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For Getamber Anand, an aeronautical engineer by training and a first-generation real estate developer, building storm drains and culverts in Sector 59 for Noida Authority—the government body authorized to develop…

When necessity meets genius, innovation happens. With Alan Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalam, both 31-year-old Swedes best known for their phone number identification app Truecaller, innovation happened thrice. In 2007, the…

Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick started the transportation network company in 2009. Such was the business’ disruptive potential that in six years’ time it had grown its presence to 58 countries…

At any point of time, Kavin Bharti Mittal has two phones with him: One will always be the latest iPhone and, currently, the other is the far more economical $120…

It was February 2013. Winter was finally bidding farewell to Delhi. But for Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal, founders of online retail company Snapdeal, spring was nowhere in sight. The…

It’s a clear December evening in Itanagar and there is a nip in the air. Bonfires keep the revellers warm as poka, the traditional fermented rice-beer, flows freely. As flame-haired…

As I walked I could hear myself breathing, I could hear my boots hitting concrete, the wind blowing, and little else. It’s the silence that makes China’s ghost cities so…

J.A. Gemmell was a senior corporate executive in Calcutta. Like hundreds of other English citizens, he left India in the 1940s when the Independence struggle was at its peak. In…

2015 is an important year for homemaker Madhavi Katuri. Both her daughters, Shreya and Srishti, will be applying to foreign universities. Household budgets will have to be pruned, sacrifices made…

On a sunny morning in Delhi, two ‘custodians’ stuff the interior of a dark blue van with metal trunks containing bundles of cash in yellow plastic bags. Two armed guards,…