The Enterprising Indian: Stories From India Inc News
India Inc. is a pickle jar of tales, some sour, some sweet but all of them equally appetizing. The tycoon to a manor born and the upstart businesswoman hustling to create her own legacy, each of them has shaped the way business has grown and evolved in the country. Their struggles and their successes along with their many failings are an integral part of the story of India. Every week we run one such vignette.
Vijay Mallya’s short-lived kingdom of pizzas
L-9 Connaught Place has a strange and rather mysterious tryst with cafes, including Vijay Mallya’s Pizza King
4 min read23 Nov 2024Vinod Khosla: Silicon Valley’s persistent provocateur
Here is the journey of Vinod Khosla, from his early entrepreneurial failures to co-founding Sun Microsystems and then Khosla Ventures
1 min read16 Nov 2024Multifaceted legacy of advertising genius and theatre pioneer Alyque Padamsee
Under Alyque Padamsee, Lintas, which had begun operations in India as a division of Lever Brothers’ advertising wing, prospered and was rated the country’s most creative agency.
4 min read9 Nov 2024‘Ratan Tata: A Life’ review: A wasted chance to tell a business story
Unnecessary reverence and poor editing in ‘Ratan Tata: A Life’ squanders the unparalleled access the author had to the business tycoon
6 min read8 Nov 2024Rakesh Gangwal: the airline industry disciplinarian behind IndiGo’s runaway success
A quick profile of Rakesh Gangwal, co-founder of IndiGo who played a crucial role in transforming India’s airline industry with a no-frills approach and cost efficiency.
4 min read2 Nov 2024Banking’s Mir Jafars who sold out India to the colonizers
Wealthy Indian bankers, such as the Jagat Seths and Virji Vora, played pivotal roles in enabling colonial invasions. Their alliances with foreign powers altered India’s historical trajectory, deepening economic disparities
3 min read26 Oct 2024From Geneva to India: Simone Tata’s entrepreneurial odyssey
A young Swiss woman’s marriage into the Tata family sparked a transformation in India’s beauty and retail industries.
3 min read19 Oct 2024Bijon Nag, the entrepreneur who personified what Bengal could have been
IFB Industries, the company he set up, offers a hint of the promise that Bengal once held out – and that has sadly remained unfulfilled.
4 min read12 Oct 2024Chairing Tata: How RNT set the leadership benchmark for his successors
In the last 33 years, the Tata group has had three chairmen—Ratan Tata, Cyrus Mistry and N. Chandrasekaran. Of the three, Ratan Tata inherited the most challenging legacy. What do we learn from his leadership playbook?
9 min read10 Oct 2024Jagannath Nana Shankarshet: A forgotten visionary amidst colonial chaos
Fondly called Nana Shankarshet, he spent the rest of his life helping build social, educational and cultural landmarks in the city of Bombay.
4 min read5 Oct 2024Popular Topics
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