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Forbes India 13th Anniversary: Rewind of Key Milestones of India's Corporates and Startups

A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India

Startups for real India

A number of ventures are seeking to address India's real needs and aiming to be profitable

Toxic cocktails: Over-valued assets and high debt

The conditions for a crisis are now firmly established and the changes in market structure provide a scenario in which problems will spread rapidly

HealthAssure: Covering the corporate health insurance gap

HealthAssure ties up with laboratories and doctors across India, and offers companies a plan that they can pass on to their employees

The world's most powerful women

Five airlines with tray-chic menus by award-winning chefs

Meet the Michelin stars in the sky

Thoughts on women and power

Global 2000: The world's biggest companies

The 2016 list of the top publicly traded firms

How Kazuhiro Tsuga is saving Panasonic

Four years ago, Kazuhiro Tsuga embarked on one of Japan Inc's most radical overhauls. But he's not done yet turning around the consumer-electronics giant

America's richest self-made women

Sixty trailblazers who have crashed ceilings through invention and innovation

How to make $1 billion in your spare time

Practising dermatologists Katie Rodan and Kathy Fields have built a remarkable $1.1 billion fortune with two hugely successful skincare brands—and a whole lot of cringe-worthy marketing methods

Inside Sweden's innovation factory

Christian von Koenigsegg produces the fastest supercars on the planet—all by hand. But can he keep up with the demand for his new $2 million Regera? And can Detroit keep pace with his futuristic engineering?

Stitch Fix: A profitable $250 million retail disruptor

Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake has turned her startup into a profitable $250 million retail disruptor by layering big data on high style

Forbes India Startup Square: Glamour of valuations hides real problems

Startups are yet to look seriously beyond India's urban middle-class. And though there are bright entrepreneurial ideas, the pace at which they are implemented is abysmally slow

Humanities seem distant from startups, but they're not: Harvard Business School professor Tarun Khanna

Harvard Business School professor Tarun Khanna says addressing practical problems must be rewarded in the academic structure and that health care, education and agriculture are three areas that need infinitely more attention

Solving for India: Five startups tackling social problems

These ventures aim to make money by tackling some of India's biggest social problems

Kick start: Three sectors raking in the moolah from investors

Tech-led startups looking to address issues in the education, health care and transport sectors are raking in the moolah from investors

StoreKing: The friendly, neighbourhood etailman

With StoreKing, Sridhar Gundaiah has combined ecommerce with traditional retail distributors and small shopkeepers to reach the rural hinterland

Indian startups need a wake-up call: Naren Gupta

Lack of focus on long-term benefits among founders and funders is hampering the growth of a healthy ecosystem

Deborah Herold: From tsunami survivor to champion cyclist

Deborah Herold has gone where no other Indian cyclist has. And it's a long way from a childhood rent apart by a tsunami

Bandhan: The Making of a Bank highlights Chandra Shekhar Ghosh's focus, vision

In 'Bandhan: The Making of a Bank', author Tamal Bandyopadhyay traces the story of Bandhan Bank and its founder Chandra Shekhar Ghosh. An excerpt:

Revealed: Shashank ND's ambitious roadmap for Practo

Practo works for both the care giver and the patient. In just eight years, it has become the world's largest appointment-booking platform with over 40 million appointments annually