In an exclusive conversation with The Impactful Global Indian, Aditya Reddy Manugunta opens up about the year he hit rock bottom — and the radical mind-first philosophy that turned his collapse into a movement.
Fourteen years on Ketto — India's largest crowdfunding platform — gave Kunal Kapoor, Varun Sheth, and Zaheer Adenwala a specific and uncomfortable education: most of the medical emergencies families were raising money for had roots in metabolic disease that had been silently progressing for years before anyone intervened.
Amazon launched a $1 billion AI deployment venture on June 30. Microsoft launched a $2.5 billion one on July 2. OpenAI and Anthropic launched similar ventures in May. Four of the biggest names in AI have made the same bet in the same two months: the bottleneck in enterprise AI is not the model.
The Indian diaspora has spent sixty years proving it can succeed anywhere. The next sixty years ask a different question: now that you have succeeded, what will you build with it? The shift from achievement to impact is not a rejection of ambition. It is ambition at a larger scale, with a longer time horizon, pointed at a harder problem.
July 1, 2026, has emerged as a landmark day for the Tamil film industry. From a celebrated director taking a production house to court over ₹8.39 crore in unpaid dues, to Mani Ratnam securing a massive ₹20 crore Netflix deal before his film's shoot has even begun, the business of Kollywood is undergoing a seismic shift. As a major production house joins forces with Suriya for a pan-Indian project and the industry adopts a revolutionary three-tier salary structure, here is your comprehensive report on the day's biggest stories.
In just three years, Vietnamese cinema has undergone a remarkable transformation — from a 42.6% domestic market share in 2023 to a staggering 70.6% in the first five months of 2026. At the heart of this revolution is Dinh Thanh Huong, Executive Chair of Galaxy Studio and CEO of Galaxy Entertainment Holding, who has not only orchestrated a box office surge but is now positioning Vietnam as a global co-production hub. With 69% of moviegoers being Gen Z, 72.8% of tickets now purchased digitally, and production budgets tripling to over VND100 billion, Vietnamese cinema is no longer an emerging market — it is a force to be reckoned with.
From the bustling halls of Seoul's Shilla Hotel to the emerging powerhouse of Vietnamese cinema, women are no longer just participants in the entertainment industry—they are architects of its future. As the 5th Women Entrepreneurs Week kicks off in South Korea with a focus on AI and femtech, and Vietnamese cinema surges to a 70% domestic market share under female leadership, a clear picture emerges: women are using technology not just to build businesses, but to redefine how stories are told, distributed, and experienced across the globe.
Sony Pictures Entertainment India and Qube Cinema have partnered to release Spider-Man: Brand New Day across all 12 EPIQ screens nationwide — marking the first time a Hollywood studio film has been mastered in India's homegrown premium large format. With 170+ films already mastered for EPIQ and the new EPIQ Luxon HDR format pushing technological boundaries, Indian exhibition technology is finally getting its Hollywood moment.
Four engineers at Asian Paints kept setting up warehouses for their employer and noticing the same gap: no Indian company was building the automation technology that global warehouses needed. In 2016, they quit and built one.
Flipkart paid $700 million to 19,000 employees through ESOPs in 2023 — India's single largest ESOP wealth creation event. India is now the world's third-largest startup ecosystem. 77% of Indian startups offer equity compensation. Vestd acquired Trica to be the platform that manages all of it.