business

Jet Set Gone

Madhavankutty Pillai

Why there are no surprises in the grounding of the airline

India Needs a National Plantation Policy

N Dharmaraj

For sustainability in agriculture as well as business, Kerala’s plantations need to achieve economies of scale

Rajat Gupta: Grace And Disgrace

Madhavankutty Pillai

A global corporate legend. An Indian role model. And then a fallen icon. Rajat Gupta tells what really happened

How the Gupta Brothers Bought a Country

Karan Mahajan

Novelist Karan Mahajan chronicles the rise and fall of three small-time traders from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh who went on to become the de facto rulers of South Africa

Grassroots Capitalism

V Shoba

India’s first software product unicorn taps into underprivileged youth

Angel Tax is a Highway to Hell

Siddarth M Pai

It is single-handedly responsible for the dominance of foreign capital in Indian start-ups

Hard Choices

Sajjid Z Chinoy

How do we broaden the tax net? How do we jump-start strategic disinvestment? How do we rationalise existing welfare programmes to accommodate cash transfers?

The Tiruppur Model: For A Security Blanket

V Shoba

The evaporation of formal jobs has reshaped the concept of a workday in manufacturing towns like Tiruppur, where young people are only a small crisis away from poverty