Diamonds are undergoing a change of origin, from the earth's crust to being grown in a lab. The Indian consumer, specially the millennials are favouring them for their 5C's--cut, colour, clarity, carat and being conflict free. But what are lab-grown diamonds? Can they bring diamonds within everyone's reach? Can they make luxury sustainable? Host Kalpana Pathak talks to Smit Patel, Director at Greenlab Diamonds LLP, Pooja Seth, MD & Founder at Limelight Lab Grown Diamonds and Sutanuka Ghosal, Senior Assistant Editor, The Economic Times

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Diamonds are undergoing a change of origin, from the earth's crust to being grown in a lab. The Indian consumer, specially the millennials are favouring them for their 5C's--cut, colour, clarity, carat and being conflict free. But what are lab-grown diamonds? Can they bring diamonds within everyone's reach? Can they make luxury sustainable? Host Kalpana Pathak talks to Smit Patel, Director at Greenlab Diamonds LLP, Pooja Seth, MD &amp; Founder at Limelight Lab Grown Diamonds and Sutanuka Ghosal, Senior Assistant Editor, The Economic Times
Credit: EMI, © 2009 MD Music Company Limited You can follow our host kalpana Pathak  on his social media:
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Linkedin - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalpana-pathak-40395012/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalpana-pathak-40395012/</a>
 
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To make sense of the week’s hottest stories in business, economy, politics and markets, journalists from the Economic Times chat with reporters and industry leaders in this thrice-weekly (Tuesday, Thursday, Friday) podcast.

The Morning Brief

Lab Grown Diamonds: From diamond forever to for everyone

Devyani–Sapphire to form India’s biggest QSR

How Devyani-Sapphire deal was valued and done

Cost synergies and trends in Devyani-Sapphire

 Why is this important? 

Will Pizza Hut catch up with KFC after merger

How Devyani highways complement Sapphire malls

Will QSR mergers reshape India’s food market?

Will Devyani-Sapphire become a price maker?

Biggest operational risk after the QSR merger

Will overlapping KFC stores be shut or merged?

Does mega QSR branding still work with Gen Z?

Do mid sized QSR chains survive this wave?

Conclusion

Credits

India's quick service restaurant sector witnessed a seismic shift as Devyani International and Sapphire Foods merged to create the country's largest listed QSR platform with over 3,000 stores and consolidated revenue exceeding ₹7,800 crore. The deal brings KFC and Pizza Hut operations under one franchisee, promising annual synergies of ₹210-225 crore and positioning the entity as a formidable challenger to Jubilant FoodWorks' Domino's empire. But size alone won't guarantee success. As India's food services market fragments with regional players and artisanal chains disrupting legacy brands, the combined entity faces a critical question: can it deliver the agility needed to compete in an increasingly brand-agnostic landscape where Gen Z consumers show little loyalty? Host Anirban Chowdhury talks to ET’s Ratna Bhushan and Ankur Bisen, Management Consultant, Author And Senior Partner At The Knowledge Company about how the merger unlocks significant cost advantages and operational efficiencies, yet becoming bigger also makes you vulnerable at the edges. The next two years will reveal whether this consolidation creates a QSR powerhouse or simply a larger target for market disruption.


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Catch the latest episode of ‘The Morning Brief’ on The Economic Times Online, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, Amazon Music and Youtube.

India's quick service restaurant sector witnessed a seismic shift as Devyani International and Sapphire Foods merged to create the country's largest listed QSR platform with over 3,000 stores and consolidated revenue exceeding ₹7,800 crore. The deal brings KFC and Pizza Hut operations under one franchisee, promising annual synergies of ₹210-225 crore and positioning the entity as a formidable challenger to Jubilant FoodWorks' Domino's empire. But size alone won't guarantee success. As India's food services market fragments with regional players and artisanal chains disrupting legacy brands, the combined entity faces a critical question: can it deliver the agility needed to compete in an increasingly brand-agnostic landscape where Gen Z consumers show little loyalty? Host Anirban Chowdhury talks to ET&rsquo;s Ratna Bhushan and Ankur Bisen, Management Consultant, Author And Senior Partner At The Knowledge Company about how the merger unlocks significant cost advantages and operational efficiencies, yet becoming bigger also makes you vulnerable at the edges. The next two years will reveal whether this consolidation creates a QSR powerhouse or simply a larger target for market disruption.
 You can follow Anirban Chowdhury on his social media:<a href="https://twitter.com/AnirbanET"> Twitter</a> and<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/anirban-chowdhury-b5067219/"> Linkedin </a>Check out other interesting episodes like: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-morning-brief/id1568661777?i=1000744214065">When Grinch Almost Stole Gig Workers' Christmas</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-morning-brief/id1568661777?i=1000742733036">How Will a Volatile ₹ Impact You in 2026?</a>,<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-morning-brief/id1568661777?i=1000740924439"> How Quick Commerce is Triggering a Health Crisis for Gen Z</a>,<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-morning-brief/id1568661777?i=1000738734300"> India&rsquo;s Labour Law Reboot</a>,<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-morning-brief/id1568661777?i=1000738205536"> Viral to Valuation: Building Women&rsquo;s Cricket as a Brand</a> and<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-morning-brief/id1568661777"> much more</a>.
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India's Mega QSR Merger

India's Renewable Energy Ambitions

Challenges and Opportunities in Wind Energy

Suzlon's Market Position and Strategy

Government Policies and Green Hydrogen

Global Supply Chains and Wind Energy

Financial Governance and Growth

AI, Smart Factories, and Future Prospects

Suzlon Energy controls a third of India's wind market, but co-founder and vice chairman Girish Tanti isn't celebrating. In this conversation with host Anirban Chowdhury, he confronts hard questions: Why has India tapped only 4% of its wind potential despite three decades of operations? Can the sector scale from 6 gigawatts annually to the 10+ needed to meet 2030 targets? And will promised AI data centers overwhelm renewable capacity before it's built? Tanti reveals truths about offshore wind economics, the two-year lag between planning and execution that bottlenecks growth, and why financial restructuring forced Suzlon to often choose stability over speed. He also makes an argument: with 75% local manufacturing content, India's wind sector is better positioned against supply shocks than its solar counterpart. From debunking resource myths to dissecting smart factory ROI, this is wind energy without the greenwash.

Listen in.

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Listen to Corner Office Conversation: Corner Office Conversation with Knight Frank’s William Beardmore-Gray and Shishir Baijal, Corner Office Conversation with Sridhar Vembu, CEO, of Zoho Corporation, Corner Office Conversation with Gunjan Soni, Country Managing Director, Youtube India, Corner Office Conversation with Elizabeth Reid, Head of Search, Google and much more.



Catch the latest episode of ‘The Morning Brief’ on The Economic Times Online, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, Amazon Music and Youtube.

Suzlon Energy controls a third of India's wind market, but co-founder and vice chairman Girish Tanti isn't celebrating. In this conversation with host Anirban Chowdhury, he confronts hard questions: Why has India tapped only 4% of its wind potential despite three decades of operations? Can the sector scale from 6 gigawatts annually to the 10+ needed to meet 2030 targets? And will promised AI data centers overwhelm renewable capacity before it's built? Tanti reveals truths about offshore wind economics, the two-year lag between planning and execution that bottlenecks growth, and why financial restructuring forced Suzlon to often choose stability over speed. He also makes an argument: with 75% local manufacturing content, India's wind sector is better positioned against supply shocks than its solar counterpart. From debunking resource myths to dissecting smart factory ROI, this is wind energy without the greenwash.
Listen in. You can follow Anirban Chowdhury on his social media:<a href="https://twitter.com/AnirbanET"> Twitter</a> and<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/anirban-chowdhury-b5067219/"> Linkedin </a>Listen to Corner Office Conversation:<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/corner-office-conversation-with-knight-franks-william/id1827451035?i=1000733611681"> Corner Office Conversation with Knight Frank&rsquo;s William Beardmore-Gray and Shishir Baijal</a>,<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/corner-office-conversation-with-sridhar-vembu-ceo-of/id1827451035?i=1000731722117"> Corner Office Conversation with Sridhar Vembu, CEO, of Zoho Corporation</a>,<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/corner-office-conversation/id1827451035?i=1000731513423"> Corner Office Conversation with Gunjan Soni, Country Managing Director, Youtube India</a>,<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/corner-office-conversation/id1827451035?i=1000728953575"> Corner Office Conversation with Elizabeth Reid, Head of Search, Google</a> and<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/corner-office-conversation/id1827451035"> much more</a>. 
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Corner Office Conversation with Girish Tanti, Co-Founder & Vice Chairman, Suzlon

Snowflake's post-IPO journey amid AI shift era

Snowflake’s AI strategy via partnerships scale

Will AI drive consolidation across data stacks

How India differs for Snowflake’s next growth?

Hiring and expansion plans at Snowflake India?

Is the AI boom a bubble or real value creation

AI reshapes search: can Google still dominate?

Where could AI challengers unsettle Google now

How big is AI for Snowflake now and next phase

Five years after a splashy IPO and amid a bruising market reset, Sridhar Ramaswamy is steering Snowflake through a defining moment for enterprise technology: the AI transition. In this episode, hosts Samidha Sharma and Pranav Mukul talk to Snowflake’s CEO and former Google advertising chief to cut through the hype around artificial intelligence and focus on where the real value lies. Ramaswamy makes a clear case for why AI has sharply increased the premium on clean, well-governed enterprise data and why Snowflake positions itself not as an AI company, but as the intelligence layer that makes AI practical at scale. He speaks candidly about Snowflake’s late entry into AI, its rapid catch-up through partnerships with model builders like OpenAI, and how its consumption-based model offers resilience in volatile tech cycles. The conversation also spans the AI bubble debate, the future of search beyond Google’s dominance, and India’s growing importance as a strategic growth and execution hub for Snowflake.

You can follow Samidha Sharma on her social media: X and Linkedin

Check out other interesting episodes like: How Will a Volatile ₹ Impact You in 2026?, How Quick Commerce is Triggering a Health Crisis for Gen Z, India’s Labour Law Reboot, Viral to Valuation: Building Women’s Cricket as a Brand and much more.

Catch the latest episode of ‘The Morning Brief’ on The Economic Times Online, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, Amazon Music and Youtube.

 

Five years after a splashy IPO and amid a bruising market reset, Sridhar Ramaswamy is steering Snowflake through a defining moment for enterprise technology: the AI transition. In this episode, hosts Samidha Sharma and Pranav Mukul talk to Snowflake&rsquo;s CEO and former Google advertising chief to cut through the hype around artificial intelligence and focus on where the real value lies. Ramaswamy makes a clear case for why AI has sharply increased the premium on clean, well-governed enterprise data and why Snowflake positions itself not as an AI company, but as the intelligence layer that makes AI practical at scale. He speaks candidly about Snowflake&rsquo;s late entry into AI, its rapid catch-up through partnerships with model builders like OpenAI, and how its consumption-based model offers resilience in volatile tech cycles. The conversation also spans the AI bubble debate, the future of search beyond Google&rsquo;s dominance, and India&rsquo;s growing importance as a strategic growth and execution hub for Snowflake. You can follow Samidha Sharma on her social media: <a href="https://x.com/samidhas?lang=en">X</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/samidha-sharma-285b4a7/?originalSubdomain=in">Linkedin</a> Check out other interesting episodes like: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-morning-brief/id1568661777?i=1000742733036">How Will a Volatile ₹ Impact You in 2026?</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-morning-brief/id1568661777?i=1000740924439">How Quick Commerce is Triggering a Health Crisis for Gen Z</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-morning-brief/id1568661777?i=1000738734300">India&rsquo;s Labour Law Reboot</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-morning-brief/id1568661777?i=1000738205536">Viral to Valuation: Building Women&rsquo;s Cricket as a Brand</a> and <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-morning-brief/id1568661777">much more</a>.
Catch the latest episode of &lsquo;The Morning Brief&rsquo; on <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/podcast?from=mdr">The Economic Times Online</a>,<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6PL5kfPbwURBEu6fHCVTOL?si=26ec0fbfa7134fea"> Spotify</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-morning-brief/id1568661777">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://www.jiosaavn.com/shows/the-morning-brief/1/GNPiFQD2xpY_">JioSaavn</a>, <a href="https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/f378141f-9afb-495d-83da-9b08ec5047ac/the-morning-brief">Amazon Music</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@theetpodcasts">Youtube</a>.
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