What This Means

Swarajya explains the meaning of news and its effects. Hosted by Diksha Yadav.You’ll love Swarajya’s new podcast, “What We Said”!Tune in here: https://open.spotify.com/show/74mPYhyZSnCTo1GNktljV3?si=15ba0d8e071a4ef6If you enjoy the show, don’t forget to follow and rate us!

What This Means is a news podcast hosted by Swarajya, with 122 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Swarajya hosts What This Means, a news show with 122 episodes published.

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  Episode #126

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

  Aug 8, 202646 minS1

  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

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  Episode #148

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

  May 20, 202639 minS1

  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

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  Episode #147

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

  Apr 10, 202628 minS1

  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

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  Episode #146

  EP146: India's New GDP Series: What The Numbers Really Tell Us

  Mar 6, 202627 minS1

  Kanika Pasricha, Chief Economic Advisor at Union Bank of India discusses the new GDP series in the latest episode of WTM with Diksha Yadav: Key takeaways Broad-basing of growth toward manufacturing Nominal GDP shrinking, real GDP rising How double deflation fixes the deflator problem IMF's C grade and alignment with global standards Was India's GDP growth overstated? Better capture of informal sector and GST-era economy Private capex higher than previously measured Monetary policy outlook under new framework Manufacturing vs public admin divergence puzzle

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  Episode #146

  EP145: Decoding Economic Survey 2026 With Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran

  Feb 10, 202640 minS1

  The Chief Economic Adviser speaks to Swarajya on the thinking behind the Survey's 17 chapters, the risks that keep policymakers alert, why delayed gratification is an economic imperative, and the hard institutional choices India faces in a fractured world.

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