by Charu Thakur | Feb 27, 2024
(February 27, 2024) Getting off the Chapora Fort on his maiden trip to Goa in 2022, Digvijay Singh saw a woman selling sherbet. Exhausted from his day trip, he decided to quench his thirst with a kokum sherbet – a native fruit of Konkan he had never heard of....
by Amrita Priya | Dec 9, 2022
(December 9, 2022) Jainul Abedin’s name is similar to that of a great Indian icon – the late Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, or A P J Abdul Kalam, the former president of India and aerospace scientist who worked for DRDO and ISRO. In fact, Jainul was so...
by Charu Thakur | Mar 28, 2022
(March 28, 2022) One balmy afternoon at a medical shop in Thane, the then 16-year-old Arjun Deshpande witnessed an unpleasant scene. An old man, deep in debt, profusely pleaded with a shopkeeper to pay a hefty medicine bill later. The shopkeeper refused. “His wife had...
by Darshana Ramdev | Mar 15, 2022
(March 15, 2022) Moving across the country for college, fintech entrepreneur Aman Bhayana, who, at 22 is the co-founder, PayCrunch, quite naturally revelled in his newfound freedom. But even unbridled independence, he found, was something of a mixed bag. Like his...
by Charu Thakur | Feb 17, 2022
(February 16, 2022) Frantically scribbling away ideas for a startup in 2019, Freya Thakral stumbled upon the huge plastic waste menace. The then 13-year-old created an app that recycles plastic, and even helps ragpickers live dignified life. The same year, India...
