🇮🇳 India Episodes

In today’s episode we talk about Cyclone Tauktae, its impact and how this might affect the farm economy in India.

In today's episode we talk about why the RBI decided to transfer 99,122 crores as dividends to the government for a period of just 9 months

Anupam Gupta talks to Vimalendra Singh, Chief Sales Officer at Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd. about the recent sales trends in the real estate market under pandemic and its future outlook.

In this episode, we talk about how successful Indian TV shows such as Tarak Mehta and the Ekta Kapoor slowly but surely prepared an audience for the propaganda of today's politics. We talk of how these shows evade issues such as caste and present a homogenised view of society. We then discuss how the decade of the 2000s is actually the period when TV news set the template for Godi media and WhatsApp forwards of today.  Note: This episode was recorded in February 2021, and hence you won`t hear us talking about comedians in the context of the current news in this episode.

In this week’s Episode we take a break from talking about the mundane stuff and look at something else entirely — “Why do people try and catch falling knives? Why do they buy the dip?”

In today's episode we talk about new guidelines on auditing commercial banks, NBFCs, and housing finance corporations.

In today's episode we talk about the newly proposed gold exchange

In today's episode we discuss how Cairn Energy could potentially get the Indian government to settle even without seizing and selling government owned planes abroad.

In today's episode we talk about a bountiful oil field and why India let it slip through its fingers

The value of Bitcoin crashed recently after Elon Musk made a very public announcement regarding the cryptocurrency. It came out of the blue and it left everyone surprised. So in today’s episode, we look at the announcement itself and see why Elon Musk risked antagonizing millions of crypto investors all of a sudden.

in this episode, they are going to talk exactly about the concept of Hedge Funds, how do they work and which class of investors should consider hedge funds

Last week, DMart posted its results for the March quarter and while profits jumped 55% compared to the same period last year, the stock price didn’t reflect these changing dynamics. So what’s happening here? Why aren’t investors upbeat about the company’s prospects despite these changing fortunes? Well, in this episode we discuss this and more.

Softbank just recorded an annual profit of $43 Billion. And while it was mainly driven by the company’s investments in high profile startups, this marks a spectacular turnaround for Softbank who only last year recorded losses to the tune of $13 billion. So it’s imperative to ask — Have Softbank and Masayoshi Son, its enigmatic founder, finally turned a corner? Is the company the greatest venture capital investor of all time? Well, that’s what we try and find out in today’s episode.

In this week's episode, we give our non-expert take on the assembly election results, primarily focusing on WB. Also, who will you vote for, if the two candidates are Nandu and Ajay Beast?

After we spoke out edible oil yesterday, multiple people wrote to us asking about the general increase in commodity prices. We are talking about things like iron ore, copper, and wood. And while we’ve already talked about some of these items in the past, we still thought it would make sense to look at some of the other factors affecting the demand-supply equation. So in today’s episode, we talk about the global economic recovery and how it’s pushing commodity prices to stratospheric levels.

In today's episode we look at why edible oil is so damned expensive these days

On April 28, 2021, SEBI introduced a new rule. They mandated key employees of asset management companies i.e. mutual fund companies to invest about 20% of their salary in the schemes they run or oversee. They’ll have to tie it up for 3 years or for the duration of the scheme, whichever is shorter. Basically, it’s a diktat forcing fund managers and other key personnel to have their skin in the game. But what is skin in the game?

Zomato is finally going public and the Draft Red Herring Prospectus — detailing the company’s financials and business prospects, is now out there for the world to see. And since there’s absolutely no way we will be able to cover everything inside the prospectus, we will focus on just one thing - Unit Economics. Basically, trying to see if Zomato has finally found a way to fulfil an order without spending more money than it earns.

Why has digital lending boomed? Sashank Rishyasringa, Co-Founder at Capital Float talks about the Digital Lending Trends in India and future plans for Walnut - the savings app that Capital Float acquired in 2018.

This week we discuss everything around the politics of the Covid situation in India today. We explore the Kejru-Nandu equation, Bal Mitra and Tarak Mehta, and Nandu the PT teacher.