In 2012, as India was battling an economic slowdown, its government-owned power-equipment maker, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), was busy raking in a lot of…
Made in India
From pizza boxes to irrigation, this obsession explores innovation in India. With Facebook's acquisition of Little Eye Labs, Google Capital’s investment in Freshdesk and a rash of other deals, the Indian startup ecosystem is heating up. But can these tech startups offset the decline of the IT exports?
RESTORING A LEGACY
India’s oldest drugmaker used some classic management tips to turn profitable after 64 years
For more than six decades, India’s oldest pharmaceutical company was languishing in Kolkata. When the Indian pharmaceutical industry was growing into one of the world’s…
FALL AND RISE
A top angel investor’s message to India’s troubled startups: Keep calm and carry on
Indian startups aren’t exactly having a ball. Funding is drying up, talent is scarce, and profitability is being questioned. But Mohandas Pai, one of India’s…
SWIPE RIGHT
The business of dating apps is disrupting Indian culture
The success of Tinder in India has encouraged several Indian entrepreneurs to try their luck at matchmaking. A raft of dating apps has come up…
APPS VS. WEBSITES
What happened when Flipkart, InMobi and Paytm met on stage?
At one of the country’s largest internet conferences in Bengaluru today (Sept. 10), founders of three Indian unicorns—Sachin Bansal of Flipkart, InMobi’s Naveen Tewari and…
COMEBACK KID
The bad boy of India’s startup ecosystem is back
A little over two months after Rahul Yadav—the 26-year-old co-founder and former CEO of Housing.com—was unceremoniously ousted from his job, the enfant terrible of India’s…
LIKE A BULLET
India’s legendary Royal Enfield is taking the fight to Harley-Davidson’s backyard
After almost a decade and a half of selling its bikes through a lone dealer, Royal Enfield is setting up a subsidiary in its top…
OLD FASHIONED
Why I hate calling my business a startup
The first time I called my food truck business a startup was in a brief that I sent to one of the better B-schools in…
MOVE OVER MAINSTREAM
Beyond Bollywood: New Indian cinema finds critical and financial success
She cooks for him; he removes the washing from the clothesline. Together they have a home, even though opposing work schedules means they hardly see…
ANGELIC ANANDAN
Google’s India head is also the country’s most prolific angel investor
Since February 2011, MIT and Stanford-trained Rajan Anandan has been the man in charge of Google in India. In those four years, apart from driving…
IT AIN'T EASY
Timeline: Foxconn is back in India with a $5 billion big bang investment
This post has been updated. Six months after it shut down operations in India, Foxconn is all set to re-enter Asia’s third largest economy. On…
WHAT'S YOUR DESIG?
Indian startups want their employees to be evangelists, ninjas, warriors and rats
Some Indian startups are letting their imagination run amok with job titles. The finance head at online wallet company, MobiKwik, for instance, is called “chief…
