Modern India
This is the India of right now — the one you live in, argue about, and read the news over. This section leaves the history books and looks at the present: the elections and the politics, the price of onions and the hunt for a government job, the protests that fill the streets, the schemes that promise a lot and reach the doorstep as less, the old questions of caste and fairness in a new century. Written straight down the middle — what happened, who's angry, what each side says — this is where Curious Indian turns from the past to the citizen's life today.
How Verghese Kurien Turned a Small Village Struggle Into Amul Revolution
Verghese Kurien arrived in Anand, Gujarat in 1949 as a government dairy engineer who had been trained abroad at American...
How Shiv Nadar Used a Small Calculator Business to Build HCL
In 1976, six young engineers in Delhi pooled together approximately 187,000 rupees and started a company to assemble and sell...
Dr. Pratap Reddy and the Patient Death That Built Apollo Hospitals
In the early 1980s, a man from Andhra Pradesh needed open heart surgery and could not afford the cost of...
How Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Built Biocon From a Garage in Bengaluru
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw started Biocon in 1978 in a rented garage in Bengaluru with ten thousand rupees, a degree in...
Struggle of Walchand Hirachand Against British Shipping Laws
Walchand Hirachand wanted to build ships in India, fly planes over India and manufacture automobiles on Indian soil at a...
The Secret Letters Between G.D. Birla and Mahatma Gandhi
Between 1915 and 1948, Ghanshyam Das Birla and Mahatma Gandhi exchanged over 1,800 letters. They wrote about money, about the...
The Tragic L.N. Mishra Bombing Of 1975
Step into the dark shadows of nineteen seventies Indian politics. Discover the shocking L.N. Mishra bombing, the very first assassination...
The Roots Of The Naga National Council Struggle
Step into the complex history of Northeast India. Discover how the Naga National Council united fiercely independent tribes into a...
The Fight To Save Northeast India Endangered Languages
Step into the fading world of ancient words. Discover the heroic efforts to document Northeast India endangered languages and save...
The Threat Of Deepor Beel Urban Encroachment
Discover the changing story of Deepor Beel urban encroachment. Explore how growing cities are threatening the last beautiful wetland of...
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