The former Chairman of the iconic TATA Group of companies in India and the recipient of two of the highest civilian awards of India, the Padma Vibhushan (2008) and Padma Bhushan (2000), Ratan Tata, once famously said. “What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies … Continue reading Quintessentially Tata: My Journey Over 55 Years – Syamal Gupta

The landscape of Indian legal jurisprudence is graced by and littered with stars whose brightness is eternal, and twinkle, indelible. The who’s who of India’s legal fraternity is a precocious Hall of Fame, pride of a nation and a formidable array that intimidates and inspires. A few names - without being disrespectful to the inadvertently … Continue reading Legal Eagles: Stories of the Top Seven Indian Lawyers – Indu Bhan

When the Sunday Times offered the bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith – of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency fame – access to their early 20th Century photograph archive, the writer delightfully viewed this as an opportunity to come up with a collection of short stories. The outcome of this venture is “Pianos and Flowers: Brief … Continue reading Pianos and Flowers: Brief Encounters of the Romantic Kind – Alexander McCall Smith

The Supreme Court of India has been accorded an institutional status that is hallowed, and a respect that borders on the reverential. While the Apex Court has distinguished itself with a plethora of judgments, ranging from the seraphic to the sublime, there have also been instances where the highest judicial body of the land has … Continue reading The Cases That India Forgot – Chintan Chandrachud

What unifies an organisation that is devoted to rescuing and repatriating stolen artifacts back to India, with a freelance Yoga practioner who, after successfully fighting a humble upbringing, carves out a niche for himself amongst the elite inhabiting a tony precinct in Gurugram? What is common between a man who moves mountains to produce the … Continue reading The Indic Quotient – Kaninika Mishra

A culmination of more than a dozen rural trips in the company of Foreign Institutional Investors, and manifold interviews, Sujit Sahgal’s short albeit undoubtedly compelling book “A Wall Street View of Rural India”, gauges the pulse of India’s rural economy in addition to tracing its trajectories. Written in a smooth and simplistic manner, the book … Continue reading A Wall Street View of Rural India – Sujit Sahgal

A commendable primer on the pre-requisites that would define the trajectory of both a leader as well as the company that she is responsible for, “Leading in the Digital World” is a handy guide to the Corporate chieftain. At the heart of Mr. Mukherjee’s book is the influence of what he terms constitute long-arc-of-impact technologies, … Continue reading Leading in the Digital World: How to Foster Creativity, Collaboration, and Inclusivity (Management on the Cutting Edge) – Amit Mukherjee

 When it involved dystopia, I had my favourite quartet of books which I would read, re-read and get back to reading again. “1984” by George Orwell; “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley; “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin; and “Darkness At Noon” by Arthur Koestler were my trusted and reliable companions of doom and despair. And then … Continue reading The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood