Monday, August 08, 2005

Dhirubhai, the groth of an enterpreneur ..



A rags to riches story ..
Mohandas Gandhi and Dhirubhai Ambani were the two most famous scions of the Modh Bania, a Hindu commercial caste based in the arid Saurashtra peninsula of India's western Gujarat state. The Mahatma idealized traditional village ways, passive resistance, and homespun cotton. Ambani, a billionaire industrialist, preached prosperity to a burgeoning Indian middle-class via a business empire built on polyester.
Each changed India. Ambani's public wore his textiles as durable suits and glittery saris. Indians invested by the millions in his Bombay-listed Reliance Industries, a sprawling conglomerate with $12.3 billion in annual sales that recently became India's first privately owned entrant to the Fortune 500. When Ambani died on July 6 at age 69 after nearly two weeks in a stroke-induced coma, the country's media recounted his rags-to-riches life as an Indian morality play.


http://muraleedharan.tripod.com/legends_dhirubhaiambani.html

and his sons, CAIN and ABEL ...
Ambani feud: The mud flies thick and fast
http://www.dancewithshadows.com/ambani-feud-media.asp


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