Two friends, Brian & Joe moved into San Francisco in 2007 searching for jobs. They noticed that all the hotel rooms in the city were sold out for a local conference. They had an idea. They bought some air beds and put up a website called ‘Air Bed & Breakfast’. 3 guests spent that nightContinue reading “Cereal Way to Success”
Author Archives: Uday
When the Spirits Cast their Spell
‘When Mohanlal Dayal was born, he was placed on the lid of a huge ceremonial cooking pot or Tapela and was called Chhibabhai. The logic was that bad spirits would not be attracted to a baby with such an ugly name’ says Ramesh Chauhan on the patriarch of one of India’s oldest business family. MohanlalContinue reading “When the Spirits Cast their Spell”
The Summer of 1977
The Indian summer of 1977 had a different kind of fizz. A country emerging from horrors of Emergency and raring to go! Angry young man on the screen setting the trend! A new govt playing tough with Coca Cola & IBM using the FERA act, forcing them to step out leaving the Indian market vacant.Continue reading “The Summer of 1977”
A Conversation can start a Movement
‘Mr. Khurody, buffaloes give double the milk in winter and I don’t know how to plug their udders. You have to take all the milk’ pleaded the young manager. ‘But the people of Bombay don’t drink 1 bottle of milk in summer and 2 in winter. It’s your problem, not mine’. Mr Khurody was theContinue reading “A Conversation can start a Movement”
Instant Julius!
World War 1 saw the biggest spike in working women in history. Millions were called upon to fill in for men on the war front leaving families behind. Julius was the youngest of five children in one such family of Italian born mill owners in the Swiss village of Kempathal, Zurich. Young Julius saw hisContinue reading “Instant Julius!”
Train Journey to Fame
It was in one of those 10 hour crowded train journeys from Shangdong that Eric dreamt of a better way to meet, talk and spend time with his girlfriend. Armed with a degree in applied maths and ace coding skills he looked westward. But even as Silicon Valley beckoned, US immigration blocked. For 8 consecutiveContinue reading “Train Journey to Fame”
Two Hundred Years of Resilience
When 10 yr old William heard loud knocks on his bedroom door at midnight, his family were readying themselves for a big escape from their home in Shoreham, England to Baltimore, US. The British PM, a close friend of his father asked him to leave England or risk death for sympathising with Americans fighting forContinue reading “Two Hundred Years of Resilience”
May the Fourth Be With You
The dream of a young boy from a farming family in Modesto, California was to make the greatest ever space adventure. He almost died in a car crash but fate landed him in the Univ of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts where he attracted the mentorship of Francis Ford Coppola and a best friendContinue reading “May the Fourth Be With You”
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