The Point Blank Show
By Aditya & Abhishek
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Episodes: 155
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The Point Blank Show is an excuse to spend sometime with people having immense insights and significant achievements. The guests on the show range from entrepreneurs, artists, business leaders, writer, sports personality etc. Each show attempts to bring out insights and often making us think about things that aren't obvious.
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Jennifer Shahade on how to think like a chess champion
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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Johan Norberg on why civilisations rise, flourish and fall
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Jun 07, 2026 |
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Jonathan Wilson on football, FIFA and 100 years of World Cup history
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May 30, 2026 |
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Dr Masud Husain on what the brain reveals about us
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May 09, 2026 |
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Tim Wigmore: The history of Test cricket
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May 01, 2026 |
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Samanth Subramanian on the undersea cables that run the world
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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Adam Weymouth: What wolves tell us about Europe
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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Philip Coggan on trade wars, globalisation and economic Common Sense
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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Kieran Mulvaney on the battle for power at the top of the world
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Sir John Kay: Why Almost Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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Edward Fishman on sanctions, chokepoints and the art of economic pressure
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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Jason Burke on the extremists who hijacked the 1970s
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Danny Bate: Stories behind the English letters we use every day
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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Marc Dunkelman on Why Nothing Works
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Patrick McGee on Apple in China
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Stephen Witt on the cult of Nvidia and its charismatic founder, Jensen Huang
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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Richard Overy on why humans go to war
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Charlie English on the CIA's quietest operation
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May 31, 2025 |
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Carl Zimmer breaks down what’s really in the air
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May 18, 2025 |
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Beyond Silicon Valley: Ludwig Siegele on China’s quiet AI revolution
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May 11, 2025 |
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Mike Brearley: On cricket, captaincy, character and the mind
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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Clive Oppenheimer on volcanoes and a life at the crater's edge
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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Charles Piller on the broken science behind Alzheimer’s research
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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John Dykes unplugged: mastering the art of storytelling and performance
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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Simon Parkin on the siege of Leningrad and the scientists who refused to give in
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Tits Up! Sarah Thornton on Breasts: their history, power, and perception
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Inside the human mind with Guy Leschziner
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Marcel Dirsus on how tyrants fall
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Sunitha Krishnan on her memoir, “I am what I am”
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Julie Sedivy on how languages shape us
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Arik Kershenbaum on why animals talk
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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Tabitha Stanmore on magic and witchcraft
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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Sam Leith on childhood reading
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Alison Taylor on doing the right thing
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Rooted in History: Unearthing the Stories of Twelve Trees with Daniel Lewis
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Sir David Spiegelhalter on the art of uncertainty
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Rollo Romig on Gauri Lankesh and the fight for free speech in India
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Charles Dallara on EuroShock: the tough negotiations that shaped Greece’s future
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Timothy C. Winegard on how horses shaped human civilisation
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Ben Yagoda on the British invasion of American English
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Truth and lies with Alex Edmans
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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Dr Duvvuri Subbarao, former RBI governor on his life and career
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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Gray Matters: Exploring the Brain with Dr. Theodore Schwartz
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Lawrence Booth on Bazball
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Paul Seabright on religion, wealth and economics
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Marcia Bjornerud on how rocks share secrets of our planet’s past
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Andrew Leigh on economics and why it matters
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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The future of our oceans with Helen Scales
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Jean-Martin Bauer on world hunger and what we can do about it
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Nicola Twilley on how refrigeration has changed the world
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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Untold stories of unsung Maths legends with Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Nobel Laureate Thomas R. Cech on why Ribonucleic Acid rocks
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Carl Öhman on what happens to our data after we die
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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Geoff White on digital transformation of money laundering
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Dr Erica Thompson on how mathematical models can lead us astray and what we can do about it
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Tamal Bandyopadhyay's roller coaster affair with banking
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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Kelly Clancy on her book, “Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World”
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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Cognitive neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf on what reading does to the brain
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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Gregory Zuckerman on his book "The Man Who solved the market: How Jim Simons Launched The Quant Revolution"
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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Alex Duff on his book, "Smart Money: The Fall and Rise of Brentford FC"
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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Ananyo Bhattacharya on his book The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann
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May 01, 2024 |
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Dennis Yi Tenen on his book Literary Theory of Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Tom Wainwright on Facebook turning 20
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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David Bodanis on his book, “The Art of Fairness:The Power of Decency in a World Turned Mean”
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Zeke Faux on his book, “Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall”
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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Kenneth Miller on his book, “Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep”
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Daniel Knowles on his book, “How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It”
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Kiran Verma, on a 21,000 km walk to raise awareness on blood donation
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Dr Anna Lembke on her book, "Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence"
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Gavin Jackson on his book, "Money In One Lesson"
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Ludwig Siegele, The Economist's top tech guru on ChatGPT
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Annie Lowrey on her book, "Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World"
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Philip Coggan on his book, "Surviving the Daily Grind: Bartleby's Guide to Work"
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Tom Standage on his book, "A Brief History of Motion"
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Point Blank with RB Ramesh, India's chess grandmaster-turned-coach
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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A conversation with Edward Carr, Foreign editor of The Economist on US foreign policy
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Jan 04, 2014 |
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Jon Fasman of The Economist on his experience of covering the US presidential elections
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Nov 22, 2012 |
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A Conversation with Paul Markillie of The Economist on Digital Manufacturing
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Jul 28, 2012 |
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A Conversation with Simon Wright of The Economist on Natural Gas
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Jul 23, 2012 |
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A Conversation with Jon Fasman of The Economist on American Economy, Drugs and Journalism
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Sep 15, 2011 |
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Philip Coggan on his Special Report on Pensions
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May 03, 2011 |
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Lane Greene of The Economist on his book, You are What You Speak
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Apr 07, 2011 |
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Point Blank with Nitin Chandrakant Desai
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Apr 05, 2011 |
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Kenneth Cukier from The Economist on the Japan crisis from Ground Zero
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Mar 25, 2011 |
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Prof Kanu Doshi on the Union Budget 2011
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Mar 16, 2011 |
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Point Blank with Kranthi Vistakula
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Mar 16, 2011 |
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Point Blank with Andrew Palmer, Finance Editor at The Economist
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Mar 16, 2011 |
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Point Blank with Viren Rasquinha
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Feb 07, 2011 |
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Point Blank with Swanand Kirkire
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Dec 22, 2010 |
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Point Blank with Rajdeep Sardesai
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May 17, 2010 |
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Point Blank with Anand Patwardhan, Documentary Film maker and more
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Apr 28, 2010 |
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Point Blank with Santosh Ostwal Farmer, Engineer, Inventor, Life Saver
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Apr 20, 2010 |
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Point Blank with Tom Standage on the iPad
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Feb 05, 2010 |
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Point Blank with Brendan Greeley
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Jan 17, 2010 |
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Point Blank with Neville Roach
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Jan 17, 2010 |
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Point Blank with Pritish Nandy
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Nov 17, 2009 |
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Point Blank with Dr. Shashi Tharoor - Indian Minister of State, External Affairs
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Nov 11, 2009 |
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Point Blank with Gautam Rajadhyaksha
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Jul 19, 2009 |
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Point Blank with Devdutt Pattnaik
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Apr 14, 2009 |
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Point Blank with Sanjay Manjrekar
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Apr 02, 2009 |
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Point Blank with Andreas Kluth on Hannibal, Success, Failure
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Oct 04, 2008 |
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Point Blank with Kanu Doshi on Taxation
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Aug 11, 2008 |
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Point Blank with Economics Editor of The Economist
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Apr 30, 2008 |
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Point Blank with the Capital Markets Editor of The Economist
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Apr 20, 2008 |
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Point Blank with the Executive Editor of The Economist
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Mar 18, 2008 |
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Point Blank with Kanu Doshi on Union Budget 2008
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Mar 06, 2008 |
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Point Blank with Adam Roberts, News Editor of Economist
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Feb 14, 2008 |
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Point Blank With Harsha Bhogle
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Nov 10, 2007 |
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Point Blank with Brendan Greeley
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Oct 10, 2007 |
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Point Blank with Gurucharan Das
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Sep 19, 2007 |
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Point Blank with Ann Wroe the obituaries writer
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Sep 18, 2007 |
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Point Blank with Tom Standage on mesmerizing technologies
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Sep 10, 2007 |
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Point Blank with James Astill on Terrorism and Militant Islamism
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Aug 03, 2007 |
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Point Blank with Andreas Kluth on rise of new media
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Jul 22, 2007 |
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Point Blank with Avnish Bajaj of Matrix Partners
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Jul 15, 2007 |