The trigger is the Tata Sons annual general meeting on August 18. Shareholders are due to vote on whether Chandrasekaran gets reappointed as a director of the company, and that vote is far from a formality this time.

Some careers begin in glass towers. Kunal Saurabh began nearly a kilometre below the earth’s surface, in the sealed-off tunnels of Indian coal mines, where a wrong sensor reading could cost a human life.

The Man Behind the Machine In 2016, the US FDA issued a damning import alert against a major Indian pharmaceutical facility, not for one catastrophic event, but a pattern of small, accumulated compromises in data integrity and quality systems.

Hospitals like to talk about compassion. Sudhindra G Bhat prefers to talk about systems because, in his experience, compassion that isn’t backed by a system is just a good intention waiting to fail someone.

There is a particular kind of quiet authority that comes not from title, but from tenure, from having seen a sector through its worst cycles, upheavals, and monsoon failures, and still choosing to stay. Pankaj Singh, Chief Operating Officer of Magadh Sugar & Energy Ltd

Hitesh Agarwal joined his first factory floor in 1994 with a welding torch and no roadmap. Thirty years later, as COO of ACE, Action Construction Equipment

A three-decade company veteran takes the top job as Infosys admits the AI-driven upheaval in tech spending is squeezing its numbers harder than expected.

Arcadis has handed its people strategy to a HR veteran of Nike, Philips and Endemol-Shine, betting her track record can carry the firm through its next growth phase.

When pharmaceutical researchers were still debating whether AI could meaningfully accelerate drug discovery, Kaushik Ganguly was already asking a different question entirely:

For most Indian families, a hospitalisation is not a medical event; it is a bureaucratic ordeal. Between admission and discharge lies a maze of pre-authorisations, compliance checks, and insurer portals

There is a road in rural India, unpaved and unnamed on most maps, that a mobile hospital now travels. It unfolds into a multi-speciality diagnostic unit, bringing families something they have waited a lifetime for:

After a quarter-century at the helm, Alice Temperley is walking away from the label that carries her name and the British fashion house is already lining up new leadership to carry it forward.

Financial leadership in the high-velocity world of digital services and technology consulting looks nothing like it did a decade ago. Traditional finance: spreadsheets, compliance checklists, and cost controls were designed for stable

Water infrastructure remains one of India’s most formidable development challenges. With over 1.4 billion people competing for finite water resources, the nation faces a dual crisis: ageing urban water systems struggling under capacity constraints

After months of boardroom turbulence triggered by a chairman’s dramatic exit, HDFC Bank appears ready to back Sashidhar Jagdishan for an unprecedented third term as MD and CEO.

Kotak Mahindra Bank CEO Ashok Vaswani will not seek reappointment after his term ends December 31, 2026, citing personal reasons, leaving the bank scrambling for a successor, again.

The Domino’s CEO succession plan, years in the making, formally places COO Joe Jordan at the helm of the world’s largest pizza company, while Russell Weiner steps into the role of Executive Chairman and David Brandon ends a remarkable 28-year chapter with the brand.

CRED founder Kunal Shah is leaving India’s most premium credit card club to run the world’s biggest messaging app. Meta just paid $900 million for the privilege of making that happen, and nobody’s arguing it wasn’t a calculated move.

Bertrand Dussert has joined AT&T as Vice President, Talent Acquisition and if you thought corporate America was done reshuffling its talent chessboard, think again. The seasoned hiring heavyweight arrives from Staples, carrying 25 years of recruitment transformation experience and a very long list of Fortune 500 boardrooms he’s already been through.

With over two decades of financial services and media HR leadership behind her, Lajja M., steps into a senior people role at one of India’s most diversified financial services groups.