Crony Capitalism and Controversial Businessmen, with Nandini Vijayaraghavan

From the bookshelves of Forbes India

In this episode, Divya Shekhar discusses a brief history of the biggest corporate failures in India over the past two decades and what we can learn from them with Nandini Vijayaraghavan, who is the director and head of research at the Singapore office of the Korea Development Bank. In her latest book ‘Unfinished Business: Evolving Capitalism in the World’s Largest Democracy’, Nandini tells this story through four businesspersons: Anil Ambani (R-ADAG), Naresh Goyal (Jet Airways), VG Siddhartha (Café Coffee Day) and Vijay Mallya (Kingfisher). In the episode, she talks about why the government, investors and other stakeholders have not learnt from past mistakes, why listing day pop is a risky game, and what her research tells her about Gautam Adani. She also gives insights on the future of Jet Airways, startups that value scale over sustainability, and a lot more