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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

Battling headwinds at Suzlon by putting aside ego

Tulsi Tanti's story is of an owner who has been able to not just set aside personal interests but also work closely with bankers and virtually resurrect his company from the brink of what looked like certain death

China's devaluation of the yuan is an ominous move: Steve Forbes

The roller-coastering dollar is wreaking economic havoc in just about every nation and provides fuel for 1930s-style currency wars and protectionism

We are impressed with the quality of engineering in India: Visa Executive VP (Technology)

Rajat Taneja, Visa's executive VP of technology, is excited about the company's innovations in digital payment methods and its new R&D centre in Bengaluru

Thoughts on green energy

India yet to embrace inclusive growth: World Economic Forum report

A World Economic Forum report ranks India abysmally low on various parameters

Hollywood's power brokers: Titans of tinseltown

James Bond's killer cars since 1953

For more than 60 years 007 has been licensed to thrill in some killer automobiles

Vivek Ramaswamy: Boy in the bubble

As the biotech market boils over, prodigy Vivek Ramaswamy is engineering a flurry of deals that rescue drugs forgotten by the big firms. It might make him a billionaire at 30

Crocs: It's gotta be the shoes

Like all fads, Crocs soared—and crashed—based on hype. A new CEO is focusing on (gasp!) the product

Glamsquad: Beauty on demand

Glamsquad is the latest startup to apply the Uber model to a traditional industry. With a dozen beauty copycats jumping in, a shakeout is coming

Dropbox under siege

As rivals are firebombing it and its $10 billion valuation seems overly rich, behind the scenes co-founder Arash Ferdowsi works to keep the file-synching upstart humming

Nathan Eagle: Megabyte mogul

Millions of smartphone owners in poor countries can't afford to get online, so Nathan Eagle gives them data for free. Not everyone agrees with his methods

The man Vs The machines

A bestseller about predatory high-speed trading made Brad Katsuyama a folk hero. His new platform, IEX, is poised to make him millions

Investors show a growing appetite for food

In a hat-tip to the enduring appeal of the food service sector, Azure Hospitality, which runs the Mamagoto chain of restaurants, recently raised $10 million from Goldman Sachs. Clearly, despite the challenges of the industry, investors are putting money where their mouth is

B2B businesses quietly scripting their success stories

Online retail platforms like Snapdeal and Flipkart may be grabbing eyeballs, but it's their business-to-business counterparts that are seeing profits

Graphic India: The Indian marvel

Graphic India won over the world with a popular homebred superhero, Chakra. But for Sharad Devarajan, its mastermind, the journey has just begun

Trieste reflects the artistic and cultural heritage of old Europe

KG Krishnamoorthy Rao revels in the quaintness of the small Italian port-city

The peace process: Unusual ways of ending hostilities

With World Peace Day on September 21, here are some unusual ways in which people called for an end to hostilities

Zakir Hussain: All the world's his stage

Zakir Hussain talks about blending Indian ragas with Western classical harmonies to create music that is universal

JP Dutta: Why do we shy away from our history?

Fifty years after the 1965 Indo-Pak war, filmmaker JP Dutta, who has translated subsequent battles to celluloid, talks about the significance of recording such conflicts in movies

Treasure islands: Creating an archipelago of art

Japanese billionaire Soichiro Fukutake has created a surreal archipelago of art, including an underground museum of Monets and a luxury hotel designed by Tadao Ando

Suzlon's rise from the ashes

The resurrection of what was once one of the world's largest wind turbine manufacturers has all the elements of a blockbuster, including a promoter determined to redeem himself, and a deep-pocketed knight in shining armour

Philips: Seeing business in a new light

Philips is implementing sweeping changes in its health care and lighting businesses in India to grow and retain its hard-won market leadership

Public sector banks are a true reflection of confidence in our economic revival: Anoop Bhaskar

The volatility of the markets put many investor assumptions and expectations to test, says Anoop Bhaskar, head-equity at UTI AMC

Ecommerce growth caught everyone off-guard, says Adidas Group India MD

Adidas India is relying on premium products and an omni-channel retail strategy to meet its ambitious targets in the country, says managing director Dave Thomas

The fall in markets will not be as vicious as it was in 2013: Anup Maheshwari

Anup Maheshwari, head of equities & corporate strategy at DSP BlackRock Investment Managers, whose Micro Cap Fund has given 25 percent returns over the last one year compared to the category average of 13.5 percent, says investors should not get swayed by global events

Triumph's Rocket III X bike is irresistible

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

Chanda Kochhar: Making ICICI Bank's digital strategy click

Chanda Kochhar is revving up ICICI Bank's digital strategy by drawing on the power of mobile and social platforms. The result: The bank is likely to end FY16 with Rs 80,000 crore worth of transactions from mobile banking alone