Aman Sethi He is a journalist who won the International Committee of the Red Cross award for the best Indian print media article on humanitarian issues. His report covered police atrocities in Chhattisgarh villages, as the government finds it increasingly tough to fight the Maoists. Sethi's bond with those who remain invisible to the urban juggernaut extends to his debut novel A Free Man, the tale of a migrant labourer...
08:54 AM, Dec 24, 2011
Pankaj Ghemawat, the author, is the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School in Spain. Earlier, he taught at the Harvard Business School. Before making any prognostication on what will happen to Occupy Wall Street, we have to remember that it's not an isolated movement. In Spain, you have Indignados, or the angry ones, protesting in public squares since May. In Israel, there are major demonstrations against...
08:38 AM, Dec 24, 2011
New York: From a 29-year-old Goldman Sachs director to a graduate student, 10 Indian-origin young turks share the space with likes of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and pop star Lady Gaga in Forbes list of "tomorrow's brightest stars" who are "reinventing the world". The Forbes' '30 under 30' list profiles about 360 young "ultra impressive up-and-comers" that the companies should either "hire today" or would be working for them in...
05:00 PM, Dec 21, 2011
WS Mukund Age: 56 Designation: Managing Director, Acer India Education: BE (Electrical) from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore; PGDM from IIM-Ahmedabad Career: Spent over 33 years in sales and operations of consumer products and the PC market; 13 years at Acer (3 in Acer Middle East and 10 at Acer India) Interests: Gardening, farming, reading, and music When Acer entered the Indian market, it faced a lot of hurdles. What...
08:50 AM, Dec 03, 2011
Yet again, in 2011, Sonia Gandhi features in the top 20 of the Forbes Power list. How did a girl, born in a small town in northern Italy, rise to the position of being one of the most influential people in the world - and stay there, year after year? Having established an unassailable position in the Indian National Congress Party, she is now empowering her son Rahul with more...
02:38 PM, Nov 29, 2011
"There comes a tide in the affairs of men," Shakespeare cautioned. Tsunami warnings are now ringing about the global economy. The global financial system is under stress. Economic growth is stumbling. Confidence in governments is decreasing everywhere. Multilateral institutions like the WTO (World Trade Organization) and IMF (International Monetary Fund), created to promote global integration and stability, are ineffective. Communism was declared dead with the fall of the Berlin Wall....
11:14 AM, Nov 18, 2011
Reflecting the global turmoil, the fortunes of a majority of the richest Indians fell this year. Even then, 15 individuals managed to break into his exclusive club. Oh, the ways of wealth! After two years of unprecedented richness, the 100 richest people in India have turned poorer in 2011. With the volatile Sensex losing more than 20 percent since we last compiled the list, Indias wealthiest saw their total fortune...
10:51 AM, Nov 15, 2011
Uday Kotak Age: 52 Profile: Founder of Kotak Mahindra Bank and Indias first billionaire banker. Rich List Rank: 15 Wealth: $ 3.6 billion His Strength: -Building a team that enjoys what it does. -During every crisis, the entire top team would huddle together like a cricket team To see how far Uday Kotak has come, you dont have to go to his office at Nariman Point, Mumbai. Go instead to...
10:25 AM, Nov 11, 2011
Name: Irfan Razack Age: 58 Profile: CEO of Bangalore-based Prestige Constructions, a company promoted by his family Rich List Rank: 87 Wealth: $ 550 million Did You Know? The Razack family got into the real estate business while looking to buy property to avoid being taxed after the sale of their family home in the 1980s. It was 4:20 pm on an October evening in 2008, in Bangalores Whitefield suburb,...
12:33 PM, Nov 08, 2011
Ajay Kalsi Age: 49 Profile: Founder and chief executive of London-listed oil and gas outfit Indus Gas Rank: 38 Wealth: $ 1.39 billion Did you know? He is building a new wave pool for his daughter who is fond of swimming. The pool is about the size of four Olympic pools. Ajay Kalsi of Indus Gas is known in Indian oil and gas circles as a maverick with passion. The...
12:12 PM, Nov 08, 2011
New York: Some might argue that all stars are overpaid, but Drew Barrymore and Eddie Murphy are in a league of their own, according to a survey conducted by Forbes.com and published on Thursday. Top stars can make tens of millions of dollars on a single film, and the payout can be justified when a movie like 'Pirates of the Caribbean' brings in several hundred million at box offices. But...
02:09 PM, Nov 04, 2011
Name: B Prasada Rao Profile: Chairman and Managing Director, BHEL Age: 57 Why he won for proving that a public sector company can hold its own in the face of stiff competition from India as well as overseas. And for cutting through bottlenecks to grab new opportunities in a growing economy. When I took over as the BHEL chairman in 2009, there was a lot of buzz in the market....
10:39 AM, Oct 28, 2011
New Delhi: A woman breaks the glass ceiling among India's richest for the first time as Forbes names Savitri Jindal at No. 5, while Mukesh Ambani still maintains the top spot. The Forbes list of the world's richest people shows how India's Richie Rich club has not been immune to global recessionary trends. The new list estimates that 100 richest Indians have lost 20 per cent of their total wealth,...
08:42 AM, Oct 27, 2011
Paul Krugman, Steve Forbes, Bret Stephens and Chrystia Freeland talk on the significance of the movement. ...
10:01 PM, Oct 17, 2011
Former secretary to the Government of India Bhaskar Ghoses latest book comes at a time when there is increasing public anger against politicians and bureaucrats for being corrupt and insensitive. As such, the title of the book and the tagline promised to shed some light on the burning question about the relevance of an IAS officer in todays India, where inequalities and social unrest are growing faster than the economy....
11:42 AM, Oct 17, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Bihar government's stand on a plea for a CBI probe into the police firing on a group of villagers in Forbesganj in June that left five persons dead. A bench of justices RM Lodha and JS Khehar issued notice to the state government, seeking its response to the plea for CBI probe into the incident. The plea was made by a...
01:13 PM, Oct 10, 2011
A few weeks ago, I was being photographed by one of todays hot shot lensmen. The new breed. The guys in designer gear who arrive with an entourage of more than eight assistants and demand star treatment from magazine editors who hire them. At the end of the impersonal, brisk shoot with hardly a single meaningful exchange of words between the moody, scruffy photographer and moi, I turned to the...
12:19 PM, Sep 27, 2011
New York: Bill Gates tops this year's Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans with a net worth calculated at $ 59 billion. Forbes says the Microsoft co-founder saw his wealth increase by $ 5 billion from last year. Investor Warren Buffett ranks second with a fortune of $ 39 billion, though Forbes says the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chief executive's wealth shrank by $ 6 billion from a year ago....
08:37 AM, Sep 22, 2011
October 21, 2011 will be a red letter day for us. A galaxy of India's best known entrepreneurs and CEOs will vie for the first Forbes India Leadership Awards that evening at The Trident in Mumbai. We've instituted these distinctive annual awards to recognise transformational leadership across the entire entrepreneurial firmament, from start-ups, mid-sized firms to the more mature organisations of global scale. We've also picked a few categories that...
10:04 AM, Sep 10, 2011
Forbesganj: RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Monday held Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy SK Modi responsible for the police firing at Bhajanpura in Bihar's Araria district in June. Prasad, who led a march organised by his party from Patna to Forbesganj, said the firing "could have been averted" had the chief minister and his deputy taken preventive steps. He said his party would launch a state-wide campaign...
09:13 PM, Sep 05, 2011
