Vision India 2020 Is Ready For You

Readers, you know that I have been working on Vision India 2020 for almost two years. The book is a collection of my 45 business ideas leveraging India’s strategic advantages, spanning a diverse set of sectors ranging from technology to education, healthcare to infrastructure, film to rural development. These are big ideas, each with the

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Vision India 2020: Care

I have written a series of columns on healthcare over the last several weeks. Most of them were focused on healthcare for the rural and under-served population. This column addresses a business opportunity for the growing affluent class in India in the healthcare sector.

Vision India 2020: Doctor For Sure

One of the most contentious topics in the 2008 US presidential elections has been healthcare policy, with Barack Obama pushing aggressively for universal healthcare. As I delved into the topic from the perspective of India and tried to outline a business plan for a sustainable, for-profit venture–not a non-profit, nor a government agency–Doctor For Sure

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Vision India 2020: Green Village

India’s real estate development, for the longest time, had consisted of multi-story residential and commercial buildings in urban settings. With increasing traffic and the cities bursting at their seams, getting to and from work every day had become a tremendous challenge. We founded Green Village, a real estate development company with a commitment to green

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Vision India 2020: Harvard Medical School, India

As our MIT India project gained its stride, and MIT won tremendous international acclaim for the vision and leadership it demonstrated in promoting open education, the folks at Harvard were feeling jealous. They wanted their own playground to contribute and to show off!

Vision India 2020: NCTV

I am going to make a detour from Healthcare and switch to Sports for this column. NCTV is a media company that we built around the core concept of non-cricket television. As in prior years, India had put up a pathetic show in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Athletes were sent to compete in Archery, Athletics,

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Vision India 2020: Doctor On Wire

In Doctor At Hand, we addressed the opportunity of building a network of pharmacies to address the common illnesses that a few hundred million people face in rural India.

Vision India 2020: Doctor At Hand

Many readers write to me with ideas for Vision 2020 ventures. One, Dr. Vaman Shanbhag, a neurologist in Mumbai, sent me a great idea for a healthcare venture which inspired Doctor At Hand.