Most of Indian edtech is basically how to crack entrance exams. We’re building a society of test-takers.
Vedica Kant
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Vedica Kant
@vedicakant
Current life: foot soldier of capitalism; 🇮🇳start-up voyeur. invest @untitledvc_
- The Indian wedding industry truly is agile and recession-proof.US: still debating masks India: "The 2020 Indian wedding has a new essential: Matching face masks" indianexpress.com/article/lifest…
- I died a little seeing this. You don’t step on books.girls don’t want boys girls want a book staircase
- I never need an excuse to post PJN pictures, but today I actually have one. Haters gonna die hating.
- In the '80s India was a "loser country". That it would build a mighty software industry was never a foregone a conclusion. I explore how it did through the story of Infosys, which turned 40 this year!
- Kamala Harris joins a long and distinguished list of women of South Asian descent who have reached the highest echelons of elected government. - Sirimavo Bandaranaike 🇱🇰 - Indira Gandhi 🇮🇳 - Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰 - Chandrika Kumaratunga 🇱🇰 - Sheikh Hasina 🇧🇩 - Khaleda Zia 🇧🇩
- My favourite thing is that they brought along the doggo <3 <3 <3
- What even is a neobank? How do they operate? Who are the neobank players in India? Can they succeed in the country? My first piece exploring the consumer banking space in India. hind.substack.com/p/can-neobanks… @anmolm_
- I wrote about Jio today, and am sad that I didn’t see this really fantastic two-part write-up on the history of Reliance until I had already published. Highly recommended hind.substack.com/p/reliance-ori… hind.substack.com/p/from-oil-to-…
- How did Reliance go from being a staid oil and gas company to one of the most sought after investment targets globally? The answer is, of course, data (aka, the new oil). (1) hind.substack.com/p/from-oil-to-…
- Finished the first two episodes of Bad Boy Billionaires and feel rage at the financial institutions more than anything. It’s also a good reminder that if we had proper bankruptcy laws in place a lot of this could have been avoided. Business failures can and should be normalised.
