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Forbes India 13th Anniversary: Rewind of Key Milestones of India's Corporates and Startups

A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India

Thoughts on invention

Welspun India's stock and reputation will need more time to recover

The termination of its contract with US retailer Target Corp has dented its reputation, along with its stock price

The Indian economy is being powered by a single engine-domestic consumption

Given India's sagging exports and low private investments, can domestic consumption alone propel GDP growth towards the government's target of 8 percent this fiscal?

India is ready for 'digital first' marketing, says VML chief Jon Cook

Jon Cook, global CEO of digital marketing agency VML, feels the country has evolved from 'just being there digitally' to looking at digital as a channel to tell a powerful story

The Fabulous and the Innovative

Disruptors will lead the way in today's fast-changing business environment

As competition heats up, Intex's Bansals make some clever calls

Narendra Bansal built Intex into one of India's largest consumer durables companies. But as competition hots up in its mainstay handsets business, Bansal and son Keshav find themselves with new challenges

Leela Group heiress Amruda Nair is building her own legacy with Aiana Hotels & Resorts

Leela Group heiress Amruda Nair is combining nearly a decade of industry experience with a hereditary inclination for the hospitality business in her new venture Aiana Hotels & Resorts

India's craft beer Bira 91 is frothing over

In less than two years, Ankur Jain has given India a craft beer, Bira 91, to talk about

Fab 50: The best blue-chips of Asia Pacific

Forbes Asia's list of the best publicly traded big companies

Fab 50: China's home builder Country Garden builds a new strategy

Country Garden makes billions by luring China's middle and upper classes out of congested cities. Now, Yeung Kwok Keung has a new strategy

Marc Benioff's audacious plan to reinvent Salesforce

In an age that celebrates manic entrepreneurs, none is more frenetic than the Salesforce founder, whom we consistently rate as America's most innovative CEO. Come along for a wild ride with Marc Benioff as he tries to turn hyperactivity into a new model for tech growth and corporate activism

Fab 50: Vinamilk's secret ingredients for success

Vinamilk dominates Vietnam's dairy industry, thanks to a capitalist-minded woman who was trained in a Soviet university

Inside James Dyson's secretive laboratory

James Dyson has built one of the world's most innovative companies by wooing young, talented engineers to the picturesque English countryside and giving them the freedom to fail—hundreds of times. His build-a-better-mousetrap approach has made him one of Britain's richest men and revolutionised products ranging from vacuum cleaners to hair dryers. Next up? Better batteries

Tech Mahindra: Vineet Nayyar's winning bet forges ahead

Vineet Nayyar gambled that by taking over a discredited rival, he could put Tech Mahindra into the Big 5 of India's IT industry. This year, it alone makes the list

Film allows one to hold up a mirror to society: Mira Nair

In the third part of our series of excerpts from Gunjan Jain's book, she speaks to filmmaker Mira Nair

A journey to the end of the world: The Arctic Sea's Wrangel Island

Wrangel Island, in the distant and isolated Arctic Sea, is cold and stark. But it's a hotspot for several wildlife species, including the mighty polar bear

In India, the competition is against cash, says PayPal's India head Anupam Pahuja

Anupam Pahuja, PayPal head in India, talks about its evolving presence in the country, and the opportunity and obstacles posed by infrastructure

Fab 50: A steady decline in Indian names

The number of Indian companies on the Fab 50 list has fallen from 12 in 2014 and 10 in 2015 to just eight this year

Vector Projects' Incontri Collection brings you superior, mobile private spaces

A pick of the best, the latest, the greenest, the quirkiest, the most luxurious... that money can buy

With an eye on the cloud, Persistent Systems continues to innovate

Anand Deshpande is helming changes at Persistent Systems to keep the software developer fighting fit in the age of cloud computing. The move entails changes, from the way software is built to serving enterprise clients directly