We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Indian business & finance news every morning. In 2011, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, a 33-year old Indian entrepreneur, watched Alibaba founder Jack Ma speak in Hong Kong. “I did not know my life would change at that conference,” Sharma later said. “I became totally interested in China, Alibaba and Jack.” Three years later Sharma travelled to China to meet his hero, taking a selfie with him and securing the first of several investments from Alibaba.