Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing the World. By Snigdha Poonam. Harvard University Press; 288 pages; $17.95. Hurst; £14.99.
VINAY SINGHAL and his brother, Parveen, co-founded WittyFeed, a content-factory that churns out clickbait, as a Facebook page in 2011. By 2016 it had its own website, 150 writers around the world, a valuation of $30m and a big HQ in Indore, a third-tier city about halfway between Mumbai and Delhi. Mr Singhal has bigger aspirations yet; for a while he thought he might aim to become prime minister. And why stop there? “I want to lead humanity…I want to lead Mars,” he tells Snigdha Poonam, an Indian journalist.
“Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing the World”, Ms Poonam’s first book, contains an abundance of bombastic characters. “Eyes red from sleepless nights of plotting his and his country’s rise to glory, Singhal can seem like the face of the...
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