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The Morning Brief
To make sense of the week’s hottest stories in business, economy, politics and markets, journalists from the Economic Times chat with reporters and industry leaders in this thrice-weekly (Tuesday, Thursday, Friday) podcast.
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Two Women Fought to Change India's Maternity Laws...and Succeeded
When Hamsaanandini Nanduri brought home two siblings — aged two and five — in 2017, she had six weeks of maternity leave, and a few of those were alre...
Polls On My Pod: Himanta's Assam - But For How Long?
A decades-old rivalry simmers beneath Assam's 2026 elections. When Himanta Biswa Sarma, once a loyalist, walked out of Congress after being sidelined...
Pharma's AI Reckoning
Is AI in pharma just hype or a full-blown revolution? In this episode, ET's pharma editor Vikas Dandekar sits down with three industry heavyweights Su...
Deep Dive: Ageing, Upgraded
India is ageing faster than it can care for itself — and the cracks are already showing. From missed diagnoses to absent support systems, the silver e...
Cricket & Corporate Leadership
What does it take to lead when the stakes are high and everyone's watching? In this episode, Vikas Dandekar sits down with Sanjiv Navangul, MD & CEO o...
Polls On My Pod: Pinarayi vs Pinarayi in Kerala
As the electoral bugle sounds across Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal, the nation braces itself for a whirlwind of political intrigue and up...
Tanay Kothari Wants To Kill The Keyboard
Tanay Kothari has been building at the intersection of voice and AI since he was a teenager. His latest company, Wispr Flow, is a voice dictation tool...
Can India Truly End Naxalism?
As India approaches its self-imposed deadline to end Left Wing Extremism, host Nidhi Sharma speaks with ET’s internal security editor Rahul Tripathi,...
Iran War: India’s Macros Under Strain
As the Iran war enters its fourth week, global markets are scrambling to price in shocks. The impact is rapidly deepening for India. Goldman Sachs has...
Markets May Be Misreading This War: UBS’ Chief Strategist
A deepening geopolitical conflict in the Middle East is forcing markets to confront a far more structural shock than recent crises. Host and ET market...
HDFC’s Governance Ghost: What Triggered Atanu Chakraborty’s Exit?
HDFC Bank, long seen as India’s gold standard in banking, is facing rare questions on governance. The sudden exit of chairman Atanu Chakraborty—backed...
Corner Office Conversation with G.V. Prasad, Co-Chairman and Managing Director Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd
G.V. Prasad has spent over thirty years at the helm of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories — long enough to know where the opportunities were missed and where th...
From Doer to Director: The LinkedIn Playbook for the AI Age
A billion professionals. Eighteen years of data. And a skills gap that's widening as AI tools multiply. Mohak Shroff has watched LinkedIn evolve from...
Semaglutide Goes Generic: Big Pharma’s Moat Breaks
India's semaglutide moment has arrived. As Novo Nordisk's patent expires on March 20th, over fifty generic brands are poised to flood the market poten...
Who Controls AI in an Age of War?
Anthropic refused the Pentagon unrestricted access to its Claude AI, and the fallout reshaped the tech-defense landscape overnight. OpenAI rushed in t...
India Opens the Door to China Investments…a Little
Five years after slamming the door on Chinese investments, India has quietly amended Press Note 3. With FDI stagnating, institutional investors pullin...
SPRs to LPG: How Far Will History’s Biggest Oil Shock Reverberate?
A once-in-a-generation oil shock is unfolding. Host Anirban Chowdhury speaks with Amrita Sen, Founder of Energy Aspects, Bob McNally, founder of Rapid...
Banned But Booming: How The Money Gaming Crackdown Created an Offshore Goldmine
Despite a sweeping government crackdown, India's offshore real money gaming industry is not just surviving, it's booming. Offshore platforms like Pari...
Women Bank Better, Still Remain a $700 Billion Blind Spot
Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO of Women's World Banking, joins host Anirban Chowdhury to explore five decades of progress and persistent ga...
Wendy Hall: One Woman's Voice in a Room Full of AI Tech Bros
She shares rooms and stages with the gods of AI...and is often the only woman there. Dame Wendy Hall, pioneering computer scientist and co-founder of...
What the Iran War Means for Indians’ Money, Jobs and Homes in the UAE
Dubai's "safe haven" image took a direct hit this week as missile debris fell near the Burj Al Arab and Palm Jumeirah following military escalations i...
US–Israel vs Iran: The War That Could Ignite the Middle East
From January’s protests in Iran to coordinated US–Israel strikes and widening retaliation, this episode maps how internal unrest morphed into a geopol...
AI Has Entered the Classroom. And Your Child's Mind.
What if AI companions are inserting themselves between children and the very people meant to guide them? In this episode of The Morning Brief, host An...
Stuart Russell and Yoshua Bengio on Why AI Could Make us Irrelevant, then Extinct
The existential alignment problem sits at the heart of the AI revolution — and the consequences of getting it wrong could be irreversible. What happen...
Arvind Krishna: Cutting Through the AI Noise
In a wide-ranging conversation with host Surabhi Agarwal, IBM's chairman, president and CEO Arvind Krishna addresses the questions every technology le...
Court Says No. Trump Says Watch This. What Should India Do?
The US Supreme Court just handed Trump a legal defeat and it barely slowed him down. In a landmark ruling, the court struck down tariffs imposed under...
Corner Office Conversation with Dilip Shanghvi, Chairman of Sun Pharma and Glenn Saldanha, Managing Director at Glenmark Pharma
In a candid, unscripted exchange, India’s pharma titans peeled back the mythology of overnight success to reveal a harder truth: conviction compounded...
India AI Impact Summit: Mistral AI's Arthur Mensch on Decentralizing AI Power
Artificial intelligence is concentrating power, profits and infrastructure in the hands of a few. Mistral AI's co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch stands...
India AI Impact Summit: Palo Alto Network's Nikesh Arora on Why Your AI Firewall isn't Ready Yet
As AI agents begin to outnumber humans 80 to one, who's truly accountable when things go wrong? In this episode, Host Suraksha P talks to Palo Alto Ne...
India AI Impact Summit: Vinod Khosla on Why 2047 Could Free Every Indian from Survival Work
What if every Indian had a personal doctor, a PhD agronomist, and a world-class tutor all free, all AI-powered, available tomorrow? Hosts Surabhi Agar...
India AI Impact Summit: Microsoft’s Brad Smith on Sovereignty, Scale and Skills
Can a $17 billion bet prevent India from repeating the Global South's century-long technology lag? In this episode of The Morning Brief, host Surabhi...
Anthropic’s India Play
Is Anthropic late to India's AI party—or perfectly timed? In this episode of The Morning Brief, host Anirban Chowdhury speaks with ET’s Disha Acharya...
AI Impact Summit: Amazon's Bet on India's AI Future
Infrastructure or applications where should India place its AI bets? And does Amazon, with $75 billion committed across data centers, logistics, and c...
A Climate Leader Working on India’s Most Serious Power Problems
Can India become the blueprint for the world's clean energy transition?
In this episode of The Morning Brief, host Anirban Chowdhury speaks wit...
Corner office Conversation with T Krishnakumar, Director of Reliance Consumer Products
In a market long dominated by premium playbooks, Director of Reliance Consumer Products, T Krishnakumar is scripting a different FMCG story. Handpicke...
Explaining the new Income Tax Rules
India's 2026 income tax overhaul marks a pivotal transformation from compliance heavy bureaucracy to trust based governance. The dramatic cut in unexp...
Space as Strategy: America, India, and the New Transnational Frontier
From Sputnik’s shock to Silicon Valley’s surge, the space race has been reborn, this time driven not just by governments, but by agile startups and bo...
The Return to Analog
From twin bell alarm clocks to vinyl records, why are Millennials and Gen Z ditching screens for tactile experiences? In this episode of The Morning B...
Corner Office Conversation with Rajan Anandan, Managing Director, Peak XV & Surge
India's AI revolution demands strategic vision beyond enthusiasm. Host Anirban Chowdhury talks to Rajan Anand, Managing Director of Peak XV and Surge...
Indo-US Trade Deal: Strategy or Surrender?
On February 2nd, Trump announced a trade deal with India via a social media post, with no signed agreement, no formal text. Trump says India has commi...