Short Takes: Breaking Barriers with Heavy Machinery

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Jan 29, 202500:12:25Business

Meet Santhoshi Sushma Buddhiraju, CEO and cofounder of Autocracy Machinery, a heavy machinery manufacturing company located in southern India. The idea for her company began with a simple question: Why is India, the worl...

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