business

Mumbai Mouthful

Poorna Swami

Meditative portraits of a small business in a big city

Death Race to The Peak

Indians make for the largest group of climbers on Mount Everest now, contributing to the overcrowding that is leading to increasing fatalities

India King: The Legacy of YC Deveshwar

Moinak Mitra

In the death of the ITC patriarch, India Inc has lost a nationalist and a stalwart of sustainable 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?