Don’t force innovation, just keep trying to problem-solve, advises The Womb’s Kawal Shoor.
On 11th November 1902, Gauhar Jaan sang into a recording horn.
The song itself was unremarkable, except that it marked the beginning of the recording industry in India.
The company behind the recording, Saregama, then known as the Gramophone Company, India’s leading music label, recorded a further 117,000 songs in the next 90 years.
On 5th June 2015, the CEO of Saregama briefs a 35-day-old startup. India, an old country, was now a very young nation – with an average age of 26 – while Saregama,...