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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.
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AUGUST 2025
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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?
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AUGUST 2025
Fortune India
BILL GATES' $200 BILLION MOONSHOT
INSIDE THE BIGGEST BET ON HUMANITY A PHILANTHROPIST
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AUGUST 2025
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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
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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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AUGUST 2025
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
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Defence imperative for strategic sovereignty
India needs to have full-spectrum self-reliance in defence.
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AUGUST 2025
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How the Best Boards Balance Oversight and Management
With the right balance, boards can be catalysts for enduring success.
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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.
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AUGUST 2025
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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?
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AUGUST 2025
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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.
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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.
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July 2025
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WILL IMPS SURVIVE UPI?
AS UPI TAKES OVER DIGITAL PAYMENTS, WILL IMPS ADAPT OR BE ABANDONED? THE ANSWER ISN'T SIMPLE.
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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.
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July 2025
Fortune India
AI: INDIA'S $1-TRILLION OPPORTUNITY
Software and services expertise will help define its AI future.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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