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Anmol Maini
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Anmol Maini writes Keeping Up With India, a personal blog at hind.substack.com about startups, economics and business. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “From Oil to Jio- The Story of Transformation of Reliance”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these two posts for background on Reliance's origins and its 4G push with Jio. Commenters describe them as well researched and more comprehensive than other accounts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Long form pieces on the Indian Startup Ecosystem by @vedicakant & @anmolm_.
Most-linked posts?
- From Oil to Jio- The Story of Transformation of Reliance5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-07-22
What Hacker News says?
Two well researched articles on Reliance Industries: it's origins and it's foray into 4G with Jio: 1> https://hind.substack.com/p/reliance-origins/ 2> https://hind.substack.com/p/from-oil-to-jio
Comment linking /p/from-oil-to-jio
on “India, Jio, and the Four Internets”Submitted From Oil to Jio- The Story of Transformation of Reliance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBen later cited two articles written by people who are arguably closer in geographical proximity to Jio: - https://hind.substack.com/p/reliance-origins/ - https://hind.substack.com/p/from-oil-to-jio The articles say that the Ambani family was very close to the Gandhis too. It's very hard to find a complete picture of how Reliance works - I guess they keep a very tight inner circle. Most accusations of impropriety ar…
Comment linking /p/from-oil-to-jio
on “India, Jio, and the Four Internets”Submitted From Oil to Jio as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAgreed with the premise of title. I think Vedica Kant does a more comprehensive job laying out where Reliance comes from & how it was shaped in her substack newsletter two-parter: https://hind.substack.com/p/reliance-origins https://hind.substack.com/p/from-oil-to-jio
Comment linking /p/from-oil-to-jio
on “To Understand Jio, You Need to Understand Reliance”