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A thorium fuel made for India's nuclear reactors is here. India didn't make it
Episode 713
Seventy years ago, Homi Bhabha designed a three-stage nuclear plan built around one idea: that India's future was thorium, not uranium. The science w…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
How are companies with no spectrum winning India's 5G game?
Episode 712
India's telecom operators have spent decades controlling how signals reach customers indoors but that arrangement is now under serious pressure.
A new…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
India's Northeast millionaires have BS detectors. Wealth managers are learning that the hard way
Episode 711
India's Northeast has always had money. Wealth managers are only now showing up to court it, and finding the welcome chillier than expected.
Post-GST…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
China's raising OpenClaw lobsters. India's testing the waters first
Episode 710
Last Friday, Razorpay CEO Harshil Mathur hosted 150 founders at Razorpay's Koramangala headquarters — not to talk payments but to let them showcase w…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Wake up, Neo. There’s a glitch in the pharma matrix
Episode 709
The next time you pick up a strip of tablets at your neighbourhood pharmacy, consider this: the drug you just bought for Rs 170 may have left the fac…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
In Kerala, remittance built a world that war can now undo
Episode 708
In 1955, a man from a small village in Kerala paid 500 rupees for passage on a crowded boat to Abu Dhabi. He told no one he was leaving.
He wasn't th…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The rest of the world is cutting back on alcohol. India just doubled its consumption
Episode 707
India is drinking more — and spending more when it does. Between 2020 and 2025, alcohol consumption nearly doubled. Post-Covid, drinkers didn't just …
3 months ago
India’s LPG success story runs on a two-day buffer
Episode 706
Within days of the war in Iran, panic spread across India’s cooking-gas system. Millions rushed to book LPG refills. Restaurants shut kitchens. A tem…
3 months ago
Uber knocks at a new door as Rapido shuts many others
Episode 705
Uber is one of the most recognised brands in the world. But in India, it's losing ground — to a government-backed taxi app, a newer competitor, and i…
3 months ago
Akasa Air has the best seat in Indian aviation. It just can't find a place to park
Episode 704
Akasa Air wants to be India's most efficient low-cost carrier. Founded in 2022 by veterans who watched Jet Airways and Go Air collapse, the airline i…
3 months ago