🇮🇳 India Episodes

In today's Finshots, we discuss how a pandemic affects women and their role in the unpaid labour market.

In this episode of BJPod, we begin with how #JusticeforSSR became #JusticeforKangana. We quickly move on to talking of oversimplification in Indian movies and pick out characters from three movies -- Pardes, Naayak and RDB.  On the scale of Barjatiya to Johar, where does the Ghai-verse lie?  Is Bauji in Pardes an upgrade of the DDLJ bauji?  We then talk of how the worldview of protagonists in films like Nayak fails to account for systemic evils other than financial corruption. Is Anil Kapoor in Nayak Kejru? In the final lap of the episode, we discuss how even an exceptional cinematic experience like RDB also treats these issues on a very superficial scale.

In today’s Finshots, we talk about high denomination currencies and what’s happening to them.

Yesterday, HSBC shares plunged to their lowest level since 1995 after an investigative report alleged that the bank facilitated a money-laundering scheme. And obviously we need to talk about it.

In today's Finshots, we talk about migrant workers and the gulf economy

In today's Finshots, we talk about the latest export ban on onions.

In today's Finshots, we talk about the problems with inflation targeting.

On September 10th, a forensic financial research company in the US — Hindenburg Research released a report calling into question some of the lofty claims made by the billion-dollar EV upstart — Nikola. So in today’s special edition, we simplify the 15,000-word report and present a cogent narrative on how Nikola became a multi-billion dollar auto company without ever putting a single truck on the road.

On Sunday, NVIDIA announced that it was buying Arm Holdings — the British Microprocessor giant for $40 Billion and we need to talk about it.

In today’s Finshots, we talk about electricity, oil imports and induction stoves :)

In today's Finshots, we talk about US banks and their latest approach to lending.

In this week's episode of 'Paisa Vaisa', Host Anupam Gupta is joined by Rajan Bajaj, Founder and CEO at Slice. Slice is a fintech startup focused on India’s youngsters. They aim to build a smart, simple, and transparent financial platform to redesign

In this episode, we are joined by science fiction writer @vimoh in a free-wheeling conversation where he talks about his journey from being a BJP supporter in the past to a vocal critic of the government today. In this enriching conversation, he also talks about how the liberal strands in mythology could be used to fight this regressive wave. 

In this week's episode of 'Paisa Vaisa', Host Anupam Gupta is joined by Hersh Shah, CEO, India Affiliate of Institute of Risk Management (UK).

In this week's episode of 'Paisa Vaisa', Host Anupam Gupta is joined by Saurabh Bansal, Founder at Finatwork Financial Services.

In this episode of BJPod, we discuss the GDP shrinkage, Act of God, Modiji's Mor, PiGo's kolhapuri chappals and a lot more.

In this week's episode of 'Paisa Vaisa', Host Anupam Gupta is joined by Ashish Singhal, Co-Founder and CEO at CoinSwitch Kuber. CoinSwitch Kuber is a secure, user-friendly platform for users in India where they can buy 100+ cryptocurrencies

In this special episode of BJPod, we are joined by two special guests from the popular Indian true crime podcast -- Khooni (https://podnews.net/podcast/1504912635). They discuss the true crime podcast genre, their planning, favorite episodes and a lot more. We then move on to BJPod political territory and discuss some mysterious deaths around the Ayodhya case in the latter half of the pod. 

In this week's episode of 'Paisa Vaisa', Host Anupam Gupta is joined by Sumit Gupta, Co-founder and CEO of CoinDCX. CoinDCX specializes in crypto enabled financial services by developing borderless financial services that ensure a faster,

In  this episode of the BJPod, we have new hosts and a few new  perspectives. In this iteration, our new hosts discuss the challenges  that face women pursuing a career in STEM in India. Starting from the  early motivating factors for a career in Science to the challenges that  come with being a minority in a typical engineering classroom, this pod  has it all. Also, how does it feel to be in an all-girls engineering  college? In the second segment of the pod, the hosts discuss the  questions that faced them while deciding to opt for higher education  overseas. Finally, they discuss how ultra-competitive workplaces can  often be insensitive to women without acknowledging it. As with all our  episodes, the hosts end with a discussion on how they found their  politics. All this and more, on this episode! 1.) http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.abstract1. Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students 2. Gender Bias at Work Turns Up in Feedback https://www.wsj.com/articles/gender-bias-at-work-turns-up-in-feedback-1443600759 3. Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty? http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/511799 4. The Paradox of Meritocracy in Organizations http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2189/asqu.2010.55.4.543 5. Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2465902 Fun bias test to take: click on the Gender-Science IAT here https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html