Chennai-based management consultant KS Narendran’s wife Chandrika who was on the ill-fated flight has penned his ordeal, his tryst with grief, his learning and more in a recently published book ‘Life After MH370: Journeying Through a Void’. Two hundred and thirty-nine families were grievously impacted when the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 went missing mid-air before…

Greenberry Organics, a 100 per cent chemical-free brand, has grown through word of mouth and the 27-year-old founder is now chalking out expansion plans. To 27-year-old Arjoon Mehra, a self-confessed job hopper, the idea of working for someone never really worked. So in November 2016, he decided to set up Greenberry Organics, a 100 per…

IoT for everyone—if that sounds futuristic, or unrealistic, then it’s time for a reality check, because Hyderabad-based iBot Inc. is doing just that—democratising the Internet of Things (IoT) to make it something everybody can use. Theirs is an IoT platform that allows people and businesses to ‘talk’ to machines, do business with them and even…

The touch of a little screen connects people to the world. News, information, trade, music, movies, romance. Anything, anywhere, anytime. It takes prescience and chutzpah to realise that the mobile phone is a key marketing tool and this is exactly what two long-time buddies foresaw in 2013. At the time, digital marketing a buzzword being…

Delhi-based Big Book Box offers book lovers an interesting way to discover new reads and also get a hold of some fun merchandise.    It isn’t often that one comes across youngsters who have a passion for doing something meaningful and deliver in equal measure. Twenty-two-year-olds Surabhi Sanjana Rai and Desh Deepak Singh are two…

Have you ever wondered who’s searching for what on matrimonial websites? Which makes of cars, bikes and scooters get stolen the most in Delhi? How a satellite town like Gurgaon was built? Or, interestingly still, get a word analysis of all the budget speeches since 1947. To answer all these and more, Delhi-based data search…

In a room packed with people of varying age groups – from their early 20s to their late 40s –Ansoo Gupta holds her own as she talks about travelling, and shares her travel hacks. She is a treasure trove of information having visited 60 countries over a decade and a half. A communications and marketing…

At an exhibition of her work, Gopika Nath is displaying her art. Layers of fabrics with patterns stitched on them in concentric circles are neatly hung on the wall. Parts of the fabric on display are singed on the edges and others have needle work, which looks like a mash-up in certain patches and seems…

The F&B industry in India is facing testing times with the new FSSAI regulations hampering product imports. The global trends tilt towards sourcing local food, sustainability, decreasing carbon footprints and bringing to the fore local/regional cuisine and street food. These very principles are the mainstay of Chef Sabyasachi Gorai’s food philosophy. The ex-Director of Kitchens…

Kainaz Contractor, 28, a B.Com graduate by education, restaurant manager by training and food writer by profession always wanted to run her own restaurant, ever since she could remember. Her dream of running a restaurant made her decide that she would “Spend her 20’s learning about all aspects of a restaurant. The idea was to…