ideaForge Q3 Loss Widens 41% YoY To INR 34 Cr
Shadowfax IPO: Issue Closes With 2.72X Oversubscription
Funding Winter Continues For Indian Agritech Startups
Troovy Bags $5 Mn To Scale Online Distribution
Razorpay Receives RBI Approval to Expand into Physical Payment Aggregation
8 Dark and disturbing books that are surprisingly beautiful
Some books don’t comfort you. They unsettle you, disturb your sense of safety, and force you to look at parts of life we usually avoid: grief, violence, obsession, loneliness, and moral decay. These are not the stories we read for escape. They are the stories we read for truth.Dark and disturbing books often carry a strange kind of beauty. Not the soft, romantic kind—but a deeper, more honest beauty that comes from emotional rawness, lyrical writing, and the courage to tell uncomfortable stories. They show us humanity without filters. They hurt, but they also heal. They disturb, but they stay with us long after the final page.The books on this list explore the darker corners of the human mind and society—abuse, trauma, war, isolation, moral ambiguity- but they do so with extraordinary artistry. Their prose is poetic. Their characters are painfully real. And beneath the darkness, there is meaning, empathy, and an unexpected tenderness.8 Books that disturb, devastate and change you1. The Road by Cormac McCarthyAt first glance, The Road is bleak beyond hope. A post-apocalyptic world stripped of colour, morality, and warmth, where survival often demands cruelty. A father and son walk through ash-covered landscapes, clinging to life and… Read MoreYourStory RSS Feed
Go Digit Q3: Profit Rises 18% YoY To INR 140 Cr
Shadowfax IPO closes with 2.72x subscription; QIBs lead the way
Logistics service provider Shadowfax Technologies Limited’s initial public offering (IPO) witnessed steady participation on its final day, with the total issue being oversubscribed 2.72x as of 5:30 pm on Thursday, January 22, the last day of bidding.Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIBs) led the demand, with the portion oversubscribed 3.81 times. Retail Individual Investors (RIIs) also showed healthy interest, with subscriptions standing at 2.31 times. The portion reserved for employees was oversubscribed 2.07 times.However, the Non-Institutional Investors (NII) segment saw a total subscription of 0.84 times. Within the NII category, bids reserved for amounts between Rs 2 lakh and Rs 10 lakh were subscribed 1.26x, while the portion for bid amounts exceeding Rs 10 lakh stood at 0.63x.The data shows that against the total 8.9 crore shares offered, bids were received for 24.2 crore shares.In comparison, Shadowfax’s 2.72x subscription reflects a more moderate demand compared to recent heavyweights. Ecommerce major Meesho saw its IPO oversubscribed a staggering 79.2 times on its final day, while Lenskart’s issue was booked 28 times. Shadowfax's performance is more comparable to fintech firm Pine Labs, which saw its IPO subscribed 2.46 times on the third day, though it fared better than PhysicsWallah, which was subscribed 1.8 times.… Read MoreYourStory RSS Feed
Fibe debuts ecommerce financing with Flipkart partnership
Consumer lending platform Fibe has partnered with Flipkart to offer buy-now, pay-later financing on the ecommerce marketplace.Under the arrangement, Fibe's BNPL option is now available at Flipkart's checkout, allowing eligible customers to split purchases of up to Rs 1 lakh into equated monthly instalments with repayment tenures ranging from three to 12 months, the company said on Wednesday.The Flipkart partnership marks Fibe's attempt to carve out a niche in consumer lending for ecommerce, a segment long dominated by banks through credit cards and larger nonbank lenders such as Bajaj Finance. Fibe has previously offered BNPL products across sectors such as healthcare and education, making this its first foray into embeded ecommerce financing.Another NBFC, Axio, was among the earlier fintech-led entrants to scale checkout financing on large ecommerce platforms. Formerly known as Capital Float, the company focused on embedding short-term credit directly at the point of checkout across platforms including Amazon, Decathlon and Xiaomi, rather than distributing loans through a standalone consumer app, which has been Fibe's strategy so far.Axio’s partnership with Amazon culminated in the US ecommerce giant acquiring the Indian buy-now, pay-later lender in a deal valued at between $150 million and $200 million.“This partnership allows us to integrate… Read MoreYourStory RSS Feed
