India's rising entrepreneurship culture

A proof of social acceptance of entrepreneurship would be when parents are delighted to have a start-up son-in-law

When I started my HUL career (incidentally, in data processing), some data work was already being undertaken in Tata under US-returned Lalit Kanodia, Yash Sahni and some others. On April 1, 1968, the Tata Consultancy Services was set up — with that name and style — as a division of Tata Sons. Last week marked TCS’s 50 anniversary. Happy birthday, TCS. 

Among post-independence start-ups, TCS has emerged as India’s most valuable company, and is a symbol of Indian entrepreneurship. Before words like pitching, venture capital and Series ‘A’ were invented, a 44-year old MIT-trained engineer called FC Kohli did ‘pitch’ to