How Osama Manzar plans to take the next billion Indians online (and fight for net neutrality)
Digital nomad Osama Manzar shares his next battle — fighting greedy companies looking to assemble all of the world’s data to serve their corporate interests.
R S Sharma, the bureaucrat who codes
Ram Sewak Sharma has been a digital warrior since the mid-eighties, much before the term digital became mainstream. In 1986, Sharma wrote a software application in dBase programming language to keep a record of all stolen firearms in Begusarai, a district in Bihar with high crime rates. Over the next three decades, Sharma has led […]
Sameer Guglani of Morpheus Gang on why Indian unicorns are facing the heat
“Somewhere the growth of consciousness stops — it’s like my car has run out of fuel.”
Remember redBus? A chat with Sanjay Anandaram, who watched it take shape
In this week’s Outliers, Pankaj Mishra speaks to Sanjay Anandaram, a mentor to redBus founder Phanindta Sama.
In his trek from an ‘accidental’ company to a ‘deliberate’ one, Rafat Ali learnt to have a voice
Meet Rafat Ali of Skift, the digital media warrior who is questioning established media platforms on one hand and taking on the rising dominance of newer ones on the other.
From child prodigy to AI champion, the second coming of Tanmay Bakshi
As part of The Cognitive Story project, Tanmay Bakshi is applying cognitive technologies to help people unable to communicate to express their emotions.
Labnol’s Amit Agarwal, India’s first blogger, on why he gave up blogging
Agarwal talks about blogging and his apps that have over million users.
Subroto Bagchi on how overachievers are their own best friends and worst enemies
Subroto Bagchi, cofounder of Mindtree and head of the Odisha Skill Development Authority, shares the important lessons he’s learnt from life.
Sarah Lacy talks about Silicon Valley’s sexism and “asshole culture”
Lacy, the founder of PandoDaily, is one of the most significant voices tracking issues that matter in the Valley.
Girish Mathrubootham says investors are owners too
For Girish Mathrubootham, founder and CEO of Freshdesk, entrepreneurship is not a one-off fling, but more like a habit, or “a sport he dearly loves.” “Being an entrepreneur gives an opportunity to dream and go after it. It’s about doing what I like doing,” he told me in this episode of The Outliers Podcast. Nobody […]