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Vikram Lal: the industrial tycoon who knew when to walk away

New Delhi, May 23 -- Vikram Lal is not a name many young, aspirational Indians instantly recognize. Ask a 20-something in Bengaluru or Mumbai who built the empire behind the Royal Enfield motorcycle, ... Read More


C. Sivasankaran: the price warrior who failed to price in his own risks

New Delhi, May 16 -- In the mid-1980s, when a personal computer in India cost as much as Rs.80,000, a young Tamil entrepreneur walked into the stalled market and crashed prices by more than half. Chi... Read More


IPL's billion-dollar party faces a question: How long can it last?

New Delhi, May 12 -- Royal Challengers Bengaluru have won just one IPL title in eighteen years. They do, however, boast of Virat Kohli, over 23 million Instagram followers and, lately, a price tag of ... Read More


Amar Bose: the man who heard what others missed

New Delhi, May 9 -- In 1954, conductor Herbert von Karajan and the Philharmonia Orchestra released what was considered a definitive recording of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. It was meant to ... Read More


Jamsetji Tata: Steel, soul, and India's industrial blueprint

New Delhi, May 2 -- Most companies are built to survive a generation. A few endure longer. One helped shape the industrial foundation of modern India. That company traces its origins to Jamsetji Nusse... Read More


India Inc.'s latest boilerplate: AI ate my growth but the future is bright!

New Delhi, April 28 -- It is earnings season again, that wonderful fortnight when corporate leaders use soaring prose to describe uneven performances. Last week alone offered a taste of the genre with... Read More


A new book reveals the invisible forces behind the decisions and choices we make

New Delhi, April 25 -- Oliver Sweet opens his book, The Rules That Make Us: How Culture Shapes the Way We Act, Think, Buy and Believe, with a joke. Culture and Cognition walk into a bar. Cognition stu... Read More


Kapal Mehra: the man who aimed to be India's polyester king but ended up with nothing

New Delhi, April 25 -- Kapal Mehra once went head-to-head with Dhirubhai Ambani in the ruthless synthetic textile wars of the 1980s. In a battle fought over polyester yarn and government licences, Meh... Read More


Bigwigs walk away with bankrupt assets. Is there a different way?

New Delhi, April 21 -- India's Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), which was launched with the objective of rescuing distressed assets from promoters who had made a hash of them and returning them t... Read More


E. Sreedharan: The man who tried to change how India moves

New Delhi, April 18 -- A soft-spoken civil engineer with a fondness for early mornings and scriptures, Elattuvalapil Sreedharan appears to be an unlikely revolutionary. Yet few individuals have alter... Read More