What we're building in India is for next 100 years: Amazon's Manish Tiwary

Coffee with BS: Meet Manish Tiwary, Vice-President & Country Manager, India Consumer Business, Amazon

In an office at World Trade Center (WTC), in the northwest neighbourhood of Bengaluru, Manish Tiwary is busy sipping black coffee and making strategies for Amazon to change the way India buys and sells. He was recently elevated as country manager to handle consumer business in India and oversee day-to-day operations at the e-commerce giant.

For Tiwary, 52, who hails from Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, it has been a meteoric rise – the trajectory set in place by the emphasis on education, work and frugality in his growing-up years. We are meeting virtually, given Tiwary’s tight schedule, even though I am also