20 giants

On a recent wind-whipped morning, a steel-hulled behemoth arrived at a desolate stretch of India’s western coast groaning with enough coal to power a city of one million people for

Of the 30 companies in today's Sensex 21 were not present in the index in 1991. These firms in a way represent the India that Manmohan Singh may

Sir I rise to present the budget for 1991-92. As I rise I am overpowered by a strange feeling of loneliness

There are some events in the history of the Indian capital market, which would go down as landmarks that changed the course of the market forever.

The mid point in the past 20 years of reforms lay at the turn of the century. On the eight day of the new century, that is, on January 8, 2001, Sensex went through a minor reshuffle with Cipla replacing Novartis India in the index.

When the economic reforms were unleashed in July 1991, the BSE Sensex was composed of 30 prominent companies of that time. Two decades later, the question that comes to mind is whether any of those ‘grandfather’ companies are still on the current index.