Business

Sridhar Gundaiah: Call of the Countryside

V Shoba

The man who is pioneering a rural e-commerce revolution

Neeraj Kakkar: Revenge of the Boatman

Aresh Shirali

The entrepreneur who has made a go of classic Indian drinks in a market full of foreign carbonated beverages

Cool Executive Officers of IT

Lhendup G Bhutia

Young, college drop-outs, casual, competitive, and reasonably arrogant. A new breed of CEOs is set to rule the technology sector

Dr Rajan as Fixer-in-Chief of Fault Lines

Aresh Shirali

Whether Raghuram Rajan will hold sway over the proposed panel remains an open question. The smart money, though, is on his tipping the balance if it’s split down the middle

Sridhar Vembu: The Code Breaker

V Shoba

How a philosophical technologist shaped the arc of India’s most successful software products company

Satya Nadella’s Strategy for Microsoft

Aresh Shirali

The CEO wants to capture a handset market lost to Google’s Android by upgrading desktop computers and laptops to a Windows 10 loaded with attractive apps for any device

The greek tragedy that’s no Eurocalypse

Aresh Shirali

For all the wails and groans in the air, the EU is a political project as much as an economic one. And anyone who favours ‘unity in diversity’ should be pardoned a soft spot for the euro

The smart new world of Über-efficiency

Aresh Shirali

With people swiping smartphones for food options, restaurateur ego-willing, menu prices could yet go dynamic in a chain reaction across the Indian market