Crossroad - India Today -45th Edition

 

In India Today - 45th Edition special issue, we have Life changing moments - 45 celebrated Indian's talk about the turning points, that made them who they are. Stories of hope, extraordinary courage and individual triumph provide you inspiration in the new year.

Traditionally cross road is the place of intersection of two or more roads, quite often it is also a crucial point, where a decision must be made. The place situation or circumstance when a person's gut feel, self-confidence , gut feel and ambition gain precedence. The point of time in their lives when self-belief acquires an equal importance to logic to help a person forge destiny. The decision made them shapes their action and our future, if we look at it closely.

The Editor in Chief, from the Editor's desk say "I don’t believe in destiny, or that everything is preordained. Full of twists and turns, many of them unexpected, life is rarely a straight line. In fact, it is a series of accidents, happenstance and, quite often, dumb luck. "

Aroon Purie, India Today, Editor-In-Chief, says his father Vidya Vilas Puri and Lord Roy Thomson of Fleet, who owned the largest number of newspapers globally, had become friends after a chance meeting and decided to start a business together in India. That was the beginning of Thomson Press, a commercial printing press, as foreign ownership of newspapers was not permitted at the time. He was working in London as a chartered accountant and had come home on vacation. His father asked him to visit the press and see what he thought of it. He got involved and never returned to London. Their first magazine publication was a medical journal called the Journal of Applied Medicine in January 1975. Then followed India Today in December that year. The magazine was first designed to inform non-resident Indians about their native land. It didn’t work, the NRIs were too difficult to reach. But when it was put out in the domestic market it got an encouraging response. 

He worked with one simple mantra: that was to put all resources in producing excellent editorial content, and the business part will take care of itself. And it has.

Poet Gulzar says in this issue: “The edifice of our life follows no blueprint, nor does it take the shape you imagine. You just have to explore it.”

What also sets many of these 45 personalities apart is the element of risk-taking, a quality many of our businessmen have in spades. 

In many of these stories, you will find a pattern and some life-altering lessons. Adversity, most often, is a great educator. It teaches you to fight your way out of hostile circumstances and brings out your best. There is no substitute for hard work; talent by itself is not sufficient sometimes. Never rest on your educational qualifications, just keep learning. Being at the right place at the right time is a matter of luck. However, the choices we make define who we are and what we become.

This is not for the first time - we have always had them. This is what we had just 6 months before : https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/20190805-top-50-power-people-the-high-mighty-part-2-1573237-2019-07-26