New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- At an age when most people are content to settle into history, 93-year-old Dr. Prathap Chandra Reddy is still busy writing it. He sits atop a healthcare empire spanning more than... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- The debate over who should replace Natarajan Chandrasekaran as chairman of Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd. is becoming a national guessing game. Names have been floated, credentials weighed,... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- Jatin Mehta knew exactly when his game was up. Between August and November 2012, he quietly stepped down from his key companies, Forever Precious and Winsome Diamonds & Jewellery... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- India's most consequential conglomerate has just confirmed that professionals might run the business, but it's the family that runs the professionals. Natarajan Chandrasekaran's ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- Two images from the past month deserve attention. In the first, Ananya Birla, daughter of business baron Kumar Mangalam Birla, is in flood-hit upper Assam, helping deliver food, ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- A Personal History of India's Forgotten Company Town opens with a claim that is sure to give the discerning reader pause. Bata, she writes, was a "multinational corporation with g... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 1 -- In March 1985, Rishi Kamlesh Agarwal, then barely 30, incorporated Magdalla Shipyard Pvt. Ltd. in Surat with the aim of building ships in a country that had a 7,500-kilometre coas... Read More
New Delhi, July 25 -- Away from the flashbulbs of Mumbai's corporate world, there has long existed another way of building businesses-quiet, understated and no less formidable. Kandathil Mammen Mamme... Read More
New Delhi, July 18 -- A metallurgy degree from Manchester and an MBA from Birmingham were meant to secure Bish Agrawal a highly paid seat in an established corporate boardroom. Instead, he gambled on ... Read More
New Delhi, July 11 -- More than a hundred years before venture capital, pitch decks or exit strategies entered the lexicon of Indian business, Hemendra Mohan Bose was living the founder's life in colo... Read More