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India on a T-shirt

Ranjiv Ramchandani and Vimal Mariwala’s favorite haunts are Leopold’s café and other unpretentious watering holes in Mumbai. For those in the know, it might be …

REVA: Driving in Cleaner City Transport

Reva, the market leader in the electric personal transport segment, never looked to the stars for inspiration. Instead, it looked to the sun.

“When I was …

Clean Money

Revulsion can prompt various reactions—and this successful, Rs. 4.2-crore business idea might be the least expected of them. In 1993, Sunil Uplap chanced upon some …

Love Art? Sell It!

Driven by his passion for art, Dinesh Vazirani switched from doing a course in electrical engineering to doing one in fine arts. Now, this was …

Opportunities in the Business of Sport

The world over, the sports ecosystem—players and athletes, equipment, events, sponsors, training academies, and agents—has been a procreator of business opportunities, raking in billions of …

The Dark Knight of Rural India

Does that sound like the screenplay of an Ashutosh Gowarikar film? Meet Dr. Harish Hande, the co-founder and Managing Director of SELCO-India, a …

Providing structure to infrastructure

In the 1990s, there was an unmistakable buzz in the air about the emergence of the infrastructure sector. The government had set up the National …

Kota: Where education is an industry

If you are a student hoping to study at one of the IITs, you might be asking yourself two basic questions. One: “Where in India …

The Wal-E

Wal-Mart has long epitomized the great side of American capitalism: its self-made billionaire founder, its highly efficient customer care and brilliant use of technology. Not …

From Small Towns to the Big Time

When Motilal Oswal and Raamdeo Agrawal set up a small sub-broking business in Mumbai in 1987, their main objective was to make money. Having come …