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A Nation Stuck Between Missing Jobs and Growth Ambitions

India grapples with a job crisis fuelled by factors including high youth unemployment, educational and skill imbalance and low female participation, among others. In their book, The Elephant Moves: India’s New Place in the World, Amitabh Kant and Amit Kapoor explore India’s economic evolution through the lens of competitiveness, stressing the need for, and challenges to, policy changes in its run to becoming a developed economy by 2047

Pursuit of Happiness

Taking Off On The Right Foot

Hailing from Amarkantak, a town nestled amid mountains in Madhya Pradesh, love for activities like mountain climbing, paragliding and bouldering came naturally to Abhimanyu Saxena, co-founder of edtech start-up Scaler

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Wipro's No to Narayana Murthy: A Rejection That Changed Indian IT Sector’s Face

Before he set up what was to become one of Indian IT sector’s biggest success stories, Narayana Murthy was rejected by Wipro chairman Azim Premji. The Infosys chairman later found out that Premji considered this one of his gravest errors of judgement. In her latest book An Uncommon Love Story, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores little known facets of Murthy’s life and the influential role his wife Sudha played in it

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Vijai Kishan Radhakrishnan

Head, Fidelity Wealth, India and Regional Chair, Fidelity Investments India

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When a Global Cola Giant Got a Lesson in Humour

The campaign for non-alcoholic beverage Pepsi is a major highlight of ad film director Prahlad Kakar’s extensive portfolio. However, while things took off to a great start, they did not quite end well. In his memoir, Kakar gets candid about his relation with the brand, from having an exciting collaboration that was instrumental in the brand’s rise in India to eventually parting ways over difference of creative opinions 

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Sanjeev Barnwal, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Meesho

Sanjeev Barnwal loves beaches. They offer the perfect backdrop for a serene vacation, he feels

Pursuit of Happiness

Opening Happiness With a Chill Pill

Juan Pablo Rodriguez, the chief executive officer of Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages, aims to do his best each day and believes in enjoying the present to the fullest without worrying excessively about the future

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Roshini Sanah Jaiswal

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Justhuman

Pursuit of Happiness

The Farmer on a Long Drive

Venkatram Mamillapalle, country CEO and MD of Renault India Operations, is passionate about horticulture—he has a farm with more than 300 varieties of fruit trees. He is equally passionate about travelling and reading

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What Led to Urjit Patel’s Resignation? An Insider Explains

There have been resignations in the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), but governor Urjit Patel’s in 2018 over policy differences was a rare event in the history of the central bank, writes former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg in his book. He details the frustration of the government with the RBI under Patel and the circumstances that eventually culminated into the latter posting his resignation on the RBI website

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Merrill Pereyra

Merrill Pereyra, Managing Director, Pizza Hut Indian Subcontinent

Pursuit of Happiness

The Social Introvert

Amit Choudhary, chief operating officer of IT services major Wipro, is a self-confessed introvert who loves planning most of his non-work activities, be they golfing, skiing, playing board games or watching movies, around his family and friends