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Liberal Arts: A Road Less Travelled

Colleges offering these courses in India have begun to gain ground, but for them to truly shine on the global map, they must be cognisant of the country’s culture and challenges

Changing How Small-Town India Shops

CityMall founders Angad Kikla and Naisheel Verdhan are building a network of micro-entrepreneurs through their app in smaller cities

‘The Middle Class Buys Dreams. The Businessman Sells Unrealistic Ones'

Anand Kumar starts the interview by setting the context. “Let’s get the math right,” says the mathematician.

The Home School of Thought

Concerns over a monotonous, formal education system coupled with edtech’s innovative approaches bolster the homeschooling proposition. But is India ready for it?

The Big Small Question

As Byju’s and Unacademy grow at breakneck speed, what will it take for smaller edtech players to survive?

Beating Bharat's Edtech Blues

On the other side of the billion-dollar edtech boom are children who have been unable to access the most basic forms of online education, and people who have been trying to bridge the digital divide

Handa's New Funda: From Academy to Unacademy

How IITian Ravi Handa scaled up his seven-year-old online venture for MBA preparation, and eventually sold it to an edtech major

Six (and more) Degrees of Fakery

How inaction against the rash of fake universities across the country may be incentivising the mushrooming of more such institutions

Meet The Headmasters

Sequoia Capital has bet big on edtech, with over a dozen investments, including in industry giants Byju’s and Unacademy

A Billion-Dollar Dream For Freshworks

Girish Mathrubootham is taking a cue from the rapid growth of Silicon Valley software startups to reach scale and velocity

The Hottest Party In Investment Town

SPACs, the current rage on Nasdaq, offer a quicker way for new-age Indian companies to list in the US markets, tap fresh investors, and raise capital

Razorpay's ‘Full Stack' Ambition

The fintech unicorn has gone beyond payments into neo banking and facilitating loans and insurance. The dream is to become the only financial platform a business will ever need

Who Moved My Gold

The yellow metal, also a hedge for stock market volatility, reacts more to real interest rates and not nominal interest rates

V for VILLAGE

CITY SLICKER NESTLÉ IS AGGRESSIVELY FANNING ACROSS RURAL INDIA IN SEARCH OF ITS NEXT LEG OF GROWTH. NIRVANA FOR THE MAGGI MAKER, FOR SURE, WON’T BE A TWO-MINUTE GIG

Women Investing In Equity Markets - LADIES OF THE TICKER

Despite challenges of culture and access to capital, female participation in trading and investing is increasing, though cautiously

Poised for Take Off

Harpreet A De Singh, the first woman pilot hired by Air India, is entrusted with the responsibility of turning around the fortunes of its subsidiary Alliance Air as its first woman CEO

The IPO Routes for India's Internet Unicorns

Will sebi’s new recommendations make public listings easier for india’s internet-based startups?

Perfect Match

As IPL gets bigger in scale and viewership, marketing tie-ups with the tournament are fetching greater visibility and returns for brands across sectors

‘WE ARE NOT AN EMPTY CALORIE COMPANY'

There is more to Suresh Narayanan than just being chairman and managing director of Nestlé India. He is a timekeeper. After joining the world’s largest food company in 1999 as executive vice president for sales in India, he was elevated to managing director in August 2015 when the Swiss multinational found itself in crisis management mode in India. Narayanan didn’t have the luxury of time to save the blockbuster product of Nestlé India, Maggi noodles, which regulators banned for allegedly excess lead content. Every second was used judiciously to restore the brand’s credibility and trust. “It was an existential crisis,” he recalls. Apart from firefighting on a war footing, Narayanan looked at the silver lining. “In every crisis, there is an opportunity.”

Electric Ambitions

Bhavish Aggarwal’s Ola Electric is setting up a two-wheeler manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu to herald an EV revolution that is likely to make it a frontrunner in the segment

Rising Inflation Could Hurt Economic Recovery

If inflation proves to be sticky, rising costs of capital for the government, companies and individuals could also restrict infrastructure spending and slow down private sector capex cycle

Vaccine Rollout: Why India Needs The Private Sector

Besides bringing in more inoculators, the private sector can be instrumental in reducing hesitancy and help speed up the current laggard pace of vaccinations

Speaking The Same Language

The recent success of The Great Indian Kitchen on Neestream puts the spotlight on single-language OTT platforms that cater to a niche, but growing audience base. Can they take on the streaming giants in India?

Betting On Bitcoins

Startups believe India can become a thriving hub for crypto innovation and have started a campaign to lobby the government to reconsider its proposed ban on cryptocurrencies

PUTTING EMPLOYEES FIRST

As Covid-19 brought with it fears of salary cuts and job losses, companies went out of their way to assuage them and look after the well-being of their staffers. As part of the Forbes India-Kincentric Best Employers 2020 package, we look at 15 companies that led from the front to safeguard the physical and mental health of their teams during the pandemic

The Vaccine Warrior

As Bharat Biotech's Covaxin shows an interim efficacy of 81 percent, Forbes India traces the career of its founder Krishna Ella—a farmer’s son—whose entrepreneurial journey has seen a successful track record of developing vaccines in India for the world

In With The Old

Used clothing is the hottest trend in apparel, and big brands are happy to make the profits—but avoid the headaches—by outsourcing the grimy work to tiny Trove, which looks set to grow big

Tata Motors 2.0

How outgoing MD & CEO Guenter Butschek guided Tata Motors’ India car business out of its misery by ensuring a diversified portfolio, launching attractive products, and addressing quality and cost issues

Pole Position

Four women pilots break the glass ceiling, steer Air India’s inaugural longest flight and maiden route over the North Pole

Giving Due Credit

Six years after exiting his ride-hailing service venture TaxiForSure, Raghunandan G starts neobank Zolve—a branchless, digital banking services provider that offers access to local credit and insurance at affordable rates to those who traverse the globe