Hari Menon’s New Tune After BigBasket

Former BigBasket CEO Hari Menon may have stepped away from the top job, but he’s far from slowing down. While continuing on the company’s advisory board, Menon is now turning his attention to something much closer to his heart—music. His first venture is bringing busking—the tradition of street music performances, popular across Europe and the UK—to Bengaluru. Backed by the Karnataka government, with police and Bengaluru Metro permissions reportedly falling into place, the first public performances are set to begin on 24 July. Menon and his team have already started inviting aspiring musicians to sign up as buskers. The idea is simple: provide a platform to perform, improve, access a studio free of cost, and eventually grow into accomplished musicians. Together with his wife Shanti, a noted educationist, Menon plans to begin with four shows a month before expanding to daily performances at Metro stations, malls and other public spaces under the banner of Unboxing Bengaluru. The initiative is backed by Unboxing Bengaluru, a platform founded by Prashant Prakash, co-founder of Accel, and former The Economic Times journalist Malini Goyal, with the aim of promoting music, art and dance across the city.