Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIndia wants a chip-design hub—without the founders who can make it happen
Episode 722
India wants to design its own semiconductor chips. To help, the government launched a scheme with money and tools for startups that do exactly that. …
2 weeks ago
Why your health insurance works great — until you need it
Episode 721
Imagine paying insurance premiums for years and then one day you actually need it. You're in a hospital, or someone you love is. And the insurer says…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
India banned online betting. Polymarket is wagering on our elections anyway
Episode 720
Polymarket and Kalshi are two New York-founded prediction market platforms now valued in the billions. While both let users bet real money on electio…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
The click is dead. Long live the answer
Episode 719
For a decade, digital advertising ran on one idea: get to the top of Google. Buy the keywords and earn the clicks. That was the game.
But AI just chan…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Why Open AI's flirtation with an "adult mode" never landed a date
Episode 718
In 1965, Yoko Ono sat on a stage at Carnegie Hall and handed a pair of scissors to strangers. What they did next was entirely up to them.
It was a pe…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
India commoditised Novo's blockbuster obesity drug. Novo's not flinching
Episode 717
Semaglutide's patent just expired in India. The molecule behind Novo Nordisk's blockbuster obesity drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy, is now fair game for ge…
3 weeks ago
India 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…
3 weeks, 1 day 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…
3 weeks, 4 days 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 …
3 weeks, 5 days 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…
3 weeks, 6 days ago