🇮🇳 India Episodes

In today's Finshots, we talk about funding lawsuits :)

This week the CBI booked a Hyderabad based company, Transstroy India and its directors for an alleged bank fraud totalling ₹7,926 crore. For context, the Nirav Modi scam involved ₹7,700 crores. So yeah, we need to talk about this story because this is likely going to turn into another bad loan. Sigh!

In today's Finshots, we talk about the millennial trading app Robinhood and why it's courting so much controversy.

On this special episode, host Anupam Gupta talks with Mr. Sanjay Sapre, President, Franklin Templeton India. They talk about the upcoming voting on the six yield-oriented debt funds that take place later in the weeks.

In today's Finshots we talk about the vandalism incident at Wistron's manufacturing unit in Kolar.

In this week's episode of 'Paisa Vaisa', Host Anupam Gupta is joined by Shobhit Bhaskaran, COO Loan@Home product, Muthoot Finance.

In today’s Finshots Markets we look at the growth of the chemical industry in India, but more specifically one stellar performer within the pack — Deepak Nitrite.

In today's Finshots, we try and figure out why the US treasury department put India on the currency manipulator watchlist.

In today's Finshots we look at why China is importing rice from India for the first time in decades.

In today’s Finshots we talk about the Reuters report detailing a CCI investigation on the beer cartel. Don’t worry. It will all make sense soon enough.

In today’s Finshots, we look at the film exhibition business and see why movie theatres in North India are showing dubbed Telugu flicks.

In today’s Finshots, we talk about the most recent tradeable financial instrument — “water futures.”

In this week's episode of 'Paisa Vaisa', Host Anupam Gupta is joined by Nischal Shetty, Founder & CEO of WazirX. WazirX provides a platform to invest/trade in cryptocurrencies. Anupam and Nischal walk through the changes in Bitcoin starting from 2017 up t

In this week's episode of 'Paisa Vaisa', Host Anupam Gupta is joined by two co-founders, Shanti Mohan, CEO and Sanjay Jha, CPO at LetsVenture. LetsVenture enables startups looking to raise seed/angel money to create investment ready profiles online, and c

Steelmakers have been making an impressive comeback of late. A meteoric rise in production, robust recovery in demand and record high selling prices have all pushed the incumbents in the industry on a profitable path. And through it all, the stock price of major steel producers have been on a rally like no other. So we thought we could look at the industry, understand the dynamics propelling it and see how this recovery is currently manifesting in an ever-changing world.

In this episode of the BJPod, we talk of i) Modi's Banaras 'Yatra' ii) Godi media's coverage of the protests and the underlying casteism behind the idea of what a farmer should look or talk like, and iii) electoral politics and what we think could work in the short (and long run) for the opposition.

On Tuesday, the federal government, including 46 states in the US sued Facebook for engaging in monopolistic or anti-competitive practices. And while many people have sued the company in the past, the sheer scale and influence of this lawsuit deserves special merit. So we thought we could look at the case more closely and explain why Facebook is being accused of exploiting its dominance in the social media space.

On December 2nd, Down To Earth released an extensive investigative report on the menace of adulterated honey and we need to talk about it.

Australia is all set to introduce a law that would force companies like Google and Facebook to pay media companies for their news content. As chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission noted — “There is a fundamental bargaining power imbalance between news media businesses and the major digital platforms, partly because news businesses have no option but to deal with the platforms, and have had little ability to negotiate over payment for their content or other issues. We wanted a model that would address this bargaining power imbalance and result in fair payment for content, which avoided unproductive and drawn-out negotiations, and wouldn’t reduce the availability of Australian news on Google and Facebook.” And while there is considerable euphoria surrounding this bill, there is also good reason to exercise caution. So we thought we could look at this more closely and see how it might impact the media ecosystem in Australia. Possibly even the world?

On Monday, news agencies started reporting that President Nicolas Maduro had seized total control of Venezuela’s political institutions with a sweeping victory in legislative elections. And while there was considerable euphoria within the Venezuelan ruling class, ground reports from the country are truly disheartening, to say the least. 96% of the country’s population currently lives in poverty and about one-third of these people lack enough nutritious food for normal human growth and development. According to one survey, 60% of Venezuelans shed at least 11 kilograms in weight over the recent past due to malnutrition. And with the pandemic and the lockdown in place, the food crisis has reached truly incredible proportions. Whatever little food that Venezuelans still produce is currently rotting because farmers don’t have the means to carry their produce to the markets due to an unprecedented shortage of overpriced fuel. Imagine this happening in a country that boasts the largest oil reserves in the world. It is simply crazy. So we thought maybe we could look at how Venezuela got here and see why the government's policies to control prices have failed so miserably.