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Vijaypat Singhania: the tycoon who flew too close to the son

New Delhi, Sept. 26 -- Raymond's famous tagline, "The Complete Man," found its ultimate embodiment in the company's own architect. Vijaypat Singhania, the force behind the powerhouse brand, who died i... Read More


Tata vs Chandra has every business family on alert

New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- Every Indian business family would have been put on alert by the latest developments at the Tata Group. It isn't every day that an owner with an effective 65.9% holding is rebuf... Read More


Tata vs Chandra has every business family in India on alert

New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- Every Indian business family would have been put on alert by the latest developments at the Tata Group. It isn't every day that an owner with an effective 65.9% holding is rebuf... Read More


Mohan Singh Oberoi: the hotel clerk who built India's finest luxury chain

New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- If India's finest hotels are considered on par with the best in the world, much of the credit must go to Mohan Singh Oberoi, founder of the eponymous chain. Jamsetji Tata built ... Read More


Ashok Soota: the entrepreneur who never stopped starting over

New Delhi, Sept. 12 -- Ashok Soota has written the book on entrepreneurship. Not just metaphorically, but literally too. Entrepreneurship Simplified: From Idea to IPO, which he co-authored with his fo... Read More


Subhash Chandra's insolvency: A huge haircut, then an unusual NCLT intervention

New Delhi, Sept. 8 -- Two wrongs don't make a right. That old maxim can be applied to the two events surrounding Zee founder Subhash Chandra's personal insolvency case. The first is hard to defend: a ... Read More


Ravi Matthai: the institution builder who took management beyond the boardroom

New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- By the 1920s, the first multinationals had arrived in India. Nestle had been selling condensed milk through agents in Bombay and Calcutta since 1912, Siemens set up its India uni... Read More


Giva's retreat is more revealing than Kriti Sanon's bralette

New Delhi, Sept. 1 -- There was a time when the worst thing that could happen to an ad was that nobody noticed it. Now, the real danger is being noticed by the wrong people. Giva, the D2C jewellery br... Read More


Is Elon Musk a visionary genius or evil billionaire?

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- Eric Jorgenson's The Book of Elon: A Guide to Purpose and Success is not really a book in any conventional sense. It is an organised scrap-heap of things Elon Musk has said, writ... Read More


Prafulla Chandra Ray: the chemist who refused to stay in the lab

New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- Prafulla Chandra Ray's beef with the British went beyond politics. He wanted to beat them at the thing that mattered to a rapidly industrialising world: making things. It was a ... Read More