Best Khichdi Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 6: Marinations ft. Chef Shipra Mathur 49:45

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Sylvia Boorstein said, "The mind is like tofu, it tastes like whatever you marinate it in!" And truly, Marination is the god's gift to the mankind, the secret to scrumptious delicious food! Tune in to this episode as I am joined by renowned and award winning HomeChef, Chef Shipra Mathur and we talk all about marinations, what they are, what are the…

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Episode 5: Meal Prep- A banter Ft. Laila Zafar 1:25:48

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Hey guys, so this weeks topic is my personal favourite to talk about, it changed the way i looked and planned ahead for my week, and was a total life saver, as it was for our special guest this week, Laila Zafar, a desi single super mom, a lawyer, and manages a community support group called - “The Village” for single parents to uproot stigmas agai…

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Season 2 Trailer 4:20

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Hey guys, here’s a sneak peak into the brand new season 2 of The Ultimo Pasto Podcast, where we take further what we started in season 1, just bigger & better ❤️ join me each week, Saturdays at 5pm IST as we become better cooks together 🥰 Contact me @ultimopastostudio on IG, or mail me at [email protected] Ciao Ciao. 🌸--- Send in a voice mess…

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Episode 4: Sandwiches- what’s in them? ft. Chef Babu Nagarajan 27:44

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We have all had been in a hunger crises where we wanted something filling (mentally and physically 🙈) yet did not want to cook! Well, here’s a simple solution, Sandwiches!! Tune in to this season’s finale, as I talk with my mentor, Chef Babu Nagarajan who has had more than 15 years of diverse experience in the industry and an extensive exposure to …

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Episode 3: Khichdi- The edible gold ft. Chef Ajai Sharma 29:29

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The good old humble khichdi, as we know it, is very forgiving! Well, you’ll have to tune in into this one to know more as I invite my dear friend, Chef Ajai Sharma who helps me to break some misconceptions about this underrated delicacy and explore it’s rich culture and heritage in India as well as around the world! So make sure to tune in!! 😄Find …

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Episode 2: Is Buckwheat really worth the effort? 21:40

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Buckwheat aka Kuttu is such a humble ingredient to cook with. It’s versatility and various health benefits truly makes it a superfood! Tune in to this episode as we talk all about it’s ancient history, production, origin, health benefits, how it is a staple ingredient in so many cultures and most importantly cooking techniques, tips and tricks! Als…

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Episode 1: What is Al-Dente? 15:34

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Welcome to Ultimo Pasto. 🌸 Tune in to this week's episode to explore in depth about Pasta and cooking, what exactly is Al-Dente, what are it's classic signs, what is the impact of choice of flour, kneading technique, amount of salt, oil, cooking time, etc on perfectly cooked plate of Al-Dente Pasta. Learn about nutrition, GI and impact on health w …

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A sneak peak 4:26

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Ultimo Pasto (Trailer) 0:59

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196: PDP-BJP: From a “Coalition of Hope” to “Coalition of Fear” 5:25

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Unquestionably, the Mufti-Modi Pact to create the PDP-BJP coalition government on 1 March 2015 was a Coalition of Immense Hope. Unfortunately, in three years, it had transgressed into a "Coalition of Fear."By The Quint

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212: Don’t Fall for the ‘GDP Growth’ Jumla Ahead of 2019 Elections 5:40

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government treats Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, as the God of all economic success. PM Modi cherry-picked and talked about all the good stuff, but "overlooked" many troublesome facts, about India’s economy. Here's a reminder from Raghav Bahl.By The Quint

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230: PM Modi Should Control Clumsy Propagandists Lest They Do More Harm 6:54

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248: 3 Reasons a 2019 ‘Khichdi’ Coalition Could Be a Political Delicacy 5:25

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2019 coalition government: In an eerie replay of 1996, the BJP could become the single largest party, the Congress could come in second and a clutch of regional parties could dice the remaining seats. Here are three reasons why the 2019 "khichdi"coalition could be a political delicacy.By The Quint

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1: 3 Reasons a 2019 ‘Khichdi’ Coalition Could Be a Political Delicacy 6:23

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Khichdi is also a colloquial description of weak coalition governments. The phrase acquired wide currency during 1996-97, when unstable United Front regimes were formed during a sickly interregnum in India’s democracy. Today it’s back in vogue, with several pundits wondering if the 2019 polls shall throw up another khichdi coalition.Listen to The Q…

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249: Listen: How Did The Critic Become the Enemy in Indian Politics 5:34

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On 28 July, the man responsible for securing our telecom and broadcast infrastructure, RS Sharma revealed his Aadhaar ID number and dared hackers to “harm”, but did he accept his defeat with humility?Listen to The Quint’s Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl talk about the culture of intimation in our current political environment.…

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250: Indian TV Channels Cower as Post-Trump US Media Puts Up a Fight 6:39

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President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hugely dissimilar personalities in outward conduct – one writes crude tweets, the other remains strategically silent – have nonetheless created equally polarised democracies ten thousand miles apart. And what about their attitude towards independent news platforms? Listen to The Quint's Edito…

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251: Battleground 2019: What DUSU, Bypolls & ‘Peak Modi’ Indicate 6:53

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The University of Delhi (DU) immeasurably helped create Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political brand. His sprint towards the stunning 2014 victory had begun on 6 February 2013 at DU’s Shri Ram College of Commerce.By The Quint

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252: IL&FS Lessons for Modi From Two Singhs – Manmohan & Jaswant 6:22

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Ironically, Prime Minister Modi needs to take lessons from the swift, decisive actions of two politicians he holds in disdain, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Finance Minister Jaswant Singh, says The Quint's founder Raghav Bahl.By The Quint

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253: Oil, Rupee, IL&FS: Why is Modi Not Using Brahmastra? 8:42

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Brahmastra, in the Mahabharata, is a “single projectile that is able to destroy the Universe”. Lord Rama is thought to have used it in his last battle with Ravana. Now let’s put it in context of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.After four years of a blessed existence, Modi is facing his first acute economic challenge. Today, India is again…

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254: Did PM Modi Unwittingly Help Cronies, Punish Investors Over IL&FS? 8:02

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By not going for a TARP-like bailout, Prime Minister Modi has given an extra gain of Rs 30,000 cr to crony capitalists who allowed IL&FS to crash, while levying an extra tax of Rs 2,00,000 cr on ordinary/innocent investors, like you and me. The above is very simple arithmetic, but a team of IAS babus (bureaucrats) will never understand it, because …

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255: From Statue of Unity to RBI-Rift, Here’s How Modi Steered Both 7:12

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As a Bollywood narrator would say, in dono stories main Modi hai, Patel hai, RSS hai, aur cash bhi hai! But there is a tiny difference between the two, and that is the letter ‘t’. You see, one was about a Statue, the other about a Statute.Prime Minister Modi helmed and orchestrated both the stories. In the first one, he redeemed his 6-year-old pled…

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256: Lutyens’ Delhi Made Modi in 2014, Will it Break Him in 2019? 6:10

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The Quint's Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl argues that Lutyens’ Delhi did more to propel Modi into the PMO and may even be able to bring him down in 2019\. Tune in to this edition of Raghav's Take.By The Quint

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257: Modi Sir, Your TV Pals Messed up Priyanka Gandhi’s Political Entry 6:10

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Priyanka Gandhi’s entry into active politics brought on a plethora of nervous and panicked responses from the BJP and several “star journalists”. But the Modi government’s uncouth television henchmen will bring Rahul Gandhi’s Congress roaring back to life, says Raghav Bahl. Listen to the podcast!By The Quint

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258: Modi Sir, Kudos on Your First Post-Truth Budget ! 6:08

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi loves to talk up all his “pioneering firsts”. Well, he’s now added a truly lethal one to that arsenal – India’s first post-truth Budget!Exactly 18 hours before the Budget was presented in Parliament, India dramatically upped its previous two years’ GDP numbers. Ironically, the most brazen “upgrade” was reserved for 2016…

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259: Dear Akhilesh, Introduce Rahul and Priyanka to Deputy PM Mayawati 7:37

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On this episode of Raghav’s Take, The Quint’s Editor-in-Chief, Raghav Bahl explains how SP chief Akhilesh Yadav can unite Mayawati, Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, to pose a formidable threat to the Modi-led BJP in the 2019 General elections.By The Quint

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260: Will Modi Pull Off an Indira (1971) or Tank Like Vajpayee (2004) 6:51

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For those who haven’t heard, a political debate is raging on whether the 2019 elections will be modelled on 1971, when Indira Gandhi trounced a hasty, ill-matched Opposition alliance, or on 2004, when the “invincible” Vajpayee crumbled before a seemingly weak, incoherent patchwork of parties.As with Modi in 2019, both elections were fought by tower…

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261: China, the Centrist Superpower in the India-Pakistan Dogfight 6:15

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Never waste a good crisis! Because what we weathered this week was a blood-curdling dogfight between India and Pakistan that could have nuked half the global population in and around South Asia. I concede there is an element of exaggeration here, but big wars often get triggered by tiny accidents of judgement. So better to exaggerate than get tortu…

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262: “De-hyphenate” Pakistan; Learn From the China/Taiwan Standoff 6:27

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In the late 1940s, India and China won independence from colonial rule. While the trajectories of their respective freedom movements were quite different, there was one remarkable similarity. Both broke up into two enemy nations apiece, China/Taiwan and India/Pakistan. For seven decades now, these pairs of estranged siblings have stayed implacable …

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263: Part 1: Modi Raj’s 4 Economic Reforms in 5 Years is Unflattering 6:06

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi 1.0 is done. With the Model Code of Conduct for the general elections now in force, his first innings has effectively ended. As he pitches to get re-elected, we should call in his report card. Tune in to Raghav's Take!By The Quint

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264: Dear Rahul, You’ve Done NYAY (Justice), Now Give UMMEED (Hope) 6:47

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Congress President Rahul Gandhi's NYAY (Nyuntam Aay Yojana, or Minimum Income Plan), which involves giving Rs 72,000 each to five crore poor families, is a big political idea for the 2019 polls that sent BJP political heavyweights into a panic mode. Is the NYAY scheme actually feasible? The Quint's Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl explains how it can be…

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265: PM Modi, Surgically Erase 10 Economic Stats if You Return 8:24

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The prequel to this podcast analyses the four economic reforms that this writer is willing to acknowledge under Modi 1.0; towards the end, the article lists three other data points – on FDI, bond and equity issuances – that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been spinning at business summits to fortify his “economic dynamism.”In this sequel, The Quin…

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266: Dear PM Modi, Take a Trip From Wayanad to Rampur Via Chicago 5:22

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Why is Prime Minister Narendra Modi castigating Rahul Gandhi for “running away from majority-dominated areas” to “take refuge in areas where the majority is in minority” (read Wayanad in Kerala)?The naked implication was that Gandhi had somehow demeaned himself, committed blasphemy, by espousing the cause of minorities.In this podcast the Quint’s E…

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267: Did Modi Use Akshay Kumar to Neutralise Political Frankenstein(s)? 6:32

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I am still reeling from Prime Minister Modi’s iconic, monumental (no, HE is not going to be happy with only two bombastic adjectives, so here goes a third), and “path-breaking” interview to Twinkle’s hubby. While everybody is scratching their heads over the “big why”, I think I’ve got it figured out. It was a clever (synonymously also desperate) pl…

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268: Maulana Azad, the ‘Default’ Political Visionary of Elections 2019 5:26

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Maulana Abul Kalam Azad made a default entry in India’s savagely polarised polls of 2019\. Because the irrepressible Shatrughan Sinha made an awful faux pas at an election rally, where he included Jinnah, along with Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Indira and Rajiv, as “respected members of the Congress family who built our nation”. This gave the BJP very pot…

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269: India Should Muster the Nerve to Go Ahead & Launch Sovereign Bonds 6:27

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India’s forex reserves are nearly $430 bn and growing. If we can’t muster the stomach to raise $10 billion in the overseas market, let’s just quit. Raghav Bahl (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23RaghavBahl) backs Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s proposal on sovereign bonds.By The Quint

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270: Measuring Modi-Shah’s Kashmir Gamble on Mandate, Method & Morality 5:23

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11:15 am, 5 August 2019. I stood stunned and immersed in a time-lapse video as Home Minister Amit Shah read out the Resolution abolishing Article 370 and the state of Jammu & Kashmir in Rajya Sabha. If you were a liberal, you castigated, by rote – “the Kashmir Valley will now become India’s Gaza”. If a conservative, you celebrated, almost crudely –…

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271: The Diary of An Unfortunate Indian Entrepreneur 5:49

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As always, the strapping 40-year-old swept into his corner room in a Gift City high-rise with the practised, breezy “I love Monday morning” air from his early Manhattan days. He was a celebrated first-generation entrepreneur, but in India he never took his Silicon Valley title of Founder-CEO; instead, he was simply PuFf, a dandy acronym for Pradhan…

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272: What I Wish PM Modi Had Said But Didn’t In Independence Day Speech 7:39

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Main jaanta hoon ki aaj desh ek aarthik mandhi main hai; lekin main 130 crore desh vaasiyon ko yeh vishwaas deta hoon ki hum jald hi isko aarthik josh main badal dengey! (I know that we are currently in the grip of an economic slowdown; but I want to assure my 130 cr fellow Indians that we shall soon convert this gloom into economic optimism!)I was…

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273: A Navratri (Nine-Point) Economic Re-Boot for a ‘Puritan’ Modi 7:43

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In Prime Minister Modi’s unexpected, stirring commendation of “wealth creators” – most tellingly, by using popular English terminology, instead of conjuring up a Hindi equivalent like poonji utpadak (as he is wont to do) – he was signaling a reach-out to new-gen entrepreneurs and elite business-people who have gotten estranged from him.And by obliq…

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274: RIP Dear Arun Jaitley Ji, My Tribute to an Exceptional Schoolmate 11:14

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Raghav Bahl pays tribute to former finance minister Arun Jaitley, recalling his meetings with his exceptional Xaverian schoolmate, who always greeted with a smile.By The Quint

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275: India’s Best Post-Brexit Bet is the “Zombie” Commonwealth! 6:47

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As tensions mount in sadda, aapro, aamchi (ie, “our” in what the Brits would have once called “three dialects of the natives”) London, how should India respond to this flurry of will-or-won’t-Britain-do-a-Brexit?As a nation, our feelings toward our former colonisers are complicated at best. For better and worse, the British profoundly shaped modern…

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276: Dear FM, Here Are 3 Tax Cuts the Common People Would Welcome More 7:13

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Finally. Finally! The Modi government has acknowledged the futility of trying to pump prime India’s GDP by ever-escalating government expenditure, which increased by an astonishing double-digit CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) over six years of impotent growth. Remember, Indian governments drive only 10 percent of our economy – worse, they do s…

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277: PMC Scam: Shameful to Promise Just Rs 1 Lakh Insurance to Victims 7:29

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The PMC Bank scam was more audacious than any Bonnie and Clyde heist. A high-living father-son duo, Rakesh and Sarang Wadhawan, had 44 bank accounts in a loosely regulated outfit in Mumbai called Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative Bank. They used these accounts to suck out nearly Rs 6500 crore, a mind-boggling 73% of the total loan book of the ill-fa…

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278: Why I Call Maha, Haryana Polls ‘Juggernaut-Stoppers’: 6 Takeaways 8:37

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I know that adjectives like “milestone”, “game changer” and “watershed” are frequently used after polls that throw up contrarian, unexpected results. But even adjusting for this caveat, I would call the October 2019 mini national elections a “juggernaut stopper”. Tune in to this podcast for my six takeaways from the recent state elections.…

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279: Soaring Markets & Slowdown Caused by Lingering Confusion in Policy 7:46

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Coal output crashes by over 20 percent. Overall, eight core sectors lose a stunning 5.2 percent year-on-year over September 2018, contracting to an 8-year low. GDP hits a 6-year low. And yet, India’s stock markets hit an all-time high!Why, you ask?To understand this conundrum, let’s dial back a few months, to May 2019. Everybody thought that a stru…

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280: Dear PM Modi: Crack This Quiz & Fix the Economy 8:06

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India’s economy today can be described by a four-letter word. Oh c’mon, it’s not what you are thinking… Even the sarkari (government-owned) State Bank of India says that GDP growth could fall to around four percent when the July-September number is revealed, that’s what!And as usually happens in an acute crisis, everybody and her aunt is offering s…

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281: Let’s Not Waste a Good Maharashtra Political Crisis 8:30

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The Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress coalition in Maharashtra is perhaps the second most ‘unthinkable’ political alliance in India, next only to the most incompatible BJP-PDP coalition in Jammu & Kashmir, that ended with devastating consequences.So, what are the lessons from this most unusual, 80-hour-long Maharashtra political fiasco?Tune in to Raghav'…

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282: Terrific Reforms, But Beware of ‘BABU-JAAL’ — Bureaucratic Cobwebs 7:43

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For over five years, I’ve criticised ‘state creep’ on Prime Minister Modi’s watch. This tendency hit a crescendo on 5 July 2019, when the second Modi regime’s first budget was read out in parliament. While that document was riddled with state over-reach, I will remind you only of the most egregious measure: a voluntary contribution under CSR (corpo…

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283: Budget 2020: Don’t Give Tax & Fiscal Cuts — Just Give Us ‘TRUST’ 11:38

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It’s a familiar cacophony. Cut taxes. Invert the inverted duty structure. Control the fiscal deficit. Be honest about your arithmetic. Abolish equity taxes. Step up government expenditure, the fisc be damned. Bring back investment allowance. Slap inheritance taxes... And on it goes, a laundry list of standard policy tactics which could revive India…

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10 Questions 20:34

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Get ready to laugh and to know your hosts a WHOLE lot better! In this episode, Neha, Fahad and Rimaz put each other on the spot with 10 random questions. From pick up lines to stalking ex’s, listen in for a good laugh.