The Deport

In a business era defined by shortcuts and spectacle, GV Sanjay Reddy made a different choice. He chose to build things that would last, things that millions of Indians would one day depend on without ever knowing his name. There is a certain kind of ambition that our business culture has almost entirely forgotten how to recognise. Not the ambition that announces itself loudly and measures its progress in headlines, but the ambition that works quietly, builds carefully, and l

Every great business story begins with a single decision made by a single person who believed that something better was possible. In 2013, Rajesh Joshi made that decision in Nehru Place, New Delhi, and what he built from that moment forward is one of the most compelling entrepreneurial stories in India's advertising industry today. There is a particular kind of business story that India's media rarely tells with the attention it deserves. Not the story of a venture backed sta

Fifty hotels. Nine countries. Three continents. One founding philosophy. The story of how MGM Muthu Hotels built a global hospitality empire is not a story about capital or strategy or market timing. It is a story about what happens when one man's values become one organisation's culture and that culture is given six decades to become everything it was always capable of being. There is a particular kind of empire that the business world rarely talks about because it does not