New Delhi, Dec. 6 -- Through the 1960s, every evening at 9pm, in one of the seamier pockets of Mumbai, a man in a crisp white kurta would shuffle a fresh deck of cards. With theatrical precision, he w... Read More
New Delhi, Dec. 4 -- Company Outsider is a weekly newsletter by Sundeep Khanna. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. "The attempt and not the deed confounds us," ... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 29 -- At 94, Jaiprakash Gaur should have been sitting atop the hill of Indian enterprise, having built a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate from scratch. Instead, he now watches his em... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 25 -- It is a strange situation. Zomato and Swiggy are racing to deepen their losses; but for now, investors don't seem to mind. Their strategy of doubling down on ultra-fast grocery d... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 22 -- There is no single architect of today's Bollywood, the $2-billion Hindi-language film industry that churns out nearly 2,000 films annually for a global audience of three billion.... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 19 -- Company Outsider is a weekly newsletter by Sundeep Khanna. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. For 33 years, the Securities and Exchange Bo... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- In 1915, after finishing his studies in Physics at Cambridge University, a delay in his return to India due to World War I led Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis to discover statistics... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 8 -- Few episodes have altered Mumbai's economic geography as profoundly as the infamous 1982 textile strike. What began as a wage dispute under Datta Samant, a doctor-turned-union lea... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 4 -- Credit to TVS Motor for flagging supply-chain risk, policy timing and industry dynamics, all in one breath. The two-wheeler maker has effectively connected the three forces reshap... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 1 -- Guru Nanak seems like an unlikely starting point for a book on trade and commerce in India during the Mughal period. The founder of Sikhism is among the many figures of history th... Read More