Podcast Episodes

Sachin Bansal’s loan offer: take money, let Navi peek into your bank account for years

Episode 300

If you’ve ever taken a loan from a non bank or an NBFC, the EMI is usually auto-debited from your account every month. But if you missed a payment, you know what usually goes down. You are inundated …

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Daybreak Special: How Indian travel agents are gaming the visa process

Episode 299

The pandemic disrupted everyone's travel plans. But now, everyone is travelling with a vengeance and it's really overloading the systems. 

With visa appointment slots hard to come by, travel agents ha…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Here's what you should know about UPI's latest payments feature

Episode 298

What really makes UPI successful? The number of transactions. In FY2024, for example, more than 130 billion transactions were carried out through UPI. But it's not enough. UPI needs more and more to …

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

What does Awfis know about co-working that Wework doesn’t?

Episode 297

Many thought the fall of WeWork – as quick and public as it was – was the final nail in the coffin for the fledgling coworking space business.  But a few years later, the pandemic is over and people …

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Tanishq wrote the gold-retail playbook. Kalyan Jewellers hijacked it.

Episode 296

For more than two decades, India’s jewellery industry has been dominated by one name and one name only – Tanishq. The Titan-owned brand has managed to become the go-to jewellery store for people acro…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Are Meta and Google doing enough to stop online frauds?

Episode 295

Tech platforms like Google, Meta, or even e-marketplaces such as Olx are increasingly becoming hotbeds of online advertising scams in India. People have been losing anything from a few thousands to e…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

India Olympics 2036: It's all fun and games till you become host

Episode 294

In Mumbai last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India was entering the bid to host the Summer Olympic Games in 2036. Yup, bidding happens more than a decade before the actual event. …

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

How an e-ticket discount has become IRCTC's Achilles' heel

Episode 293

For many in the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), this year’s Union Budget announcement was a damp squib.

On 23 July, several officials from the ticketing-and-catering arm of In…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

IVF treatment can break the bank. So how are states offering it for “free”?

Episode 292

Fertility rates in India are not looking good. In fact, it has fallen below the necessary replacement fertility level, which is basically the total fertility rate at which a population exactly replac…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Coaching giant Allen Career Institute's Kota stronghold may soon become history

Episode 291

Every year, nearly three lakh students flock to the city of Kota in Rajasthan, the coaching capital of the country. Almost half of them enroll themselves at Allen Career Institute, a 36 year-old pion…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago