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Lunch with BS: Shakti Lumba shares his journey as pilot, operations expert

'If the DGCA is autonomous and not just a statutory body, we will become a mature aviation country. And it needs to be headed by a technical expert, not a babu', says Lumba

In the fast lane: Meet Vikram Chopra, Co-founder and CEO, Cars24

With his pre-owned cars business having almost doubled in valuation and expanding into newer areas, Chopra takes Pavan Lall through his life's journey, which has been 'bleisure' all the way

Standing tall in Hollywood: DNEG CEO Malhotra is an out-and-out Bandra boy

Malhotra, whose special-effects house has 5 Oscars to its credit and is behind the latest Bond movie

Montek Singh Ahluwalia: A combination of balance, optimism and resilience

Looking into yesterday while he assesses today, Ahluwalia retains his entrenched belief in India's ability to overcome

Meet Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, a minister who keeps both oars in the water

"Did you test the water in your taps before you decided to get an RO?" Shekhawat asks. He says testing water quality is his primary mission

Mindtree co-founder Subroto Bagchi has his eye on the big picture

Tech entrepreneur turned philanthropist and public servant, Bagchi talks to Pavan Lall about learnings from corporate existence and why Covid-19 planning needed more attention and foresight

Mahua Moitra on importance of dissent in the age of 'divisive' politics

Moitra tells Geetanjali Krishna how her image transformed from 'memsahib' to demon slayer and where her feisty spirit comes from

Udaan co-founders on how their set up earned the fast-growing unicorn tag

Sujeet Kumar, Vaibhav Gupta and Amod Malviya talk to Bibhu Ranjan Mishra about how Udaan took flight

Mercedes India CEO on why luxury space is yet to take off in the country

Schwenk talks to Pavan Lall about learning from foreign markets, issues that hold back luxury products sales in India and the route Mercedes takes to integrate with local systems and processes

Mandira Bedi talks about life's curveballs and why she still feels grateful

Bedi has been very candid about battling what she now believes was undiagnosed and untreated depression in her thirties

Painful medium-term steps needed to get economy back on track: Rathin Roy

Rathin Roy chats with Arup Roychoudhury about his life, his views on the slowdown and on economic policies in general

Fashion's lensman: J J Valaya reveals why he's an artist with a camera

Fashion photographer? Photographer fashionista? J J Valaya talks to K S Shekhawat

Educated overseas, educating less advantaged or underpriviledged at home

Mistri tells Anjuli Bhargava how her experiences and influences as a teenager and young adult shaped the unconventional path she decided to take later on

Creative continuum: Nair narrates a journey that shaped Indian media market

Nair tells how various industries - devices, payments, telecom - have created the perfect storm in the media business

Banker, singer, social activist: Amruta Fadnavis makes a life of her own

Fadnavis talks to Pavan Lall about her vision of India, getting trolled online, and her views on what it would take to fix the country's infrastructure

How Harshavardhan Neotia turned around a business with human touch

Neotia tells Sudipto Dey that while his family played a key role in his choice of profession, his children are totally free to pursue their interests

Trump's sparring with China is good for biz: Raymond's Gautam Singhania

Singhania tells Pavan Lall how he keeps tabs on the goings-on in his company while not being involved day to day

Prannoy Roy, Dorab Sopariwala explain why 2019 will be most important polls

If not the internet, how influential are opinion poll or forecasts, like the ones that Roy and Sopariwala do?

Lunch with BS: Omidyar's Roopa Kudva on staff involvement in corporate CSR

Kudva tells Anjuli Bhargava that mandatory CSR will work better if corporations engaged their employees more meaningfully with their CSR agenda

Ritu Beri explains how India has forever undersold its brand of luxury

Beri tells Veenu Sandhu how India has forever undersold its brand of luxury and why the government must get involved for the industry to get global recognition