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

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

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