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bucks  Paran Balakrishnan | March 06, 2004  It was a Herculean
task that defeated many other ambitious new players. Four years
ago when the dot-com boom was heading to a spectacular bust,
executive Deepak Kapoor teamed up with businessman Sanjeev Saraf
to start on a colossal project.  Their goal: to build a legal
website with all the judgements of the Supreme Court and the 23
high courts since 1950.  As dot-com projects go, it wasn't a
terribly original idea. Others had figured that the legal
community was rich and prosperous and always needed legal
reference material.  The only difficulty was the gigantic task
itself: it was a bit like condensing all the wisdom of the
Orient onto the head of a pin. Says Kapoor: "If we had known how
tough it was, we probably wouldn't even have attempted it."
Four years later, the task is close to being accomplished.
Manupatra has 200 people working at its headquarters in Noida on
the outskirts of Delhi and it's gr