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	<img align="" alt="Vikram Akula, SKS Microfinance" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-12/29/full/1451387077-1696.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Vikram Akula, SKS Microfinance" width="620" />
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		Vikram Akula: His market-based microfinance model made SKS Microfinance employees millionaires when it listed; he lost control in an internal battle<br />
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			<img align="" alt="Gorur Ramaswamy Gopinath" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-12/29/full/1451387123-0217.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Gorur Ramaswamy Gopinath" width="620" />
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				Gorur Ramaswamy Gopinath- Launched India&rsquo;s first budget airline, Air Deccan, in 2003; sold to Kingfisher in 2007; launched first cargo express airline, Deccan 360; closed in 2011<br />
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					<img align="" alt="Lalit Modi" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-12/29/full/1451387655-8625.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Lalit Modi" width="620" />
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						Lalit Modi- Once king of the Indian Premier League, now a fugitive as Indian investigative agencies scrutinise questionable financial deals<br />
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							<img align="" alt="Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Paytm" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-12/23/full/1450818281-0805.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Paytm" width="620" />
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								Vijay Shekhar Sharma- The creator of mobile-based payments in India is getting ready to launch a payments bank by March 2016<br />
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									<img align="" alt="Tulsi Tanti" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-12/29/full/1451387280-0861.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Tulsi Tanti" width="620" />
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										Tulsi Tanti- Global headwinds made India&rsquo;s wind energy pioneer default on debt raised to buy REPower; asset sales and equity from Dilip Shanghvi breathed life into Suzlon<br />
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											<img align="" alt="Kishore Biyani" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-06/24/full/1435161254-7939.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Kishore Biyani" width="620" />
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												Kishore Biyani- Founder of the Future Group, he is considered India&rsquo;s Sam Walton. Often dismissive of internet-led business, he is focusing on an omni-channel to tackle online and offline competition<br />
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													<img align="" alt="Nandan Nilekani" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-12/29/full/1451388190-9847.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Nandan Nilekani" width="620" />
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														Nandan Nilekani- The Infosys co-founder&rsquo;s success with the government&rsquo;s mammoth unique identification programme is changing the dynamics of subsidy delivery<br />
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															<img align="" alt="K Radhakrishnan- As chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation from 2009 to 2014, he made India a leading provider of low-cost satellite launch technology" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2014-09/24/full/1411566786-1039.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="K Radhakrishnan- As chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation from 2009 to 2014, he made India a leading provider of low-cost satellite launch technology" width="620" />
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																K Radhakrishnan- As chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation from 2009 to 2014, he made India a leading provider of low-cost satellite launch technology<br />
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																	<img align="" alt="Sachin Bansal" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-12/29/full/1451388493-5047.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Sachin Bansal" width="620" />
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																		Sachin Bansal- The poster-boy of Indian e-commerce, the chief executive of Flipkart, co-founded in 2007, has been at the top of the sector for eight years<br />
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																			<img align="" alt="Satya Nadella, Surface Pro 4" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-11/05/full/1446721975-9898.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Satya Nadella, Surface Pro 4" width="620" />
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																				Satya Nadella- In 2014, he became the first Indian to be appointed CEO of Microsoft, the world&rsquo;s largest software maker<br />
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																					<img align="" alt="Google CEO Sundar Pichai at a news conference in New Delhi on Wednesday, December 16, 2015 PTI" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-12/16/full/1450264862-4406.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Google CEO Sundar Pichai at a news conference in New Delhi on Wednesday, December 16, 2015 PTI" width="620" />
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																						Sundar Pichai- Handpicked by Larry Page to head Google, the first Indian to head the search engine giant took charge in August 2015 as part of an organisational restructuring<br />
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																							<img align="" alt="Vikram Pandit" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-12/29/full/1451399958-78.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Vikram Pandit" width="620" />
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																								Vikram Pandit- The first India-born CEO of Citigroup, he took charge of the crisis-ridden bank in 2007; resigned in 2012 after a boardroom putsch<br />
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																									<img align="" alt="Indra Nooyi" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-12/29/full/1451400000-4903.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Indra Nooyi" width="620" />
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																										Indra Nooyi- The first India-born CEO of PepsiCo. Her stewardship since 2006 has seen steady revenue growth and Pepsi&rsquo;s stock price rising after several flat years</div>
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Who gained, lost, made the front page, set new trends, departed- portraits from 1st decade and a half of 21st century

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