This techie helps businesses speak to Indians in their own languages

Arvind Pani's firm is the first in the world to launch an Indian language support on Android platform in 2011 in partnership with Qualcomm

Almost every consumer-facing internet company is now going overboard on acquiring capability to engage with its users and customers in vernacular languages. This, in fact, is something this former Intel engineer had visualised more than a decade ago when he started his own entrepreneurial journey, quitting a cushy job at global chip maker Intel in 2006. It was no surprise when Reliance decided to acquire majority stake in Reverie Language Technologies which was co-founded by Arvind Pani.   

“I always wanted to solve real world problems that touch the masses,” says Pani, who had worked with Intel within the company’s