Topic: Businesspersons
Marwaris’ unique talent for business comes from one quality. It’s called ‘baniya buddhi’
In 'The Ambuja Story', founder Narotam Sekhsaria recounts the highs and lows of building India's leading cement company from scratch.
CFOs to bankers to SME owners, what India’s business class says about Modi govt
I conducted 63 interviews over the past five months. The majority sentiment among Indian capitalists today is that the mood has moved back to the 1970s.
Chyawanprash to sanitisers — Dabur’s Burman family bets on Covid products
Sales of Dabur's flagship Chyawanprash rose 700% last quarter from the previous 3 months, said Gaurav Burman who runs his family office, which oversees about $1.5 billion in assets.
Mukesh Ambani’s online cult is growing. Everyone loves a desi, patriotic, sanskari billionaire
Mukesh Ambani is not just inking deals with FB and Google in 2020, he is also seeing a massive fan base grow on Instagram. From Antilia to khandaani pujas, fans can’t get enough.
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One of the more striking observations recorded by Megasthenes, the brilliant chronicler and fellow traveller of Alexander the Great, was about this remarkable Indian...
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Tale of two ships – How Delhi is asserting Indianness of the Indian Ocean to China
A US Navy ship docked in an Indian port for the first time. And a Chinese ship couldn’t in Sri Lanka. New Delhi is finally pulling strings.
‘We are cracking down’— how Modi govt plans to make it tougher for states to fund freebies
The Narendra Modi government is looking at ways to check states’ spending on handouts like free electricity and rations. The first step is to tighten the noose on state borrowings.
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First batch of 19 women cadets join NDA, set to begin training this week
The cadets will train for three years at NDA, Khadakwasla for the 148th course. The Supreme Court last year paved the way for women to take the NDA test for the first time.
In Kashmir 3 years on, 3 positive changes, 3 things that should’ve happened & 3 that got worse
Kashmir as a crisis has fallen off our headlines and from the top of our collective minds. Which is precisely the most important change for the better.