Daybreak Podcast Transcripts
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After making a fortune at the dock, Adani's next bet is a fleet of 100 ships going offshore
October 19, 2026
Snigdha Sharma (0:00)
In October last year, in the sea between Sicily and Malta, a ship called Energy Savannah slowed down to less than one knot. That is slower than my walking pace. And then something even more curious happened. The ship stayed there for more than seven days. It was not a dock or a port, it was just a narrow strait of…
For nearly three decades, Adani's port business began at the exact moment the ship docked and the cargo started moving. But now, one of its newest vessels seems to be in no hurry to reach a port at all.
- After making a fortune at the dock, Adani's next bet is a fleet of 100 ships going offshore
- Air India needs saving. Singapore Airlines is playing saviour
- What happens when you put Indian business on a 2x2?
- India’s food inflation has layers. The onion is only the first
- 7-Eleven promised "Everything essential". It still lost to India's corner shops
- Bollywood wants to offend nobody. AI is happy to help
- Why your next IIT, IIM reunion will feel like a sales pitch
- Apple and Google's app stores are the next battleground for protests
- Nike needs India’s sneaker heads. But do they need Nike?
- Delhi built a ‘safe’ surveillance city. It can now locate anyone in seconds
- How Flipkart Minutes became the company's redemption arc
- How much breathing room does your power supply actually have?
- Ekta Kapoor built her own OTT app. Now she's betting on YouTube
- Can India build a ‘UPI’ for your cows and your gold?
- AI is Bollywood's cheapest new hire
- UPI is the trojan horse taking small banks into HDFC, Axis's credit-card empire
- How India's rich are finding returns in the country's court backlog
- Amazon’s quick-commerce win will be less about speed and more about Prime
- One year of GST 2.0. Who's it working for?
- A cancelled peptide party, and the questions it raised that Indian sellers still can't answer
- Why Indigo went budget and premium at once
- India's newest iPhone prices hurt the people selling them, buying them and even taxing them
- 7.8% growth. So why doesn't India feel richer?
- Your kids might be looting your bank account in the guise of gaming
- India's data law has HDFC Bank, Amazon, Paytm, and others shopping for consent
- This week in AI: activist robots, doom-laden researchers — so who's the good guy?
- India has more tourists than ever. So why is tourism in trouble?
- The govt sold Air India to escape its problems. The fix is to buy back in
- Nykaa cracked fashion at last. Myntra sees no reason to panic
- Rapido broke the ride-hailing duopoly. Now it's coming for Zomato and Swiggy
- India's call centres are using AI to make agents sound American
- Meta's $18 billion child-safety settlement has India looking for the wrong answer
- India got cheap Ozempic. No one knows how to sell it
- A worker-owned Uber is India's fix for its ever-expanding gig workforce
- The best savings product your bank offers is the one it advertises less
- The great Indian sugar trap: how a decade of surplus left India with nothing to spare
- Welcome to the 'brain gym': DIY neurotech is now in India, no prescription required
- Banks are being asked to become “cool” for Gen Z. Their problem isn't branding
- Ten minutes to your door, no minutes to clean
- India trains more ethical hackers than anywhere else. It just can't give them a reason to stay
- India's $60 billion data-center bet, and the jobs it won't actually create
- India cracked the code on microdramas. It also cracked the timer
- The more AI can do your job, the safer it may be
- LLMs are the new pied pipers of the stock market
- India banned Chinese drones. Army, CRPF, and BSF can’t stop using them
- Anthropic just made Claude-assisted content traceable. Not everyone is happy
- Did your ticket to The Odyssey cost a bomb? Blame Hollywood's China problem
- Your money is already talking to AI
- Casual dining doesn't scale like fast food. Bharti is betting on Olive Garden anyway
- Where to invest Rs 1 lakh, Rs 10 lakh, Rs 1 crore
- How some RBI-licensed NBFCs charge 600% interest and stay legal
- Zepto beat Instamart. It still couldn't beat the market
- India's retirement crisis belongs to the young
- India’s study-abroad lenders are forced to choose their plan B. It's India
- Assam's tech dreams run on water that drowns it every year
- Why Indian pharma isn't scared of a 100% tariff (yet)
- Burger King India finally works but its stock still refuses to celebrate
- IT jobs are being remade. Accenture and TCS are the first dominoes to fall
- From Bengaluru to Mumbai to Pune, metro projects are colliding with India’s monsoons
- Third Wave built a coffee brand. Now it's betting against it
- OpenAI's next product is a companion. Its own research says that's the problem
- India's monopoly moment
- AI gets its health advice from hospitals. Hospitals get it from AI. Neither is right
- $15 billion in security deposits: India's tenants are their landlords' cheapest lenders
- Cred’s first profitable quarter comes with a trade-off. No, not Kunal Shah
- Indian broadcasters are pouring money into reality TV. Netflix's collapsing second seasons show why
- Adani made his billions from ports. His new bet is far from the shore
- Inside India’s 90-day countdown for CBSE schools to embrace AI
- Miss a smartphone EMI, and your lender can now wirelessly strip the ‘smart’ out of it
- For India's e-rickshaws, price decides what's safe and virality decides if anyone cares
- WhatsApp wants businesses to have a username. It hasn't said who's protected from fakes
- Optimist wants to reinvent the AC. Daikin and LG don’t need to
- The world's largest advertising agency made $20 billion last year. You've probably never heard of Accenture Song
- Daybreak Friday: UPI blinks, Google faces a $4.7B fine, LIC to shoulder India's oil bill, and more
- Karnataka let gig workers ask their apps a question. Swiggy, Zomato took the whole law to court
- AI is eating your phone's memory and hiking up prices. No, festive sales can't save you either
- A royal family’s billion-dollar bet on Indian startups—without a winner
- How many ‘bad’ schools make a good private equity investment?
- A new class of gig-workers in India are teaching robots to do the dishes
- Why Instagram wants to be on your TV now
- India's IT sector bet its future on AI access it doesn't actually control
- Google and Perplexity paid Jio and Airtel a fortune to reach Indian users. OpenAI paid nobody
- Why Mamaearth's 2022 bet on a little-known drone startup is paying off in unexpected places and for unexpected players
- India built UPI for the economy. Gamblers built an economy on UPI
- When the monsoon fails, India's AI dreams fail with it
- Zepto's DRHP underlines the inevitable cost at the heart of quick commerce
- Sovereign AI, American law
- Why Amazon seems so calm about being awfully late to quick commerce
- Can Adani do with apples what Mahindra did with grapes?
- India's mango paradox
- Analysts say gas prices are about to crash. India still can't afford to celebrate
- LIC has lost its throne to SIPs. It’s still the smartest investor in the room
- NEET’s switch from pen-and-paper to computer: damned if you do, damned if you don’t
- Why Big Tech is tokenmaxxed out
- Google is now Andhra Pradesh's first private electricity company. You'll be paying for that
- The AI gold rush is over. The emperors are cashing out
- Ola’s investors want out. Bhavish Aggarwal won’t let go
- How lenders like Navi resort to extreme borrower surveillance to keep their A game on
- Sachin Bansal’s loan offer: take money, let Navi peek into your bank account for years
- Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s loss—20M Paytm Fastags—is his ex-colleague’s gain
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