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Five Indian CEOs, five books, and the exact interview or tweet where each one said it mattered. From Nikhil Kamath's reading list to the tweet Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw sent fellow founders.

For a long time, the fantasy that Indian children grew up on came from somewhere else. The wizards were British, the enchanted forests were European, the children having the adventures had names no one in the house shared, and while none of that dimmed the pleasure of the reading, it did quietly suggest that magic happened elsewhere, to other people. That is changing, and one of the more heartening developments in Indian publishing over the last few years has been the arrival

Most of us have only the vaguest idea of what happens to our food once we have swallowed it. We know it goes somewhere, and we trust that the body will sort it out, and beyond that our curiosity tends to stop at the plate.