Take One: Big story of the day
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Broken dreams, pressure of the IIT tag and shattered lives: 'We failed him. He didn't fail'
The son of an IITian father and doctor-mother succumbed to expectations last year. The grieving parents find it hard to come to terms with their loss and rue inadvertently pushing him to the brink
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How LeverageEdu's Akshay Chaturvedi weathered the pandemic storm with 'soul searching' on Saturdays
The founder began looking for internal validation after being betrayed by a VC. His journey has been shaped by countless lessons in learning and unlearning. Can he now script a new chapter by taking the study-abroad platform to IPO?
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How, after years of cynicism, foreign investors are favouring India over China
The tide of foreign investments has turned as investors pull out of China stocks and turn to India and global emerging market ETFs, excluding China, for better long-term returns, finally
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Wipro's turnaround is work in progress facing macro spoilsport
With talent acquisition core to its work, India's fourth biggest IT company has seen the sharpest hiring course correction amongst peers
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How Spark Studio is weathering the edtech meltdown
Moving away from her arts-heavy curriculum, Anushree Goenka found the spark in the market for public speaking and spoken English to build a startup that is growing slow but steady
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Context & alphabets: Creative Galileo & the samosa act
Prerna Jhunjhunwala's venture for early learning for children is focusing on schools. The founder, though, is equally animated about a D2C play. But can B2C be as easy as ABC?
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Decoding ConveGenius's 'common sense' edtech playbook
Jairaj Bhattacharya and Shashank Pandey never had a fairy tale story to woo investors. But that limitation turned into an asset when the social enterprise founders started navigating the edtech storm
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Can India's social stock exchange flourish where others have failed?
The social stock exchange is inching closer to its first listing of non-profits, possibly as early as August, officials say. If global precedents of using capital markets for social impact are anything to go by, India faces a tall order ahead
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Makers of tomato purees are keeping up with the skyrocketing demand. For now
As the tomato crisis hits home restaurants and households have been switching to alternatives like tomato puree and tomato paste. But will the stocks of the latter hold up?
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From Kotak Life Insurance and IDFC First Bank to State Bank of India and Turtlemint, BFSI is under cyberattack
Sensitive data of these organisations has been compromised on the dark web, which can lead to larger damage if they don't consider strengthening their security infrastructure
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The long and short of the stock market rally. How far can the bulls run?
Small-cap stocks in India and mega-cap stocks in the US are leading the charge of the bulls. But veteran investors caution both equity markets could be testing their limits. Here's why