#1: Simple pleasures turned heartbreaking side hustles

Startup central and the relentless need to monetise everything

“If you threw a stone here, you’d probably hit a startup” is a pretty popular phrase in my city, which has the third-highest number of tech startups world and is optimistically called the Silicon Valley of India. Ridiculous as it is, it isn’t that far from the truth, because every third building in some areas houses a tiny team with big dreams and ambit…