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Behind Tesla's electric curtain: What Elon Musk doesn't want you to know

New Delhi, Sept. 27 -- Elon Musk is the news. He's omnipresent and omniscient. If the legacy news media misses anything about him, there's always his own platform X, to ensure nothing he does, says or... Read More


Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: The fiery architect of social enterprise in India

New Delhi, Sept. 27 -- In a world that prizes scale and speed, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay-with her quiet and methodical focus on craft, community, and cooperatives-would seem like an anomaly. But this ... Read More


Company Outsider: Indian companies chase global deals, but this time to hedge deglobalization risks

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- News of Naveen Jindal's bid, through his privately-held company Jindal Steel International, for ThyssenKrupp's struggling European steel operations as well as Mumbai-based speci... Read More


Walchand Hirachand: The dreamer who built solid castles in the air

New Delhi, Sept. 20 -- In an era when Indian capital was timid and colonial firms ran the show, one man decided that Indians would sail their own ships, fly their own aeroplanes, and drive their own c... Read More


Company Outsider: How upstart Akasa found lift where others sank

New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- In a country where most startups chase valuations, subsidies, or hype, Akasa has done something far rarer by beating incumbents in one of the toughest, most capital-hungry of in... Read More


Trust issues: Boardroom fractures at Tata signal a deeper governance reckoning

New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- Rising tensions within the Tata Group are a sobering reminder that the passing of a towering leader often brings latent fissures to the surface. After the death of Dhirubhai Am... Read More


The billionaire in pyjamas: The paradox of the last Nizam of Hyderabad

Picture this, Sept. 13 -- the world's richest man, worth more than 2% of America's GDP, shuffling through his opulent palace in threadbare cotton pyjamas and a crumpled cap. This was no eccentric affe... Read More


Jehangir Bomanji Petit: The capitalist who wove Gandhi into Bombay's mills

New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- Few embody the paradoxical dance between wealth and nationalism quite like Jehangir Bomanji Petit. Born on 21 August 1879 into one of Bombay's most affluent Parsi families, Peti... Read More


Rajendra Sethia: the billionaire who survived 'the world's biggest bankruptcy'

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- Three decades spent in and out of Indian courts, mixed with prolonged spells of incarceration in the notorious Tihar Jail in Delhi, would be enough to snap the spirits of normal ... Read More


Company Outsider | When the chips are down: Intel's fall mirrors India's bailout blues

New Delhi, Aug. 26 -- Last week, US President Donald Trump tweeted that his country now "fully owns and controls 10% of Intel", terming its CEO Lip-Bu Tan as "highly respected". The evident irony of T... Read More