Mamaearth: Snapdeal co-founders Kunal Bahl and Rohit Kumar Bansal are among the two sharks who had acquired stakes in the digital-first beauty and personal care company at an average cost price of just Rs 3.21 per share in August 2017. At the upper price band of Rs 324, the duo stands to make an astounding profit of Rs 38.27 crore translating into a return of 9,993%.
ISSUE DATE: December 28, 2020
UPDATED: December 18, 2020 23:40 IST
Illustration by Nilanjan Das
India’s banking sector is frequently under the spotlight, and usually for unflattering reasons, from an insupportable pileup of loans gone bad (non-performing assets or NPAs in banking parlance) to outright fraud to cronyism or worse. The rot is endemic, has hit banks small and big, including some well-regarded names, and is by no means limited to the public sector. If government-owned banks like Punjab National Bank (PNB) and State Bank of India (SBI) have embarrassed themselves, names like YES Bank and ICICI Bank in the private sector have also made headlines for the wrong reasons. The list of banks of dubious honour is long, including, most recently, Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LV Bank), which the RBI (Reserve Bank of India) had to step in to bail out. The Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated the crisis by another order of magnitude, with the government-mandated moratorium on interest payments