15 years of Forbes India: Looking at India's progress since 2009
Forbes India's 15th anniversary is an opportunity to celebrate change—of which there's been plenty ever since the journey began in 2009. Forbes India is today not what it was 15 years ago. But the more we change, the more the essence of Forbes India remains the same
In his memoir, The Summing Up, W Somerset Maugham gave us this memorable line of love, life and change: “We are not the persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
Without delving into Maugham’s notions on love, Forbes India’s 15th anniversary is an opportunity to celebrate change—of which there’s been plenty ever since the journey began in 2009. Forbes India is today not what it was 15 years ago—not at least in form as digital storytelling takes precedence over printed words. Yet, to tweak the cliché, the more we change, the more does the essence of Forbes India remain the same, as the team stays faithful to the pillars on which the product is founded: Leadership, entrepreneurship, innovation and wealth (creating it and giving it).
Neither is the Indian business and economic landscape the same as it was 15 years ago. Entrepreneurship and technology-enabled innovation are flourishing, and if the stock markets are a barometer of economic progress, the world’s fifth largest economy may be in a sweet spot.
One way to capture the evolution is to journey through the Forbes India covers since 2009. Photojournalist Madhu Kapparath took on the unenviable task of sifting through some 400 covers and picking 15 that are case studies of growth and progress.
