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Fortune India
THE PHANTOM OF D-STREET
RADHAKISHAN DAMANI, WHO BUILT DMART BRICK BY BRICK, IS AN ENIGMA—SPOKEN OF BY ALL, DEFINED BY HIS SILENCE.
6 min |
AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
Defence imperative for strategic sovereignty
India needs to have full-spectrum self-reliance in defence.
3 min |
AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
How the Best Boards Balance Oversight and Management
With the right balance, boards can be catalysts for enduring success.
3 min |
AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
SPOTLIGHT ON A DOSE OF SPECIALTY
WITH SPECIALTY MEDICINES CONTRIBUTING 20% TO ITS OVERALL REVENUES IN FY25, SUN PHARMA DOUBLES DOWN ON INNOVATION AS SHANGHVI SHIFTS ROLES.
5 min |
AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
The IIP Conundrum
DESPITE INDIA'S STATUS AS ONE OF THE FASTEST-GROWING GLOBAL ECONOMIES, ITS INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT TELLS A MORE SOBERING STORY. IS THE INDUSTRIAL ENGINE FALTERING BENEATH THE SURFACE OF HIGH HEADLINE GDP GROWTH?
6 min |
AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
HOW HSBC INDIA FOUND ITS EDGE
From capital conservatism to calibrated aggression, CEO Hitendra Dave has steered HSBC India into its most profitable and disciplined phase yet.
10+ min |
July 2025
Fortune India
SKETCH TO SCALE
INDIAN DESIGNER LABELS EYE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH WHILE BUILDING SCALE, AFTER TIE-UPS WITH CONGLOMERATES SUCH AS RELIANCE RETAIL AND ADITYA BIRLA GROUP.
10+ min |
July 2025
Fortune India
WILL IMPS SURVIVE UPI?
AS UPI TAKES OVER DIGITAL PAYMENTS, WILL IMPS ADAPT OR BE ABANDONED? THE ANSWER ISN'T SIMPLE.
6 min |
July 2025
Fortune India
ROBUST REVIVAL: THE INDIAN EQUITY MARKETS STAGED A RESILIENT COMEBACK DESPITE A TEPID START THIS YEAR.BUT IS THE IPO EUPHORIA WANING?
THE FIRST HALF of 2025 has been eventful for India's initial public offering (IPO) market, despite a nearly two-month drought triggered by sustained market volatility, weak investor sentiment, and unfavourable valuations. So far, 24 mainboard IPOs have raised ₹45,375 crore—45% more than ₹31,279 crore from 36 public issues in the corresponding period last year. This includes the ₹12,500-crore IPO of HDFC Bank's NBFC arm HDB Financial Services, the largest since Hyundai Motor India's ₹27,000-crore offering last year.
2 min |
July 2025
Fortune India
AI: INDIA'S $1-TRILLION OPPORTUNITY
Software and services expertise will help define its AI future.
3 min |
July 2025
Fortune India
VADHVAN, A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Maharashtra is all set to get India's largest port and first offshore airport in Vadhvan, boosting infra in Navi Mumbai, and spurring two new cities by 2030.
7 min |
July 2025
Fortune India
AGE NO BAR
FROM BABY BOOMERS TO GEN ZS, INDIA'S EVOLVING WORKFORCE IS NAVIGATING CHALLENGES, EMBRACING DIVERSITY, AND RESHAPING THE FUTURE OF WORK THROUGH COLLABORATION AND INNOVATION.
10+ min |
July 2025
Fortune India
40 UNDER 40 - THE YOUNG GUNS
FROM TRANSFORMING STORIED businesses, to pioneering new categories of business, to disrupting ways of doing business, the young guns on the Fortune India 40 Under 40 list for 2025 are a varied lot.
3 min |
July 2025
Fortune India
TROUBLE IN THE AIR: THE DEADLY AHMEDABAD CRASH HAS PUT THE SPOTLIGHT ON AIR INDIA AND THE AVIATION SECTOR. HOWEVER, THE MAHARAJA MIGHT FIND ANSWERS TO ITS CURRENT TROUBLES IN ITS OWN HISTORY.
ON MAY 7, 1949, after flying Air India, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote to J.R.D. Tata congratulating him for “raising the prestige of India abroad”. “The more experience I have of it, the better I like it,” he wrote. Nearly eight decades later, the airline—once J.R.D. Tata’s pride—is facing a massive crisis.
4 min |
July 2025
Fortune India
INDIA'S BIOECONOMY PUSH
The government's BioE3 policy eyes bio-manufacturing facilities, bio-foundry clusters, and bio-AI hubs to develop a $300-billion domestic bioeconomy market by 2030. What lies ahead?
7 min |
July 2025
Fortune India
CHARTING INDIA'S LOGISTICS LEAP Building a future-ready supply chain for a $7-trillion economy.
Building a future-ready supply chain for a $7-trillion economy.
3 min |
July 2025
Fortune India
SEEDS OF INNOVATION
AGRITECH STARTUPS ARE REWRITING INDIA'S FARM ECONOMY THROUGH MADE-IN-INDIA SOLUTIONS IN STORAGE, FINTECH, AND CLIMATE RESILIENT FARMING.
7 min |
July 2025
Fortune India
GROWTH PROPELLERS: AT THE FORTUNE INDIA BOARDROOM, ECONOMISTS DELIBERATED ON WAYS TO PUT INDIA'S GDP ON THE 8%-PLUS GROWTH PATH TO ACHIEVE THE VIKSIT BHARAT GOALS BY 2047.
ON MAY 30, North Block heaved a sigh of relief as the Indian economy clocked in 7.4% GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2024-25. A rebound in the construction and manufacturing sectors propelled the fastest quarterly growth of the fiscal. For policymakers in New Delhi, the figures came as a much-needed reprieve as not only did the economy spring back from the lows of 5.6% growth logged in the second quarter of FY25, but the momentum continues in the current financial year, the finance ministry stated.
3 min |
July 2025
Fortune India
SIGNS OF A STORM BREWING. BUT......A disciplined approach for the long term will help navigate it.
THE RUSSIAN SAYING, “May you live in interesting times,” feels like a fitting lens to view global and Indian equity markets today.
3 min |
July 2025
Fortune India
RARE EARTH ELEMENTS, RARER SUPPLY
CHINA'S CURBS ON RARE-EARTH ELEMENT EXPORTS HAVE HIT INDIA'S AUTO MANUFACTURERS HARD. WHAT LIES AHEAD?
3 min |
July 2025
Fortune India
THE STARTUP PIONEER: NAVEEN TEWARI-FOUNDED INMOBI WAS INDIA'S FIRST UNICORN. WHAT SETS IT APART IS HOW IT HAS HAD A MULTIPLIER EFFECT ON THE ECOSYSTEM.
MOST STARTUP founders aspire for unicorn status for their ventures. Naveen Tewari, founder & CEO of the InMobi Group, was the first one to get it in India; and he achieved unicorn status for another of his brands some 10 years later.
6 min |
July 2025
Fortune India
FOREVER EVOLVING: APPLE'S WWDC THIS YEAR WAS A MIXED BAG. BUT THAT DEPENDS ON WHO IS TALKING: TECH EXPERTS OR FANBOYS.
APPLE'S WWDC THIS YEAR WAS A MIXED BAG. BUT THAT DEPENDS ON WHO IS TALKING: TECH EXPERTS OR FANBOYS.
4 min |
July 2025
Fortune India
LIGHTS, ART, DRAMA!
THE NITA MUKESH AMBANI CULTURAL CENTRE IS ON A MISSION-TO DEMOCRATISE ART FORMS, AND SHOWCASE THEM TO THE WORLD.
5 min |
June 2025
Fortune India
MIC DROP
INDIANS CAN’T SEEM TO GET ENOUGH OF PODCASTS THAT HOLD FORTH ON EVERYTHING FROM SPIRITUALITY TO BUSINESS TO SELF-IMPROVEMENT AND ENTERTAINMENT. HERE ARE FIVE PODCAST STARS WE THINK SHOULD FEATURE ON YOUR PLAYLIST.
4 min |
June 2025
Fortune India
Movies' IT Moment!
INDIAN VISUAL EFFECTS AND ANIMATION COMPANIES MAKE GLOBAL STRIDES, AS DOMESTIC BUSINESS ALSO PICKS UP DUE TO INCREASING OTT PENETRATION.
8 min |
June 2025
Fortune India
BIG MONEY GIGS
IS INDIA READY TO TAKE CENTRE STAGE AND HOST BILLION-DOLLAR CONCERTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY? THE ANSWERS ARE LIVETUNE IN!
8 min |
June 2025
Fortune India
REINVENTING THE ROOTS
WITH SCARCE SCREENS, TIGHT BUDGETS, AND RISING OTT PRESSURE, REGIONAL CINEMA HAS FOUGHT TO STAY AFLOAT—BUT SIGNS OF A REVIVAL ARE EMERGING.
9 min |
June 2025
Fortune India
OPERATION SINDOOR: A PARADIGM SHIFT
India's handling of cross-border terrorism sponsored by Pakistan underwent a paradigm shift with Operation Sindoor, kicked off in response to the killing of 26 people by The Resistance Front, a Lashkar-e-Taiba proxy, at Pahalgam in Kashmir on April 26.
1 min |
June 2025
Fortune India
STREAMING WARS
THE ONLINE CURATED CONTENT MARKET IS EXPECTED TO SEE A CAGR OF 13.9%, MAKING IT THE FASTEST-GROWING SECTOR. THE IRONY, HOWEVER, IS ITS STRUGGLE FOR PROFITABILITY.
10+ min |
June 2025
Fortune India
MODI'S ECONOMIC POWER PLAY
IN ITS THIRD TERM, THE NARENDRA MODI-LED GOVERNMENT HAS CONTINUED TO RESHAPE INDIA’S ECONOMY THROUGH BOLD MOVES IN INFRA, TRADE, JOB CREATION, AND TAX REFORMS.
8 min |