Aravind

The Freemium model is a great model increasingly used foremost for digital products but there are examples such as Aravind that uses the Freemium model to provide free eye surgery for the poor in India.

Startup School: Wired Editor Chris Anderson On Freemium Business Models Jason Kincaid 2005

Aravind Adiga 's 2008 debut novel, "The White Tiger," won the Man Booker prize and established the 36-year-old novelist as a powerful chronicler and critic of India's rapid economic development and widening wealth gap.

The Race to Bring Over a Japanese Best Seller Alexandra Alter 2011

Mehta, the co-author of this book, is my wife -- and Dr. V's grandniece. 100% of the authors' proceeds are being gifted to Aravind's sight-restoring work.

Viral Mehta: The World's Greatest Business Case for Compassion Viral Mehta 2011

And sure enough, he developed systems today that allow Aravind surgeons to do more than 5 times the number of cataract surgeries done by an Indian doctor and 10 times what a US physician does.

Viral Mehta: The World's Greatest Business Case for Compassion Viral Mehta 2011

"I wanted to make it, like, a wacky race, so initially we called it the amazing race for the clinically insane," said managing director Aravind Kumar Bremanandam .

Around the World in 80 Ways Sophia Hollander 2011

Browse an author interview and biography of Aravind Adiga.

Aravind Adiga - An interview with author 2010

Maybe the secret of a successful second book is to get on with it while your muse is still hovering, like Aravind Adiga, another Booker-bagging debut novelist whose next book, not a novel but a linked collection of stories, came out the following year to great critical acclaim Martel had an eight-year gap.

Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - review 2011

In Aravind Adiga's 2009 short-story collection, "Between the Assassinations," the owner of an Indian shirt factory is pushed to his breaking point by the constant stream of bribes and kickbacks that he has to give out to government officials just to keep his business afloat.

Quixotic Obstinance, Quicksilver Memory Sam Sacks 2011

Between the Assassinations, by Aravind Adiga, read by Kerry Shale 6½hrs abridged, Orion, £14.99; or 11hrs unabridged, read by Sam Dastor, Whole Story Audio, £20.41Everyone knows that a writer's second novel is a hard row to hoe, particularly if the first was a bestseller, even more so if it won a major literary award.

Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - review 2011

Midway through Aravind Adiga's "Last Man in Tower," a grizzled lawyer, Parekh, spits out these words to his client and the novel's protagonist, the retired schoolteacher Yogesh Murthy.

A Mumbai of Wants Chandrahas Choudhury 2011