The Enterprising Indian: Stories From India Inc

While the details of his professional life are household lore now, it’s his early life that provides fascinating clues to his career.

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

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.

Weighed down by Jaiprakash Associates' staggering ₹57,000 crore debt, Jaiprakash Gaur faces the ultimate indignity of an entrepreneur: his life’s work auctioned off.

Like the Warner Brothers in Hollywood, Yash Raj Chopra didn’t just make films, but built a vertically integrated empire that would define the Hindi film industry.

The institutions P.C. Mahalanobis built—the ISI, the NSS, and the very culture of data-driven policy—remain the bedrock upon which India’s modern economic and social policies are still constructed.

Here is the journey of Datta Samant, a revolutionary figure in Mumbai's labour movement, whose actions during the 1982 textile strike paved the way for Mumbai’s most dramatic transformation

A new book on Indian business under the Mughal empire provides a timely reminder that the fate of nations is decided as much by accounts books as war and conquest

A British banker’s fall from grace in 1906 Madras sparked outrage, financial ruin—and ultimately, the birth of India’s indigenous banking movement.