India’s Top Midsize Companies- The Next 500: LIFE IS TOUGH FOR a midsize company. We at Fortune India have been em-phasising this fact for some time, particularly in the context of The Next 500 listing of companies, the only such list in India. Now in its fifth year, the Fortune India Next 500 takes a close, hard look at several aspects of the midsize companies space, and its findings have always led to significant takeaways about the health of corporate India.