• cest la vie / 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

    Chitra Nair - February 01, 2024
  • cest la vie / Hardbound

    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

    February 01, 2024
  • cest la vie / Hardbound

    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 

    January 01, 2024
  • cest la vie / 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

    Chitra Nair - January 01, 2024
  • cest la vie / My Favourite

    Sanjeev Barnwal, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Meesho

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

    January 01, 2024
  • cest la vie / My Favourite

    Roshini Sanah Jaiswal

    Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Justhuman

    December 01, 2023
  • cest la vie / 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

    Chitra Nair - November 01, 2023
  • cest la vie / My Favourite

    Merrill Pereyra

    Merrill Pereyra, Managing Director, Pizza Hut Indian Subcontinent

    November 01, 2023
  • cest la vie / Hardbound

    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

    November 01, 2023
  • cest la vie / 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 

    Chitra Nair - October 01, 2023
  • cest la vie / Pursuit of Happiness

    The Constant Learner

    Raghavendra Vaidya, MD and CEO of Daimler Truck Innovation Center India, is a man of varied and deep interests. From riding bikes to automating things at home, from making furniture to constantly studying new subjects and listening to old Hindi songs, he pursues all of them with passion

    Chitra Nair - September 01, 2023
  • cest la vie / Pursuit of Happiness

    Following The Culture Trail

    Amitabh Dube, country president of Novartis India, has travelled extensively, but it is his stay in Vietnam that he most fondly remembers, not just for its food, people and landscape but also for the footprints of Indian culture in the southeast Asian country

    Chitra Nair - August 01, 2023