June 2002. South Delhi. A young man opens a cyber cafe.
It begins quietly. A shop on a commercial strip in Greater Kailash. Twenty computers, a leased internet line, and a pricing strategy that everyone in the neighbourhood thinks is insane. Rs. 80 per hour when the market charges Rs. 35. The young man behind the plan is eighteen years old, has Rs. 840 in his savings account, and has just hired a twenty-three-year-old secretary who will, over the next two decades, become the second most important person in the largest privately-held business empire in India.
He starts college the following week. He attends enough lectures to avoid administrative problems.
By the time Volume One ends, there are five companies, a group holding company, a personal investment portfolio that no one knows about, and the first question mark placed so quietly in the margin of the story that most readers will not have noticed it yet.
Re-read Chapter 11 once you have finished the series. It was there from the beginning.