Suprita Anupam

Bangalore

Senior Journalist at Inc42

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Mahindra's new EVs promise the future, but the software is ... still loading

1 week ago | the-ken.com | Suprita Anupam

Suprit (as he'd like to be addressed) is a staff writer at The Ken, covering everything from startups and VCs to technology and policy. "My car arrived at the stockyard almost 20 days ago. Yet, they aren't ready to deliver it," said a visibly frustrated buyer of Mahindra's XEV 9e in Bengaluru. The reason, apparently, is a software update. Not a missing part or a logistical snag-just some lines of code standing between a customer and their almost Rs 34 lakh ($39,500) electric SUV.
Lenskart built its empire on franchisees. Now it's battling them in courts

3 weeks ago | the-ken.com | Suprita Anupam

Suprit (as he'd like to be addressed) is a staff writer at The Ken, covering everything from startups and VCs to technology and policy. Lenskart is heading to the stock market amid a bitter battle with its franchise store owners. It's a fight that has been simmering for years, but now it's boiling over into courtrooms, with franchise store owners accusing India's largest eyewear brand of squeezing them out, opaque accounting practices, and straight-up fraud. The scale of this dispute is striking.
Phonepe spent millions to rival Policybazaar. Its users couldn't care less

1 month ago | the-ken.com | Suprita Anupam

Suprit (as he'd like to be addressed) is a staff writer at The Ken, covering everything from startups and VCs to technology and policy. Phonepe, the American retailer Walmart-backed fintech giant, is all set to debut in the public market in the second half of FY26. But it's a tough road ahead for the company, considering it derives a chunk of its revenue from just one vertical.
India's Rs 18,000 crore battery plan is stuck at Rs 24 crore

1 month ago | the-ken.com | Suprita Anupam

Suprit (as he'd like to be addressed) is a staff writer at The Ken, covering everything from startups and VCs to technology and policy. India's battery dreams are losing charge. The government envisioned the country transforming into a global powerhouse in cell manufacturing by the end of this decade. So, it dangled a juicy carrot of subsidies-worth over Rs 18,000 crore ($2 billion)-for companies to produce batteries locally. It's been over three years since.
Swiggy's post-IPO pain dulls HNIs' appetite for pre-listing bets

2 months ago | the-ken.com | Suprita Anupam

Suprit (as he'd like to be addressed) is a staff writer at The Ken, covering everything from startups and VCs to technology and policy. "Would you like to buy a piece of India's hottest food-delivery and oldest quick-commerce giant at a discount?" That was the pitch some brokers made to high-net-worth individuals (HNIs) in mid-2024 as Swiggy prepared for its big stock-market debut. Sure, a discount is great. But a discount to what?
Razorpay, Phonepe, and others confront Juspay’s “white box”

2 months ago | the-ken.com | hari krishna |Suprita Anupam |Rounak Kumar Gunjan |Anand Kalyanaraman

Any merchant needs to work with a licensed payment aggregator to accept online payments. Many relied on Juspay as an orchestration platform—essentially, an “aggregator of aggregators” to help them integrate with different payment aggregators as a failsafe. Put simply, if one payment aggregator goes down, Juspay automatically ensures that merchants can continue accepting payments through an alternative.
Razorpay, Phonepe, and others confront Juspay’s “white box”

2 months ago | the-ken.com | Rohin Dharmakumar |Anand Kalyanaraman |Suprita Anupam |Rahul Chaudhary

Subscribe to The Ken’s premium plan and download our beautiful apps for iOS, ipad or android to tune in. Or sign up to Two by Two with a monthly subscription for early access to full episodes on Apple Podcasts. App Store Play Store Apple Podcasts On January 20th, the online publication The Head and Tale broke the news that two of India’s largest payment aggregators and gateways, Razorpay and Cashfree, were severing ties with India’s largest payment orchestrator or router, Juspay.
Tata Punch’s rise buries the ghost of Nano

2 months ago | the-ken.com | Suprita Anupam

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Who and how do you incentivise to solve India’s air pollution problem?

2 months ago | the-ken.com | hari krishna |Gaurav Bagur |Suprita Anupam |Nuha Bubere

Move beyond cliched presents this holiday season. Instead, gift something that fuels intellect and inspires change. Share the joy of knowledge with your dear ones. Gift Now Dang, you’re out of gift subscriptions We currently limit the number of free gift subscriptions per subscriber. You’ll get more when you renew your subscription. In the meantime, if you want to tell someone about The Ken, gift them a story. Not now, thanks.
Fintechs are trying to save India’s Digital Rupee. Trump may have just killed it

2 months ago | the-ken.com | Suprita Anupam

Two years on, India’s CBDC is struggling to find relevance A weekly newsletter about how finance is getting supercharged by tech in India, and how you can make money work for you. Subscribe here Good morning [%first_name |Dear Reader%], India’s central bank digital currency, or CBDC, looks dead in the water. The Digital Rupee (e₹) launched in December 2022. It is legal tender: e₹1 is functionally the same as Rs 1 in physical cash.