Business
Fortune India
TASK CUT OUT FOR CHANDRA 3.0
OF THE MANY CHALLENGES, WORKING OUT AN EXIT ROUTE FOR THE SHAPOORJI PALLONJI GROUP FROM TATA SONS COULD WELL BE HIS TOUGHEST JOB.
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September 2025
Fortune India
There are no shortcuts to success
This third-generation business leader from the Goel Group, Central India's leading conglomerate, has honed his skills through no less a personality than his grandfather. Looking back on his journey as a results-driven entrepreneur, Archit Goel - Director and CFO of Goeld Frozen Foods, recalls it was the practical mentoring of his grandfather which yielded the path, both in business and life, he would follow. Goel, now 35, was just in his 20s at the time when he embraced those lessons he needed so desperately to illuminate his future.
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September 2025
Fortune India
GST
THE REFORMS SEASON IS BACK THE NEXT-GENERATION REFORMS ANNOUNCED BY THE PM ON INDEPENDENCE DAY WILL HELP INDIA ACCELERATE GROWTH.
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September 2025
Fortune India
GAME OVER: HOW INDIA'S THRIVING REAL-MONEY GAMING INDUSTRY WENT FROM BOOM TO BUST IN JUST FOUR DAYS.
INDIA'S GAMING industry went from being a $2.4-billion sunrise sector to one scrambling for survival—in four days. The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, which received Cabinet approval on August 19, was passed by both Houses by August 21 and became law the following day after receiving the President's assent.
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September 2025
Fortune India
The Next Billion-dollar Leap
India's future unicorn bets are not on consumer apps, but on research-based, transformational products rooted in deep technologies.
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September 2025
Fortune India
LEADERSHIP IN MOTION Dr. ABINASH SAMAL, STEERING THE EMPREO GROUP JUGGERNAUT
From service bays to supercars, few entrepreneurs embody acceleration quite like Dr. Abinash Samal. At just 37, he has taken the wheel of Empreo Group and shifted it into overdrive, transforming a family enterprise rooted in industrial grit into a ₹3,800 crore powerhouse that now defines Odisha's mobility landscape.
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September 2025
Fortune India
SALIL PANIGRAHI: ARCHITECT OF EXPERIENCES, NOT JUST HOTELS
With Atmosphere Core's India entry, the CA-turned-hotelier blends emotional design, cultural authenticity, and scalable disruption to reshape Indian luxury travel
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September 2025
Fortune India
AN UNBREAKABLE BOND: WARREN HARRIS, CEO & MD OF TATA TECHNOLOGIES AND A TATA VETERAN, FEELS HIS FIRST MEETING WITH RATAN TATA SET THE TONE FOR THE FUTURE.
ON A CRISP November afternoon in 2005, Warren Harris walked into the opulent Four Seasons Hotel George V in Paris to meet Ratan Tata for the first time. The French capital was slipping into winter—the air sharp, Christmas markets luring early buyers with their festive warmth. Harris, then head of engineering services firm INCAT—which had been taken over by Tata Technologies just three months ago—had spoken with Tata only over the phone. “We had a couple of conversations about the opportunity to converge INCAT with the Tata company,” Harris recalls.
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September 2025
Fortune India
BUILT FOR SPACE
SPACE IS EMERGING AS THE NEW LABORATORY FOR BIOTECHNCOLOGY, AND INDIAN STARTUPS ARE POWERING THE COUNTRY'S AMBITION TO LEAD IN SPACE BY 2047.
10 min |
September 2025
Fortune India
Why Process Matters More than a CEO's Personality
High-performing boards ensure a CEO's accountability through thoughtful structure, consistent feedback, and a clear understanding of their role.
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September 2025
Fortune India
FROM BROWNIES TO BAGS: PRIVATE EQUITY, NOT VENTURE CAPITAL, IS FUELLING ACTIVITY ON DEAL STREET.
PRIVATE CAPITAL markets seem to be buzzing, the turbulent global geopolitical landscape notwithstanding.
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AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
CAN ONE FOUNDATION CHANGE LIFE ON EARTH?
IT’S JUST a routine checkup, standard for participants in a clinical trial, but when Alice, a South African shop clerk in her forties, visits the Be Part Yoluntu Centre for research, she wears her best outfit: trousers, a blouse, and short heels.
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AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
BREAKING BARRIERS
The MPW awards celebrated resilience, reinvention, and leadership.
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AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
THE BUILDERS OF EMPIRE
REAL ESTATE TYCOONS RIDE ON THE LUXURY HOUSING BOOM TO BOOST GROWTH.
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AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
RELENTLESS MAVERICK, GIANT BETS
RIL'S GAMEPLAN: DOUBLING DOWN ON DIGITAL, RETAIL, AND GREEN ENERGY FOR SUSTAINABLE HYPER-GROWTH.
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AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
STARTUPS' WEALTH PLAY
BESIDES DIRECT HOLDINGS, FOUNDERS ARE INCREASINGLY TURNING TO TRUSTS AND FAMILY OFFICES TO BUILD LONG-TERM WEALTH.
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AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
A LEGACY OF CARE
FROM A SINGLE CENTRE TO INDIA'S LARGEST PRIVATE HOSPITAL CHAIN BY BEDS, RANJAN PAI HAS RESHAPED HEALTHCARE WITH BOLD BETS AND BIG VISION.
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AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
BACKBENCHER TO FRONT RUNNER
FROM BEING A DISJOINTED FMCG COMPANY IN 2020, WITH A PRESENCE ONLY IN TEA AND SALT AND ITS READY-TO-DRINK PORTFOLIO A NON-PERFORMER, THE LAST FIVE YEARS HAVE SEEN TATA'S CONSUMER BUSINESS EMERGE AS A STRONG FOOD AND BEVERAGES CONTENDER ON THE BACK OF ACQUISITIONS, A REJIG OF ITS DISTRIBUTION NETWORK, AND A PIPELINE OF INNOVATIONS.
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AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
TELECOM TITAN
WITH SHARP BETS ON 5G AND CAPITAL DISCIPLINE, SUNIL MITTAL RANG IN PROFITS, AND THE BIGGEST WEALTH GAIN AMONG INDIA'S TOP 100 BILLIONAIRES.
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AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
MELINDA FRENCH GATES BELIEVES THE LIGHT WILL WIN
MELINDA FRENCH GATES, at 60, is setting her own agenda: Four years after her divorce from Microsoft founder Bill Gates, she is dedicating her resources to improving the lives of women and girls in the U.S. through her company, Pivotal Ventures. With her then husband, French Gates cofounded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000, and spent over two decades traveling globally to understand the world’s biggest health challenges and how best to utilize a multibillion-dollar fortune to address them. She stepped away from her role at the foundation in 2024, and it was later renamed the Gates Foundation. Fortune spoke with French Gates about what has been achieved in the foundation’s first 25 years, her hopes for the future, and her views on the foundation’s ambitious plan to spend $200 billion over the next 20 years, then close down. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
CHEMICAL TITANS ON A BUMPY RIDE
BUT STRATEGIC SHIFTS AND DOMESTIC DEMAND WILL HELP TIDE OVER SHORT-TERM HEADWINDS, SAY ANALYSTS.
3 min |
AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
Reinvigorating India's Manufacturing Momentum
Manufacturing growth may falter without urgent course correction.
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AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
APPETISERS MEET THE AFFLUENT
FROM SOUNDS AND EFFECTS BLENDING WITH FINE DINING TO THE 'CUISINE OF THE SUN'— HERE ARE SOME PLACES THAT BILLIONAIRES WITH REFINED PALATES MUST VISIT.
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AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
LUXURY HOUSING GOLD RUSH
A WAVE OF RECORD-BREAKING DEALS IS RESHAPING INDIA'S LUXURY HOUSING MARKET. THE WEALTHIEST ARE INVESTING IN AMENITY-RICH APARTMENTS. IS THIS A LASTING SHIFT OR ANOTHER REAL ESTATE BUBBLE?
5 min |
AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
BILL GATES' $200 BILLION MOONSHOT
INSIDE THE BIGGEST BET ON HUMANITY A PHILANTHROPIST
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AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
FAMILY THE STORYTELLER: FROM MELODRAMAS ON TV TO HIGH-OCTANE STREAMING CONTENT, SAMEER NAIR HAS A KNACK FOR UNDERSTANDING CONSUMER PULSE.
MEDIA AND entertainment industry veteran Sameer Nair literally lives, breathes, and sleeps content. While his day job as MD of Applause Entertainment entails creating highly engaging content for streaming platforms, Nair also unwinds with shows. He is currently binge-watching multiple shows—Pierce Brosnan starrer MobLand, and Landman, set in the oilfields of Texas. It is inevitable for a professional storyteller to think shop even while he is consuming content to entertain himself. “My team gets both recommendations as well as instructions,” he laughs.
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AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
Coup from the South
The rise of south Indian cuisine in global fine dining can be attributed to a new generation of Michelin star chefs who are proud of their roots, bold in their techniques, and unafraid to take their home flavours into new spaces.
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AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
Beyond the Stethoscope
Building a system that nurtures, not just heals.
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AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
A FORCE FOR GOOD, FOR GROWTH
FROM ULTRATECH'S CEMENT SUPREMACY TO HINDALCO'S MASSIVE CAPEX PLAN, KUMAR MANGALAM BIRLA IS FUTURE-PROOFING THE ADITYA BIRLA GROUP WITH BOLD BETS ACROSS SECTORS.
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AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
DANCING IN TUNE: AT THE FORTUNE INDIA BOARDROOM, LEADING BANKERS AND EXPERTS HIGHLIGHTED THAT THE TIME IS RIPE FOR THE BANKING SECTOR TO TAKE CUES FROM THE CENTRAL BANK AND MATCH ITS PACE.
A 100-BASIS-point repo rate cut, liquidity release of ₹2.5 lakh crore by slashing the cash reserve ratio (CRR) by 1%, eased project finance and gold finance norms, and relaxed liquidity coverage ratio allowing banks to assign lower liquid assets against digital deposits—the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is not mincing words.
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