Ajit Gulabchand is not fond of the arclights, but he shed his reluctance for once &mdash; just like a proud father would do in the company of his famous child. So Gulabchand was happily posing for the cameras in blue jeans and black blazer, but only after making sure that the photographers had the two central towers of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link in focus.

Newsmaker: Ajit Gulabchand

Business Standard

With some help from her children, The Lalit's new chief presides over a shopping spree - for hotels - of the type the group has never seen before.

Lunch with BS: Jyotsna Suri

As he uses the Ranbaxy money to expand his other businesses, in India and abroad, this young scion is clear about one thing - he's not going to fight battles he can't win.

Lunch with BS: Malvinder Mohan Singh

Bharati Shipyard&rsquo;s chief finds himself fighting for a company he didn&rsquo;t intend to acquire.

Newsmaker: P C Kapoor

The head of India's largest realtor is known as a businessman who likes to cut his losses.

Newsmaker: Rajiv Singh

The man behind one of the biggest M&amp;A deals in India&rsquo;s information technology space isn&rsquo;t a conventional techie. In fact, he started his software career pretty late in life &mdash; at an age most of India&rsquo;s IT gurus consider suitable only for writing memoirs or mentoring.

Newsmaker: Vineet Nayyar

Shikha Sharma's contentious appointment as CEO of Axis Bank doesn&rsquo;t detract from her sound reputation in the financial world.

NewsMaker: Shikha Sharma

Few would expect a doctor to become a police officer, let alone handle investigations related to stock market manipulation. But that&rsquo;s precisely what Pradnya Saravade, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the 1989 batch, has done &mdash; she joined Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) last year, as an officer on special duty after Sebi decided to separate its investigation and adjudication departments.

Backstage: Chipping away at the pyramid

Ajit came to Berkshire in 1986. Very quickly, I realised that we had acquired an extraordinary talent. So I did the logical thing: I wrote to his parents in New Delhi and asked if they had another one like him at home. Of course, I knew the answer before writing. There isn&rsquo;t anyone like Ajit.

Newsmaker: Ajit Jain

It&rsquo;s a top job that no neighbour will ever envy. In fact, when the low-profile insider AS Murty was appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of the scam-tainted Satyam Computer Services, ending almost a month of suspense surrounding the appointment, there were mixed reactions from both the industry and stock market.

NEWSMAKER: AS Murty

Some weeks ago, when Congress President Sonia Gandhi asked&nbsp; Jairam Ramesh to head the core team for the Congress campaign in the 2009 general elections, he readily agreed to give up his ministerial responsibilities as Union Minister of State for Commerce &amp; Power in Shram Shakti Bhavan and Udyog Bhavan, and move with a suitcase to his new home on Gurudwara Rakabganj Road.

NEWSMAKER: Jairam Ramesh

When Omar Abdullah took his first plunge into Kashmir politics in 1998, the odds were stacked heavily against him. Separatists were at their peak and the National Conference, founded by his grandfather, Sheikh Abdullah, almost 50 years ago, was seen as a stooge of New Delhi.

NEWSMAKER: Omar Abdullah

Dilip Shanghvi, the chairman and managing director of Sun Pharma, is readying for a long-drawn legal battle to get hold of Israeli drug major Taro Pharmaceuticals.

NEWSMAKER: Dilip Shanghvi

Anil Manibhai Naik, chairman and managing director of Larsen &amp; Toubro, sees himself as a dynamic workaholic. Ever since he took over as CEO and managing director in 1999 and thereafter assumed the chairmanship in 2003, he&rsquo;s seen his role as &ldquo;more than half a public servant&rdquo;.

NEWSMAKER: Anil Manibhai Naik

Almost three decades ago, India&rsquo;s third-largest IT services provider, Wipro Ltd, successfully diversified from vegetable oils into the IT sector.

NEWSMAKER: B Ramalinga Raju

He continues to avoid the media but AdityaChopra&rsquo;s work seems to do all the talking.

NEWSMAKER: Aditya Chopra

It may just be sheer coincidence or plain design that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chose to appoint Raghuram Rajan as his honorary economic adviser earlier this week, less than two weeks before India

NEWSMAKER: Raghuram Rajan

It could take two years for a turnaround, but since Temasek India is in the black, its head is currently focussed on an impending birthday bash and a holiday to Cambodia.

LUNCH WITH BS: Manish Kejriwal

There is something about Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

NEWSMAKER: Mahendra Singh Dhoni

It&rsquo;s a move that Yahoo! shareholders like Carl Icahn ardently desired. &ldquo;In my opinion, you might have to get rid of Jerry and part of the board to bring back Microsoft...

NEWSMAKER: JERRY YANG

Infosys' chief sees his public role as a force multiplier for philanthropy - his book, he says, is a framework of ideas to help India meet the challenges ahead.

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