Dilse Omni : Talks - with Saurabh Agrawal

India has 1.4 billion people and fewer than 1,000 organised convenience stores. The US has 300,000. Korea has two lakh. That gap is exactly what Aastha Almast, co-founder of  @newshop_official  , set out to fill — and in this episode of DilSe Omni Talks, she tells us everything about how she's doing it.From winning a government railway station tender against international giants to building a tech-first franchise model that has been profitable for three consecutive years — this is one of the most grounded and honest conversations we've had about retail, entrepreneurship, and what it actually takes to build something that works across India's beautifully diverse markets.Key Takeaways: → Why India's convenience retail market is one of the biggest untapped opportunities in the country → How NewShop won the Anand Vihar Railway Station tender without wearing a suit → Why the franchise model is the only model that truly scales across India→ How NewShop uses tech to give franchise owners predictive demand intelligence → The retail media business generating 35% of NewShop's profit→ Quick commerce — friend or foe for convenience retail? → The vision to empower 10,000 entrepreneurs through convenience retailing by 2030 → Aastha's journey from youngest stockbroker to child actress to retail founder

What does it take to build India's most innovative D2C book brand — and then take it to Shark Tank?In this episode of DilSe Omni Talks, Saurabh sits down with Anurag, Founder of @zebralearnYT — the brand that's reimagining how business and marketing books are written, designed, and delivered in India.This is not your typical publishing story. ZebraLearn didn't set out to just sell books. They set out to make learning actually work — with visual, structured, and deeply researched books built for founders, marketers, and growth professionals who don't have time to wade through 400 pages of filler.In this episode, we cover:→ How ZebraLearn was built from scratch as a D2C publishing brand → The Shark Tank India journey → The real process behind writing a ZebraLearn book — research, structure, design, and what makes it different → The omnichannel gap in India's publishing and learning space → What books ZebraLearn has published and who they're written for → Where the brand is headed next — online, offline, and everything in between → What Anurag has learned about building a product-first D2C brand in India