Manavi Kapur

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When Kishore Biyani, the son of a textile trader, was in college, he didn’t think he’d be the founder of one of India’s largest retail businesses.

The world’s richest man believes the 21st century will be the century of India. But one of India’s most prominent business leaders thinks the country’s small- and medium-sized companies will have to earn that for themselves.

Amazon India just tried to pull a well-planned rabbit out of its hat—though it surprised no one.

Indian handicrafts and handlooms have found their way onto online platforms, but is that making an impact?

Deepika Padukone, one of India’s highest-paid Bollywood actors, took a brief but rare political stand today (Jan. 7).

The weekend violence at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has India shook.

Indians are living the couch potato life, and that’s ruining their health.

At Shaheen Bagh in New Delhi, hope and passion coexist with despair.

A burqa-clad woman defiantly standing up to an aggressive Delhi policeman has become the defining image of the ongoing anti-Citizenship Amendment Act agitation in India. It has spurred the country, especially its Muslims, into action, given that she was a student of Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia. 

In India, 2019 would perhaps be remembered for political, social, and corporate upheavals. Books about casteism in comedy, the Ayodhya temple court verdict, and the Ratan Tata-Cyrus Mistry controversy found their way into our stories this year. India also sent the Mangalyaan 2 to Mars, and we chronicled the historic photographs from India’s various space missions.

“We read to know that we are not alone,” is a phrase often misattributed to the British writer CS Lewis. But that doesn’t take away its relatability.

If youthful insolence ever had a clarion call, India’s ubiquitous azadi slogan would be the chosen one.

India’s contentious Citizenship Amendment Act, which was cleared by parliament last week, has sparked violent protests across the country, for more than one reason. While there is anger that the legislation is discriminatory against Muslims, there are also fears of an influx of settlers.

The key to wooing the Indian audience seems to be exclusivity. And Hostar has got it just right.

At Rainbow Literature Festival, one of India’s first queer and inclusive lit fests, two Indian executives offered lessons on the benefits of hiring more LGBTQ employees, and making workplaces inherently inclusive.

India is a poster child for internet adoption, and over-the-top (OTT) platforms are banking on that.

One of India’s best-known—certainly most entertaining—godmen has apparently sought to set up a country of his own.

The internet can be a tricky place to out sexual assault offenders. Will anyone believe your story? Will you be trolled? Will the conversation endanger you further? How will your family and friends react? Those were the challenges that the #MeToo movement in India and the world threw up.

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Prime minister Narendra Modi may have made the “Khan Market gang” infamous, but India’s real estate sector has given it a thumbs up.

One of its most colourful and talked-about godmen has reportedly fled India under a cloud of intrigue and scandal.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the erstwhile defence chief of Sri Lanka, won the presidential election in the island nation on Nov. 16, beating his opponent Sajith Premadasa by a wide margin. 

India has one of the highest paid maternity benefits for working women in the world. But that law means nothing to most women in the country.