Hyderabad: With just about two weeks to go for schools to reopen for the new academic year, stationery shops in the city are stocked with trendy bags, tiffin boxes, pencil boxes and loads of both traditional and modern accessories. Swapna Samuel, a HR manager and mother of two, said “students wish to keep pace with their ‘trendy’ peers. However, they …
You may remember the scene from the 2009 movie 3 Idiots. “We were greatly inspired by the good work William Penn did in the 17th-18th century,” Ranjan says. “We opened the first William Penn store not far from where we are sitting today, on 1st Cross Road in Koramangala,” says Ranjan, now 43. “But at William Penn, the customer had …
