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TCS: The Accidental Crown Jewel | Intermission E05 | The Ken

October 1, 2026 · 2 hr 40 min

On 12 August 2026, N Chandrasekaran, the TCS intern who became the first non-Parsi chairman of Tata Sons, said he was done. He wouldn't seek another term. Five weeks later, the board brought him back. On 17 September, it voted to reappoint…
TRAILER - TCS: The accidental crown jewel | Intermission E05 | The Ken

September 29, 2026 · 1 min

Ask most Indians which IT company their parents wanted them to join, and they'll say Infosys or Wipro. Yet it was TCS that quietly became India's biggest software company, and the engine behind the entire Tata empire. The story goes all…
ITC: The remaking of a giant | Intermission E04 | The Ken

August 17, 2026 · 2 hr 27 min

ITC is the great paradox of Indian business: a tobacco company that spent decades trying to become something other than a tobacco company, and pulled it off. Getting there meant surviving a tax demand five times its net worth, the arrest…
TRAILER - ITC: The remaking of a giant | Intermission E04 | The Ken

August 13, 2026 · 1 min

Ask two generations of Indians what ITC is, and you'll get two completely different answers. That gap might be one of the most remarkable reinventions in Indian business. The story goes all the way back to 1910 — to a British tobacco…
Intermission E03: Airtel

June 28, 2026 · 4 hr 20 min

Stream a video, send a message, call a loved one. For nearly 474 million Indians, that connection runs through Bharti Airtel. Over three decades, the company has made it through price wars, near-bankruptcy, a botched overseas acquisition…

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TRAILER — How Bharti Airtel Refused to Die | Intermission E03 | The Ken

June 27, 2026 · 1 min

Dozens of companies entered the Indian telecom market in 1994. Almost all of them are gone. One is still standing — and it's how a billion people connect today. Episode 3 of Intermission on Bharti Airtel goes live on June 29.
Intermission E02: Bajaj Finance

May 11, 2026 · 4 hr 25 min

Sell a Bajaj scooter, finance their EMIs. For years, that was the entire purpose of Bajaj Auto Finance. But consumers in India wanted much more. They outfitted their homes with new television sets, refrigerators, and washing machines…
Intermission E01 - Asian Paints (PART 1)

March 22, 2026 · 2 hr 56 min

Asian Paints was founded in 1942 by four young Gujaratis in a Bombay garage. Today, it controls more than half of India's paint market. This is the story of how that happened. The company was among the first to tap into the rural market…
Intermission E01 - Asian Paints (PART 2)

March 22, 2026 · 3 hr 26 min

This is Part 2 of Intermission's episode on Asian Paints. We'd urge you to listen to Part 1 first to get a full picture of the company's early history and main bets. —Asian Paints was founded in 1942 by four young Gujaratis in a Bombay…

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About the show

Every great Indian enterprise has a story worth telling in full. With Intermission, The Ken's flagship long-form podcast, hosts Rohin Dharmakumar and Seetharaman G do exactly that—tracing the origins, turning points, and defining strategies of the companies that shaped modern India.