Cover Story
- How Mukesh Ambani, Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Walmart's Doug McMillon are fighting to get a bigger slice of India's $850 billion retail market
Nair, the Part-time Farmer
"Its your team that matters as you cant do much single-handedly. That is true on a farm as well as in a well-fuelled corporate entity. Having a good team is crucial," said Sameer Nair "The feeling of being able to break things apart, fix them and put them back together is immensely satisfying. It keeps the student in you alive, and we are always learning, aren't we?" says Anand Agarwal "I believe that to promote gender diversity, we need to mentor men to empower them to provide equal opportunities to women," says VishakhaThe Colourful Bond of the Patnis
Amit Patni's passion has rubbed off on his wife as well. "Now both of us buy art materials and paint together. She's being even better at it as friends and family now demand her paintings more than mine. I feel competitive," he laughs Over 200 elephant prints and figurines now adorn various shelves in Sonal Agrawal'shome and office in brass, glass, ceramics, wood, silver, enamel, mud, paper, leather, clay, cloth, and even one fashioned out of a coconut
Date Centre Boom
With the rise in Cloud adoption, data generation and emergence of data-as-a-service model, data centre business in India is not just growing big, but also emerging as the new real estate asset class
Fraught With Risks
Allowing big industrial houses in the banking sector has its own set of challenges Centre has announced two schemes to reduce import dependence in medicine manufacturing. Will they work this time? Having deliberately opted out of the world's largest trade bloc, RCEP, India can now push for the limited trade deal with the US
"We Have 120-130 Disruptive Companies Under One Roof"
With over $100 billion of assets under his watch, Rajeev Misra presides over undoubtedly the largest fund on the planet, managing what he calls the "biggest collection of disruptive companies under one roof" at Softbank Vision Funds I & II. Their collective spending power greater than the GDP of 127 countries
Hungry for Stressed Assets
Private equity and stressed asset funds continue to show interest in acquiring value assets undergoing insolvency proceedings despite delays and litigation
Retail's Battle of Wallets & Wits
Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail, Jeff Bezos's Amazon Inc. and the Walton family's Walmart-Flipkart combo are pitching themselves for the long haul in Indian retail
