BW Businessworld Celebrates 45 Years With Its Anniversary Collector’s Issue

BW Businessworld, India’s oldest continuously published business magazine, marks its 45th anniversary with a landmark collector’s issue that convenes many of the nation’s most influential economic thinkers, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and corporate leaders. The edition, themed ‘BW@45 Meets India@2047’, turns the spotlight on the forces that will define India’s next phase of growth on the road to 2047.

Since its inception, BW Businessworld has been a trusted chronicler of India’s enterprise and policy story. From liberalisation and GST to the digital acceleration of the last decade, BW has documented inflexion points with reporting that is rigorous and forward-looking. The 45th anniversary is both a milestone and a mandate. It asks what kind of growth India seeks, which reforms matter most, and how leaders across sectors are preparing their organisations and ecosystems for long-term value creation.

The India@2047 Collective

At the heart of the edition is The India@2047 Collective, a forum of over 45 voices that brings together leading policymakers, economists and CEOs to articulate a shared vision for the country’s next quarter century. Contributors include Prof Mahendra Dev, Chairman, EAC-PM, Chief Economic Advisor V. Anantha Nageswaran; Sanjeev Sanyal, Suman Bery, Vice Chairperson, NITI Aayog; Nadir B. Godrej, Chairperson, Godrej Industries Group; Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw; Deep Kalra of MakeMyTrip; Schauna Chauhan of Parle Agro; Preetha Reddy of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise; Yezdi Nagporewalla of KPMG India; Devansh Jain of InoxGFL; Aman Gupta of boAt, Vikram Gupta of IvyCap Ventures; and Amit Khatri of Noise, among others.

Collectively, these voices cut across manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, energy transition, new-age consumer tech, and the investment ecosystem. They reflect both continuity and change in Indian enterprise, and they offer practical roadmaps for execution, policy clarity, and institutional capacity building.

“This issue represents both reflection and reinvention. In the last 44 years, BW has been a bridge between policy and enterprise, between ambition and execution. This commemorative issue is a forward gaze, rooted in the belief that India’s growth story will be written by leaders who combine purpose with performance, and ideas with implementation,” said BW Businessworld’s Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Dr Annurag Batra, reflecting on the milestone.

The Making 

The issue is designed as a practical playbook for leaders, investors, and policy watchers. It features:

• The India@2047 Collective, a concise, high-signal essays and interviews from 45 leaders on growth, jobs, productivity, and innovation.

• Policy and reform perspectives, commentary on regulatory clarity, institutional capacity, and the next wave of administrative simplification.

• Technology and productivity, perspectives on AI in the enterprise, data governance, and digital public infrastructure as a growth multiplier.

• Sector lenses, deep dives spanning consumer and retail, healthcare, industry and energy, infrastructure, and the innovation economy.

Explaining the editorial architecture, Noor Fathima Warsia, Group Editorial Director, BW Businessworld, said, “We set out to curate the people who are moving the conversation forward, not merely the most visible names. Our selection balanced policy leadership with enterprise execution, legacy firms with new-age disruptors, and established clusters with emerging hubs. We reviewed years of BW reporting, panel conversations, and interviews, then triangulated those insights with current priorities like innovation-led growth, digital transformation, inclusion, and climate-aligned progress. The result is a serious, sector-spanning edition that brings together leaders who are shaping India’s trajectory to 2047, and who are prepared to be accountable for the ideas they advance.”

The narrative is complemented by BW’s community platforms, which anchor specialised reporting, interviews, and opinion pieces that extend the edition’s themes throughout the year.

The 45th anniversary also provides a reflective arc on BW’s own evolution. What began as a print magazine has matured into a multi-platform ecosystem that hosts conversations, convenes communities, and nurtures editorial IPs across sectors. BW’s ethos remains that of an independence of voice, depth over noise, and a commitment to credible inquiry.

A Legacy Renewed

The edition recognises the scale of India’s ambition as it targets a multi-trillion-dollar economy by 2047. The contributors argue that durable growth will depend on the quality of investment, the diffusion of technology into everyday workflows, reliable infrastructure, and the capacity to create formal jobs at scale. They emphasise the importance of trust in governance, in capital markets, in corporate conduct, and in the integrity of data, as the foundation on which competitiveness will be built.

Every section of the issue is crafted to be actionable. Policymakers will find grounded recommendations. CXOs will find frameworks for execution that link strategy to operating levers. Founders and investors will find a clear view of where the next value pools are likely to emerge. Educators and skilling leaders will find direction on aligning curricula and capability building with the economy that is being built.

The collector’s issue is available in print across leading newsstands and in digital format on businessworld.in. A companion series of BWTV interviews with contributors will roll out over the next few weeks, along with roundtables anchored by BW’s community verticals to deepen the themes discussed in print. Partner organisations can access custom briefings and excerpts for internal leadership sessions.