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Funngro has raised an undisclosed amount in funding from Shark Tank judges, Amit Jain, CarDekho’s founder and Emcure Pharmaceutical’s Namita Thapar. Early-stage investment firm SucSeed Indovation Fund also participated in the round.Funngro, which offers teenagers an opportunity to earn money through real-life freelancing projects, was first incubated at India’s first fintech incubator Afthonia Lab in 2021 and has a network of four lakh teenlancers (teenagers who are freelancers) and over 1,000 companies.“Funngro's vision…

Bollywood actor Amit Sadh – best known for his roles in Kai Po Che, Sultan and Sarkar – is also a keen biker. Amit Sadh has just taken delivery of Triumph Motorcycles’ flagship adventure motorcycle – the Tiger 1200. The actor took to Instagram to announce his latest acquisition, and also thanked Triumph Motorcycles India’s business head. Here’s what Amit Sadh said in his Instagram post, Also read: Modified Royal Enfield Thunderbird 500 motorcycle from Eimor Customs look beautiful Apart from the Triumph Tiger 1200,…

There is a growing interest – scholarly and otherwise – in oral histories of Partition that foreground voices and narratives of common and unsung people, what made you write a book revolving around two larger-than-life men – MK Gandhi and MA Jinnah? In Partitions (2011), I wrote a novel that dealt with everyday people caught up in the horror of Partition and communal violence. In The Map and the Scissors (2021), to keep things new for myself creatively and enter untrodden (for me) territory, I pursued portraits of…

Recently, Union Home Minister Amit Shah was on a visit to Mumbai, Maharashtra. During his visit, a video went viral showing that the home minister’s convoy held up an ambulance that had its siren wailing and lights flashing. This prompted outrage on social media outlets with many internet users calling for a probe into this incident. Union home minister Amit Shah’s car convoy that allegedly held up an ambulance in Mumbai The Mumbai Traffic Police has put out a clarification explaining that there was no patient in the…

It sounds like a handsomely prestigious assignment. The year is 2005 and the unnamed narrator of Amit Chaudhuri’s latest novel has moved to Berlin for four months to occupy the role of Böll professor at an unnamed university. Awarded a generous stipend, he is put up in a spacious flat that once housed the Nobel prizewinning author Kenzaburō Ōe. He has a minder who handles his admin, frets over his cultural intake and introduces him to luminaries in the department.But the narrator is under no great illusions. At his…

Amit Chaudhuri’s eighth novel reminded me of 1993’s Afternoon Raag, featuring an alienated English literature student at Oxford, or 2014’s Odysseus Abroad, about Ananda, a poet adrift in London. Sojourn has the same impressionistic tone – everything feels dreamlike, illusory and yet attentively described. There’s a similar meandering and languid style that likes to survey minor day-to-day details, mingling and suffusing them with the wider significances of history. This time we are in Berlin, though, and our unnamed…

An accomplished writer and a trained musician, Amit Chaudhuri’s prose has the soulfulness and lilt of the ragas. Even his paragraph transitions are akin to a harmonic cadence or a progression of two or more chords at the end of a phrase in music. 176pp, ₹499; Penguin Sojourn, his latest novella, takes forward his tradition of a melodic narrative style. The typical Chaudhuriesque manner of fiction writing doesn’t have a plot in the conventional sense but still efficiently captures the smaller (and at times…

The title of your book Finding the Raga signals a kind of quest. It reads a bit like a travelogue because the reader gets to travel with you to Mumbai, Kolkata, London, Berlin. What made you come up with this title? What else did you consider?While writing the book, I used to ask myself: “What is this book about?” And then it occurred to me that it’s about a turn in my life and the ramifications of that turn and everything that leads to that turn also then being reassessed through the perspective the turn gives me, and…

Amit Singh, the owner of the popular Fusion Gym in India is an avid enthusiast of high-end vehicles. While he owns a slew of high-end cars, he bought a second Mercedes-AMG G63 after he bought the first Mercedes-AMG G63 last year. A video by CS12 Vlogs shows Amit Singh taking delivery of the second G63 SUV. The video shows the Brilliant Blue metallic coloured Mercedes-AMG G63 in the showroom. After taking the new car out of the showroom, Amit Singh also brings out his old Brabus kit Mercedes-AMG G63. This is the same…

‘Chaltaa hun thodi duur har ik tez-rau ke saath/pehchaantaa nahin hun abhi raahbar ko main’ or ‘I go along some distance with every swift walker/I do not yet recognize the guide’ — Mirza Ghalib. Anjum Altaf and Amir Basole’s Thinking with Ghalib uses this verse from Ghalib to assess the political leaders of the subcontinent and their ephemeral but passionate followings among the populace. The verse also gives us an insight into the ambition of this genre-defying book. It is at once a self-help manual, a volume of…