Seeing Silicon | How India’s first garage startup became a heavyweight in the tech industry

The first time I bumped into Arjun Malhotra was at TiECon 2024, one of the biggest annual conferences in the Indian diaspora. At a coffee station, where we chatted briefly, he told me how he and five other engineers had started HCL Technologies in a spare room in his grandmother’s house, way back in the 1970s.