R. V. Pandit, during his thousand plus visits abroad, and up to 1986, nearly 30 years of living at The Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, and later, from 1991 to 2002 at the Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi - extensively used White/Yellow Pages Directories for gathering a variety of information he needed. While he found similar Directories in the West and in Japan/Hong Kong/Singapore/Malaysia meticulously compiled, and thus substantially reliable, he found the directories in India to be mostly outdated and unreliable (sometimes amusing: Public Prostitute for Public Prosecutor, in an edition of the Bombay Telephone Directory in the late 70s).

Overall, his experience with the Indian printed Yellow Pages directories was unsatisfactory. So when the Internet began to catch on in India, he organised, in 2003 for his company IPFonline Ltd., to start compilation of an all-India Yellow Pages Directory on the Net. Quietly, more than 20 people worked for years on the compilation, and on the putting in place of a system for gathering, selecting and authenticating names of establishments, their addresses and their telephone numbers, segregating the listings in appropriate segments.

www.bypd.in will be officially launched in March 2009, though, through the word-of-mouth, a teaser advertisement and some mailings. www.bypd.in has already become the most popular Yellow Pages Directory (on the Net) in India. BYPD is also available on your internet-enabled mobile at www.bypd.mobi.