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25 Women Entrepreneurs in India
India’s most influential women entrepreneurs have built companies that changed how the country shops, saves, eats, heals and invests. Some, like Falguni Nayar of Nykaa and…
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From a 10×10 garage to 40 cities: how Meera Iyer rebuilt last-mile delivery
Rejected by eleven investors, she bootstrapped a delivery network with six second-hand scooters. Today it moves two lakh parcels a…
Meera Iyer · Founder & CEO, SwiftLane Logistics
CEOs & Business Leaders
The CEO who spends every Friday on the shop floor
Arjun Mehta runs a 9,000-person engineering company. One day a week he still works a shift — and it has…
Arjun Mehta · Managing Director, Northstar Engineering
Innovators
She left a Silicon Valley job to build affordable hearing aids for rural India
Dr. Kavya Nair’s ₹1,999 hearing aid is solar-charged, repairable in any village and now used by more than 60,000 people.
Dr. Kavya Nair · Co-founder & Chief Scientist, SoundSeed Labs
Women Leaders
Breaking the boardroom ceiling: Priya Kapoor on leading a 100-year-old company
The first woman to lead her family’s century-old textile group explains how she modernised it without losing its soul.
Priya Kapoor · Chairperson, Kapoor Mills Group Leader of the week
From zero to one
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Nana Patekar Biography: Childhood, Education, Struggles, Career, Success, Family and Death
Nana Patekar was one of the most distinctive and respected actors in Indian cinema. Known for his powerful dialogue delivery,…
Nobody would fund us, so we had to be profitable from the first month. That constraint became our biggest strength.
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Women Leaders
Why this IAS officer-turned-social entrepreneur bets on rural women
Deepa Bhatt left the civil services to build a lending platform for women-led village businesses. Its repayment rate is 98.6…
Deepa Bhatt · Founder & CEO, Sakhi Capital
Women Leaders
Breaking the boardroom ceiling: Priya Kapoor on leading a 100-year-old company
The first woman to lead her family’s century-old textile group explains how she modernised it without losing its soul.
Priya Kapoor · Chairperson, Kapoor Mills GroupFresh off the desk
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Young Achievers
The 24-year-old building India’s largest free coding community
Rohan Das started a WhatsApp group to help five friends prepare for interviews. Four years later, 3 lakh learners use…
Rohan Das · Founder, CodeChai
Founders & Startups
A farmer’s son, a failed startup and a second chance worth ₹500 crore
Vikram Reddy lost everything in his first venture. What he learned from that failure built one of India’s fastest-growing agritech…
Vikram Reddy · Co-founder & CEO, FieldNext
Changemakers
The retired banker who brought clean water to 300 villages
At 61, Suresh Patil used his pension and banking network to fund community-run water filters. Nineteen years later, the villages…
Suresh Patil · Founder, Jal Mitra Trust
CEOs & Business Leaders
Inside the mind of a turnaround CEO: 7 lessons from saving a sinking airline
Rahul Menon took charge of a regional airline weeks from shutdown. His playbook is about people as much as numbers.
Rahul Menon · Chief Executive Officer, SkyBridge Regional
Innovators
Turning plastic waste into school desks: the engineer behind a circular revolution
Imran Sheikh’s low-cost extrusion process has converted 4,000 tonnes of plastic into furniture for 1,100 government schools.
Imran Sheikh · Founder, ReForm Works
Founders & Startups
Two engineers, one idea: making EV charging as easy as a UPI payment
Nikhil Sharma and Ayesha Khan built a plug-and-pay charger network that small shops can host for less than the cost…
Ayesha Khan · Co-founder & CTO, ChargeDotYour story matters
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