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and descend in our conduct and our “The digital medium is interactive, and
character. the newspaper is a one-way, passive
- Can we be a great nation without medium. Interactive media always wins
knowing which side of the road to drive on? over passive media. We believe that Times
Every year, nearly 10,000 Indians lose Internet, our digital arm, will one day be a
lives in accidents caused by people driving larger business than BCCL is now. Today,
on the wrong side of the road. it reaches over 171 million users, who
-Can we be a great nation with ever rising spend billions of minutes a month across a
mountains of garbage surrounding our number of our products. At the same time,
urban centres. we continue to focus on providing value
-Can we be a great nation if most of our to consumers across all media — print,
cities and towns are choking with pollution. television, radio, and others,” said Jain on
-Can we be a great nation when lynching leading India’s media into the future.
or beating a person to death becomes Given all the changes taking place in digital
commonplace. and video, clearly the future is bright for
-Can we be a great nation when we are Vineet Jain.
regarded as the rape capital of the world.
Also, violence against women is treated as a 15 Harsh Goenka 67, Industrialist
routine affair. In a recent post on ‘X’,
-Can we be a great nation if our election RPG Group Chairman
funding is open to question. Harsh Goenka honoured
-Can we be a great nation by confusing India’s top business
disagreement with dissent, dissent with figures, attributing their
disloyalty and disloyalty with treason? success to passion and
-Can we be a great nation if we live in fear legacy.
of our government “Why Ratan Tata inspires. Why Mukesh
There are many more hard questions like Ambani builds empires. Why Anand
these that I am sure you ask yourself every Mahindra tweets wisdom. Why Kumar
day. Birla globalises. Why Sanjiv Bajaj
And I think most of you know the answer. transforms finance. Why Uday Kotak
It’s a resounding NO. strategises. Why Narayana Murthy
We need to measure what I call our Gross pioneers IT. Why Azim Premji gives
Domestic Behaviour—GDB if you like—just generously. Why Nikhil Kamath disrupts
as we measure GDP.” markets. Why Gautam Adani scales
Epic! heights. Why Harsh Mariwala innovates
FMCG. Why Noel Tata dreams retail. Why
14 Vineet Jain, 61, Media Baron Falguni Nayar empowers beauty. Why
After an amicable parting Sridhar Vembu champions simplicity.
with brother Samir, Why Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw makes
Vineet Jain now runs the breakthroughs. Why Vinod Khosla funds
television, digital and ideas. Why Deepinder Goyal changes how
experiential forays of the we eat. Because business is not just work;
group. it’s passion turned into legacy.”
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