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Earlier this month, Bengaluru-based Snabbit announced that it had overtaken Urban Company’s InstaHelp to become the largest player in India’s quick home services market. The startup claimed that it completed 1.5 million jobs in June, ahead of Urban Company’s 1.4 million and Pronto’s 0.8 million, positioning itself as the “category leader” in the quick home services market.

Last week, over a call, a friend told me he pays more for his younger child’s school than for his older child’s college. I had called him to talk about two large private equity deals in India’s school sector that were announced within days of each other. His remark, unconsciously, put the two deals in perspective. The Indian education sector has spent the past decade living through two completely different investment philosophies. The first held that schools were ripe for disruption.

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On the face of it, India's global capability centre (GCC) story has never looked stronger. Nearly 2,000 GCCs — offshore units of multinational companies — now operate in the country, spanning multiple industries. In what has been a muted business environment for India’s IT services industry, they have been a bright spot. Their numbers are expected to cross 2,500 by 2030, cementing India's position as a pre-eminent destination for such offices.

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Earlier this month, Phitku, a direct-to-consumer personal care brand, sold a majority stake to Ananta Capital for Rs 100 crore. The story behind the one-year-old startup goes like this: an expectant mother finds that pregnancy has changed her body odour, and deodorants can’t mask it for long. So she finds an age-old remedy. Alum. Phitkiri in Hindi. The crystalline block that generations of men have rubbed on their faces after shaving. Many still do.

A 28-year-old Bengaluru-based techie working for a global technology giant has spent around Rs 1.5 lakh on courses in AI ethics and governance over two months, while also taking several free courses on LinkedIn. Yet she fears she could become irrelevant. She is not alone. Fear of job losses in the AI era has spread across industries as companies continue to restructure in order to face the realities of an AI-enabled world.

Foreign investors have been selling Indian stocks for the better part of two years, one of the longest such stretches on record. For most of that stretch, it barely showed. Domestic buying was strong enough to carry the Nifty to a fresh all-time high as recently as January. The real damage came after that peak, a sharp correction that the index has spent the past few months slowly clawing its way back from.

For at least two years, Bengaluru-based Anushka K and her partner rarely thought twice before ordering a new pack of whey protein. Both work out regularly, so a scoop of The Whole Truth’s whey protein every day helped them hit their daily protein goals. But two months ago, that routine became very expensive. “I used to buy Whole Truth for roughly Rs 2,400 per kg. Now the same pack is close to Rs 4,500, which is an insane jump,” says the 38-year-old.