a small village in Kerala paid 500 rupees for passage on a crowded boat to Abu Dhabi. He told no one he was leaving.
He wasn't th…
7 months, 1 week ago
The rest of the world is cutting back on alcohol. India just doubled its consumption
Episode 707
India is drinking more — and spending more when it does. Between 2020 and 2025, alcohol consumption nearly doubled. Post-Covid, drinkers didn't just …
7 months, 1 week ago