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Forbes India
'Leadership Is To Marshall Resources Well'
Lines blur when it comes to Riyaaz Amlani—a man for whom work and life flow seamlessly into one another.
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January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Fast & Furious
Rajkumar Sharma was visiting an under-14 camp in Mohali when Arun Bedi, its coach and former Punjab player, pulled him aside and predicted that two of his 30 wards would go on to play for India. One was Shubman Gill, the other his son Abhishek.
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January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Asia's Power Business Women
This year's Asia's Power Businesswomen list highlights 20 accomplished leaders who are at the forefront of the region's fast-evolving business and economic landscape.
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January 09, 2026
Forbes India
'Chess Now is a Different Sport From our Time'
Viswanathan Anand, five-time World Champion and India's first Grandmaster, on mentoring a generation that hasn't lived without computers, how far can AI impact the game, and more
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January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Helping Hand
When Girish Mehta was told he would have to leave the orphanage he had grown up in, panic and depression set in. He made a few calls looking for a job that would also provide him a roof over his head and landed one with a children's helpline, 1098, in Jaipur.
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January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Edge of Reason
As with every 20-something, Simona Mohan and her friends were on a hunt for a New Year's escape a few Decembers ago. A holiday in Coorg, dealing with subpar accommodation, planted the seed that eventually became Raho Hospitalities—an experience-led, mass-premium homestay brand that offers curated, end-to-end holiday experiences in non-urban leisure destinations.
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January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Queen's Gambit
2025 isn’t the first time that Divya Deshmukh has struck gold, quite literally. The 20-year-old had already announced herself on the global stage by winning two gold medals in the 2024 Chess Olympiad, the most prestigious team event in the sport. But it is her run at the FIDE World Cup—where she beat Koneru Humpy, India’s first woman Grandmaster (GM), to become the first Indian to win the title—that has made Deshmukh a household name.
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January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Crafting a Brand
A conversation with her mother at the height of the pandemic changed Aakriti Rawal's trajectory.
2 min |
January 09, 2026
Forbes India
The Hip-Hop Hustle
Joota ghasta gaya Aur gaana bajte gaya Aur mein bhi bachta gaya Haan bolu sachmein ki gaano ne bachali meri jaan Kyunki mere jaise log dhoonde kalaa mein insaan A verse from Yahsraj Mehra's song Hausla captures the arc of his life, he tells Forbes India, which roughly means hard work continued, songs kept playing, and art saved him.
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January 09, 2026
Forbes India
House That
In 2015, Shreeram Ravichandran, Gobinath P and Jawahar Rajasekar were students at IIT-Madras when the city was hit with catastrophic floods that affected over 40 lakh people. The trio was out distributing relief material when they were confronted with an existential question. “We wondered what happened when people lost their homes in natural disasters,” says Shreeram. They did a quick study of the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the deadliest in recorded history, and saw that it took at least five to seven years for the government to allocate funds and rebuild homes for the displaced. “That’s when we realised the need for transition shelters.”
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January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Small-Town Pop Icon
Long before his songs took over reels, charts and city soundscapes, music had already found Sanju Rathod. It arrived quietly, in a small Banjara household in Maharashtra's Dhanwad village, where evenings often ended with his uncles and grandfather singing. Years later, during high school, music returned to him at a vulnerable moment. A bad breakup pushed Rathod towards songwriting. What began as short couplets and emotional stanzas soon evolved into writing and singing rap songs—entirely in Marathi, the language in which he found his most natural expression.
2 min |
January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Cinema Sans Frontier
Regional cinema is gaining ground with better economics. It is crossing language and cultural boundaries with superior content, and pan-India stars
10 min |
January 09, 2026
Forbes India
SUPER 30
Forbes India's 30 Under 30 alumni are shining examples of excellence in their chosen fields. Here are 30 achievers from the time we began publishing the list
9 min |
January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Machines that Learn from Mistakes
As companies start automating everyday tasks, artificial intelligence (AI) has mostly filled in as a contract worker who is quick and capable, but also forgetful the moment the task ends, unlike an employee who's generally reliable. A US-based startup is trying to change that.
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January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Supplement Support
A business built out of Jalandhar, Miduty's value proposition has been clear from day one—to teach people how to take their supplements to maximise the benefits, along with diet and exercise regime. The brand started by siblings Palak and Pranav Midha in 2020 has since pivoted from a nutrition and diet consultation outlet to a wellness and lifestyle supplements brand.
2 min |
January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Banking on Solutions
In an ecosystem which is still evolving, Neokred Technologies is building technology and solutions which will ensure banks and financial institutions provide better services to their customers. It is a B2B2C startup that works to provide products and platforms for a whole range of banks, non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), NGOs and depositories.
2 min |
January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
For Priya Dali, design has never been a standalone practice. It is a way of making sense of identity, of creating entry points into conversations. At 29, the creative director at Gaysi Family has emerged as one of the most influential cultural designers working in the queer ecosystem by shaping not just what is seen, but who gets to be seen at all.
2 min |
January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Rewiring Brain Care
For Ramya Yellapragada and Lakshay Sahni, the idea for Marbles Health emerged from a shared frustration with how brain health is treated. Across education, research and early professional experiences, both had observed people struggling with psychiatric and neurological conditions, often cycling through diagnoses, medications and therapies without a clear or lasting resolution.
2 min |
January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Etching a Mark
Vinay Gusain is that rare artist who is also an innovator and entrepreneur. Hailing from a village in Haryana, Gusain works across printmaking, video, and object-based installation, specialising in techniques such as mezzotint and aquatint. He has also created a mezzotint rocker that has traditionally been available to artists in India only as an imported product; the imported tool roughly costs ₹24,000, while Gusain's version, sold under his company name Medwa Tools, costs about half that amount.
2 min |
January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Space Odyssey
Jainul Abedin wants to be an astronaut someday. He is quite certain about that. What he is also certain about is that when he does finally go to space, it won't be aboard a single-use rocket.
2 min |
January 09, 2026
Forbes India
On Target
Lakshya has no qualms admitting that he is a boring guy off set with not much happening around him. “The only fun that I have is when I prepare for characters and shoot,” says the actor, who goes only by his first name. “In the last few days, I have been trying to discover the psyche of the character I am playing. That is the exciting part for me... when I have to play a different person and live a character,” he tells Forbes India in the middle of a hectic 12-hour film shoot.
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January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Law and Order
In US legal drama Suits, junior associates would spend long nights in a basement room leafing through boxes of documents, barely getting any food or sleep, sometimes for days. That's not exaggerated television drama but a usual Monday at many Indian law firms. Young lawyers routinely spend nights stitching together due-diligence reports, scrubbing boilerplate clauses, or comparing contracts that differ only by a comma.
2 min |
January 09, 2026
Forbes India
My Shop, Your Rules
How Meesho co-founder Vidit Aatrey achieved scale by giving up command
2 min |
January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Claims Assured
For Khet Singh, the most broken part of India's health care system was not the treatment itself, but what happened around it.
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January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Feet Of Destiny
Ask Sheetal Devi what reminds her most of home, and she doesn’t talk of a grand memory. She simply says: Rice. It was what she grew up eating each day in Loidhar, her small mountain village in Jammu & Kashmir. Rice meant routine, comfort, and childhood—a reminder of where she started long before she became a Paralympic medallist and now a world champion.
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January 09, 2026
Forbes India
A Personal Tutor for All
Growing up in Indore, Ritesh Singh Chandel and Rushabh Kothari saw coaching centres at every street corner, yet access to quality teaching remained out of reach. So they set out to build what didn't exist: An infinitely scalable AI tutor that could teach any student, in any town, in their own language, at the cost of a monthly phone recharge.
2 min |
January 09, 2026
Forbes India
'Coursera And Udemy Together Offer Learners More Choice'
Following Coursera's $2.5 billion merger with Udemy, CEO Greg Hart talks about why the edtech giants are unifying
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January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Leap of Faith
Before Abhay Verma ever stood on a film set, he would spend hours watching interviews. Not films, not performances, but conversations. He observed how actors spoke about fear, failure, ambition and patience. Those interviews became his acting school, shaping not just how he wanted to perform, but also how he wanted to live.
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January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Scribbling One Campaign at a Time
Kajol Bheda always had a zeal for entrepreneurship; the pull towards marketing came much later. Growing up, she wasn't the brightest student, but she says she was the most hardworking. “I wanted to do something creative. As I skilled myself with learnings and internships in marketing, I knew it was my calling,” says Bheda.
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January 09, 2026
Forbes India
Stars in Her Eyes
As a child, Aneet Padda was so lost in her own world that her mother took her to a doctor. Teachers at school wondered why she seemed to drift off in class. But Padda's questions weren't about confusion—they were philosophical: “What is a week? And why do we put seven days in it?” She would wake her mother up at odd hours, asking how many stars there were in the universe.
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