Indicast - Indians on India
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Indicast - Indians on India
Indicast is India's first multi person podcast and have been at it since 2005. We will be covering anything and everything that might be of interest to a listener of Indian origin so the topics range from Sonia to Sania. The podcast is a mix of english and hindi and we try to keep it very informal....
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Indicast #258: When diplomacy takes a walk
President Trump and President Zeleksky, in front of the world media, had a go at each other when they met on February 28th. The shouting match is not...
Indicast # 257: Stock market (gambling) soars
India's young adults are gambling their savings way in the stock markets. Researchers in Japan have figured out a way to regrow teeth. This month also...
Welcome 2025!
We pay tribute to tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain and former Indian prime minister, Dr Manmohan Singh who passed away recently. In sports, Dommaraju...
Indicast #255: India wins T20 World Cup
India beat South Africa to lift the T20 World Cup. The finals, at Barbados, was a closely fought affair with both sides being on top of the other thro...
Indicast #254: India loves gold
Gold prices touched a record high last month. We talk about India's fascination with gold. Jim Simons, arguably the world's most successful investor d...
Indicast #253: Democracy counts, for whatever it’s worth
India delivers a shock verdict to the Bharatiya Janata Party during the general elections. Narendra Modi’s BJP has done remarkably well and only lost...
Indicast #252: The solar eclipse saga
How does it feel to witness a solar eclipse? Aditya tells us his experience in this podcast where we dig into trivia and history of this beautiful ast...
Indicast #251: India's Chess grandmasters rise
The Candidates Tournament is among the world’s most recognised Chess contests. This time round India has as many as five grandmasters competing for th...
Indicast #250: What social media does to our brains
Florida just passed a bill proposing to ban access to social media for kids under the age of 14. What does social media addiction do to our brains? We...
Indicast #249: RIP Ameen Sayani
It’s the end of an era. Ameen Sayani recently passed away. His voice lives on. In this podcast we talk a bit about how he started in the radio industr...
Indicast #248: India's Supreme Court bans electoral bonds
India's Supreme Court vetoed a scheme that allowed folks to donate to political parties anonymously. Among the more popular vehicles was the electoral...
Indicast #247: Deep fake is on steroids
Deep fake is a real and present threat to humanity. With India's general election round the corner, the government has urged both social media platfor...
Indicast #246: Clowning glory
After 17 harrowing days 41 men were rescued from a collapsed tunnel in Uttarkhand. It was one heck of an effort. The International Clown festival conc...
Indicast #245: How the Ukraine war has impacted Surat's diamond industry
Surat's diamond industry has suffered from the prolonged war in Ukraine. Nine out ten diamonds on the planet are polished in the diamond capital of In...
Indicast #244: India loves junk food
India has a junk food problem. It is a big one. In this episode we talk a bit about why that is happening and some of the science behind it all. And h...
Indicast #243: India embraces IVF
Firstly, a very Happy Diwali to everyone. Indian couples are increasingly embracing In Vitro Fertilization, often the last hope for having a baby. Whi...
Indicast #242: India wants Bharat or does it
It has been quite the year. And some of it has been rather grim. The Israel and Hamas conflict has been deadly. Thousands of civilians have lost their...
Indicast #241: The Adani Way
The Adani Group has been hit with a bunch of allegations from Hindenburg Research, an American investment firm that specialises in making bets against...
Indicast #240: India's census is delayed again
Once in ten years India conducts a massive exercise to count its population and collect vital data about its citizens. This time round the census, nor...
Indicast #239: That sinking feeling
Joshimath in the Himalayas is sinking. With cracks all over buildings, hotels and streets, the place may crumble any moment. We segue into the tallest...
Indicast #238: India's oddly terrifying dead-ends
As Covid-19 ravages China, many countries, including India, brace themselves and start taking adequate measures. Whereas the death toll from covid may...
Indicast #237: Welcome 2023!
As 2022 drew to a close, another sporting legend passed away. We pay a small tribute to Pele who brought football to millions of homes and made it the...
Indicast #236: How prodigies work
Rishi Rajpopat, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge solved a 3,500 year old Sanskrit puzzle. We scratched our heads to understand how folks l...
Indicast #235: All eyes on Qatar
The World Cup is round the corner. The world's biggest spectacle is also mired with controversies, some of which we talk about in this episode. A vill...
Indicast #234: Of bat, ball and British politics
After a year-long nap, we are back to cover some familiar ground by talking a bit about the ongoing ICC T20 Men's Cricket World Cup. Zimbabwe and Indi...
Indicast #233: India at COP26
IA very Happy belated Diwali to one and all. As COP26 draws to a close, countries make their promises and hope to keep them to make a difference to th...
Indicast #232: Of Air India and love hotels
In an episode which is all over the place, we start with what on earth are NFTs or Non Fungible Tokens. Aditya is excited about Air India being taken...
Indicast #231: Cryptocurrency craze in India
John Oliver once quipped that cryptocurrency is everything that you do not understand about money combined with everything you do not understand about...
Indicast #230: An Olympics special
Once in four years, athletes from around the world compete for the highest honour. Men and women train in all sorts of conditions in their homeland fo...
Indicast #229: Indian tech IPOs and remembering Danish Siddiqui
It is raining Unicorns in India. In just this week, Zomato went public, Paytm sought a nod from its shareholders to list on the stock exchange and Mob...
Indicast #228: Sports Day
In this episode we pay tribute to Doordarshan while talking about the incomparable Dilip Kumar, cabinet reshuffle by Narendra Modi in wake of rising c...
Indicast #227: Long live languages
Kannada went viral a few days ago when Google thought it to be the ugliest language in India. We saw this as an excuse to talk about quirky languages,...
Indicast #226: The second wave is on its way out
In which we talk about the second wave of covid-19 in India, heroes who saved lives, Lagaan's 20th anniversary, Kerela's one bottle one person alcohol...
Indicast #225: The Great Indian Vaccine Roll out
Few countries can match India on scale and complexity of a nationwide rollout of any item under the sun. Be it the general elections or the covid-19 i...
Indicast #224: India thump Australia
A depleted Indian team beat a full-strength Australian line up in what will rank as among the best Test Series of all time. For those who grew up in t...
Indicast #223: Crazy stock market valuations
Burger King's stock climbed by over 265 per cent soon after its IPO. Breakdance will feature as a sport at the Olympics in Paris 2024. Gitanjali Rao w...
Indicast #222: A vaccine, finally
The Pfizer BioNtech vaccine was authorised in the UK and the US. The worlds most exceptional teacher was awarded to Ranjitsinh Disale, a 32 year old t...
Indicast #221: RIP Diego Maradona
Jadhav Payeng, the forest man of India made it in the curriculum of an American school, giving us an excuse to talk about him. Diego Maradona passed a...
Indicast #220: Get married. Get paid
The Odisha government announced an incentive of Rs. 250,000 to promote inter caste marriage. Same sex couples tied the knot for a first time in Taiwan...
Indicast #219: Whose Basmati is it anyway?
In this podcast, we talk about Pakistan contesting Indias claim for an exclusive Geographical Indication tag to Basmati rice in the European Union. Re...