Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWake 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
India’s LPG success story runs on a two-day buffer
Episode 706
Within days of the war in Iran, panic spread across India’s cooking-gas system. Millions rushed to book LPG refills. Restaurants shut kitchens. A tem…
7 months, 1 week ago
Uber knocks at a new door as Rapido shuts many others
Episode 705
Uber is one of the most recognised brands in the world. But in India, it's losing ground — to a government-backed taxi app, a newer competitor, and i…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Akasa Air has the best seat in Indian aviation. It just can't find a place to park
Episode 704
Akasa Air wants to be India's most efficient low-cost carrier. Founded in 2022 by veterans who watched Jet Airways and Go Air collapse, the airline i…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
A social media ban for under-16s is Big Tech's get-out-of-jail-free card. Here's why
Episode 703
Karnataka just announced it wants to ban children under 16 from social media.
Goa and Andhra Pradesh are considering the same. And on paper, it sound…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Owning a home makes you feel rich. Owning an office could actually make you rich
Episode 702
Indians put more than half their household wealth into real estate. But almost all of it goes into one kind: residential.
Commercial property like of…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
What does Swish know about 10-minute food delivery that Zomato or Swiggy doesn’t?
Episode 701
Swish launched less than a year ago with a simple promise: hot food in 10 minutes. It's already raised 16 million dollars, with another 30 to 35 mill…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
A $4 trillion economy running on 25 days of oil
Episode 700
Yesterday, Reuters reported, Indian refiners have rushed to secure prompt cargoes of Russian crude as the war involving Iran disrupts supplies from t…
7 months, 3 weeks ago