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

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

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.