The Morning Brief
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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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Corner Office Conversation with Sridhar Vembu, CEO, of Zoho Corporation
What happens when a small Indian software firm quietly evolves into a global SaaS powerhouse without external funding or data monetization? In this ep...
Corner Office Conversation with Gunjan Soni, Country Managing Director, Youtube India.
India is YouTube’s fastest-growing market home to a young, ambitious generation that’s transforming from viewers into global creators. In this convers...
Caste, Controversy and Campaigns: Inside Bihar’s Big Poll
The stage is set for one of India’s most riveting political contests, the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025. Nine-time Chief Minister Nitish Kumar faces p...
Hooked in 90 Seconds: The Micro Drama Boom
What if binge-watching your favorite show took less time than making a cup of coffee? Welcome to micro dramas: Bite-sized, 90-second stories turning o...
Explaining RBI’s Raft of Deregulations
In its boldest liberalization push in years, the RBI has announced 22 deregulatory measures in a single day, the highest in its modern history. Among...
Chabahar Sanctions: India’s Western Deadlock
The future of India’s most ambitious overseas port project hangs in the balance. With the US reinstating its sanctions for Iran’s Chabahar Port, India...
Vineet Nayar says the Tech Industry is at an Inflection Point, Not Crisis Mode
Vineet Nayar, the former HCL Technologies CEO who once flipped corporate hierarchies on their head is now reimagining classrooms at scale through Samp...
Dissecting 2025’s Biggest IPO: Tata Capital
Tata Capital is about to drop 2025’s biggest IPO. In this episode of The Morning Brief, we bring you exclusive comments from Rajiv Sabharwal, MD & CEO...
Corner Office Conversation with Elizabeth Reid, Head of Search, Google
Elizabeth Reid is one of Google’s most powerful women. She also has one of its most challenging jobs. At a time when AI is reshaping how people seek i...
India's Big Indic Data Chase
A quiet race is on to give India its own AI voice. From call-centre automation to defence and legal systems, Abhishek Upperwal of Soket Labs and journ...
Are We Going Back to Gold Standards?
What happens when gold, long seen as a timeless store of value, begins to redefine its place in global finance? In this episode of The Morning Brief,...
Trump’s $100k H-1B Fee and the New Age of Migration Controls
Donald Trump’s sudden $100,000 H-1B visa fee has shaken the U.S. tech landscape and left Indian IT giants scrambling. With renewals, contracts, and bi...
Fed’s Latest: Rate Cut Rally or Dead Cat Bounce?
The US Federal Reserve has delivered its first rate cut since December 2024, trimming the benchmark rate by 25 basis points and hinting at two more cu...
Reliance’s AI Playbook
Reliance is making its boldest leap yet into artificial intelligence. Backed by gigawatt-scale data centres, alliances with global giants like Nvidia,...
Chip Dreams Vs Pachyderms: Tata’s Elephant Problem
India’s semiconductor dream is taking shape in Assam, where Tata Electronics is building a ₹27,000 crore chip assembly and testing facility. But this...
Corner Office Conversation with SAP Labs India MD Sindhu Gangadharan
In this episode of Corner Office Conversation, we sit down with Sindhu Gangadharan, Managing Director of SAP Labs India and Chairperson of NASSCOM. Fr...
How Nepal’s GenZ Torched its Govt
Nepal’s GenZ has torched, overthrown and reformed its government.
On September 9, tens of thousands of young Nepalis poured into the streets. W...
Will GST-Free Insurance Truly Cut Your Premiums?
India’s insurance sector is at a turning point with the government scrapping the 18% GST on health and life insurance premiums from September 22. Poli...
Why Is India Still Buying Russian Oil?
Three years after the Ukraine war began, India has become one of Russia’s largest oil customers. From negligible imports before 2022, Russian crude no...
NextGen GST: A Conversation Beyond Cheaper Goods
India’s biggest GST shake-up since 2017 is here. The new structure with just two slabs 5% and 18% plus a steep 40% for sin and luxury goods, promises...
ET World Leaders Forum: Rajat Taneja on Visa’s Credit Card Crossover
At the ET World Leaders Forum 2025, Archana Rai, Economic Times’, Editor, South speaks with Rajat Taneja, President Technology at Visa, about how Indi...
Of Dragons and Elephants: Modi–Xi in Focus
What happens when two of the world’s most populous nations attempt to reset ties amidst a multipolar order? In this episode of The Morning Brief, host...
TMB at 800!
800 episodes strong! The Morning Brief isn’t just a podcast—it’s your morning essential for sharp insights, credible voices, and conversations that ma...
Corner Office Conversation with Vipul Parekh, Co - Founder of BigBasket
In this episode of Corner Office Conversations, host Ratna Bhushan sits down with Vipul Parekh, co-founder of BigBasket, to discuss how India’s leadin...
South Capital: The Big Takeaways
Over the last five weeks, The Morning Brief explored the investment stories shaping southern India through exclusive conversations with senior ministe...
How AI is Rewriting Cinema Part 2
Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a buzzword in film editing rooms — it is beginning to script, generate, and even direct visual storytelling....
Ban and Boost? Explaining The Online Gaming Law
India’s Online Gaming law, 2025 has jolted the country’s fast-growing gaming industry. The law bans real-money games while promoting e-sports and casu...
South Capital: TN’s Playbook of Distrubuted Growth
In this episode of South Capital, the focus is on Tamil Nadu, India's manufacturing powerhouse and one of its most industrialized states. Known as the...
Rare Earths to Rx: Explaining the India-China Reset
For months, India has felt the squeeze of China’s export chokehold on rare earth magnets vital for EVs, fertilizers key to food security, and raw mate...
India’s Setting New Rules for the Digital Space, but Why?
Another week, another rulebook for India’s digital economy this time, a competition code. The Digital Competition Bill (DCB) would flip enforcement fr...
Corner Office Conversation with Naveen Tewari, founder and CEO of InMobi and Glance
Naveen Tewari thrives on pivots and preempting market demand before it becomes obvious to everyone else.
In this deep-dive with the founder and...
South Capital: Telangana’s Push for Mini-Hyderabads
Telangana, India’s youngest state, is charting an ambitious path to become a trillion-dollar economy by leveraging its strengths in technology, AI, an...
Text-to-Theater? How AI is Rewriting Cinema Part 1
AI in films is no longer a fringe experiment. It moved from a backstage assistant to calling the shots. In three years, Gen AI models have evolved fro...
Big Money’s Mood Swings: Explaining the FII Flight
In this episode, we dive into why foreign investors have been quietly pulling billions out of India’s stock markets even as they talk up the country’s...
South Capital: Karnataka Grows Beyond Bengaluru
Karnataka drives 65% of India’s aerospace and defence output, over half of its machine tools, and 60% of its biotech exports but much of that growth i...
Ram Madhvani on Blending VR, AI and Bharat
Virtual Reality in India has long been seen as a futuristic gaming gimmick flashy, expensive, and niche. But that’s changing. Host Anirban Chowdhury a...
US’ Tariff Blow: What can India Do?
What happens when economic friction between two global partners sparks deeper strategic questions? In this episode of The Morning Brief, host Anirban...
Corner Office Conversation with The New Leaders of Indian Pharma
India’s pharma sector is at a turning point transitioning from a global generics powerhouse to a serious contender in biotech and innovation. In this...
South Capital: Kerala Rising
Kerala, India’s smallest southern state by area, is often celebrated for its pioneering “Kerala Model,” where social progress laid the foundation for...
The Anil Ambani Annals
Once valued at over ₹1 lakh crore, Anil Ambani’s Reliance ADAG group is now facing one of its biggest reckonings. The Enforcement Directorate has laun...