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The Art of Enduring

The Art of Enduring

How Great Companies Turn Crisis into Opportunity

Saurabh Mukherjea
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Salil Desai
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The decade from 2015-2025 felt like a century compressed into ten years, marked by chaos in the business world. The Art of Enduring: How India’s Best Businesses Outlast Everyone Else highlights companies that outpaced India’s GDP and generated returns on capital exceeding 15% every year for a decade and a half. From Indian’s 500 largest companies 51 were shortlisted, and only six, selected: Bajaj Finance, Titan, TCS, Dr. Lal Pathlabs, Divi’s Labs and Tata Elxsi. These six companies were built by ordinary Indians whose hard work and passion, achieved extraordinary outcomes. In these companies, one finds quiet technocrats like Dr. Arvind Lal who embraces spirituality over market capitalisation, or professionals like S Ramadorai, Bhaskar Bhat or Rajeev Jain, who redefined what hired CEOs can achieve. In an era of celebrity founders, these are the quiet compounders. A follow up to the bestseller, The Unusual Billionaires, these are not the people who dominate business media. But they are the people who built institutions that will outlast the headlines.

Imprint: Penguin Business

Published: Aug/2026

ISBN: 9789377300708 (Hardback)

Length : 352 Pages

MRP : ₹699.00

The Art of Enduring

How Great Companies Turn Crisis into Opportunity

Saurabh Mukherjea
,
Salil Desai

The decade from 2015-2025 felt like a century compressed into ten years, marked by chaos in the business world. The Art of Enduring: How India’s Best Businesses Outlast Everyone Else highlights companies that outpaced India’s GDP and generated returns on capital exceeding 15% every year for a decade and a half. From Indian’s 500 largest companies 51 were shortlisted, and only six, selected: Bajaj Finance, Titan, TCS, Dr. Lal Pathlabs, Divi’s Labs and Tata Elxsi. These six companies were built by ordinary Indians whose hard work and passion, achieved extraordinary outcomes. In these companies, one finds quiet technocrats like Dr. Arvind Lal who embraces spirituality over market capitalisation, or professionals like S Ramadorai, Bhaskar Bhat or Rajeev Jain, who redefined what hired CEOs can achieve. In an era of celebrity founders, these are the quiet compounders. A follow up to the bestseller, The Unusual Billionaires, these are not the people who dominate business media. But they are the people who built institutions that will outlast the headlines.

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Saurabh Mukherjea

SAURABH MUKHERJEA works for Marcellus Investment Managers and is the bestselling author of The Unusual Billionaires, Coffee Can Investing: The Low-Risk Road to Stupendous Wealth and Diamonds in the Dust: Consistent Compounding for Extraordinary Wealth Creation. A London School of Economics alumnus, Saurabh is also a founder director of the Association of Portfolio Managers in India, a CFA charterholder and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Salil Desai

Salil Desai, a chartered accountant and MBA, has spent over sixteen years covering diverse sectors in the Indian equity markets, including at India’s largest family investment office. He manages some of the large advisory portfolios at Marcellus.

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