Take One: Big story of the day
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Can Ola kickstart India's electric vehicle revolution?
At a time its ride-hailing business is limping back to normality after months of Covid-induced lockdown, the company is building the world's largest two-wheeler factory and has already launched two vehicles from its stable
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How Mindtickle wooed customers and investors to turn unicorn
After five years of 'selling petrol to cyclists' in India, Mindtickle pivoted in 2015 to target 'bike riders' in the US. Six years later, the sales-readiness Saas platform has turned unicorn
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Content is king, engagement is queen: Going behind the scenes of India's influencer economy
With both young and legacy companies turning to social media influencers to promote their products, content creators are increasingly becoming decision-makers for how a brand should be marketed
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Schools have been shut for over 500 days. Bringing rural kids back will take more than just reopening them
Closure of schools has had a devastating impact on the education and mental health of students, particularly underserved children. The way forward involves decentralising decision-making, helping kids catch up with core concepts, and implementing mitigation strategies at the most local level
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Go First wants to keep going. But can it fly any higher?
The airline is positioning itself as the country's first ultra-low-cost carrier and has put in place a turnaround plan that has begun showing results. An IPO is also in the works. But will it succeed at a time when the aviation industry is dealing with devastating losses?
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International Youth Day: The next 100 years of the planet are uncertain. The fight for the future is on
Through online activism and legal means, youngsters are fighting climate change, raising awareness and leading scientific research. Their leadership, individually and collectively has forced the establishment to acknowledge the threat to our planet and environment
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Has the NFT bubble already burst?
Non-fungible tokens shot to popularity earlier this year with headline-grabbing, multi-million-dollar sales of digital-only artworks. Globally, sales and token values have since fallen, while in India, NFT usage is slowly catching up. How much of it is hype and how much is here to stay?
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Inside Mike Cannon-Brookes's world of Atlassian and the future of work
The Australian company offers software products that make it easier for teams across business functions to collaborate on 'a single pane of glass'. Covid-19 has made it even more relevant, and India is its fastest-growing talent hub
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FY23 growth: Finding a way amid uncertainties
High frequency economic indicators for India all point to a positive bounce-back for FY22. But there are several moving parts and uncertainties which could still impact normalisation of growth in FY23
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Responsible AI: Putting humans at the centre of artificial intelligence
Organisations need to adopt basic principles for responsible artificial intelligence to gain competitive advantage; they must also design systems that can effectively deal with biases
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The Indian Algorithmic Services: When AI gets to decide who gets welfare
Certain kinds of technologies, colloquially and collectively labelled as artificial intelligence, are gradually replacing bureaucratic agency in making important executive decisions and government functions that have social consequences