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Varun Sood

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Varun is a business journalist writing on corporate affairs for the last seventeen years. Varun's first book, Azim Premji: The Man Beyond the Billions, was brought out by HarperCollins in October 2020.

ARTICLES BY VARUN SOOD

C Vijayakumar, CEO, HCLTech. (REUTERS)

CEO interview | From people to AI: How HCLTech is resetting IT services delivery

5 min read . 13 Jan 2026

(Clockwise from left) ⁠Shravan Kumar Vishwakarma, founder, Shankh Air; Mohammed Haris T, founder of the Alhind Group; P.V. Valsaraj, managing director of Alhind Tours and Travels; ⁠⁠Rajesh Ebrahimkutty, director of ABC Aviation and Training Services. (Tarun Kumar Sahu/Mint)

The risky flight plans of India’s startup airlines

13 min read . 08 Jan 2026

A big chunk of the FY25 acquisitions was courtesy Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, the risk-averse leader of the IT pack. (iStockphoto)

How Indian IT developed a taste for acquisitions this year

4 min read . 29 Dec 2025

Tarun Mehta, co-founder and chief executive, Ather Energy.

Springboard 2026 | It's “business 101” at Ather: CEO Tarun Mehta

5 min read . 21 Dec 2025

The Telefónica UK deal is the fourth mega deal that TCS has signed under chief executive K. Krithivasan since June 2023 when he took the top job at the company. (Reuters)

TCS wins $1 bn Telefónica UK deal, trades margin for scale

5 min read . 17 Dec 2025

TCS expects to close the acquisitions by 31 January. (Bloomberg)

Big deal: TCS makes its largest acquisition, buys Coastal Cloud for $700 mn

2 min read . 10 Dec 2025

Ola Electric's unallocated expenses, absent from its peers’ books, failed to impress investors. (Reuters)

The curious case of unallocated expenses at Ola Electric

4 min read . 04 Dec 2025

Mumbai-based Small Animal Hospital Trust, which became operational in July last year, was started after the late Ratan Tata prodded the Tata Trusts to set up a dedicated facility to treat dogs, cats and birds. (Reuters)

Mehli Mistry resigns from Ratan Tata’s cherished project Small Animal Hospital

3 min read . 01 Dec 2025

Life Insurance Corporation of India. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo (REUTERS)

LIC’s atypical voting decisions: Reliance, Adani vs the others

12 min read . 27 Nov 2025

This marks TCS’s first concrete step towards building a data centre business. Photo: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg

Private-equity giant TPG agrees to invest $1 bn in TCS's data centre business

4 min read . 20 Nov 2025

The members proposed to change Venu Srinivasan’s role from permanent trustee to a three-year term to comply with the Maharashtra government ordinance. (Bloomberg)

Why Neville Tata, Bhaskar Bhat made it to only one Tata Trust

3 min read . 13 Nov 2025

Reliance International Ltd, an Abu Dhabi-based subsidiary of Reliance Industries, purchases crude oil from overseas suppliers and ships it to the Sikka port to be processed at Reliance’s mammoth refinery at Jamnagar in Gujarat. (Bloomberg)

Reliance International, a new oil-trading gem in Ambani's empire

5 min read . 12 Nov 2025

The Tata Trusts, governed by the office of the Maharashtra Charity Commissioner, agreed in October to appoint TVS Motor Corp. Chairman Emeritus Venu Srinivasan as a trustee for life.

Tata Trusts revises Venu Srinivasan's term from life to three years

4 min read . 11 Nov 2025

Last year, Neville Tata was appointed as the business head of Trent Ltd’s grocery business, Star. (Mint)

Tata Trusts inducts chair Noel Tata's son Neville on the principal trust

2 min read . 11 Nov 2025

New investments in emerging businesses are a key focus for the Tata Group, which channels its investments through the group's holding company. (Reuters)

Tata Sons' electronics bet crosses $1.3 billion

5 min read . 07 Nov 2025

IndiGo chief executive officer Pieter Elbers. (Reuters)

IndiGo to own, lease more planes; shift from sale-and-leasebacks

5 min read . 05 Nov 2025

Mehli Mistry, who ceased being a trustee on 28 October, wrote to the remaining six trustees that according to Ratan Tata, nobody was bigger than the institution he served. (x/@Suhelseth)

Mehli Mistry tells Tata Trusts he doesn't want to challenge ouster

2 min read . 04 Nov 2025

Ratan Tata entrusted Shireen, Deanna, along with his close confidant Mehli Mistry, and Darius Khambata, a lawyer and a trustee of Tata Trusts, as the executors of his will.

‘Ratan Tata was my mother’s favourite— Hands down,’ says sister

3 min read . 03 Nov 2025

Tata Trusts owns 65.9% of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group, which has 26 listed companies, valued at over $300 billion. (Mint)

Mehli makes his move, files caveat on his ouster

4 min read . 03 Nov 2025

Data centres are the factories of the AI age—vast, secure facilities that house the servers and networking equipment. (Pixabay)

Tata, Reliance, Adani outpace Big Tech outspend on new-age factories

4 min read . 01 Nov 2025