Deal Radar 2008: MakeMyTrip

Rated India’s #1 Travel Website (by JuxtConsult), MakeMyTrip has carved a niche for itself in the eight years since its inception in 2000. It started out as a service for the booming USA to India NRI travel market and has now evolved to include airline tickets, hotel reservations, holiday packages, car rentals and several other

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Deal Radar 2008: Yatra

Yatra is a travel company which provides availability and booking facilities for air travel, hotels, buses and car rentals worldwide. Besides its strong online presence, Yatra also offers its services through mobile phone and retail mediums. Founded by Dhruv Shringi, Manish Amin and Sabina Chopra in 2006, the company currently is based in 10 cities

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Deal Radar 2008: Cleartrip

As part of our extensive coverage of online travel, this week, we will take a look at the Indian Online Travel industry. We begin with Cleartrip.

India’s Film Industry

The San Francisco International Film Festival is under way, and this weekend, we saw a couple of movies there. Of these, one was a 3-hour Bengali film called Calcutta, My Love by Goutam Ghose based on Samaresh Majumdar’s acclaimed novel, Kalbela, which I had read in my teens.

Deal Radar 2008: Seventymm

I wrote about Seventymm two years back, as part of the Concept Arbitrage series. In this post, we will review how the company has progressed in the interim against its stated goals.

The Economy

One of my readers asked me for comments on the outlook for the global economy. I saw this post on Paul Kedrosky’s site which I think does a very good job summarizing the situation, which effectively, is demand exceeding supply in every dimension. [It’s actually a passage from FT].

Catching Up on Readings: Bootstrap Yourself!

Amidst the ocean of content that is coming at you, readers, I am sure you find yourselves overwhelmed. Here’s a recap of some articles from this site which you may have missed, but may be worth your time:

Deal Radar 2008: TutorVista

Located in Bangalore, India, TutorVista provides scheduled and on-demand tutoring to students all over the world. In an attempt to penetrate the $2.5 billion-a-year private tutoring market in the US, Krishnan Ganesh founded TutorVista in 2005, which has grown to include over 100,000 registered users, although the actual number of students tutored by the company

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