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The Broken Ladder At India Inc.
The upper tiers of corporate India remain stubbornly male. Despite rising participation in the workforce and strong aspirations for leadership, women continue to occupy only a small share of senior positions
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March 21, 2026
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THE OIL TRAP
Does India's growth story have a hidden expiry date?
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March 21, 2026
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Building Systems That Widen Access
UPASANA TAKU is steering MobiKwik beyond its IPO moment, building a disciplined fintech platform rooted in profitability and access
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March 21, 2026
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CHILD ADOPTION SYSTEM IN INDIA
RECENTLY OUR family friends a young couple in their mid-40s brought home an adopted girl after a long wait of over four years!
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March 21, 2026
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“Building AI Without Women Is a Risk India Can't Afford”
Driving inclusive technology growth, DAISY CHITTILAPILLY champions equitable AI adoption and purpose-led impact across India's digital future
2 min |
March 21, 2026
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Engineering A Unified Financial Platform
Under VISHAKHA MULYE, Aditya Birla Capital has evolved into an integrated, Al-first financial services platform aligned with India's economic expansion
3 min |
March 21, 2026
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Breaking Barriers with Excellence
As one of India's most influential corporate lawyers, ZIA MODY has built more than just a successful law firm; she has helped redefine the role of women in the country's legal leadership
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March 21, 2026
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“India Can Build Global Brands From Within”
ANANYA BIRLA is building India-born brands across finance, beauty, tech and media while redefining entrepreneurial leadership for a new generation
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March 21, 2026
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"Clean Energy Is Now An Economic Imperative"
At ReNew, VAISHALI NIGAM SINHA is aligning climate ambition with industrial competitiveness, system-scale execution and long-term capital discipline
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March 21, 2026
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The Quiet Loneliness of Young Leadership
MANY ORGANISATIONS today see young professionals quickly rising to leadership roles. For example, in a managed services operation, a young CS associate swiftly advances from a Team Coach to a Team Leader.
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March 21, 2026
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Setting The New Jewel Order
From silver to gold and lab-grown diamonds, NIKITA PRASAD is building a disciplined, design-first jewellery house with national scale
2 min |
March 21, 2026
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Choosing The Harder Horizon
SUROBHI DAS is laying the foundations for a new generation of aerospace capability emerging from India
2 min |
March 21, 2026
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INDIA'S AI 'STRAIT OF HORMUZ'
AI opportunity is vast, but India must confront its structural deficiencies now, before strategic chokepoints become tomorrow's crisis
5 min |
March 21, 2026
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A World That Pretends to be Civilised
WHAT a strange planet we inhabit.
3 min |
March 21, 2026
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Fiscal Trailblazer
From academia to India's finance ministry, NIRMALA SITHARAMAN has become a defining voice of economic leadership
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March 21, 2026
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The Ecosystem Builder
GEETIKA MEHTA Managing Director, Nivea India champions the kind of leadership that goes beyond organisations, nurturing talent, enabling mentorship, influencing industry dialogue and driving collective progress across the broader ecosystem
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March 21, 2026
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AI: Climate's Double-Edged Sword
ARTIFICIAL Intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming a core economic infrastructure. From private industry to government platforms, from agriculture advisories to power dispatch centres, AI systems are being embedded in the economic systems globally and in India.
4 min |
March 21, 2026
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Steady Strategic Leadership
Calm, strategic and people-focused, VIBHA PADALKAR has helped shape HDFC Life into one of India's leading insurers
3 min |
March 21, 2026
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Taking Charge At Consumer Giant
PRIYA NAIR returns to lead Hindustan Unilever with deep company knowledge and global experience as the FMCG behemoth sharpens its growth agenda
1 min |
March 21, 2026
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Leading with Instinct Shaped by Experience
From scaling Salesforce South Asia to advancing Al-led enterprise models, ARUNDHATI BHATTACHARYA drives measurable transformation across sectors
3 min |
March 21, 2026
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The Moment the World has Been Dreading
THE INDIAN RUPEE plummeted to an all-time low — a good 20 days after a ballistic missile killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
1 min |
March 21, 2026
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The FDI Gates Reopen Slowly
IN A MOVE THAT feels like a policy U-turn with a straight face, the Union government has eased the once rigid Press Note 3 framework, originally introduced during the pandemic to block opportunistic foreign takeovers.
1 min |
March 21, 2026
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Inventive, Innovative India
NOWADAYS, everyone is talking of innovation; it is amongst the most popular buzz words, the aspirational goal for everyone from startup entrepreneurs to government bureaucrats.
2 min |
March 21, 2026
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WOMEN AT THE HELM
AS INDIA ENTERS a new phase of economic expansion, the conversation around growth turns more nuanced.
1 min |
March 21, 2026
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WHERE WERE THE WOMEN?
The much-viewed group photograph of AI industry leaders and government heads taken at India's AI Impact Summit 2026 showed up that the fourth industrial revolution too may find women at its fringes. Joelle Pineau, chief AI officer at Cohere was the only woman industry representative in the photograph. Will India's ambitious plans for artificial intelligence collide with stark gender imbalance?
5 min |
March 07, 2026
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INDIA'S EDGE IN THE AI ERA
Why deployment, data and digital scale, not just capital, will define India's Al leadership
3 min |
March 07, 2026
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WHY THE NEXT DECADE WILL BE WON OR LOST IN THE APPLICATION LAYER
The infrastructure is being laid. The models are being built. The sovereign positioning is happening. What is needed now is execution
3 min |
March 07, 2026
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HOW AI IS RESHAPING FARMING
From fields to forecasts, AI is revolutionising agriculture through smarter, data-driven decisions that boost productivity, efficiency, and certainty
4 min |
March 07, 2026
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BUILDING INDIA'S STRATEGIC EDGE
India's diversity is not just demographic, it is industrial. Healthcare, manufacturing, climate, mobility, each produces unique datasets underrepresented in global foundation models
3 min |
March 07, 2026
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Beyond Intent - The Three Levers Of Scaling Decarbonisation
HARSH MARIWALA on the India Exchange 2026, the idea of an India-UK/ Europe Green Corridor and how we can scale the transition through three critical levers: capital, technology and markets
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