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 HEROS-THE HIT PARADE
Symbols of Indian Industry
 IN A RARE MOULD

He was once a magnificent

young man who loved flying
machines and cars,Jehangir
Ratanji Dadabhai TATA
went on to become the main
pillar of the house of Tata and
a legend in his lifetime.
 ALWAYS SHIP-SHAPE

What's luck got to do

with it? Ask the
superstitious
Shashikan Ruia who
believes that thirteen is
his
winning number
 BUSINESS YOGI

His initials form one of the

more well-known acronyms
in Indian industry.RPG
Enterprises derives its name
from its chief Rama Prasad
Goenka
 HIS SON’S FATHER

One of the best private art

collections belongs to Basant
Kumar Brila and his wife
Sarala, prominent Kolkatta
citizens. Understatement has
been a way of life for this
member of the illustrious Brila
Clan, BK was better known as
G.D.Brila’s favorite son.
 THIRST BUSTER

Why did PepsiCo labour so long

to get its Indian act together?
And what’s the one unbeatable
advantage that Coca Cola has
over Pepsi in the battle over
Indian soft drinks market? The
answer to both questions is
Ramesh Jayantilal Chauhan.
 PIPE DREAMER

You could say that Om

Prakash Jindal has innards of
steel. Or else how could an
uneducated agriculturist from
a small town Haryana be sitting
at the helm of a rupees twelve
hundred crore group?
 FIRST AMONG EQUALS
Grandpa .G.D.Biral’s act was a
pretty hard one to beat. But
Aditya Vikram Brila has managed
to accomplish the awesome; expand
the family business. The clutch of
companies that he inherited has been
transformed into a rupees four
thousand crore diversified
conglomerate.
 MEDICINE MAN

Mountaineering is Ashok
Chand Burman’s a private
passion. And in his business, too,
Burman has scaled a high peak.
His company Dabur India Ltd
India’s sixth largest drug company
in the country.
 THE RELUCTANT HEIR
He was both born to greatness
and then had it thrust upon
him. Now Ratan Naval Tata,
initially the reluctant heir to the
Rupees Fifteen thousand crore
Tata Empire is trying his
damnedest to achieve it.
Ratan’s most loyal mate-his ten-
year-old Alsatian,Tito.
 MARKETING MAGICIAN

When Venugopal Nandlal Dhoot

set up his manufacturing venture
ten years ago, sceptics suggested
that he was just another con man
trying to make good. Videocon
International has proved that it is no
fly-by-night operation.Dhoot’s rising
fortunes have defied the law of
gravity. In the consumer durables
market, the Videocon brand has
emerged supreme, knocking the wind
out of more established names
 DADDY’S JOY

Being the slick talker that he

is, the Wharton-educated
Anil
Ambani is the official
spokesman of the Reliance
group. Anil was India’s most
eligible bachelor before he
married film star Tina.
 GOING PUBLIC
The life and times of Adi Burjorjee
Godrej,grandson of a Parsi locksmith,
could well read like a soap opera. For
years the Godrej family was obsessed
with the privacy of its private business in
soaps and detergents, refrigerators, office
equipment and lock. In the past two years,
the Godrej’s has surprised us all. The group
has two prestigious multinational tie-ups-a
joint venture for consumer durables with
G.E.It’s cowboy Adi, an amateur horse rider,
who’s been bringing the Godrej group out of
the closet.
 COPY CAT
On a clear day in Delhi’s Lodi Gardens,
You can see Basant Kumar Modi
and his wife Veena taking their early
morning walk. If BK, as he is generally
called,strides with a purposeful spring
in his step, he has reason to.In a span
of ten years, the fourth son of
Gujarmal Modi has emerged as India’s
copier king and a recognized force in
office automation.
 THE CAR CZAR
The pipe-smoking Vinod Lalchand
Doshi is a familiar face in Mumbai’s
theatre and film circuit. But Doshi is
no social gadfly and this soft-focus
world so is far removed from his real
world of automobiles. Before Maruti
began to hog Indian road space, it
was Doshi’s functional Premier
Padmini that was everybody’s favorite
small car.
 TRUE-BLUE TYCOON
It would be a truism to say that
Sanjay Shrenik Lalbhai has
clothes sense; but all to that a doll
top of horse sense and you come
up with an unbeatable combination.
Some of the world’s best known
garment labels, such as Arrow
shirts and Lee jeans, have tied up
with Arvind.
 SKILFUL NEGOTIATOR

Political savvy is Annamali Chidambaram

Muthiah’s forte. Not a bad skill to possess,
especially if you’re operating in a state like
Tamil Nadu where Chief Ministers tend to be
patrons of all they survey. Connections
in the Right places, coupled with a willingness
to take risks, enabled this southern group to
build considerably upon its base business of
trading, shipping and stevedoring.
 THE GOOD DOCTOR

You can’t accuse Parvinder Singh of

dragging his feet. It has been ten years his
company Rabbaxy Ltd,the country’s largest
bulk drugs manufacturer, put the starter on
its globalization drive.Ranbaxy is positioned
third after Glaxo and Hoechst.
 GOOD SPORT
Flamboyance is anathema to the southern
businessman. And Narayanan Sankar,with
his muted, serious approach is no
exception. This chemical engineer from the
Illinois Institute of Technology,
is Chairman of the rupees one
thousand crore Sanmar Group.
 BATTLE-SCARRED
VERTERAN

If could have his way, the

seventy-year-old Arvind
Navinchandra Mafatlal
would gladly choose
retirement
from the family business that
he
has been involved eighteen.
 THE ONCE AND FUTURE
KING
He is, in a word,resilient.Despite the
much-publicized fall out with the Tatas.
Rustomji Hormusji Mody
has bounced back as chairman of a new
trading company Mobar,proving that
he is after all, a man of steel. In his earlier
avatar as the chief honcho at Tata Steel,
where he spent fifty-four colorful years,
Russi was the Raja of Jamshedpur,
commanding the following of a cult hero.
 THE GREAT GAMBLER

Exactly ten years ago when his father Vittal

Mallya died, Vijay Mallya,then twenty-nine,
was pushed headlong into taking charge of
rupees two hundred and fifty crore group
whose main business was liquor.
Mallya is one of the handful of Indian
businessmen with international game-plan
and presence.
 HEROIC PURSUITS

It took them thirty-odd years, but

Brijmohan Lall Munjal and his
family finally pedalled their way
into the Guinness book of World
Records where their Hero group
was listed as the world’s largest
bicycle Manufacturer. It was Brijmohan,
now Chairman of the Hero Group,
who initially persuaded his father,
A Ludhiana cycle trader, to begin
manufacturing cycle parts.
 THE MAN WITH THE SMOKING
GUN
Is there any controversy, conspiracy
or corporate quarrel in which
Nusli Wadia’s name doesn't figure?
The son of Neville Wadia, a leading
post-Independence corporate citizen,
he is also the grandson of Mohammed Ali
Jinnah, the architect of Pakistan.
Wadia runs his profitable stable companies
Bombay Dyeing, Bombay Burmah,
National Peroxide
 HAMARA SCOOTER KING

In the twenty-five years since

Rahul Kamalnayan Bajaj gave
a kick-start to family Bajaj Auto Ltd,
it has emerged as the world's second
Largest two-wheeler manufacturer;
and the Bajaj Scooter, modelled
on an old Piaggaio design, is India’s
favorite roadster.
“ You just can’t beat a Bajaj”
 THE ETHICAL ENTREPRENEUR
It’s been some forty-five years since
Keshub Mahindra returned with a
BSc. Degree from the University of
Pennsylvania and joined the family
business of importing and assembling
Willys jeeps.
 QUIET MUSCLEMAN
Like the acronym that makes his tyre
company famous K.M.Mammen Mapillai
is in his own way quite a muscleman.
This rubber technologist was among
the few pre-independence entrepreneurs,
when he set up the Madras Rubber Factory
to manufacture balloons.
MRF Ltd is the country’s largest tyre maker,
having collaboration with Michelin of France.
 EASY RIDER

The Marlboro-man tactics that got

Sanjay Vishnu Hari Dalmia untold
profits for his cigarette company have
often put him in a spot trouble, both
India and abroad.
 THE CHIP CHAP
He’s the man who launched a
thousand chips and made many
Indians computer literate in
the process. Just under twenty years
ago, Shiv Nadar quit his job as
Marketing Manager at DCM Data
Products and turned entrepreneur.
HCL becoming the largest computer
company in the country as also the
first to establish a presence abroad
 A MAN OF MANY
MISSIONS

Ups and downs may come and go

but Ranuanq Singh rolls on merrily.
His missionary zeal makes him
one of Delhi’s foremost ‘association’ men.
You name the industry association
and singh has been its chairman or
president. Apollo Tyres,the flagship, is
managed by his son O.S.Kanwar,
whose four brothers manage the others.
 EMPIRE BUILDER
Once an energetic youngster
who helped his grandfather
run the successful
Nanda Bus Service in Lahore
before Partition.Hari Prasad Nanda
has transformed himself
into one of the northern
India’s foremost empire builders.
His rupees fifteen hundred crore
Escorts group had its origins in the
Imperial hotel Delhi
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