India Inc

What were once routine commercial leases are now turning into detailed land and regulatory due diligence, construction and zoning approvals and long-term risk allocation.

As Ketan Parekh faces renewed scrutiny in 2025, it is evident that he never truly left the floor.

While his peers were busy petitioning the government for the right to grow, Aditya Vikram Birla did something far more subversive.

After years of aggressive hoarding, Indian corporations are finally dipping into their cash reserves to fund strategic acquisitions and record shareholder payouts. However, with capacity utilization remaining stubbornly low, the long-awaited private investment cycle continues to take a backseat.

India Inc in 2026 will see shifts driven by hiring from smaller cities and towns to cut costs, rapid expansion of the gig workforce, and deeper AI adoption reshaping jobs.

Verghese Kurien’s ambitions extended beyond dairy. Beginning 1979, he applied cooperative principles to oilseeds.

Micromanaging is exhausting, but we often confuse the need to stay relevant with the need to be visibly in charge of everything. Resist it—micromanagement stifles initiative and creativity, instils fear and gets in the way of decision-making. All this weakens a team’s ability to function effectively

He was “a man of exceptional integrity, generosity, and service”, according to letters written by Friends of Rajat Gupta—a cohort that included Mukesh Ambani, Bill Gates, Kofi Annan, and Nandan Nilekani—to the judge during his trial.

A shadow economy built on matka made a few rich while devastating countless lives, with the understated Ratan Khatri at its core.

Indian industrialists often point to restrictive labour laws as holding development back. But India’s low R&D spend is the real problem. Greater leeway on labour deployment can’t be expected to make much of a difference.