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Delivering sharp, original, insightful, analytical journalism about business and start-ups across India since 2016.

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Newly independent India had big industrial plans but almost no engineering schools. So it built the IITs — each with a different rival superpower's help: Soviet, American, German, British. The full story of IITs and TCS: yt.openinapp.co/ieyfo
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TCS didn’t just build a company. It built an entire industry and an economic ladder for generations of Indians. But as AI shifts the landscape, can India move from delivering tech to defining it? Fascinating chronicle of TCS / Indian IT by @thekenweb : youtube.com/watch?v=giV753IL…

TCS: The company that saved the World, India and Tata Sons | Intermission E05 | The Ken

On 12 August 2026, N Chandrasekaran, the TCS intern who became the ...

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Pocket FM won’t stop throwing things at the wall The audio-series company dabbled in novels, then microdramas, and now AI. In the process, it claims it has doubled its annualised revenue to over $500 million
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Pocket FM won't stop throwing things at the wall

The audio-series company dabbled in novels, then microdramas, and now AI. In the process, it claims it has doubled its annualised revenue to over $500 million

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To treat autism in India, this chain has to rely on American patients Mom’s Belief couldn’t grow fast enough on its Indian therapy centres alone. How it got around that shows why care for neurodevelopmental disorders is so hard to scale
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To treat autism in India, this chain has to rely on American patients

Mom’s Belief couldn’t grow fast enough on its Indian therapy centres alone. How it got around that shows why care for neurodevelopmental disorders is so hard to scale

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Ajio wants to course-correct, but Reliance Retail’s shadow looms large Sandeep Karwa has the experience to fix Ajio, but first he must struggle with a parent company that holds the purse strings Tune in to today's Daybreak.
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Daybreak

Podcast · The Ken · Business news is complex and overwhelming. It doesn’t have to be. Every day of the week, from Monday to Friday, Daybreak tells one business story that’s significant, simple and...

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Retail investors piled into the unlisted market’s favourite stock. Regret followed NSE’s listing was so underwhelming that it has shaken faith even in safe-sounding names that are next in line to list, like Zepto and OYO
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Retail investors piled into the unlisted market’s favourite stock. Regret followed

NSE’s listing was so underwhelming that it has shaken faith even in safe-sounding names that are next in line to list, like Zepto and OYO

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Dogs have a nose for cancer. An Indian startup is betting on them As Rs 25,000 full-body scans overpromise and underdeliver, Dognosis is relying on man's best friend to detect cancer early at a third of the cost Tune in to today's Daybreak.
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Daybreak

Podcast · The Ken · Business news is complex and overwhelming. It doesn’t have to be. Every day of the week, from Monday to Friday, Daybreak tells one business story that’s significant, simple and...

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In economics, the multiplier effect explains how banks "create" money. They keep a small percentage of deposits as reserves with themselves, and lend out the rest. That money circulates back to banks, and the cycle repeats. Theoretically, banks end up creating money to a (1/4)
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Jio and Reliance Retail are tied at the hip. That’s fine as long as the Ambanis are one big happy family And as long as the latter remains unlisted
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Jio and Reliance Retail are tied at the hip. That’s fine as long as the Ambanis are one big happy...

And as long as the latter remains unlisted

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The nifty, sometimes curious, math behind ‘smart’ loans Borrowing against your fixed deposit can save you tidy—if you do the math and don’t go overboard
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For Gen Z, inheritance is the surest path to owning a home Homes now cost 11X annual income, against an affordability benchmark of 5X. A room of one’s own has never seemed more out of reach
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For Gen Z, inheritance is the surest path to owning a home

Homes now cost 11X annual income, against an affordability benchmark of 5X. A room of one’s own has never seemed more out of reach

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Angel One and Groww are still hostage to options Tax talk and different closing auction rules lifted broker stocks in October, but Q2 results show why counting your chickens now may be premature
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Angel One and Groww are still hostage to options

Tax talk and different closing auction rules lifted broker stocks in October, but Q2 results show why counting your chickens now may be premature

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