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The Giant Killer

For the son of a small town businessman to start a business with Rs 15,000 and making it grow into a Rs 1450 crore turnover Indian MNC, was no easy task. P C Vinoj Kumar gives a blow-by-blow account of the rise of beauty tycoon C K Ranganathan

Fortune with Saris

Biren Kumar Basak used to sell saris door-to-door on the streets of Kolkata, carrying huge bundles of saris on his shoulders. As a successful sari trader now, with celebrity customers, his company’s turnover has crossed Rs 50 crore, says G Singh

Soaring High

When Tara Ranjan Patnaik founded his company Falcon, he himself did not imagine the heights to which his business would grow. With interests in marine products, steel, and real estate, today his group’s turnover is Rs 1,500 crore, says G Singh

Rising Star

As India’s famous woman boxer, five-time World Champion M C Mary Kom, enters the twilight of her illustrious career, 17-year-old Ankushita Bora hits the limelight winning the Youth World Championship. Tridib Baparnash profiles the teenage sensation

Wait, Get Rich

He came to Mumbai as a 13-year-old with just Rs 30 in his pocket. His first job was as a waiter in an office canteen, but today he runs a popular restaurant chain in Mumbai, whose annual turnover touched Rs 20 crore this year, says Deven Lad

The Standout Mantra

From working as a part-time typist, and living with his father, a small-time clothes businessman, in a 200 sq ft room, this entrepreneur has seen the tough side of life. G Singh recounts his story of how he built a Rs 111 crore turnover company

 
Housing Tales

A student housing startup launched in 2016 raked in Rs 10 crore revenue in just five months. Partho Burman profiles the trio - Rohit Pateria, Ankush Arora and Atul Kumar Singh - behind the startup that is aiming at Rs 100 crore turnover by 2018-19

Kolkata’s Slumdog Millionaire

Her father served as a captain in the British Army but stayed back in Kolkata after independence. The family fell into poverty and slept on pavements. G Singh traces the rags to riches story of a millionaire author, speaker and philanthropist

Art of Business

He almost invested nothing when he started his graphic designing business along with a friend with a computer that he bought on credit from a 8 ft by 6 ft room. Today, Pankaj Maloo’s company has touched a turnover of Rs 8 crore, says G Singh

The Purple Fleet

A father started a car rental with four taxis and named it after his son, who played basketball and got into the Indian team. But following an injury the son joined his dad’s business and made it into a Rs 300 cr turnover company, says Deven Lad

Serve and Profit

From driving a tourist taxi and then starting an all-women taxi service, she had succeeded in it all before plunging into her current venture that aims to make profit as well as provide jobs to women from underprivileged families, says Deven Lad

Richest Indian

Reliance Industries Ltd chairman Mukesh Ambani has topped Forbes's annual list of India's 100 richest tycoons, 2017, with a net worth of $38 billion, which is reportedly equal to the entire GDP of the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan

 
Life Unlimited

When the young software engineer saw her husband dealing with a lot of problems at the time of his grandfather’s passing, she realized the scope of a startup that offered assistance to the bereaved and launched one with Rs 1 lakh, says G Singh

Power with Milk

Hailing from a family of modest means, he came up the hard way. Initially he collected milk from villagers on his bicycle and supplied it to a dairy firm, but today he owns a Rs 255 crore turnover dairy brand. G Singh met him and got his story

Pouches to Riches

From making cloth pouches that traders bought for packing salt to building a Rs 200 crore turnover helmet manufacturing company, Partho Burman traces the journey of a man whose family was reduced from riches to rags at the time of partition

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