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StartupsMay 21, 2026

From $1,000 to a Nasdaq Exit: The Indian Student Who Landed in Texas With a Dream and Built an Auction Empire

In 1998, Rajesh Rajaram arrived in the United States from India with the same dream carried by millions of international students before and since: a master's degree, a steady corporate job, a comfortable life. He enrolled at San Diego State University, earned a Master of Computer Science, and began a perfectly respectable career as a software developer, working his way through startups and Fortune 500 companies including Genband, Oracle, and AT&T. The immigrant dream was working. The ladder was solid. The path was clear.

ImpactMay 21, 2026

Could India’s Rent Economy Eventually Become a Financial Identity Story?

New rent-focused financial platforms increasingly raise broader questions around housing, financial inclusion and changing urban experiences among younger populations.

StartupsMay 21, 2026

The Helicopter Farmer: How a Banker Quit His Job, Bet Everything on Medicinal Herbs, and Built a Rs 70 Crore Empire in India's Most Dangerous Region

In 1998, Rajaram Tripathi did something that made no sense to anyone who knew him. He was a probationary officer at the State Bank of India, a government job that came with a pension, respectability, and the quiet assurance of a middle-class life. He had degrees. He had security. He had a father who was a teacher and a grandfather who had spent seven decades coaxing crops from the soil of Bastar. Everyone in his orbit expected him to stay in banking, rise through the ranks, and retire with a gold watch. Instead, he walked into his branch manager's office and resigned.

ImpactMay 20, 2026

The Rising Cost of Raising Children in Indian Cities Is Becoming a Lifestyle Story—And an Economic One

Rising child-rearing costs across Indian cities increasingly reflect broader changes involving lifestyle expectations, urban economics and family decision-making.

ImpactMay 20, 2026

India’s Coaching Culture Is Facing New Questions After Kota’s Student Suicide Crisis Reignited National Debate

Kota’s student-suicide crisis is reigniting broader discussions around educational pressure, emotional wellbeing and how India increasingly understands coaching culture.

StartupsMay 20, 2026

The Scrap Dealer's Billion-Rupee Bet: How a Mumbai Recycler Is Mining Dead Batteries for EV Gold—and Planning an IPO

On the outskirts of Mumbai, inside a facility that smells faintly of metal and burnt wires, Rajesh Gupta sees treasure where most of India sees garbage. Every morning, trucks unload mountains of discarded laptop batteries, spent electric-vehicle cells, dead mobile phones, and industrial scrap—the detritus of a nation racing to digitize and decarbonize simultaneously. What arrives as waste leaves as cobalt sulfate, lithium carbonate, and nickel powder, metals so valuable that they have become the subject of geopolitical competition between the world's most powerful nations.

StartupsMay 20, 2026

The $1 Billion Sovereignty Play: How Tata and JSW Are Trying to Break India's Dependence on Chinese EV Batteries

The most expensive, most technically demanding component of an electric vehicle is not the motor, the software, or the chassis. It is the battery—and for nearly every electric vehicle sold in India today, the cells inside that battery were designed and manufactured in China. India's EV penetration has surged past 8.5 percent, driven by electric two- and three-wheelers that have become a common sight on city streets. But the lithium-ion cells that power those vehicles, and the lithium-iron-phosphate chemistry that is increasingly used in stationary energy storage, remain almost entirely imported from a single country.

StartupsMay 20, 2026

The Sachet-Model Battery Revolution: How a Former NASA Engineer Is Making EV Batteries Pay-As-You-Go

Ashwin Shankar has worked at Schlumberger, the oilfield services giant. He has worked at NASA. He holds a degree in electrical engineering from Stanford. He could have spent his career in any number of comfortable, well-compensated roles designing complex systems for organizations with deep pockets and long time horizons. Instead, he is running a startup in Pune that manages a fleet of 2,000 electric vehicle batteries across six Indian cities—and he just raised ₹8 crore to expand that fleet tenfold over the next eighteen months.

StartupsMay 20, 2026

The ₹10,000 Crore Clean-Energy Bet by Three Founders Who Already Built One Solar Giant

Kushagra Nandan has already built one successful solar company. In 2011, he co-founded SunSource Energy, a distributed solar developer that grew into one of India's largest commercial and industrial solar platforms before it was acquired. He could have retired to a comfortable life of angel investing and advisory board seats. Instead, in January 2026, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, he launched something far more ambitious.

StartupsMay 20, 2026

The ₹30 Crore Miracle Chip: How Two IIT Madras Engineers Are Building India's First Secure IoT Brain—and Taking On the Global Semiconductor Giants

Shashwath T.R. and Sharan Srinivas J. were graduate students at IIT Madras when they decided to do something that most graduate students do not do. They decided to build a semiconductor company. Not a software platform. Not an app. Not a marketplace. A chip company—in a country that had never produced a commercial-grade, high-performance microcontroller system-on-chip designed entirely within its borders.