Anniversary Special: Our best photographs from the past year

As we celebrate our seventh anniversary, we look back at some memorable moments, captured through our photographers' lens

May 14, 2016, 04:48 IST3 min

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Uday Shankar&rsquos appointment as CEO of Star India was an unexpected but inspired choice. Under his stewardship, Star&rsquos turnover grew fivefold to Rs 8,500 crore by the end of FY15. Little surprise then that he is the blue-eyed boy of the Murdochs, especially 21st Century Fox&rsquos new CEO and Rupert Murdoch&rsquos son, James. It is also the reason why he was conferred the Best CEO

Image by Joshua Navalkar

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VG Siddhartha&rsquos Coffee Day Enterprises Limited (CDEL) saw a tepid response at the stock market after it got listed last November (although the company was valued at more than $1 billion). This muted reaction was attributed, in part, to CDEL&rsquos varied interests (real estate, logistics, etc)&mdashsome considered them a distraction from the core business, while others call them &lsq

Image by Mexy Xavier

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Under the leadership of Sandeep Sabharwal, Sohan Lal Commodity Management has cracked the code of managing agricultural commodities. Its model, which eliminates wastage, could well prove to be what India needs for harvest management

Image by Amit Verma

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Rhythm House, Mumbai&rsquos iconic music store downed its shutters in March 2016, 68 years after it had started business. In our New Year Special issue, we spoke to its chairman, who recalled his 45-year-old journey with the city&rsquos much-loved musical cornerstone.

Image by Joshua Navalkar

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Zakir Hussain took time off from his rehearsals running up to a performance at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Mumbai to discuss the technicalities of composing a tabla concerto that would be played by an orchestra of Western musical instruments. Peshkar, the first work commissioned by the Symphony Orchestra of India, was performed in September 2015, before travellin

Image by Vikas Khot

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It was not narcissism that prompted Uday Kotak to include his surname while naming Kotak Mahindra Bank, but the willingness to put his reputation on the line. Today, the institution he has built over three decades has become a byword for credibility and growth in the Indian banking industry. Reason why Kotak was named Entrepreneur for the Year at the 2015 Forbes India Leadership Awards.

Image by Vikas Khot

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Harsh Mariwala: As part of the 2015 Forbes India Rich List, we featured some of India's wealthiest along with a possession they most treasure. For Harsh Mariwala, chairman, Marico, it was a Leica IIIa rangefinder camera. This was a gift from his father, Charandas, who bought it in Europe on the occasion of the birth of Mariwala's son, Rishabh, in 1982.

Image by Vikas Khot