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Illustration by Siddhant Jumde
On March 22, when the country went into a lockdown, life came to a standstill. The fear of contracting the virus forced people to stay indoors and as they wondered how to replenish their grocery or other emergency needs such as medicines, delivery boys of Dunzo, Swiggy and Zomato came as godsend. They took orders and delivered in less than an hour. I never felt so happy seeing the Dunzo delivery boy knocking on my door as I did on the very next day of the lockdown when I urgently needed some medicines, says Mumbai-based graphic designer Arati Mehta. This was the time when the most-dependent kirana stores found it difficult to deliver as their staff had stopped coming to work. Neither could e-commerce giants such as Amazon, Flipkart and BigBasket find their way into people s homes as supply chain mechanisms had come to a grinding halt.
WhatsApp, Google can thrive as super-apps in India
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Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
A man watches a movie on his phone as he waits for the bank to open to exchange his old high-denomination banknotes in the early hours, in the old quarters of Delhi, India, November 16, 2016. Reuters/File
India is set to be the first to tear down the walls around global technology giants
Pilot programmes focusing on food and mobility, powered by Beckn, are quietly underway
Beckn is in its early days and may require several iterations and revisions before it takes off
MUMBAI: India is set to be the first to tear down the walls around global technology giants. Entrepreneurs that helped build a new standard in affordable digital payments used locally by Alphabet, Facebook, Walmart and all the big banks, are now trying to unbundle the online market for shopping, food delivery and mobility.
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