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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

22 For 2022: Of omicron and unicorns

The emergence of the Omicron variant makes it crystal clear that mutations of Covid-19 virus are here to stay for at least the next few years. How do we deal with it? The answer lies in one of the 22 essays the Forbes India team has put together in this special collector's edition for 2022

With an extensive 3rd wave, will be naive to expect business would be as usual: Abheek Barua

Two vicious Covid-19 waves have likely taught Indian companies how to handle disruptions and bottlenecks. But if Omicron spins into a debilitating third wave, it will throw both businesses and economic growth into a flux, the chief economist and executive vice president of HDFC Bank writes

Three themes that will define businesses in the future

As consumers demand best-in-class experience, organisations will need to enable agile, nimble, and purposeful ways of working to create deeper connections, Deloitte's Anand Ramanathan and Aditya Bagri write

2022 to be blockbuster year for India Inc's ESG bonds: Anjan Agarwal

Buoyed by the strong demand from offshore investors, ESG bonds worth $9.4 billion were issued out of India YTD 2021 against $1.3 billion in 2020. This growth trajectory is only set to continue, the executive director of JP Morgan India writes

Office spaces aren't going away; commercial real estate will be at the heart of economic recovery: Ankur Gupta

Increased vaccination rates and continued stellar performance from the services sector have led to new absorption and high renewal rates for office spaces, giving commercial real estate an uneven-yet-productive year, managing partner, head of real estate-India & Middle East, Brookfield Asset Management, writes

Climate rapidly becoming one of the biggest wealth-creation opportunities of all times: Anshuman Bapna

The time to jump in is now, the founder and CEO of Terra.do writes—Bonus: You end up saving the planet

Discrimination against transpersons plagues India's health care system. It's time to overhaul it: Aqsa Shaikh, Harikeerthan Raghuram

To enable transgender people gain access to Covid-19 treatment and vaccines, there needs to be a fundamental shift in how health care systems view them, Shaikh, associate professor of community medicine at Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research; and Raghuram, project coordinator, Sangath, write

Want to keep India's unicorn boom going? Focus on these 3 things: Ashish Dave

It's time to look beyond unicorns, and if startups don't use VC money to build cash flow and these two other pillars of integral growth, the unicorn run may lose steam in 2022, the CEO of Mirae Asset Venture Investments India, writes

Flexibility, skills, entrepreneurship will shape labour market in 2022: LinkedIn India head

The India country manager of LinkedIn, Ashutosh Gupta writes about the trends that will shape India's labour market dynamics in the new year, and how talent will take the driver's seat

If we cannot solve vaccine equity globally, we cannot escape variants locally: Bhramar Mukherjee

Living through the pandemic has taught us some valuable lessons about how to live through uncertainty and prepare for it, the professor of biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health writes on the biggest lessons and what she thinks 2022 will bring

2022 will be the year of green transition: Cyril Shroff, Richa Roy

This year, environment, social and governance norms will be embedded not just in law and regulation but also in business plans and culture, managing partner; and partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, write

India's product generation has lessons for the world: Girish Mathrubootham

A new generation of entrepreneurs is excelling at building software products, and at the same time, helping create a new tech landscape globally, the founder and CEO of Freshworks writes

OTT has taken away the stigma of small films: Ekta Kapoor

Whether it is subscription-based, advertising or video-on-demand, Indian audiences are likely to see streaming platforms as less of an investment than traditional entertainment mediums, the joint managing director of Balaji Telefilms writes

India needs to win the new Web3 internet: Hemant Mohapatra

The spoils of Web 2.0 went to the West, now India is uniquely positioned to shape the future of Web 3.0, partner, Lightspeed India, writes

Omicron: India's vaccination plan needs a boost - Dr GVS Murthy

As new variants of Covid-19 emerge, the government must have a clear booster policy that will encourage more global manufacturers to ship vaccines to India, the director of Indian Institute of Public Health-Hyderabad, writes

Science and humanity skills will become essential for best use of digital tech: TCS COO

We have got at least a 10-year leap on digital and data. As enterprises continue to make investments in digital technologies, skills like art, design, ecology will become very relevant: N Ganapathy Subramaniam, TCS COO and Executive Director takes a stab at connecting the dots from the last few years to predict the future

A case for inheritance tax, by Nikhil Kamath

A progressive tax structure can help in ensuring redistribution of wealth, approaching a fairer economic equilibrium, and encouraging more entrepreneurial ventures, the cofounder of True Beacon and Zerodha writes

It's time to reimagine education and learning to do right by India's future: Shaheen Mistri

Many budget private schools have lost over 50 percent students permanently and let go of 50 percent teachers; learning loss is predicted to be in excess of four years; child marriage is up, so is obesity in children and eye issues. It's time to take these challenges to reimagine education for our children, the CEO of Teach for India writes

In the climate change era, every bit of warming matters: Sumaira Abdulali

Controlling methane is a crucial way to limit climate change, but India, the fifth largest emitter in the world, has made no global commitments or accelerated domestic plans to control emissions, the convenor of Awaaz Foundation writes

Tata Motors is on a roll. Can anything stop it?

Tata Motors has become the country's second-largest carmaker following a slew of recent launches, and revival of the EV fleet segment

Thoughts on new beginnings