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Forbes India Rich List 2023: From Raj to richest
This evolution is doubtless inspiring for those seeking to emulate the (Licence) Raj to Riches generations. But is wealth the end game? Is it really that stash—and all the glittering trappings that come with it—that people want most?
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Forbes Asia 100 to Watch list: Honouring small ventures targetting underserved markets
Take a look at the list of some of the most innovative companies in the Asia-Pacific region, which features six young startups from India
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Not just HNIs: India's middle class and HNI aspirants fuel the luxury market
If your luxe label is focussed on just the slim sliver of the HNI market, it may be time to put up the shutters. The smarter merchants of luxury don't have just the HNI in their sights. A bigger opportunity may well be the consumer with HNI-like aspirations. A few of them will turn HNIs themselves, over time
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India's Top 100 Digital Stars 2023: The changing landscape of influence
This Forbes India-Group M study is an effort to acknowledge influencers with sustained high-quality content across nine categories, from comedy to social impact
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At the deep end: Putting a spotlight on the Indian deep tech startup ecosystem
This fortnight, we have a collection of stories of deep tech entrepreneurship, from robotics to aerospace, as well as the burgeoning number of venture capitalists opening the purse-strings to fuel these potentially ground-breaking ideas
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Breaking the ICE: Decoding India's EV ecosystem
The domestic EV ecosystem is seeing a lot of action—two-, three-, and four-wheelers EV ventures coming into their own; frenetic development of cell and platform technologies and charging infrastructure; investors making big bets. We break it down for you in our latest fortnightly special
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Decoding Ahmedabad's next-gen family businesses
This fortnight's issue is the first in a series of family businesses from pockets of enterprise that have been built over decades, even centuries. We start with Gujarat, where Ahmedabad has emerged over time as a city of entrepreneurs, and scions from subsequent generations have picked up the baton
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From India to Europe, US to Australia, what or who's to blame for catastrophic climate events?
It may not be fair to directly attribute climate change to an extreme weather event. Yet, humans compound these events into disasters with ill-planned development coupled with mindless burning of fossil fuels. The resultant long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns are worsening America's tornadoes, Australia's wildfires, Europe's heatwaves and Himachal's flash floods
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Listen to the chimes of freedom
The pre-Independence Swadeshi movement still resonates, as India tries to cut reliance on imports
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Is this the end of edtech as we know it?
Is this the beginning of the end of edtech? Perhaps it's the end of the sector as we knew it, but not the end of what edtech should have been in the first place. This fortnight, Forbes India's steadfast startups tracker Rajiv Singh dives deep into edtech, to figure what's still going right with the sector
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What SaaS companies are doing right to stay warm in the funding winter
The funding winter may have affected the Indian startup ecosystem, but SaaS startups stand apart with their lower burn rates and more predictable revenue generation