Bhavish Aggarwal Learns to Fly

He is hard at work pushing Ola, India’s third most valuable tech startup, beyond its flagship cab business. If he succeeds, he could end up creating India’s first mobile conglomerate. If not, this could be a cautionary tale for our gung-ho startups.

Inside India’s Coder Boom

Amid the deafening hype around billion-dollar tech startups, India is quietly counting down to a massive…

How Politics Destroyed India’s Biggest Ever Science Project

The hills of southern Tamil Nadu will soon shelter India’s biggest basic-science hub. Unless canards bury it first.

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The Third Space: Business and the Culture of Coffee in India

India may not have a Silicon Valley equivalent just yet, but something’s been brewing amid the hum in its coffee shops.

The Spin: How a disparate set of individuals, NRIs, entrepreneurs, who-have-you, is changing the India narrative.

When an Oscar winner had to go on TV to stop angry people from breaking down theatres

I had interviewed soundman Resul Pookutty soon after he returned having won the Oscar for his work in Slumdog Millionaire. Who says filmy people are shallow?

The other Salman Khan (and why Bill Gates loves him)

• What this Harvard and MIT alumnus started as online lessons within his family has now become the primary mode of instruction at teacher-strapped schools in southern India.
• Recently made available as an app on…

Why a handful of Indian firms are rediscovering Russia

Lessons in Crisis Management: Keep Calm and Tell Your Story

Interview with Manu Jain, head, Xiaomi India, on how he managed the crisis after the Ericsson IP lawsuit that led to a temporary ban on Xiaomi’s sales in India.