What We Said

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What We Said is a news podcast hosted by Swarajya, with 18 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 We Said, a news show with 18 episodes published.

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  Episode #18

  EP18: What Indian automakers can learn from China’s Geely

  Mar 6, 202615 minS1

  <p>In 2008, Geely ranked dead last in China's quality survey. By 2024, Volvo's best-selling EV was built on a platform Geely designed. What happened in between is the most important business story Indian auto companies aren't paying attention to.India's biggest conglomerates — JSW, Dixon, Exide — are signing deal after deal with Chinese partners. Licensing platforms from SAIC and Chery. Sourcing battery technology from SVOLT. Assembling smartphones with 90% imported components. The factories are enormous. The patents are zero.Geely took a different path. It bought Volvo in 2010, spent 15 years embedding Chinese engineers alongside Swedish ones, and systematically absorbed the capability to design vehi...

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  Episode #17

  EP17: How China Built a Jet Engine (And Why India Couldn't)

  Feb 16, 202614 minS1

  <p>In 1986, China and India both launched indigenous jet engine programmes. Same year. Same ambition. Four decades later, China's WS-15 powers a stealth fighter. India's Kaveri was cancelled. The difference wasn't talent or money. It was what China was willing to pay.</p>

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  Episode #16

  EP16: Convenient Scapegoat: Debunking 'Hindu Rate of Growth'

  Dec 10, 202512 minS1

  <p>For decades, economists and policymakers have thrown around the phrase "Hindu Rate of Growth" to describe India's economic stagnation before 1991. But what if I told you this term has almost nothing to do with Hinduism, and everything to do with covering up the real culprit—socialist economic planning?</p><p>It's time that serious academics refrain from using such an ill-founded and prejudiced term. Hindus are not scapegoats to be thrown under the bus for every mishap that occurred in Indian history. </p><p>You can read here: https://swarajyamag.com/economics/hindu-rate-of-growth-a-tale-of-prejudices-and-fallacies</p><p>You can also tune in...

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  EP15: Borderlines & Bullet Trains — How China Plans To Dominate The LAC

  Oct 14, 20259 minS1

  <p>In this episode, we will talk about how China is building its railway network in Tibet to dominate the LAC. </p><p>Beijing has begun laying the next section of its railway network to gird the entire Line of Actual Control (LAC), creating a steel backbone that will stretch from Aksai Chin in the west to Arunachal Pradesh in the east.</p><p>You can read here: ⁠https://swarajyamag.com/defence/how-china-is-building-a-rail-network-in-tibet-to-dominate-the-lac</p><p>You can also tune in to the "What This Means" podcast by Swarajya, where we decode major stories with experts. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/1CzvC1mqq2BApXyoINGIEw?si=eec7dfe982874ff2</p>

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  Episode #14

  EP14: How India's GPS Alternative NavIC Is Hanging By A Thread

  Sep 2, 202511 minS1

  <p>In this episode we will talk about how India built its own satellite navigation system, NavIC, to free India from GPS dependence and to never face the helplessness again. And how, 25 years later, that system is one atomic clock failure away from complete collapse.</p><p>You can read here: https://swarajyamag.com/science/navic-how-indias-alternative-to-gps-is-hanging-by-a-thread</p><p>You can also tune in to the "What This Means" podcast by Swarajya, where we decode major stories with experts. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/1CzvC1mqq2BApXyoINGIEw?si=eec7dfe982874ff2</p>

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