India Rich List 2015
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Habil Khorakiwala and the power of calm
Wockhardt's Habil Khorakiwala has looked crisis in the eye, and come out of it stronger
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Satish Reddy and GV Prasad: The practical drug makers
Satish Reddy, chairman of Dr Reddy's Laboratories, and his brother-in-law, CEO and co-chairman GV Prasad, are following a pragmatic but lucrative path to drug innovation
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Shashwat Goenka: Swimming in the deep end
Shashwat Goenka has been given the responsibility of Spencer's Retail as his first challenge. But the scion of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group is unperturbed: He is confident of the business emerging stronger and, importantly, profitable
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DLF: The ailing giant
Once considered one of India's finest real estate companies, DLF's struggles in recent times are in stark contrast to its past successes. But its 84-year-old chairman Kushal Pal Singh is not giving up the fight
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Lachhman Das Mittal: Tractor master
Age seems no barrier to a salesman on wheels
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Devansh Jain: Flying with the wind
The Inox Group had no expertise in renewable energy, but backed by a successful IPO, third-generation scion Devansh Jain proved that there is profit in the sector
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Achal Bakeri: The billionaire who never lost his cool
Achal Bakeri pulled Symphony from the rubble of bankruptcy and rebuilt it into the world's largest air-cooler manufacturing company. Here's how he did it
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Ananya Birla: Her father's daughter
Through her MFI, Svatantra, Ananya Birla has struck a balance between her need to address social and gender inequality, and her desire to build a business
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Kris Gopalakrishnan: The accidental engineer
Since retiring from Infosys, Kris Gopalakrishnan immersed himself in philanthropy. Even in this new role, he remains wedded to entrepreneurship and technology, which became his calling by chance
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Bansals epitomise the rise of India's e-billionaires
With their entry into the 2015 Forbes India Rich List, Sachin and Binny Bansal, founders of Flipkart, have reaffirmed their position as the country's leading consumer internet entrepreneurs
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Harsh Goenka and CEAT: Getting a stronger grip
Even as Ceat outperforms expectations under the leadership of son Anant, other businesses too are gearing up for the next phase of growth, says RPG Enterprises Chairman Harsh Goenka