Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhat does Zoho offer as India’s new official email provider: security or Indianness?
Episode 751
The Indian government just moved two million email accounts off NIC's servers onto Zoho's cloud.
The reason the government decided to leave behind a …
4 weeks ago
Bollywood invented the studio model, then abandoned it. Reliance brought it back — on steroids
Episode 750
Jio Studios is now the largest production house in India by revenue, catalogue, and box-office share. It got there fast. Stree 2, Laapataa Ladies, Dh…
1 month ago
AI did what it promised. And that's a problem for Gen Z
Episode 749
Gen Z was supposed to be AI's most enthusiastic adopters. For a while, they were. Then the hiring froze, the jobs disappeared, and the tools got good…
1 month ago
The jet fuel crisis is only the most convenient explanation for what’s happening to Air India
Episode 748
Air India’s board met in Mumbai last week to discuss cost cuts, CEO succession, and whether to start charging business class passengers separately fo…
1 month ago
Meta to get the world’s longest internet cable to India. It’s 100% exposed
Episode 747
On a Wednesday morning in April, The Ken's Mrunmayee Kulkarni went to Rushikonda beach in Visakhapatnam looking for a manhole. She found it — a concr…
1 month ago
Maruti, Tata are caught between conflict, EV delays, and emission rules. They found an unlikely fix
Episode 746
India's carmakers are staring down a deadline.
In less than a year, new emission norms will require them to dramatically cut their carbon output — or…
1 month ago
This startup ranked AI models. They all landed in the danger zone
Episode 745
India's best AI models are confidently wrong. Not occasionally — structurally. If you put two unrelated ideas into a prompt, the model will usually i…
1 month, 1 week ago
India's newest think tank has Adani's money and the government's ear
Episode 744
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…
1 month, 1 week ago
Your grocery bill is soon going to get more expensive. But the spike might not be in the price tag
Episode 743
The Parle-G packet has cost five rupees since the 1990s. Once, when the company tried raising it by 50 paise, consumers switched to Britannia's Tiger…
1 month, 1 week ago
Prediction markets are a $150 billion industry. And they had money on Bengal and Tamil Nadu
Episode 742
West Bengal and Tamil Nadu declared their results yesterday. BJP swept Bengal after fifteen years of TMC rule. In Tamil Nadu, Vijay's TVK won, upendi…
1 month, 1 week ago