The Morning Brief

India has 80 million stray dogs and accounts for 30 percent of the world's rabies deaths. The Supreme Court's latest judgment proposes capturing and relocating strays from schools, hospitals, religious and tourism sites  but the experts on this episode argue it may do more harm than the problem it set out to solve. Host Anirban Chowdhury sits down with Gauri Maulekhi, Trustee of People for An...

Physical AI is being seen as the next frontier of artificial intelligence. Not AI that lives on screens. But AI that can navigate and operate in the real world — from humanoid robots and warehouses to factories and homes. But these systems need enormous amounts of real-world human activity data to learn movement and physical tasks. And increasingly, India is emerging as a low-cost training g...

 When the Chief Justice of India Surya Kant called young professionals “cockroaches,” he likely didn’t anticipate a political uprising on social media. Host Dia Rekhi speaks to Sudhanshu Kaushik,president and CEO of the Centre for Youth Policy and Political commentator and Visiting Fellow - India Foundation Rajat Sethi, about the party— a meme-turned-movement that amas...

Kerala has long been India’s healthcare model — high literacy, strong outcomes, a diaspora that pays for quality care. Now, private equity giants KKR and Blackstone are betting big on it, pumping nearly $900 million into the state’s hospitals in just two years. For global funds, the logic is simple: chronic disease, ageing patients, NRI money. For doctors like Charlie Cherian, wh...

HP’s MD and SVP for India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Ipsita Dasgupta joins ET’s Anirban Chowdhury in the latest Corner Office Conversation to discuss why India’s PC story is still in its early stages — and how AI PCs, creators, SMEs and students could drive the next wave of growth. She explains why HP sees “a PC in every child’s hands” as a national opportu...

The TCS Nashik case has become one of the most disturbing workplace harassment scandals in India’s recent corporate history. The NCW’s findings point to systemic intimidation, leadership failure, weak POSH implementation and a culture of silence inside a major listed company. In this episode, Anirban Chowdhury speaks to Aparna Mittal, Founder of Samāna Centre for Gender, Policy and Law...

India grows 40% of the world’s mangoes. Yet exports less than 1%. So where does the rest go? In this episode of The Morning Brief, Anirban Chowdhury and Forum Gandhi talk to T Damodaran, Director, ICAR-CISH, Jyotsna Kaur Habibullah, founder of Lucknow Mango Festival, Kaushal Khakhar,  CEO, Kay Bee Exports and mango farmers to unpack the hidden economics of India’s favourite fruit...

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says India could become Uber’s largest market globally over the next decade and on whether he is open to a partnership with Travis Kalanick. In this conversation with ET’s editor, ETtech.com , editor-startups, emerging business, new economy Samidha Sharma and Pranav Mukul, he explains Uber’s India strategy across AI, EVs, bike taxis, logistics, and auto...

Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh's under-construction capital, is still a landscape of earthmovers and iron poles — but its Quantum Valley is already drawing scientists and engineers from across India and abroad. Young engineers have left metro jobs, postdoctoral researchers have returned from the US, and retired scientists are converging on this unfinished city to work on quantum computing —...

India's biggest production houses are moving into micro-drama — but entering a format is very different from mastering it. In this episode of The Morning Brief, host Anirban Chowdhury, ET's in house film journalist and critic Rajesh Naidu and AI-native micro drama platform Dashverse founder Sanidhya Narain examine three defining tensions in the micro-drama space: whether the format can genui...

When a Prime Minister asks a billion people to stop buying gold, something has already broken. In this episode of The Morning Brief, host Anirban Chowdhury sits down with Suvankar Sen, MD and CEO of Senco Gold, Atmadip Ray, Senior Editor at The Economic Times, and Madan Sabnavis, Chief Economist at Bank of Baroda — on what actually happened to consumer demand the moment Modi spoke, why India...

Marico went on a shopping spree — three deals, 700 crores, three weeks. But is it swiftly reinventing itself for the TikTok generation, or a legacy FMCG giant papering over a slowing core with shiny digital acquisitions? MD and CEO Saugata Gupta makes his case to host and ET’s FMCG editor Ratna Bhushan — a 28-year-old average workforce, founders left to run free, and a digital bu...

A quiet revolution is underway in Indian oncology. Chinese-origin cancer drugs, brought to India through a growing number of pharma partnerships, are dramatically cutting the cost of immunotherapy — making treatment accessible to patients who previously had no options. Doctors are prescribing them, patients are responding well, and Indian companies — from Glenmark to Dr Reddy’s t...

When an AI system can autonomously find and exploit vulnerabilities at scale — who controls the risk? In this episode of The Morning Brief, host Anirban Chowdhury sits down with Gary Marcus, AI expert, scientist and author to examine Anthropic's Mythos — a frontier AI system built for defensive cybersecurity that has rattled governments, central banks, and security researchers worldwid...

China just surpassed the US as India's largest trading partner, with bilateral trade hitting $151 billion and a trade deficit that has ballooned to an all-time high of $112 billion. Beijing has also rolled out sweeping new supply chain rules that could penalise companies moving manufacturing out. So what does this mean for India? John Quelch, American President, Executive Vice Chancellor and Disti...

A political script has been torn up across India’s key states. Tamil Nadu sees actor Vijay’s TVK disrupt decades of Dravidian dominance. West Bengal delivers a stunning power shift as BJP ends a 15-year Trinamool rule. Assam doubles down on continuity, handing Himanta Biswa Sarma a third term and deepening BJP’s hold. And Kerala returns to its classic anti-incumbency cycle, givin...

She grew up navigating a war zone of a family home, arrived in Bombay with ₹50 lakhs borrowed from a neighbour, and watched her debut film get pulled from theatres the morning after India lost the cricket World Cup. That's where most stories end. Guneet Monga's was just beginning. In this candid, far-ranging conversation with ET’s Anirban Chowdhury and in-house film journalist and critic Raj...

She’s dressed in designer labels at a high-profile party. She runs a beauty parlour in northeast Delhi. She has a pistol in one hand and a social media following in the other. Meet India’s new women gangsters — educated, visible, and deeply embedded in the country’s most feared criminal networks. From Rajasthan to Delhi to gang bosses operating out of Portugal, this is a st...

Seven Rajya Sabha MPs quitting together is a structural rupture inside Aam Aadmi Party.  From Raghav Chadha’s distancing to the exit of key organisational architects like Sandeep Pathak, this episode traces how AAP moved from a high-moral insurgency in 2015 to a party battling credibility, governance questions, and leadership centralisation.  Anirban Chowdhury and ET’s Nidhi...

India's largest drugmaker, Sun Pharma, has announced the acquisition of US-based Organon in a landmark $11.75 billion all-cash deal, the biggest overseas purchase by an Indian company since Tata-Corus in 2007. The move effectively doubles Sun Pharma's size, vaulting it into the top 25 global pharmaceutical companies with combined revenues of $12.4 billion. Host Anirban Chowdhury talks to ET's phar...

West Bengal's 2026 elections should be a contest of ideas but on the ground, something far darker is unfolding. What emerges from ground reporting is not voters debating whom to choose, but fearing whether they'll be allowed to vote at all. Booth capturing, voter list manipulation, and intimidation have replaced genuine democratic exercise. While TMC faces anti-incumbency after 15 years and BJP pu...

Online dating has always been a grueling hustle, but a new, invisible third wheel has entered the chat: Artificial Intelligence. In this episode of ET Deep Dive, we explore how AI has quietly wedged itself into modern romance. From perfectly crafted opening lines to entirely automated textationships, lonely daters are now outsourcing their emotional labor and linguistic charm to chatbots. But what...

Tamil Nadu heads to the polls with its familiar two-party battle DMK vs AIADMK facing an unprecedented challenge. Actor-turned-politician Vijay and his party TVK are injecting fresh uncertainty into a state that has ritually voted out incumbents since 1967. With law and order, corruption, and drugs dominating voter anxieties, MK Stalin's "Dravidian model" faces a tough stress test. Vijay's caste-n...

India's medical tourism industry is in a quiet downturn. Foreign patient arrivals have fallen roughly a third since 2019 from nearly 700,000 visitors to around 500,000 dragged down by strained ties with Bangladesh, visa processing times stretching up to 60 days, and aggressive competition from Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. A tax incidence on medical referrals threatens to push costs higher ju...

India's wealthy are quietly trading flash for function. The luxury MPV — long dismissed as a hotel shuttle or family hauler — has become the unlikely status symbol of the country's new-money elite. Founders close funding rounds from reclining rear seats. Executives hold confidential meetings behind privacy partitions. Celebrities vanish into near-silent cabins. The Toyota Vellfire, Lex...