Podcast Episodes

Dead mall rising: The life and death of Indian shopping centres

Episode 380

The golden age of the Indian shopping mall is over.

There are at least 400 malls across the country. But a growing proportion of them are either dead or on life support. A report by real estate consu…

Published on 1 year ago

India’s second-largest logistics player is hurting after putting all its eggs in one basket

Episode 379

For a while now, some of the biggest players in India’s third-party logistics industry have been riding on the success of e-commerce unicorn Meesho. As of 2023, it accounted for over half of the 2.5 …

Published on 1 year ago

Tata and ITC are harvesting what small organic-food brands cultivated for years

Episode 378

A couple years ago the biggest challenge for an organic food brand was convincing consumers that their products were worth the premium they were paying for them. It was naturally a gargantuan task, p…

Published on 1 year ago

Why the clock is ticking for Indian smartwatch makers

Episode 377

It really isn’t a great time to be a smartwatch brand in India. Pun intended. You see, the market for smartwatches in India has gone from seeing dizzying highs to depressing lows, all within the span…

Published on 1 year ago

Tata wants to make iPhones in South India by copying China's dorm labour model. Here's why it won't work

Episode 376

What put iPhone city on the map is that it produces more than half of the world’s iPhone’s every single year. The global demand for the Apple iPhone has only increased over the years. To keep up with…

Published on 1 year ago

Daybreak 2024 Wrap Part 1: The Ken writer's picks

Episode 375

This isn't your usual Daybreak Friday episode.

Considering it's the end of the year, we thought we’d ask the reporters in our newsroom to talk to us about the stories they liked best. This week, we h…

Published on 1 year ago

Flipkart wants to do with electronics what Blinkit and Swiggy did with groceries

Episode 374

It has been about four months since Minutes, Flipkart's all new quick-commerce service was launched in Bangalore. But Flipkart isn’t doing e-commerce the old fashioned way. It’s not taking on the lik…

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Why FMCG giant Hindustan Unilever has never really screamed for ice cream

Episode 373

There’s a running joke at Hindustan Unilever's Mumbai Headquarters. If a new hire is assigned to the ice cream division, it’s immediately clear that they aren’t in the company’s inner circle. But if …

Published on 1 year ago

India set up a new body to fix medical education. It now needs to fix that body

Episode 372

Four years ago, India set up a new body to fix medical education. It was called the National Medical Commission (NMC) and it was meant to replace the Medical Council of India and bring reforms in thi…

Published on 1 year ago

Are banks done with India's credit card frenzy?

Episode 371

For the last five years, India’s new-found love for plastic has been pretty visible. More than 100 million credit cards had been issued by banks by Feb 2024.

Banks, as we all know, are in a rush to se…

Published on 1 year ago