Anand did his engineering from IIT KGP. He is 59 years old, so I assume he would have finished around 1983. Went on to do his PhD from the US. Worked a few years with HP in the Valley. One fine morning, in what most of his friends labelled as a bout of stupidity, he … Read more

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