Business Line Table Talk : Conversations with Leaders

From automobile company chiefs to infotech czars; from pharma gurus to masterful bankers, and sharp politicians to sage economists, Table Talk with Business Line features a gamut of inspiring conversations with leaders of our age. Our Table Talk protagonists have shaped the industries they work in or the spheres they dominate, and are builders of contemporary India.

India's first woman Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, HCL group's Shiv Nadar, Tata Sons' N Chandrasekaran, Ashok Leyland's Vinod Dasari, TVS Motor's Venu Srinivasan, the Murugappa Group's A Vellayan, Biocon's Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, NIIT's Rajendra Pawar, Mindtree's Subroto Bagchi, Tata Sons' Harish Bhat, New Development Bank's KV Kamath, Infosys' Kris Gopalakrishnan and many more this book brings together conversations with leaders from a broad spectrum of business, politics, academia and sport.

Curated from the Business Line archives, these sparkling dialogues with contemporary leaders, conducted over as of five years by our journalists around the country, continue to stimulate and help ideate for the future.

In many ways, Business line has grown in tandem with the process of liberalization and reform of the Indian economy.

Launched in 1994, a year after the first reform-era Budget spelt out India's enormous economic potential, the White Paper on Business filled an information gap for businesspersons and planners who needed a reliable source of news and analysis on the macro economy and policy-making as much as on the corporate world, the financial markets and entrepreneurship.

Business Line will turn 25 in January 2019. Looking back at the stories and articles of the last two-and-a-half decades is a fascinating exercise which reveals a wealth of information and insights reflecting the twists and turns of the economy.

In the run-up to the Silver Jubilee, a team of editors has dug into the archives to bring to you Table Talk with Business Line, a select set of dialogues with business and thought leaders.

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