How Kalli Purie is getting India Today group ready for the future

Purie talks to Vanita Kohli-Khandekar about the transformation of the India Today Group into one of the largest digital publishers in India

Kalli Purie is resplendent in a red shawl over her black dress. Like many senior managers, the 46-year-old vice-chairperson of The India Today Group has a table that you stand at and work. It takes time for me to settle down on the accompanying high chairs; she remains standing even as we chat nineteen to the dozen. It is late afternoon and the P Chidambaram arrest saga is playing out on screens across the building housing the group in Filmcity, Noida. 

There is an impatience, an undercurrent of excitement around the office. Before I can ask Purie tells me the