by Charu Thakur | May 21, 2025
(May 21, 2025) In the early 1970s, a teenage Vinod Khosla sat in his modest New Delhi home, reading an article about a young tech company called Intel. The story of Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore building microprocessors sparked something in him. At just 16, Khosla knew...
by Charu Thakur | Apr 17, 2025
(April 17, 2025) On a misty morning in rural Tamil Nadu, a man in a simple cotton shirt pedals his bicycle down a dirt lane, past lush paddy fields and curious onlookers. Dressed in a traditional veshti and often barefoot, he could be mistaken for a local farmer on...
by Mallik Thatipalli | Jan 19, 2025
(January 18, 2025) When Vishwanath Madhugiri was at Infosys, he picked up valuable lessons from its founders, Narayana Murthy and Nandan Nilekani. From the former’s down-to-earth, disciplined nature and philosophy of simple living and high thinking, he learned that...
by Charu Thakur | Dec 25, 2024
(December 25, 2024) When US President-elect Donald Trump announced Sriram Krishnan as the Senior Policy Advisor on Artificial Intelligence, it wasn’t just another appointment. For Sriram, who grew up in Chennai dreaming of engineering his way into a brighter...
by Charu Thakur | Nov 6, 2024
(November 6, 2024) In 2006, Vani Kola returned to India after spending more than two decades in the United States, fueled by a desire to be part of a rapidly transforming landscape. This wasn’t just any homecoming; it was the beginning of a bold venture — Kalaari...
