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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.
Episodes
The Morning BriefIndian Aviation’s Biggest CEO Shake-Up
In a single month, India's two largest airlines lost their CEOs. Pieter Elbers was pushed out of IndiGo following a catastrophic December 2025 meltdown that…
The Morning BriefET Deep Dive: The Menopause Reckoning
For generations, Indian women moved through perimenopause and menopause in silence — misdiagnosed, dismissed, or simply left to figure it out alone…
The Morning BriefIndia wants manufacturing at 25% of GDP — will AI in factories help?
What does it take to move India's manufacturing from 16% to 25% of GDP? Two industry heavyweights, Vinod Kumar, Partner & Leader – Manufacturing, PwC…
The Morning BriefFor India’s Exporters, It’s One Battle After Another
As global tensions ripple through trade, Indian exporters are beginning to feel the strain. In this episode of The Morning Brief, host Anirban Chowdhury speaks…
The Morning BriefTwo 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…
The Morning BriefPolls 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 for Tarun…
The Morning BriefPharma'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 Sujay…
The Morning BriefDeep 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…
The Morning BriefCricket & 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 of Bharat…
The Morning BriefPolls 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 upheaval…
The Morning BriefTanay 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 that…
The Morning BriefCan 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…
The Morning BriefIran 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 already…
The Morning BriefMarkets 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 markets editor…
The Morning BriefHDFC’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…
The Morning BriefCorner 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 the…
The Morning BriefFrom 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 a…
The Morning BriefSemaglutide 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 potentially…
The Morning BriefWho 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 to fill…
The Morning BriefIndia 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 pulling…
The Morning BriefSPRs 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 Rapidan Energy…
The Morning BriefBanned 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 Parimatch and…
The Morning BriefWomen 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 gaps in…
The Morning BriefWendy 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 Web…
The Morning BriefWhat 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 involving…
The Morning BriefUS–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…
The Morning BriefAI 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 Anirban…
The Morning BriefStuart 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 happens…
The Morning BriefArvind 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 leader and…
The Morning BriefCourt 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…
The Morning BriefCorner 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…
The Morning BriefIndia 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 for…
The Morning BriefIndia 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 Networks…
The Morning BriefIndia 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 Agarwal and…
The Morning BriefIndia 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 Agarwal…
The Morning BriefAnthropic’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…
The Morning BriefAI 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 cloud…
The Morning BriefA 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 with Woochong Um…
The Morning BriefCorner 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. Handpicked by…
The Morning BriefExplaining 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 unexplained…
The Morning BriefSpace 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…
The Morning BriefThe 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 Brief…
The Morning BriefCorner 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 a former…
The Morning BriefIndo-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 committed to…
The Morning BriefTamil Nadu 2026: Can Stardom Trump Strategy?
Tamil Nadu's 234-seat assembly election hinges on an unprecedented question: can superstar Vijay's TVK disrupt the established DMK-AIADMK duopoly? Host Anirban…
The Morning BriefWhy Are Labour Laws Denting Corporate Profits?
India's new labor codes just cost three companies in corporate India over ₹4,373 crore in a single quarter. TCS, Infosys, and HCLTech are reeling from…
The Morning BriefCapital Pains: Budget 2026's Loud Silences
No big changes—but does that hide the biggest shifts? Budget 2026 surprised few with bold moves, yet its quiet continuity may reshape how India's…
The Morning BriefFast, Not Furious: DTDC’s Case Against the 10-Minute Delivery Rush
As India’s quick-commerce frenzy collides with labour unrest and tightening economics, the race for ever-faster deliveries is being forced to slow down…
The Morning BriefWhy are Music Labels Buying Into Film Companies?
Are music labels about to dictate the terms of Indian cinema? What began as strategic investments—Saregama's ₹325 crore stake in Sanjay Leela Bhansali…
The Morning BriefGold Crosses $5,000, Silver Doubles:What Investors Need to Know
India's precious metals explosion defies gravity as equities stumble. While the Nifty crawls at 10.5% and bleeds 4% this year, gold has rocketed from $2,700 to…
The Morning BriefCorner Office Conversation With Prashant Warier, Ankit Modi and Preetham Putha of Qure.ai
Qure.ai is transforming routine medical imaging into early disease detection at unprecedented scale. Processing nearly 1,000 patients per hour across 105…
The Morning BriefET@Davos: Demis Hassabis on China, Apple and AGI
In this episode of ET@Davos, ET’s Sruthijith KK speaks to Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Laureate 2024, on the future of AI. The chess…
The Morning BriefET@Davos: Andrew Ng on Why Millions Are Already Unhireable
In this episode, ET's Executive Editor Sruthijith KK sits down with AI pioneer Andrew Ng, Founder of DeepLearning.AI, for a critical conversation on India's…
The Morning BriefWhat Went Wrong With India's Most Reliable Rocket?
India's most trusted rocket, the PSLV, has experienced something unprecedented: back-to-back failures in May 2025 and January 2026, both involving mysterious…
The Morning BriefIran On The Edge
Iran's current crisis isn't just another protest cycle, it's a convergence of systemic failures. A decades-old illusion of invincibility crumbled when…
The Morning BriefBRICS at the Helm: India’s Moment, and Its Multilateral Test
India assumes the BRICS chair amid profound contradiction. What began as an emerging economies coalition has become an unwieldy 10-nation bloc including Gulf…
The Morning BriefET in the Valley: Apoorva Pandhi, MD at Zetta Venture Partners
Silicon Valley is experiencing its biggest platform shift in decades, but beneath the frenzy lies a brutal correction in progress. An early-stage AI investor…
The Morning BriefIndia's Mega QSR Merger
India's quick service restaurant sector witnessed a seismic shift as Devyani International and Sapphire Foods merged to create the country's largest listed QSR…
The Morning BriefCorner Office Conversation with Girish Tanti, Co-Founder & Vice Chairman, Suzlon
Suzlon Energy controls a third of India's wind market, but co-founder and vice chairman Girish Tanti isn't celebrating. In this conversation with host Anirban…
The Morning BriefInside Snowflake's AI Strategy
Five years after a splashy IPO and amid a bruising market reset, Sridhar Ramaswamy is steering Snowflake through a defining moment for enterprise technology…