The idea of a having a supermarket at your doorstep, or selling products door-to-door as a form of ‘customer service’ is very popular in India. In most parts of the country fruit and vegetable vendors go in their carts, carrying fresh supplies for the residents. But apart from these usual suspects, we also have unique [...]
Featured in this month’s Wired UK, with a rather interesting title!
First up in our investigation into local Indian services is the rather unlikely ‘Blood Selling Service’, available as an ‘underground service’ in many large cities. Teen Darwaja, one of the most populated areas in the old Ahmedabad, used to be one of the hangouts for the ‘donors’ and agents. Few years ago I had worked [...]
