Podcast 2 - 01 - May - 2016

This podcast takes a look a handful of issues fresh in the news cycle in India. The Assembly elections in West Bengal, Assam, TN, Puducherry and Kerala. What is at stake? Who seems ahead? What are potential outcomes at the national level? The government's economic index JAM (Jan Dhan, Aadhar and Mobile), how these trifecta of metrics are important in Indian economy. How much 'JAM has been spread' already? How is it helping? The saga of Vijay Mallya. Did he swindle the banks? Was it a bad business model? Or should the banks have been more diligent themselves? Is Delhi's odd-even formula even-odds? Can such a scheme work in an Indian context? What was the outcome? Along with some interesting news stories that caught our eye.