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Nike needs India’s sneaker heads. But do they need Nike?
Episode 853
When the NBA complained about Micheal Jordan's black and red shoes, Nike turned the complaint into an ad, and sneakers ended up becoming a symbol of …
2 weeks ago
Delhi built a ‘safe’ surveillance city. It can now locate anyone in seconds
Episode 852
Your face caught on a camera, your vehicle number plate, a voter ID, a driving licence, even a police-clearance certificate—any of these can become p…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
How Flipkart Minutes became the company's redemption arc
Episode 851
For years, Flipkart has tried and struggled to scale the vertical it began to sell groceries.
But as quick commerce platforms started becoming succes…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Adani’s think tank flexes its muscles in Delhi
Episode 850
A two-year-old think tank backed by Adani just got 14 of its suggestions, some of them word for word, written into a law passed by Parliament. That l…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
India is burning through its coal buffer
Episode 849
This September was supposed to give India's power grid a break. Instead, on some nights, the gap between the electricity people wanted and what the g…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Ekta Kapoor built her own OTT app. Now she's betting on YouTube
Episode 848
In the 2000s, Ekta Kapoor's serials ruled Indian TV every night on weekdays.
Then as, audiences moved from TV screens to smaller ones and streaming, h…
3 weeks ago
Can India build a ‘UPI’ for your cows and your gold?
Episode 847
Earlier this month, at the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, India's regulators and industry leaders rallied around one idea: tokenisation, which turns …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
AI is Bollywood's cheapest new hire
Episode 846
Bollywood has been seeing tough times since Covid.
Theatre footfall still haven't recovered, even as box office numbers soar, and budgets for filmmak…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
UPI is the trojan horse taking small banks into HDFC, Axis's credit-card empire
Episode 845
After two years of slow adoption, Credit-Line-on-UPI is finally taking off, but not with the big banks.
Small banks and fintechs are leading the char…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
How India's rich are finding returns in the country's court backlog
Episode 844
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India has roughly 54 million cases stuck in its courts. Inside many of them is money …
3 weeks, 6 days ago