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Work from home has always been there. 15, 20 percent used to always. Most organisations used to keep a 15, 20 percent headcount buffer. If they needed 100 seats, they hired 125.

If you didn't take the right client with the right balance sheet, you suffered. Clients stopped paying because they didn't have the balance sheet. Our quality of tenants was so good, nobody stopped paying. Everybody paid on time.

Hyderabad did a decent and a very good job. They built the infrastructure and then development came. I think Noida also did very good. Bangalore did not.

The MBA is a tool which you can use to open doors for you. But the personality and the person you become is what makes you successful. I don't think the MBA makes you successful.

Bangalore is still the cheapest. You can live in Whitefield at 50,000 a month. You can live at 100,000. You can live at 200,000. But you do not need to pay 300,000 to 400,000 in Bangalore to live in a great apartment. In Bombay, if you want a great quality place, you cannot get anything less than 300,000.

Bureaucracy is the horse. The rider determines how the horse runs. The majority of IAS officers are honest. The majority want to work. Give them the right environment, and you will see the magic

In the first two years, I was amazed. I wondered if such a leader could even exist. I was so impressed. After that, I do not know what happened. I am pained. Anil Swarup for Narendra Modi.

As soon as we reached one centre, people started jumping out of the windows. I asked what was happening. The driver said, 'sir, these are the people who came to facilitate cheating. They are running because they saw your car.

"I called the most corrupt officer in my organisation for tea. I said: boss, there is nothing left in this institution to take. What will you suck dry?"

The original scheme was Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, RSBY. Anil Swarup designed it under the UPA government. It won international recognition. It was considered one of the best Indian welfare programmes. Then in 2014, when the government changed, a three-member committee of secretaries killed it.

You see many honest officers. They think: I am honest, everyone else is corrupt, so the whole thing is doomed. They stop working. Why do you have to assume everyone else is dishonest?

70 percent of the problem is the people. Everyone blames the infrastructure. But 70 percent of the problem is the people.

In one meeting, she suspended a District Magistrate just sitting there. She enjoyed it. It was a way to display power. The DM came to him in tears. He had done nothing wrong. The old Anil Swarup, he says, would have fought Mayawati on principle. He would have taken leave. He would have made it a moral stand. The mature Anil Swarup chose a different path.

I arrested the ruling party's district president. That night, I got a phone call from Mulayam Singh Yadav. That was Anil Swarup on our podcast, telling one of the best bureaucratic-courage stories I have heard from his 38-year IAS career.

Leadership cannot be appointed. A leader exercises power because of how he conducts himself. Nobody gives it to him. He has to take it himself. The qualities have to be there. Then the power follows.

Why does China manufacture the world while India still imports so much of what it consumes? In this fascinating conversation, Jayant Mundhra breaks down the real reason behind India’s growing trade deficit with China and explains why the solution is not simply exporting more to China, but manufacturing more within India.

"Brother, please raise your voice for me too. I gave my scooter eight months ago. It has not come back. When I went to check, the tyre was missing and some parts had been used in another scooter." That is a real message Jayant Mundhra received from an Ola Electric customer. He read it out on our podcast, along with several others, before walking through the numbers from Ola's own annual reports.

Bihar's new CM, he pointed out, has a 7th-grade education and multiple murder cases on his record. Sitting next to him are IAS officers - top of their class, decades of training - explaining where to sign. Meanwhile, the country is talking about AI, about becoming a developed nation by 2047.

Kunal Kamra pulls no punches in this raw conversation about what's broken in Indian media, comedy, and the dangerous cycle that feeds outrage culture. From the Samay Raina and Ranveer Allahbadia controversy to his sharp take on why 95% of Indian comedy today is misogyny dressed up as humour, this clip cuts deep.

One of the most unsettling examples discussed involves a CAPTCHA-solving task. An AI system was reportedly unable to solve the CAPTCHA directly. Instead of failing, it adapted.