Shubha Narayanan and Radhika Saxena, our in-house reporters, embark on a seven day trip across the country to report on exciting E Week celebrations. Photos from Sujith Sujan and Seshadri Venugopal.

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E Week Closing Ceremony | Bangalore | February 12

The audience at the jam-packed Jyoti Nivas College Auditorium broke into a thunderous applause as Laura Parkin, Co-founder and CEO of NEN, introduced and invited on stage, a very special guest – Founder and Chairman of the Wadhwani Foundation and billionaire entrepreneur, Dr Romesh Wadhwani...

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• CHALLENGE :Banking is one of the oldest sectors in India. But, even today, millions of Indians who are potentially 'bankable' remain under-banked or un-banked leading to a huge financial exclusion in the country.

• IDEA : The cell phone is rapidly evolving as a social identity and can now be found in even the remotest part of our country. What you'll also find in even the tiniest Indian village is the local retailer. So could the ubiquitous mobile phone and the small local retailer be put together to extend banking services to millions of unbanked Indians?

• IDEA @ WORK: Can your cell phone become your debit card and the small grocery shop on your street work like an ATM or teller point? Yes, says Abhishek Sinha, CEO and Co-founder, EKO India Financial Services – a low cost distributer of financial products and services.

• E Week India Awards Ceremony
  12 February 2011 | Bangalore
• Entrepreneur day
  12 February 2011 | Bangalore
• BIZNOVANZA 2011
  12 February 2011 | Mumbai
• Think Big- Revitalise your community
  12 February 2011 | Noida
• Closing Ceremony
  12 February 2011 | Chandigarh