| Chapter No. | Chapter Title | Chapter Author | Page No. |
| Business and Industry | | |
| Up Close and Personal : Anil Ambani | | 3 |
| Lessons from the Gita: Ajay Piramal | | 11 |
| A Strong head for Extravagance: Vijay Mallya | | 17 |
| Unity in Division: Harsh Goenka | | 23 |
| Retail Power: Sanjiv Goenka | | 31 |
| 'I Have become a Realist : Kishore Biyani | | 37 |
| Middle-class Risk taker: S D Shibulal | | 43 |
| Head in the 'Cloud' : S. Gopalakrishnan | | 49 |
| Appearances versus Aspirations: N.R. Narayana Murthy | | 55 |
| Imagining a Better India: Nandan Nilekani | | 61 |
| Banking and Finance | | |
| 'You Can't wish away the Pressure Cooker' : K. V. Kamath | | 69 |
| A Lifelong Pursuit of Leisure: Aditya Puri | | 75 |
| Banking on Life: kalpana Morparia | | 81 |
| Multiplying Multiples: Renuka Ramnath | | 87 |
| Mills & Boon and Banking : Shikha Sharma | | 93 |
| Destiny's Child: Chanda Kochhar | | 99 |
| Accidental Tycoon : Vikram Akula | | 107 |
| Academia | | |
| Basic Instints: Abhijit Sen | | 117 |
| Home truths: Ashok Gulati | | 125 |
| Poster Boy with a Hunger for Field Work: Jean Dreze | | 133 |
| A Question of Learning : Romila Thapar | | 139 |
| 'The Flat World is Globalony' : Pankaj Ghemawat | | 147 |
| Politics and Policy | | |
| Minister for Everything : P. Chidambaram | | 155 |
| Science With a Smile : Kapil Sibal | | 161 |
| marathon Man : Suresh Kalmadi | | 167 |
| Professor CEA : Kaushik Basu | | 173 |
| 'I Am the Only Saffron-Clad Muslims Trust' : Swami Ramdev | | 181 |
| Art and Culture | | |
| Master Actor, Student CEO: Amitabh Bachchan | | 189 |
| The Art of Multitasking: Farhan Akhtar | | 195 |
| The Book Seller: Rudrani 'Chiki' Sarkar | | 201 |
| Serial Historian : Ramachandra Guha | | 207 |
| Seven Years of Solitude: Kiran Desai | | 213 |
| Making the Write Calls: Chetan Bhagat | | 219 |
| 'Growth is Hiding the Problem' : Arun Shourie | | 225 |
