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Jan 22, 2025 | 
forbesindia.com | Brian Carvalho |Naandika Tripathi
We assist with early technical work, programme design, and certain costs, particularly around planning, bidding, and selecting partners. We don't cover the capital costs, as philanthropy alone can't solve the problem in India. Commercial capital is necessary. To illustrate, I met a farmer who developed a one-megawatt grid at a cost of around $400,000 (Rs 3.31 crore).
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
forbesindia.com | Brian Carvalho
Actors, filmmakers, sportspersons… yes, it’s that time of the year for our Showstoppers list, of 75 outperformers from the world of cinema, its domesticated counterpart streaming, sports and music. They’ve competed, with the best in the world, and with themselves. It was a year in which India bagged a consecutive hockey bronze medal at the Olympics, the Paralympians returned with a record haul, Dommaraju Gukesh won the World Chess Championship and the cricketers won the T20 World Cup.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
forbesindia.com | Brian Carvalho
Forbes India’s Neha Bothra, who spotted the bustle in beauty—along with much hustle—and conceived this package, points to what’s driving furious growth and investment: Higher disposable incomes and exposure in the metro cities coupled with brands focusing on affordability in smaller towns (as well as in the less pretentious nooks and crannies of the big cities). And the growth is being fuelled by all generations, from Gen Alpha to the baby boomers.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
forbesindia.com | Brian Carvalho |Forbes India
Perhaps one feature that fell through the cracks in our recent edition on luxury tourism was space travel. You’d be tempted to ask, ‘But which Indian operator offers this?’ to which the simple answer would be that borders are hardly enough to rein in India’s superrich space enthusiasts. In May, 30-year-old India-born aviator and entrepreneur Gopi Thotakura became part of a global elite set of space tourists on Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin’s rocket called New Shepard.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
forbesindia.com | Brian Carvalho |Forbes India
In the Cabinet formed by the new government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in early June, continuity prevailed in the top portfolios. Other crucial portfolios that were tweaked received less attention. In this special issue focussed on climate, let’s examine the relevance of a few of those modifications at a time when India may be at the cusp of the world’s most complex energy transition.
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May 9, 2024 | 
forbesindia.com | Brian Carvalho |Forbes India
If you had to bet on one startup sector from which will emerge a thriving global business model, chances are you’d put your money on fintech. The flipside? If you had to pick one startup sector that urgently requires to get its compliance act together, it would be fintech. Let’s start with the promise. In 2023, global research firm Statista ranked India third among countries with the most fintech unicorns (17), behind the United States (134) and the United Kingdom (27).
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
forbesindia.com | Brian Carvalho |Forbes India
Even as debates rage on about taxing the super-rich and their apparent inadequate inclination to reduce global poverty, it’s worth shining a light on some ways billionaires can contribute to improving lives and livelihoods. The Billionaire Challenge, if I may call it that, has sprung to life in the city of maximum brick, mortar, people and wealth—close to half of the 200 Indian billionaires are headquartered in Mumbai, making it one of the top billionaire capitals of the world.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
forbesindia.com | Brian Carvalho |Forbes India
A common criticism of Big Pharma is they’re not innovative enough—unable to discover enough of new medicines for some of humanity’s biggest killer diseases. The large global drug makers contend that they pump billions of dollars into new medicine development—and use those numbers to justify the prices of prescription drugs. Ergo, lowering prices will eat into revenues, which will compromise drug innovation.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
forbesindia.com | Brian Carvalho |Forbes India
My stumble into business journalism coincided with a raging bull run in initial public offerings (IPOs) in the early ’90s. It was a surreal period, with public issue press conferences of companies of all hues—including a few that had yet to start making something, anything; the fund-raising would be to build a factory or a product that would never see daylight.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
forbesindia.com | Brian Carvalho |Forbes India
How does one earn the self-made title? One of the achievers on this edition’s list of ‘Self-Made Women’ reckoned that it wasn’t possible for most mortals to be that. Her short point: To reach where she has, her family, friends, mentors, peers, among others, played key roles. So, she didn’t quite qualify as ‘self-made’. That’s a fair argument. Yet, it’s with good reason that Forbes India persisted with ‘self-made women’—which arguably today makes more sense than ‘self-made men’. Let me explain.
