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THE ENTERPRISING INDIAN: STORIES FROM INDIA INC

India Inc. is a pickle jar of tales, some sour, some sweet but all of them equally appetizing. The tycoon to a manor born and the upstart businesswoman hustling to create her own legacy, each of them has shaped the way business has grown and evolved in the country. Their struggles and their successes along with their many failings are an integral part of the story of India. Every week we run one such vignette.

Coming within four years of the Harshad Mehta scandal, the CRB scam exposed the vulnerabilities of India’s nascent non-banking financial sector. (AFP)

How CR Bhansali exploited India's NBFC blind spots in the 1990s

4 min read . 10 May 2025

Jayanti Dharma Teja founded the Jayanti Shipping Company and acquired 26 ships. Within a few years, it controlled nearly half of India’s merchant shipping business. (Illustration: Rajesh Kumar/Mint)

Jayanti Dharma Teja: The tycoon whose shipping empire was built on deception

4 min read . 19 Apr 2025

Philanthropist Alagappa Chettiar. (Illustration: Tarun Kumar Sahu/Mint)

Alagappa Chettiar's legacy of fortune and philanthropy

4 min read . 12 Apr 2025

Ashok Amritraj founded Hyde Park Entertainment in 1999.

The remarkable journey of Ashok Amritraj from tennis courts to Hollywood heights

4 min read . 29 Mar 2025

Amrit Kaur, one of Mahatma Gandhi's closest associates, served as his secretary for over a decade. (Tarun Kumar Sahu/Mint)

The princess who built India’s healthcare system

3 min read . 05 Apr 2025

David Sassoon, a Baghdadi Jewish merchant who built Mumbai’s first commercial wet dock, a pioneering feat that revolutionized trade in the country. (Illustration: Rajesh Kumar/Mint)

The merchant who built Bombay: How David Sassoon shaped a global city

3 min read . 22 Mar 2025

Purshottamdas Thakurdas, cotton trader, banker and industrialist. (Illustration: Mint)

Purshottamdas Thakurdas: The cotton trader whose economic vision India ignored

3 min read . 15 Mar 2025

At 21, QRG left for Delhi armed with little more than the will to succeed. Illustration: Mint

Conviction over calculators: How Qimat Rai Gupta made Havells a household name

4 min read . 08 Mar 2025

Manu Manek Mundra's modus operandi was the same as that of countless others who flourished through the 1970s: manipulate the markets in the absence of any effective regulation. (AP)

How Manu Manek aka Black Cobra went from college trader to market marauder

4 min read . 01 Mar 2025

Vikram Sarabhai was a maverick whose s eccentricities were legendary and often tied to his innovative thinking.

Vikram Sarabhai, the cosmic capitalist whose vision encompassed Indian industry

4 min read . 22 Feb 2025

Balvantray Parekh’s life encompassed more than just making money. (Illustration: Tarun Kumar Sahu/Mint)

Balvantray Parekh’s lifelong marketing masterclass with Fevicol

4 min read . 15 Feb 2025

RK Shanmukham Chetty, finance minister of India, 1947-48

The forgotten finance minister: RK Shanmukham Chetty and India’s first budget

3 min read . 08 Feb 2025

Ashoke Kr Mukherjee, founder, Sonodyne. Sonodyne proved that Indian firms could manufacture world-class audio equipment, setting technical standards for the industry. (File Photo: Mint)

How Ashoke Mukherjee brought high-fidelity sound to India with Sonodyne

3 min read . 02 Feb 2025

Jindal was born into a modest family in 1930 in a hamlet in Nalwa, Haryana. Illustration: Tarun Kumar Sahu/Mint

OP Jindal’s empire of steel is powered by grit and determination

4 min read . 25 Jan 2025

Govindram Seksaria was born in the dusty town of Nawalgarh, Rajasthan, in 1888. (Tarun Kumar Sahu/Mint)

Cotton King Govindram Seksaria: The Marwari maven of pre-Independence trade

4 min read . 11 Jan 2025

Parvinder Singh, former Chairman and Managing Director of Ranbaxy Laboratories (File Photo)

Parvinder Singh: The pharma visionary whose legacy lies in tatters

4 min read . 04 Jan 2025

In its obituary, The New York Times called Rajn Pillai “one of Asia’s most flamboyant businessmen”.

Fortune and fraud: The spectacular life and death of biscuit king Rajan Pillai

4 min read . 21 Dec 2024

Shahnaz Husain. Photo: Michael Rubenstein

The rise and reign of India’s beauty baroness Shahnaz Husain

4 min read . 28 Dec 2024

(Illustration: Mint)

Cowasjee Readymoney’s pioneering path from profit to purpose

4 min read . 14 Dec 2024

Despite massive opposition, including strikes by brokers across the country, GVR banned badla in 1993. (Illustration: Tarun Kumar Sahu/Mint)

How top bureaucrat GV Ramakrishna turned bullfighter to clean up India's stock

4 min read . 07 Dec 2024