Through the lens: Our best photos of the past year

A selection of Forbes India’s best photographs in the past year, and the stories behind them

May 23, 2015, 06:16 IST2 min

<strong>No Emotional Baggage</strong><br />In our october 31 issue, we traced the career path of Ramesh Tainwala, whose success has been shaped by chance and choice. Rejected as a trainee at Indian luggage giant VIP Industries, Tainwala worked for one of VIP’s vendors, became a commodity trader, expanded into chemicals, and then into a JV with the world’s largest travel luggage maker, Samsonite. Now, 34 years after not getting that VIP job, he is CEO of Samsonite International. India is one of the few countries where the MNC is not the market leader. Who’s number one here? His old friend, VIP

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No Emotional BaggageIn our october 31 issue, we traced the career path of Ramesh Tainwala, whose success has been shaped by chance and choice. Rejected as a trainee at Indian luggage giant ...

Image by Mexy Xavier

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Back in the SaddleNaveen Jindal may not have had a pleasant result in the 2014 general elections (the two-time Congress MP lost his Kurukshetra seat) but the chairman of Jindal Steel & Powe...

Image by Amit Verma

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Dialing ChangeJust Dial has become synonymous with its voice search service, but founder VSS Mani aims to go far beyond. Probing his ambition and vision was the cover story of our September...

Image by Mexy Xavier

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The Long GameTPG Capital is one of the largest private equity firms in the world, and has been in India since 2004. In our December 12 issue, we try to understand its investment strategy. W...

Image by Joshua Navalkar