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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 | How Intel's rescue plan echoes 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


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


Company Outside | 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


From street hustler to trade titan: Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy's rise in colonial Bombay

New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- Long before the Tatas and Birlas became synonymous with Indian industry and philanthropy, a young orphan in Bombay was laying the foundations for modern Indian commerce and chari... Read More


Company Outsider: Midcap IT shines, but Big Five still hold the crown

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Midcap IT companies are all the rage. Investors love them while analysts claim they constitute a major threat to the big boys of the sector. With two of them - Sonata and Happies... Read More


The gilded gambler: Dwarkanath Tagore's rise and ruin in colonial Bengal

New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- Even in the sparsely populated gallery of 19th-century Indian business history, Dwarkanath Tagore is little more than a footnote, his reputation long eclipsed by that of his Nobe... Read More


Sri Aurobindo: The mystic whose economic philosophy deserves attention

New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- Fifteen August throws up a hard-to-ignore coincidence: India and Sri Aurobindo- not just a nation and one of its foremost philosophers-but two intertwined ideas of freedom sharin... Read More