Bhavya Chowdhury The year was 1962. Hukumichand Chordia had been written off as a serial failure. Every business he tried had been doomed. After a dozen attempts at entrepreneurship across multiple cities, he shifted base to Pune. And that is when he discovered the real entrepreneur in the family: his wife, Kamal. Like most housewives of the … Read more
Was visiting with my Biogas friend Priyadarshan at his Nere farm. Saw some new bamboo planted. Priyadarshan mentioned that he had got the saplings from a nursery in Chinchwad, which only stocks bamboo. We got curious and the cycling group went over to Chinchwad. Just opposite the Tata Motors Chinchwad Foundry main gate is Gawade … Read more
The trustees of an upcoming school in Nasik have been looking for land to set up the school. The proposed school will be affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education based out of Delhi. The board has a requirement of 2 acres of land. The budgets are very limited – and the strategy for … Read more
I attended a session by Prashant Bhaskar, who runs a company called PlugHR at The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) for short. Here is an excerpt from the invite – Prashant Bhaskar started the plugHR idea after market research suggested that it won’t take off.“entrepreneurs want challenges, it couldn’t be more challenging than that”, he says. “After … Read more
You are the head of one of the branches of a hospital chain. A 42 year old patient is bought in. He was on his way to drop his wife to her workplace when his motorcycle collides with that of a Police Sub Inspector. Patient has had internal head injuries. When he is got to … Read more
Started in 2003. Radha Shelat and Raghu Iyer are the directors. Work in the area of LAN security. Started by making chip sets using embedded software. In those times the concept of security was limited to anti viruses – and Nevis was ahead of its times. It was a 40 person maverick product company – … Read more
I am Ishita Yadav. I did my growing up in Saudi Arabia, where my father worked as an electrical engineer. I studied in the Indian Embassy school in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi lifestyle was good. I remember a lot of carpet shops on the ground floor of our building, which we kids used to roam … Read more
Am not sure if lock up is the opposite of lock down. Two opposites at first sight sound like two negatives. But even then open up seems the apt opposite of lock down. On 2 May, I invited some of this group members to a zoom chat to discuss open up. My notes on the … Read more
My first interaction with Rashmi was sometime in the nineties. One of my students, Gaurav Sabnis, was working at IBM, after finishing his MBA from IIML. Gaurav was one of the first Indians on the blogging scene. He blogged about a B School chain, headquartered in Delhi, who were making great claims about their placements … Read more
Atul is a pioneer of the home delivery industry. In the summer of 69, his mom gave birth to Atul at her home in RDSO quarters in Lucknow. The family shifted to Pune when he was two years old. They haven’t shifted out yet. At the age of 4, he ran away from his first … Read more
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