July 2025

40u40: India's Brightest Young Business Minds

In the world’s youngest nation—where over 65% of the population is under 35—India’s future is already being shaped by those bold enough to lead it. From boardrooms to breakout ideas, a new generation of business leaders is rewriting the rules. This year's Fortune India’s 40 Under 40 celebrates these changemakers—icons in the making like Akash Ambani, Kaviya Kalanithi Maran, Shashwat Goenka, Parth Jindal, Aman Mehta, and Devansh Jain—who are not just carrying forward legacies but boldly reimagining them for a new era. Alongside them are first-generation disruptors like Sagar Daryani, scaling Wow! Momo with a vision to take ₹100 momos to 5,000 cities, and Palak Shah, turning the Banarasi weave into a global fashion story with Ekaya Banaras. These are the entrepreneurs turning ambition into scale. And even beyond traditional industry, the entrepreneurial wave is pulling in creative forces—Ranveer Singh, for instance, is shaking up wellness and nutrition with Bold Care and SuperYou, proving that passion, backed by purpose, is the new blueprint for building brands.

All Magazine Stories - July 2025 Issue

How Tarun Sharma is redefining India's beauty space with mCaffeine
From boutique to big league: How conglomerates like Reliance and Aditya Birla Group are reshaping Indian fashion
Pratyush Kumar and his firm Sarvam AI is giving India a voice in the global AI race
How Parth Jindal is diversifying JSW with ambition and purpose
Akash Sinha: Meet the entrepreneur who is steering Cashfree Payments into the AI era
How Maharashtra’s Vadhvan port and offshore airport will redefine India’s infrastructure future
Prateek Maheshwari: The quiet force behind Physicswallah’s disciplined rise in edtech
Palak Shah: The woman giving the Banarasi weave a global makeover
How India’s agritech startups are transforming farming with storage, fintech, and climate solutions
Podcasting, Zerodha, trading, and philosophy: Nikhil Kamath’s many lives
The man behind Equal: Keshav Reddy’s data-driven vision
How Isha Ambani is shaping Reliance Retail into a leaner, stronger giant ready for the IPO spotlight
Shashwat Goenka’s blueprint for growth: Clean energy, premium retail, and digital-first media
Jay Kotak is shaping the future of digital banking and big business strategy at Kotak Mahindra Bank
Kaviya Maran: The media heiress reshaping Sun TV and Sunrisers with heart, hustle and a digital-first lens
Haren Chelle is turning B2B feedback chaos into product clarity with Pulse’s AI-powered platform
How Harshad Reddy is bringing precision and purpose to Apollo’s cancer care with Proton therapy
From runways to real-time data: Jeet Adani’s growing role in Adani Group’s future
Karan Adani’s ports push: Vizhinjam milestone and record APSEZ profits
Devansh Jain is leading INOXGFL Group’s big renewables push
Avarna Jain is future-proofing Indian music, one bold bet at a time
Ashish Bajaj is rebranding Narayana Health with empathy, innovation, and storytelling
Brewing a revolution: How Ayush Bathwal and Anirudh Sharma built Third Wave Coffee for India
Avantika Saraogi’s green bet: From sugar to India’s first PLA bioplastics plant
Meet ShareChat’s Ankush Sachdeva: Building India’s social media and betting on GenAI
From carpooling to quick commerce kings: Zepto’s Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra are just getting started
Fortune India 40 Under 40: The brilliant young minds driving India’s next growth wave
Crash and reckoning: Air India faces its gravest test since Tata takeover
India’s road to Viksit Bharat needs more than growth—it demands structural transformation
China’s rare-earth curbs expose fault lines in India’s EV supply chain