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@sahaprd

2 years

Team meetings at @BYJUS Story:

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2 years

A Kroll investigation found serious discrepancies with Sumeru Ventures. A fake investment, link with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and a Rs 2,500-sized hole, skeletons are tumbling out of Byju’s closet thick and fast. My story today on @MorningContext

The fake investment that connects Byju’s and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Sumeru Ventures, a curious Los Angeles-based fund, participated in a $800 million round in Byju’s. But the money hasn’t come in and questions are being raised about the fund’s antecedents.

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Cred is giving me cashbacks of INR 1 and 2. Can't imagine what to do with so much money. Should I buy Arsenal?

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@sahaprd

4 years

This is a @whiteHatSnr appreciation tweet. Keep up the good work, man.

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@sahaprd

4 years

Mumbai folks, don't feel alone in this hour of crisis. Patparganj stands in solidarity.

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@sahaprd

20 days

My mother, my beautiful mother, left us this afternoon. She went in peace. Thank you everyone for your prayers.

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@sahaprd

2 years

Targets, targets, targets. "I have taken a target from the upper management and I value my words." Story:

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@sahaprd

3 years

if you really hate someone, send them to get data from MCA website

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@sahaprd

2 years

@Reuters awareness about soil is fantastic. but can you update me on how much oil will be burnt? how much carbon footprint he is leaving behind. and finally, if he is a spiritual leader, i am Nelson Mandela.

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@sahaprd

6 years

The best story I have covered in a year. A story of grit, passion, commitment, ambition and dreams. Who are we if we can't even dream? For me, I saw a glimpse of Hamid in this guy, almost 20 years after reading Idgah...

Mint Lounge

@Mint_Lounge

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COVER | 15-year-old Nisar Ahmad from a Delhi slum is India's most promising athlete, rewriting the record books and training at the academy in Jamaica where Usain Bolt comes from. @sahaprd charts his story

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@sahaprd

5 months

Now available in a bookstore near you. Get your copy now. PS: If you're around Khan Market, say hello?

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@sahaprd

2 years

We have reached Parliament. 1/3

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@KartiPC

2 years

I have written to the #SFIO to look into the financing of @BYJUS it’s imperative that a thorough investigation is launched. @MCA21India @sequoia

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@sahaprd

1 year

Why are the front suspension units of Ola S1 scooters breaking? We found it to be a story deeply rooted in unfettered ambition + greed combined with arrogance + the lack of respect for human lives, all wrapped in a cloak of nationalism. On @MorningContext

Why Ola Electric scooters continue to break

Incidents of the front suspension arm breaking reaffirm that Bhavish Aggarwal’s company may have pushed an improperly finished scooter into the market.

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@sahaprd

2 years

How @Olacabs killed trust and duped thousands of drivers across the country. @bhash Exclusive read on @MorningContext

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@sahaprd

4 years

@sardesairajdeep the price you pay for JOURNALISM in the times of godi media

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@sahaprd

2 years

After categorially denying @MorningContext story on layoffs, @BYJUS has served 'performance notices' to 5,000+ people, reports @moneycontrolcom . Managers are asking people to get ready to say ‘bye-bye’ to the company soon. Here's all you need to know:

Byju’s to lay off nearly 12,000, a quarter of its staff

As the company goes into a cost-cutting mode, chasing profitability, the number of job losses could be many times the number Byju’s has put out.

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pradip

@sahaprd

5 months

At Bahri Sons. Come say hi.

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@sahaprd

8 months

back to an office space after more than 33 months. mixed feelings. the reluctant office-goer is the first one in the office

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@sahaprd

10 months

So the video is real. That an employee had the audacity to record it openly shows things at @BYJUS are worse than we know. The VP in question is Soham Sanidhya, who joined Byju's in 2013 from Manipal. He deleted his LinkedIn profile after the video went viral.

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@sahaprd

10 months

Where is this video from?

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@sahaprd

3 years

An outing after 18 months

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@sahaprd

1 year

So Byju's has hired a chief financial officer. Finally.

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@sahaprd

2 years

A story in five charts, made for @MorningContext by the brilliant @schetan77 Chart 1: @Olacabs has raised billions of dollars from investors over the years but the valuation is stuck in the $6bn range. 1/n

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@sahaprd

3 years

Shubho Mahalaya. (Throwback to the boy's first. All three of us are looking alright, surprisingly!)

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@sahaprd

3 months

scooters continue to burn, AI platform is worse than a joke, cab-hailing platform refuses to work; still, all three are unicorns, and making the founder + one investor rich, very very rich.

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@futureiselectr2

3 months

Last week in Kerala and this week in Madhya Pradesh, weekly fire sightings of @OlaElectric

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@sahaprd

2 years

Look, three!

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@sahaprd

6 months

Coming soon... Watch this space. @juggernautbooks @akm1410 @MorningContext

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@sahaprd

4 years

Big Chill is overrated. Deal with it.

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@sahaprd

26 days

this is exactly what @prempanicker spoke about in his piece yesterday. if you haven't read it yet, here:

Modi Is Being Outnumbered And Out-Rallied

This time Modi has no emotive message to take to the stump. Muscular nationalism doesn't work against the backdrop of China's successive inroads into Indian territory. Rising prices is a sore point...

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@mr_mayank

26 days

Meet Tejashwi Yadav's new star campaigner, Narendra Modi. He is playing Modi's old speeches during his rallies, literally using CM Modi against PM Modi 😂😂 Excellent strategy, every INDIA party should also follow 🔥

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@sahaprd

2 years

Bihari cuisine is one of the most underrated in India

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@sahaprd

10 months

this man single-handedly brought us where we are today. history will remember him as such.

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@PTI_News

10 months

VIDEO | Activist Anna Hazare demands death penalty for perpetrators involved in Manipur parading incident; terms it as "blot on humanity".

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@sahaprd

3 years

Just realised @MorningContext has subscribers across 11 time zones. Thank you all, for reading us

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@sahaprd

5 years

Just to get the girls off his back, Dass one day tossed a football at them, unaware that he was also changing the course of their future. My story for @Mint_Lounge on the village of Alakhpura in Haryana where girls in almost every household play football

The footballing girls of Alakhpura

In this Haryana village, girls in almost every household play football. The sport is helping them break societal taboos and gain financial freedom

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@sahaprd

4 years

. @indiankanoon was created to make the law accessible to every Indian. It is more relevant today than it probably was a decade back. @sushantsinha knows he needs to continue. Whatever it takes. My story today in @MorningContext #longreads 1/3

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@sahaprd

4 years

My father, bless his soul, never understood what I do. Mother still doesn't. I haven't asked them for money in 15 years. But they've seen my name in print and I've bought them gifts. All I need now is a fraudulent business to become an interview subject

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@sahaprd

2 years

#NewsBreak Aakash is Byju’s most prized possession. But Byju's still owes hundreds of millions of dollars to Aakash's past owners and is scrambling for funds. Things are going from bad to worse. I write for @MorningContext . [Paywalled]

Aakash, Blackstone may serve Byju’s notice for non-payment

The edtech startup acquired Aakash Educational Services, in which Blackstone has a 38% stake, last year for $1 billion in cash and stock.

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@sahaprd

3 years

ye hamari #pawri ho rahi hai

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@sahaprd

2 years

No investors, no drivers, no engineers, a high attrition rate and the lack of founder's interest have turned @Olacabs , once the poster-child of India’s startup ambitions, into a dodo. How did we get here? I write for @MorningContext today.

Ola's cab business is failing

Faced with chronic neglect, lack of focus, high attrition and supply-side constraints, Ola's cab business, once the darling of investors, has turned into a dodo.

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@sahaprd

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Breathe everyone. Byju's hasn't, I repeat, HASN'T, filed it's FY22 financials YET with the MCA

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@sahaprd

2 years

New beginnings

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@sahaprd

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Signing a global superstar for branding is THE ONE THING you mustn’t do after announcing mass layoffs. It is unethical, tone-deaf, and will backfire. Always. That’s management 101. 1/n

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@sahaprd

2 years

This isn't the EV revolution people wanted. A story in charts. @OlaElectric @bhash @OlaScooter @varundubey Rahul Tandon’s five weeks old scooter stopped suddenly in the middle of a busy road, without any warning. 1/n More on @MorningContext

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@sahaprd

3 years

No better time than this to replug @MorningContext 's story on how #edtech companies that spend millions of dollars on sponsoring cricket and other PR stunts are making students/parents run pillar to post for refunds.

The great Indian edtech refunds scam

Social media is littered with instances of parents and students running from pillar to post to get their money back once they realize the courses they signed up for are worthless. The absence of...

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@sahaprd

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Unacademy is at a crossroads. It has to either raise funds soon or cut costs big time while not sacrificing growth as it chases profitability. Challenging, when the core product is slowing and capital is hard to come by. Can it? I write for @MorningContext

Can Gaurav Munjal make Unacademy profitable?

As the core test-prep business of India’s second-largest edtech firm slows, its CEO begins chasing new ideas for a turnaround.

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@sahaprd

2 years

Journalism is about finding and reporting stories. Especially those that businesses and their cheerleaders don't want out. The onus to answer lies with the entrepreneur. Crying foul after choosing not to answer specific questions is the easier option. But people know that now.

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@viditaatrey

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Sad to see this clickbait journalism. Fabricating stories about townhalls that never happened to “source driven” fake anecdotes of a downround. For your own sake, be more responsible about what you write, do the legwork and don’t spread propaganda. People can see through it.

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i. am. not. interested. in. your. wordle. score.

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@sahaprd

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Rename twitter to Agarwal Tweets?

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@sahaprd

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in no other country does the announcement of its leader addressing the nation cause so much panic

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@sahaprd

1 year

No other actor in Bollywood has the guts to do this. No one else can pull it off either.

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1 year

SRK as a tool of national integration 🇮🇳

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depression is real. been there. still not completely out of it. so if you are in the middle of it, i love you. hang in there. you will find the way out. my DMs are open if you want to chat.

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I do not know how to react to this.

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@sahaprd

2 years

. @OlaElectric ships scooters without the mobile app, hill hold, cruise control, voice commands and Bluetooth, reports ET. Here's from the story on @MorningContext two days back: Read it here:

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@sahaprd

2 years

5am Saturday scenes #Ashes

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@sahaprd

3 years

Never a bad time to say thank you to @MorningContext subscribers. We exist because of you. Thank you for reading us.

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@sahaprd

11 months

amazing how people are surprised that Byju's hasn't paid PF. please read @MorningContext . we first reported about a working capital crisis at the company in December 2022. it hadn't paid vendors, or filed TDS returns. PF was on and off. these problems have only become worse now.

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@sahaprd

4 years

Opinion is garbage. Your mind is a temple. And you should never read opinion. Vintage @sidin . Only for subscribers of @MorningContext

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@sahaprd

3 years

. @imsoumyarendra 's story on @entrackr about Zomato and the life of their delivery partners is an important one and well-timed. Instead of taking things at face value, it presents the dark underbelly of the much-celebrated platform economy model. short 🧵

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@sahaprd

2 months

Jio Institute is passing anyone off as a faculty. CFO, HR folks, librarian, you name it. This is while it struggles with the lack of clarity on its status. To make matters worse, the provost has resigned. How did it reach here? I write for @MorningContext

Has Jio Institute played fast and loose with AICTE and students?

The Reliance Foundation-backed institute seems to have inflated faculty strength to get the AICTE’s approval when, in fact, it has just four regular teachers and two of its three courses have none.

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@sahaprd

9 months

. @unacademy is paying Rs 100 per tweet in its support? your code of conduct allows this, @RomanSaini ?

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@anarkaliofara

9 months

WTF!! How much money do they have? On papers they show loss every FY. and I don't even have 750 followers. #UninstallUncademy

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@sahaprd

3 years

" Ghar me ghoos ke marenge , tmhara location BYJU'S track kar raha Ghar se uthwa lenge" @ByjuRaveendran @BYJUS is this true?

Anita Singh on LinkedIn: I am writing this post to tell you guys about how BYJU'S is continuously…...

I am writing this post to tell you guys about how BYJU'S is continuously harassing me and I am not feeling safe anymore, I am really concerned about my family.… | 1,765 comments on LinkedIn

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@sahaprd

2 years

That Ola Electric has been able to create such hype without a product is the genius of Bhavish Aggarwal, and therein lies the biggest problem: How long can a business as big as Ola run purely on hype? I write on @MorningContext on why Ola is stuck.

Bhavish Aggarwal is choking Ola

Aggarwal’s cab-hailing giant is in the doldrums, while his EV venture is off to a shaky start. Insiders blame a toxic culture and a distrustful CEO who can’t let go.

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@sahaprd

1 year

I hereby declare winters

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@sahaprd

1 month

Byju's is unravelling. How did the company at the top of the startup chart two years back reach here? Read The Learning Trap (published by @juggernautbooks ) to know more. Here: Hurry. Only a few hundred copies left from the first print.

The Learning Trap: How Byju’S Took Indian Edtech For A Ride

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@sahaprd

2 years

@DuddWiser only if you are having the phucka variant of it

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@sahaprd

2 years

We have an update on yesterday’s story on @MorningContext . After its publication, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s secretary reached out denying the spiritual guru’s association with Sumeru Ventures. Here’s the exchange. We have updated the story accordingly. Here:

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@sahaprd

2 years

moving is pain. already dreading the thought of packing our lives in cardboard boxes and then unpacking in the new place. what if some thoughts spill, some memories break? nuts.

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@sahaprd

11 months

Ok, long thread alert. The world waking up to problems at Byju’s made me do this. If you are a reader of @MorningContext , you already know this. But for the rest, here’s a list of firsts about the company. 1/n But first, there is the complete archive:

Byju's Archives | The Morning Context

The Morning Context provides in-depth reportage and considered opinion from journalists and industry experts around the world, on tech, business and chaos.

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@sahaprd

2 years

1. Grover ji isn't a great founder. Light years from it. 2. He is NOT building quietly. 3. Valuation is NOT building. 4. Saying saat khoon maaf for entrepreneurs is easy when the khoon isn't yours. 5. Culture is everything. How you deal with people is EVERYTHING.

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@sahaprd

5 years

#AUSvIND commentary. Harsha Bhogle: I think Kohli is also a bit relaxed now as a captain. Earlier he used to give an impression at press conferences that it was him against the world... Shane Warne: That maybe because he is also very happy in his personal life... 🙂

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@sahaprd

4 years

@newspaperwallah history will be kind to two people, her and manmohan singh

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@sahaprd

4 years

Dear Indian government. Nobody will sue you if you do anything right, without causing confusion and chaos all around. Thank you.

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. @TheDeshBhakt puts it succintly: Ask questions. In our rush to put people on the podium, we forget this basic. Had investors asked questions, Byju's won't be where it is today. A brilliant summary of the entire saga. Also features The Learning Trap. Watch

SCAM 2023 | Lessons from the Stunning Rise & Dramatic Collapse of...

It was a rags-to-riches story that was widely quoted - Byjus was an inspiration that spurred the entire Indian ed-tech Industry .... but India's biggest Unic...

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@sahaprd

1 year

Entrepreneurs always have the chance to set the record straight before a journalist goes ahead with a story. That's why queries are sent. If you choose to not answer or try to divert queries, you can't come back and say things like "grave mistakes in financial reporting"

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@sahaprd

2 years

More like remember not being able to afford it

🇮🇳 The Kaur (Modi ka parivaar) 🇮🇳

@Jas_2101

2 years

Remember this ? 😍

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@sahaprd

5 years

this is the best thing i have read this week. CC @rohitdbrijnath , @vikramshah1991

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@sahaprd

11 months

@malikgarv @malpani i don't think either of them needs it anymore. they have been proven right, so far as their specific issues with those two companies are concerned

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@sahaprd

2 years

If you believe @OlaElectric is working on a car right now, you might as well believe in fairies and gnomes. @bhash has no prototype, strategy, tech, platform or even money to suggest he is capable of making an electric car. I write for @MorningContext

Ola Electric teases an electric car that it doesn’t have

The 15 August event recasts Bhavish Aggarwal as a short-term entrepreneur who has lofty ambitions but no concrete plans.

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@sahaprd

4 years

@ESPNcricinfo Bhajji. The Eden Gardens. 2001. India vs Australia

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An example of odd-even in Indian publications. Odd day: Ola Cabs to file for IPO. Even day: Ola Cabs' CEO, four months into the job, leaves.

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@sahaprd

3 years

मैं अकेला ही चला था जानिब-ए-मंज़िल मगर, लोग साथ आते गए और कारवाँ बनता गया... team @MorningContext at the first offsite

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@sahaprd

4 years

One of the best obits on Irrfan. @yooday , have you read? "These movies didn’t deserve him, but Khan dignified them with his presence, refusing to sink with the flimsy material he was given."

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4 years

"What does WhiteHat Jr do?" is a question I've often been asked. Initially, I'd say "teaching children to code". Now, "I really don't know". @akm1410 's story today on @MorningContext is a glimpse into the startup hell that WHJ is. Also, it's a FREE READ.

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4 years

What a gorgeous day in Delhi

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@sahaprd

3 years

@DreamingNeha this. especially when it rains.

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@sahaprd

11 months

Had about 10 minutes with him.

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Drop a cool photo of you doing your job. One of few pics I click with my patients. This one was special. A cirrhosis patient, he came to me in a coma, was on the ventilator for a week, went back home after a month, came back & sang for me in my OPD while playing "finger drums"

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@sahaprd

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Byju's FY21 earnings highlights: -Losses up 20x to Rs 4588 cr, or Rs 12.5 cr/day -SD card biz is 80% of the operating revenue -India sales down 60% Byju's is a house on fire. Investors still sleeping need to wake up and smell the coffee. By @akm1410 and me

Byju’s 2020-21 financials show it’s a house of cards

Record losses, declining revenue in key markets and questionable accounting practices paint a grim picture of India’s largest edtech company.

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@sahaprd

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I spent 150 minutes on the road to come to a conference to learn edtech is evolving.

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@sahaprd

1 month

Be the change you want to see. Uphold democracy and constitution. End hate. #Elections2024

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@sahaprd

5 years

My first byline for @TheKenWeb with the very helpful @Pranavenstein Also, a free read. So read and share. Love and peace, folks.

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@TheKenWeb

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Can software and games teach people how to read, write and do basic math? A growing number of organisations in India and across the world are trying to answer just that - @sahaprd and @Pranavenstein write [FREE story]

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@sahaprd

3 years

Byju's is now competing with governments. Wow. Spend that money on bettering education instead

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@EconomicTimes

3 years

Edtech major BYJU'S on Sunday announced a cash reward of Rs 2 crore for star India javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra following his gold medal winning feat at the Tokyo Olympics.

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@sahaprd

4 years

Love and peace to y'all. Happy 2020 everyone. Better vision and clarity to the politicians of the world

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@sahaprd

2 years

If there is only one story you read today, make this the one. How bicycle partners are toiling to deliver @zomato 's sustainability goals. By @verma_shivani12 for @MorningContext . And it is a #freeread . Share widely.

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@sahaprd

1 year

Folks, someone has hacked my Instagram handle @sahaprd . Please avoid any messages you get from that account.

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@sahaprd

11 months

Desk for the next couple weeks

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11 months

#EXCLUSIVE Byju’s acquired Aakash in 2021 with great fanfare and that business became its crown jewel. Two-and-a-half years later, the merger is still not complete and now Byju’s might lose control of Aakash. Only on @MorningContext

Can Byju’s lose control of Aakash?

While the Chaudhry family and Blackstone still hold nearly 30% in the test-prep chain, it’s unclear who has the final say on the 27% held indirectly by Byju Raveendran.

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best way to sort our engineering mess

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Perfect evening in Delhi for cycling

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Shubho Saptami, from ours to yours.

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Ola Fleet Technologies "was a s***show". Misselling, dubious contracts, allegations of fraud, zero business and over Rs 1,000 crore in cumulative losses; Ola Fleet Technologies is a classic example of how not to do business. I write for @MorningContext