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Back to SearchHow 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 …
4 weeks ago
Amazon’s quick-commerce win will be less about speed and more about Prime
Episode 843
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Amazon Now just crossed $1 billion in annualised gross sales, faster than Zepto did. …
4 weeks, 1 day ago
One year of GST 2.0. Who's it working for?
Episode 842
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One year ago, GST 2.0 rewrote the tax on almost everything Indians bu…
1 month ago
A cancelled peptide party, and the questions it raised that Indian sellers still can't answer
Episode 841
India was about to have its first-ever peptide party with fifty guests, a mystery venue marketed only as "not a hospital," and a menu of collagen, gl…
1 month ago
Why Indigo went budget and premium at once
Episode 840
For two decades, an Indian air ticket told you what kind of airline you were flying. Low-cost meant cheap and bare. Full-service meant meals and bagg…
1 month ago
India's newest iPhone prices hurt the people selling them, buying them and even taxing them
Episode 839
Apple's newest iPhones landed in India with price hikes as high as 41%. And for the first time in years, there was no discount on older models to go …
1 month ago
7.8% growth. So why doesn't India feel richer?
Episode 838
In February this year, India announced a sweeping overhaul of how it calculates GDP, fixing a measurement system the IMF had flagged as outdated just…
1 month ago
Your kids might be looting your bank account in the guise of gaming
Episode 837
Kids all over India are spending real money inside mobile games. And most of the time, they slip by the notice of the adults, until the bill or bank …
1 month, 1 week ago
India's data law has HDFC Bank, Amazon, Paytm, and others shopping for consent
Episode 836
India’s new data protection law is reshaping how companies talk to customers on WhatsApp. Messages that once felt routine now carry legal weight and …
1 month, 1 week ago
This week in AI: activist robots, doom-laden researchers — so who's the good guy?
Episode 835
This week, a 27-year-old researcher quit Anthropic warning AI could "kill us all," and the company's own safety lead agreed.
Meanwhile, OpenAI says i…
1 month, 1 week ago