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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

Lupin's appetite for growth

Lupin realises an acquisitions-driven strategy is essential for it to reach its targeted turnover of $5 billion by 2018

Satyajit Das: The illusion of liquidity

The lack of trading liquidity may not cause the next financial crisis but it will increase volatility and accentuate losses

Discounts are not the only way to acquire customers: Jabong MD

But they are the easiest, says Praveen Sinha, MD of fashion ecommerce portal Jabong, as he talks about apps and local tie-ups

Thoughts on learning

Humanitarian crisis within the economic crisis for Greece

The world's top-earning authors

America's most grateful graduates

ItzCash: Making cash in a cashless world

The business model that Ashok Goel scripted for ItzCash has given the unbanked access to a host of modern-day services

The app whisperers at Docker

A startup called Docker cornered a new technology that bundles code and files so apps can run on any server, a breakthrough that has experts comparing it to VMware. Two years ago, it almost went bust

Revenge of the philosophy majors

In Silicon Valley, brilliant coding and engineering is a given. The real value added, increasingly, comes from the people who can sell and humanise. Which is why tech startups suddenly crave liberal arts majors

Debt and deceit: Preying on those sinking under student loans

The hucksters who once preyed on underwater mortgage holders have a new set of victims—those sinking under student loans

Liberal arts colleges: Incubators for poets

Small liberal arts colleges in US are reinventing themselves as entrepreneur hatcheries—both for billion-dollar startups and social change makers

An Instagram for music lovers

As app development explodes on campuses, three Tufts undergrads may have just created an Instagram for music lovers

America's top 200 colleges

The best colleges on the list

Ratan Tata thinks out of the box: Jungle Ventures co-founders

Having the industrialist as special advisor has been a huge learning curve, say Jungle Ventures co-founders Anurag Srivastava and Amit Anand

The market needs a trigger: Motilal Oswal

Markets expert Motilal Oswal says macro indicators show that the economy is on the right track. But the bourses are going through a consolidation phase which can be overcome by a major political or corporate performance

Lupin's retail therapy

The pharma company's recent string of acquisitions is not just another bout of binge buying but a concerted effort to unlock the next phase of growth

Staying power of CLP Holdings

CLP Holdings is one of the few international energy companies that has managed to weather the many challenges in a sector that has seen many a foreign player stumble

MCX: Out of the Jignesh Shah shadow

Commodity bourse MCX appears to have moved beyond the Jignesh Shah-scandal hangover. New credible investors, fresh associations and a clear direction is giving India's only listed exchange a fresh lease of life

LinkedIn's shifting goalposts

The professional network wants to transform into one of the world's largest content databases. With its India base growing exponentially, it is looking to help financial services firms reach out to customers with first-party data

Art sans frontières

In the absence of government support and cooperation, cross-border collaboration and promotion of art in South Asia is resting on private shoulders

40 years on, Sholay keeps smouldering

Its spaghetti Western flavour, punchy dialogues and technical finesse made it stand out then, and now

Feroze Gujral: In the business of benevolence

Feroze Gujral, who heads the Gujral Foundation along with architect husband Mohit, made the first-ever India-Pakistan joint exhibition possible at the ongoing Venice Biennale. It wasn't easy. But neither is running an art foundation

Going digital is a must to realise India's growth potential

Going digital is not an option, but a necessity to realise growth potential. However, it must be backed by proper infrastructure, according to key players in the sector

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