The number of people travelling to India either for business or leisure has doubled over the past five years. The hospitality industry naturally is reaping the benefits of this huge growth with hotels running at full capacity not only in gateway cities, such as New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata, but also in tier-II cities like Bangalore, Agra, Udaipur, Jaipur, etc. Stocks of hotel...

ML: Can you start by telling us a little about the early years of your life?
UK: I was born in Mumbai in a family where 60 people lived together. It was one huge floor in a large house. My father had come back to India from Karachi after the Partition. He was from a large family; my grandfather had five brothers. When my father came to India, we joined the main branch of the family who...

Can outrageous failures take you on a completely new path of success? Shreedhar Kanetkar narrates a case study

Meet James Dyson. Now in his 60^th year, Dyson is probably best known for inventing bag-less vacuum cleaners that never get clogged and never lose suction. These remarkable machines sell for thousands of dollars each, bringing Dyson’s company $1.2 billion in sales every year. It took...