I am an engineer by training, and an accidental venture capitalist by profession. When a young person asks me about the “secret of my success”, I’m at a loss for words. Firstly, I don’t consider myself particularly successful. And secondly, …
The Best of Birthdays
India followed the lunisolar calendars traced back to 1st millennium BCE. The British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752 and with their radius of influence gradually influenced its adoption in India. Today most people in India have only a …
What I learnt in 2017, and 7 Trends to Watch in 2018

2017 was a year of significant change for the Indian startup ecosystem. While certain trends continued- we also saw greater cautiousness from both founders and investors, renewed focus on the path to profitability, and a shedding of exuberance — a …
2017: The year in review

2017 started with news of Indian economy surpassing UK’s [in terms of GDP] for the first time in 150 years — a signal that the nation’s economic flywheel is in motion.
What followed that …
Full circle with John Chambers
I was fortunate to have a father who was a natural story-teller and never disappointed my insatiable requests for one more story. Any child growing up in India knows the story of Ekalavya from the epic Mahabharata. A self-trained archer …
Technology Innovations and India Opportunity
The Turing Test, a measure of determining whether a machine could demonstrate human intelligence, formed the premise of Alex Garland’s spooky thriller Ex Machina. In the real world perhaps we are not too far away away from an …
SMAC — Opportunity Unfolded
If you haven’t heard of SMAC, Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud, then it is about time you did.

We’re in the midst of a strong disruption in the IT sector and it is predicted that the global 2000 firms will …
Preventive Care for a BillionFit
World Bank’s data shows that India’s GDP has grown at an average of 6.34% between 1991 and 2016. A new Harvard study proclaimed that the economic pole of global growth has moved over the past few years from China to …
E-commerce Logistics — Riding the wave

This section is a supplement to the “India opportunity Report — 2017” published earlier. To read the full report Click here
Discovery of wheel in the 4th millennium BC is considered one of the greatest inventions in the history of …