Letter from the Editor : If 2007 was the year of the froth, 2008 that of collapse, and 2009 of reflection, then 2010 will be about a new way of working. It will be about discovering new horizons, but through new means
The year 2009 didn’t exactly get off to a good start. The wounds of the 26/11 terror attack were still fresh in our minds. The monumental fraud at Satyam and the aftermath of a global recession added to the pall of gloom. Everything that had been a virtue till September of 2008 — big acquisitions, global aspirations, rapid scale-ups — became a vice. And then things started to thaw. Credit markets reopened, foreign investors came back to India, Indian consumers continued to spend. The worst is now truly behind us.
(This story appears in the 08 January, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)