The Big Read
The Bill Gates of India Has A Grand Plan to Outfox Amazon—And Change the World
Nandan Nilekani believes his e-commerce revolution can disrupt U.S. retail giants, enrich millions of ordinary Indians and unlock billions more dollars across dozens of countries.
Few places present a more vibrant study of contrasts than modern India, with the archaic and the modern, the wealthy and the poor, the digital and the physical all increasingly intersecting and interweaving. As so often happens, I watched these forces converge one December afternoon on a shady, tree-lined street in the posh Koramangala neighborhood of Bangalore, the country’s third-largest city and tech industry capital.