As many as 20 merchant bankers said it wouldn’t work: no factories, labels, or control. Then came a pandemic, a pricing blitz, and a bet on India’s premium drinker. Monika Alcobev scaled to over ₹300 crore anyway. Now the real test begins. The market fina... See more
ADVERTISEMENT May 2005. Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. The screen flickers. Then dies. A low hum cuts out. The fan keeps turning, slow and tired. Heat presses in. Chalk dust settles back into the room. Forty students stare at a blank wall. The teacher taps the re... See more
In the final moments of Kantara, the protagonist Shiva doesn’t argue. He doesn’t negotiate. He stomps. The ground answers. The forest tightens. And the air shifts. Possessed by Guliga Daiva, Shiva steps into something larger than himself—claimed by it, co... See more
Metal slammed into concrete—left, then right, then left again—inside an underpass in Gurugram. The car didn’t just hit the wall. It ricocheted. It was a little past 11:00 PM. A freezing January night in 2019. The kind of winter cold that doesn't just hang... See more
Have you ever failed in your life? It’s a simple question. The kind most founders tend to deflect, soften, or reframe into something more palatable. Abhinav Pathak doesn’t. There’s no visible hesitation. No attempt to reword it into a “learning” or a “pha... See more
