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Top 20 young leaders who represent the future of Indian business
In a country teeming with young millions, it should not be too difficult to find a group of ambitious men and women who are deciding the future of India. A look at top 20 young guns who represent the future of Indian business.

Electronic commodity trading has led to a big rise in volumes
Electronic commodity trading has led to a big rise in volumes, and this is just the beginning.
Unique identification project: A project that can spur innovation
Besides facilitating inclusion, the unique identification project could spur innovation.
Global cloud computing traffic expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 66%
India's cloud computing market is expected to reach $16 billion by 2020.
Phones may replace cash and plastic as a mode of payment
Phones are likely to replace cash and plastic as a mode of payment.
Wireless broadband to spur India's growth on the information highway
India's turn on the information highway may be around the corner with broadband wireless.
Low-cost tablets can create economic opportunities in India
Like mobiles, low-cost tablets could create economic opportunities.
Solar energy gaining popularity for being affordable
Solar energy costs more than thermal power, but is becoming more affordable.
A community project ensures clean water for many Indian villages
Some 720 million Indians lack clean water, and public-private partnerships are showing the way.
Ideas that can play a crucial role in India's growth
While the country adopts and creates cutting-edge technology, it has before it urgent and basic concerns such as the scarcity of water and electricity, affordable access to information, and financial inclusion.
Jojo Mathews, Shashank Atom, Manoj Kumar Singh train aspirants for Indian Administrative Services
They never made it to the IAS, but have helped thousands of others do so.
Bhanu Murthy Gona believes in a hands-on approach to every aspect of his business
He has a passion for control and an appetite for the new and untried.
Manjit Singh: The enterprising bread maker
The baker has come a long way, but hopes to go even further.
Rags to riches: How C. Ganeshan became a successful businessman
Once desperately poor, this marginal farmer's son now owns a fleet of trucks.
It has been a tough ride for Subhash Singh Grover
How an Army subedar's son became a top-notch crane manufacturer.
Suresh and Nagesh Nadar run a 25-crore retail business
How GE laid the foundation for Indian BPO sector
Genpact is today a $1.5 billion business but GE's bigger contribution is India's $6 billion BPO industry.
Tata Tea's Tetley buyout set the stage for big-ticket acquisitions
The $450-million acquisition of Tetley in the UK in February 2000 by Tata Tea indeed set the stage for buyouts by Indian companies.
Zee TV fueled the rush into broadcast media
India's busy satellite TV industry traces its origins to a visit nearly 22 years ago by a Punjabi rice trader to the Mumbai office of national broadcaster Doordarshan.
Cafe Coffee Day ushered in is a wave of cafe culture in small towns
Besides introducing the taste of coffee to traditional tea belts, what the marquee chain quietly ushered in is a wave of cafe culture in India's small towns.
In graphics: Tracking how India has changed
Pit stops across the past two decades to track how the country has changed.
ICICI changed the face of Indian banking system
ICICI changed the Indian banking system with aggression in marketing, competitive pricing and doses of innovations.
Infosys stood out in the way it ran its business
Infosys stood out in the way it ran its business: sharing wealth with employees, refusing to grease palms, focusing on systems and processes to sustain business, encouraging meritocracy, and obsessing over quality of work and delivery.
Olympic Gold Quest's Viren Rasquinha says broadbasing will help sports in India
The root cause of sports not flourishing is lack of professional management.
The Maruti 800 model captured the imagination of middle-class Indians
Today, one in two cars sold in India has the Maruti badge. Not just that, the credit for a robust automobiles industry whose output makes for about five per cent of India's GDP is mostly with Maruti Suzuki.
Airtel pioneered the model to provide service at a low cost
Airtel pioneered a model that helped it to significantly lower down the cost of providing service.
Windchimes' Nimesh Shah and Sandhya Sadanand see social media to be full of drama, triumphs and twists
Social media promises to be full of drama, triumphs and twists.
Taproot's Santosh Padhi says ads will celebrate 'Indianness'
Ads will celebrate 'Indianness' and 'youth' even more emphatically.
Big Bazaar unveiled the power of organised retail in India
Kishore Biyani's Big Bazaar unveiled the power of organised retail in India, and that too without any foreign partner.
NSE changed equity trading in India
NSE changed equity trading in India through clear rules backed with technology and risk-avoiding margins.
Jet Airways redefined customer service levels
In the mid-1990s, customer service levels were set by monopoly providers such as Indian Airlines or public sector banks. In such a market, Jet Airways redefined it.
Ronnie Screwvala says the entertainment industry needs to improve on many fronts
This sunshine industry has failed on many fronts and needs to do better.
Environment Education's Kartikeya V. Sarabhai says urban India has more and more problems
India's growth success is undermining its ecosystems.
Bharat Krishak Samaj's Ajay Vir Jakhar says agriculture demands change
Farmers are getting a very raw deal. Much has to change for them to thrive.
The CEO of L&T Infrastructure Development Projects calls for a quantum change
If some hurdles are removed, India can create and maintain world-class assets.
DMRC MD E. Sreedharan says many Indian cities need metro urgently
Every city of more than three million people needs a metro immediately.
Dr Abhay Bang says poor health care in Indian can pose a threat to India's growth
The country is in poor health, and private hospitals can do little to improve it.
Jayant Sinha says only a few NGOs could manage game-changing impact
NGOs have proliferated, but only a few have had game-changing impact.
Herminia Ibarra asks why the number of women CEOs still remains woefully low
Why the number of women CEOs still remains woefully low.
Adhil Shetty says the next decade belongs to capital security
The next decade will belong to those who expect the best but plan for the worst
Arvind Subramanian says India has a lot of catching up to do
India's fragmented, decentralised nature will work to its advantage.
Bimal Jalan on the challenges ahead for the banking system
India has a sound, rule-abiding banking system, but challenges remain.
T.V. Mohandas Pai vies for technology in education
Let good schools and colleges expand freely, increase technology use.
Sasha Mirchandani feels start-ups entrepreneurs can do better with more support
Entrepreneurs are thriving, but with more support, can do even better.
R.A. Mashelkar says India is poised to become a global leader
With its outstanding record in innovation, India is poised to become a global leader.
MGK Menon says scientific research in India should open more avenues
Research cannot flourish if making money is the primary pursuit.
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta says newspapers will not die in India
Newspapers will not die in India, but TV may face regulation.
BV Rao says the tide is turning against corruption in India
The cynics may not realise it, but the tide is turning against corruption.
Somnath Chatterjee asks what is the alternative to parliamentary democracy in India?
The executive, legislature, judiciary and media are all functioning poorly.
Business Today celebrates its 20th anniversary and looks ahead at the next two decades
Business Today celebrates its 20th anniversary and looks ahead at the next two decades.
'We are a far better informed nation today than we ever were in our history'
"We are a far better informed nation today than we ever were in our history - three-quarters of a billion Indians now have telephone connectivity," says Chaitanya Kalbag.
Shiv Nadar says philanthropy makes one feel empowered
Avenues of transformation can be many, but education is the most effective
Chhavi Rajawat says we should ne agent of change
There are frustrations galore at the grassroots, but it is essential to persevere.
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Young leaders on what futures hold
Key to the photographs, with each potential champ's take on what the future holds

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