The game of squash gave India a fine entrepreneur; here's how it happened

Akanksha Hazari's Mumbai startup m.Paani looks at building data lake of consumers who do not use technology to make purchases

When Akanksha Hazari was 15, she struck a deal with her parents. If the sport of squash, in which she was among top 20 junior players globally, got herself into Olympics, she would become a professional player. And if it did not, she would go to the university.

“Unfortunately for me, but fortunately for my parents, who didn’t want me to become a pro squash player, I went to Princeton,” says Hazari with a snigger. Now 34, Hazari is the founder & chief executive of m.Paani, a consumer loyalty startup largely targeted at the low-income group.

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