What This Means

About What This Means

Swarajya explains the meaning of news and its effects. Hosted by Diksha Yadav. If you enjoy the show, don’t forget to follow and rate us!

Publisher

Swarajya

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Jan 2024

Latest episode

8 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

122 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Aug 2026

   EP149: On India's Misread Deficit & The RBI's $100 Billion Risk That's Building

   Professor Prasanna Tantri, Associate Professor of Finance at ISB speaks with Swarajya on the following: —Why the $330 billion goods deficit misleads everyone —How services and remittances flip India into surplus —Gold & fuel prices are not the problem, the money leaving India is —The Rs 7 lakh crore question: RBI's bond-buying to offset state-government freebies —How the RBI rents rupee stability from NRIs —Why this is 2013's medicine without 2013's disease —Prof Tantri's fixes and wishlist

2. 

   20 May 2026

   EP148: Crisis, Correction, Or Catalyst? The State Of India's Economy

   Professor Prasanna Tantri, Associate Professor of Finance at ISB speaks with Swarajya on the following: —How serious is India's economic situation — and how to read Modi's appeal on fuel, gold, and work from home —Is this worse than COVID, or different in kind? —Why the rupee at 96 isn't the crisis it looks like —The real long-term threat: state government borrowing and money printing —Three things the Centre must do now — on taxes, fuel, and capex —Why this crisis could push India towards 8 per cent growth

3. 

   10 Apr 2026

   EP147: Iran, Oil, LNG and America's Real Endgame

   Venu Gopal Narayanan, independent upstream petroleum consultant, discusses energy wars, the Iran ceasefire, and shifting geopolitics in the latest episode of WTM: Key takeaways Why Washington's real motive is LNG market share, not Iranian nukes America as Europe's primary energy supplier, replacing Russia Iran pummelled but not defeated — and what that means militarily Gulf states' vulnerability: bombed for hosting US bases Saudi Arabia's Red Sea pipeline hedge against Persian Gulf disruption Food security as the overlooked Gulf crisis Europe's unsustainable energy costs and creeping deindustrialisation What Beijing learns from the conflict for its Taiwan planning Why a Russia-India-China summit may be on the cards this year Pakistan's enduring utility value for US

Who has been a guest on What This Means

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• Professor Prasanna Tantri
• Sudharshan Garg
• Prof. Prasanna Tantri
• Varun Singh
• Rohit Pathania

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YouTube views

24,424,549

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

38 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100

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Quality

81

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

51

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