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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

India leads IMF's global outlook downgrade—what happens next?

The organisation estimates India's growth to be 4.8 percent in 2019

The 10 most hated office tasks in India are...

Automation Anywhere, a robotic process automation company, released the tasks that make employees squirm and complain, and those that lead to fatigue

Inequality has a 'Female Face' in India

Oxfam India report highlights the value of unpaid care work done by women

Dissecting India's age of duopolies

Swiggy vs Zomato, Ola vs Uber, Amazon vs Flipkart—many of India's hottest sectors have turned into two-horse races. What does this mean for the economy?

Retail lending faces slowdown squeeze

As sluggish economy hits retail sector, banks face increasing loan stress

Why—And How—Millennials Borrow

Millennials aren't in the habit of saving, which causes them to take various emergency loans, shows a report

Forbes India 30 Under 30: India's young guns, more inspiring than ever

Members of Forbes India 30 Under 30 for 2020 are shining examples of how to lead from the front and achieve success against all odds

Krishnakant Mishra: The ad-man

As brand content lead for Ogilvy, Mishra criss-crossed India for 1,200 days over four years, leading HUL rural's high-stakes Kumbh campaign

BharatAgri: Farming with data

BharatAgri platform's algorithm tells farmers what to grow, when and how to grow and water it, to maximise production and farmer income

Bhuvan Bam: Making of a star

The first Indian YouTuber to hit 2 million subscribers, Bhuvan Bam now has 16 million, and was recently invited to the World Economic Forum

Priya Prakash: Making healthy beginnings

Bullied for being overweight as a child, Prakash set up HealthSetGo to provide health programmes in schools and is now focused on policy advocacy too

30 Under 30: The young, relentless achievers of 2020

An annual list of the 30 most promising entrepreneurs, professionals, performers, artists and disruptors across India, the coveted list features stars from 17 categories

Vikash Bakrewala: Bira's cheer-leader

The youngest sales leader at the beer company, Bakrewala helped Bira and Boom expand to five geographical clusters in a year.

Triton Foodworks: The urban farmers

The self-funded startup uses hydroponics and low-cost, internet-enabled smart farms that use 300 times less land; it clocked in Rs1 crore turnover last fiscal

Sanket Jadia: Making art of violence

The 28-year-old artist has developed a practice that deals with history and historical images that chronicle events of conflict and violence, and how it shapes the society's perception of them

Rapido: Accelerated growth for the motorcycle taxi startup

Rapido's motorcycle taxis, now available in 100 cities across the country, has helped it scale 40x in the past year

GoMechanic: The new-age handymen

This online platform allows people to book quick, affordable and quality car servicing, giving car owners an option beyond the often-expensive authorised car service centres

Akshat Bansal: Blending craft with technology

Bansal's Bloni aims to make traditional fabric and styles relevant, by also being gender and size fluid

Akanksha Deo Sharma: The only Indian designer at IKEA

Sharma combines her knowledge of Indian textile history, handicrafts and construction techniques to develop minimal, clean and playful products for the Swedish furniture giant

Sai Pallavi: Girl next door

Sai Pallavi did her first film in Class 6 to miss math class. Today, after playing memorable characters in in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films, she wants to experiment with 'better roles' and 'chiselled characters'

Saurabh Chaudhary: Gunning for gold

At just 17, Chaudhary has won two golds at the Asian Games, the Youth Olympics and the ISSF Junior World Cup (where he shot a world record score), and now has a ticket to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Palak Shah: Weaving heritage

Shah is focused on propagating the versatility and global appeal of Indian heritage weaves, and with Ekaya, supports more than 8,000 weavers

Gaurav Chaudhary: Your 'Technical Guruji'

Chaudhary's YouTube channel 'Technical Guruji' has 15 million subscribers. Its popularity has sky-rocketed not just for its tech reviews, but also because Chaudhary explains simply just how the technology works

Booking a last-minute trip? Varun Khona has you covered

Khona identified a gap in the market and started Headout, a digital platform launched globally to deliver quality curated tourist experiences to unplanned travellers

Sleepy Owl Coffee: Brewing big business

The cold brew coffee brand, launched from a two-bedroom apartment in Delhi, now boasts of 60,000 customers and is sold in over 1,000 retail outlets in New Delhi and Mumbai

Akshay Chaturvedi: Building careers

LeverageEdu, a platform focussed on career counselling and university admission, has catered to about 10,000 students and is on course to clock Rs 10 crore in revenue in FY20

Deepak Punia: This fighter could earn India an Olympic gold

Deepak Punia became the first Indian in 18 years to win a Junior World Championship, and will represent India at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Ajeesh Achuthan: Making finance easy for startups

28-year-old Ajeesh Achuthan's Open is a neo-banking platform, especially catered to making financial operations simple for startups and MSMEs

Nikhil Kumar: BHIM's star, now building fintech bridges

Nikhil Kumar has created APIs for Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and led the team that built BHIM. His platform, Setu, helps connect companies to financial services providers

Abhay Rangan: Going the (vegan) milky way

Rangan set up Goodmylk to make plant-based milk affordable in India. Apart from milk made of cashew and oats, it retails vegan yogurt, mayonnaise and butter made from vegetable oils

Krishna Gupta: Saying cheese, with 1441 Pizzeria

Gupta's 1441 Pizzeria employs Italian wood ovens and offers a Make Your Own Pizza option. Its revenue grew from Rs 2.88 cr in 2017 to Rs 8.41 cr in 2019

Akhil Aryan: On a power trip

To accelerate the transition to an all-electric future, the battery management and intelligence platform uses analytics to improve battery performance

Predible Health: Using Tech to diagnose diseases

Predible Health uses AI to analyse radiology imaging, helping doctors identify diseases and abnormalities

Meet Eshan Sadasivan, who invented a bag that doubles as a desk

29-year-old Eshan Sadasivan's company is the maker of the lightweight Deskit bag, which has a foldable study table attached for rural students, who often have to study without desks and face severe posture issues

NavGurukul: Cracking the code to success

NavGurukul runs a one-year residential programme for low-income youth, to train them in employable software coding skills

Squadcast: A SaaS startup that keeps IT systems up and running

Started by entrepreneurs who are now 29, Squadcast's software and solutions sit in the cloud, and customers pay rent as they use them— for everything from simple fixes to addressing major breakdowns

Smriti Mandhana to Prajakta Koli: Class of 2019 Report Card

A look at what the 30 Under 30 alumni have been up to in the past year

Thoughts on youth

How Sankar Venkateswaran melds social conscience with experimental theatre

"Last November, Venkateswarnan was the recipient of the Bengaluru-based Ranga Shankara Theatre's annual national prize—The Shankar Nag Theatre Award—given to a "theatre all-rounder below the age of 40""

Kokni Muslim: The Konkan's hidden cuisine

Long thought to be simple fare, Kokni Muslim cuisine's unique flavours and aromas are slowly wafting out of the confines of home kitchens

Travel: Inside Fiji's adult-only resorts

The boutique luxury havens in Fiji take playing Cupid very seriously, amping up the romance quotient with blandishments

An Edtech startup that makes colleges pay

Most edtech startups are idealistic outfits with little revenue and low valuations, but Rachel Romer Carlson's Guild Education is worth $1 billion and is on track to book $100 million in sales. Her secret? Connecting workers who have tuition benefits to colleges that will gladly pay to meet them

The Forbes US 30 Under 30 list for 2020

The young, creative and bold minds on this year's 30 Under 30 list for Forbes are proof positive that the future will be new, exciting and profoundly different

Canva: How a young kitesurfer built a $3.2 Bn (Profitable!) startup

From the unlikeliest of places, Melanie Perkins grew design app Canva into one of the most valuable software startups in the world. Her digital tools are populist, profitable and a potential threat to Adobe and Microsoft

Kevin Durant's hardest three-point play

The NBA superstar has come to New York with three goals in mind: A return to dominance, a defining championship and a lasting business empire. They're all interconnected

30 Under 30: People to watch out for

These 20-somethings have the potential to make it big, and while they missed being on the main 30 Under 30 list by a whisker, Forbes India will be tracking their progress closely over the next few years