After studying law I vectored towards journalism by accident and it's the only job I've done since. It's a job that has taken me on a private jet to Jaisalmer - where I wrote India's first feature on fractional ownership of business jets - to the badlands of west UP where India's sugar economy is inextricably now tied to politics. I'm a big fan of new business models and crafty entrepreneurs. Fortunately for me, there are plenty of those in Asia at the moment.
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GE’s exit from the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and the media commentary that followed harped on one fact: The exit of one of the original constituents of the Index heralded the passing of an era. But the exit was not so much about that, but the result of the problems of one company, which had clearly grown too large and unwieldy.
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(This story appears in the 20 July, 2018 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)