Dhruva CEO explains how India’s game industry is coming of age (interview)

Rajesh Rao was ahead of his time when he started Dhruva Interactive in 1997. And he has grown the Bangalore-based company to be the biggest game company in India over the past 17 years. Dhruva now has 320 employees, and Rao has become a leader for the game economy in South Asia.

India is a technology giant with billion-dollar companies like TCS, Wipro, and HCL. But it hasn’t had much of a home-grown game industry. Rao’s quest will test whether emerging countries can grow their own game industry, even in the absence of a history of hardcore gaming culture.