On a war footing, these companies registered their best performance during the pandemic

In the first week of April, as India’s Covid tally surged, a 30-member technical team at Minda Stoneridge’s Pune plant was tasked with an unusual project for Mahindra & Mahindra: convert speedometers to ventilator gauges. The auto manufacturer had volunteered to manufacture lifesaving ventilators for Covid hospitals in the country. Within 15 days, the Minda team designed a gauge to monitor the patients’ inhalation cycle, oxygen concentration and