Khaitan & Co: Vanguards of the Legal Profession
Sometimes admired, sometimes reviled, the law profession and its practitioners elicit mixed responses from the public at large. Yet there are those within the law fraternity who owe their success to a reputation woven together through decades of cutting-edge practice and quality services
THE SAHU JAINS OF NAJIBABAD
From managing a slew of mills to owning them and then metamorphosing into some of the greatest entrepreneurs that the country had seen, brothers Shanti Prasad and Shriyans Prasad Jain’s achievements are worthy of many an adulatory epithet. This tribute encapsulates a few
Juggilal & Kamlapat: Venerable architects of the JK Group
Few industrialists inspire as much respect and awe as do Juggilal and Kamlapat Singhania, whose indomitable will and patriotic zeal saw them meet every challenge to set up the iconic Juggilal-Kamlapat Cotton Spinning & Weaving Mills in 1921 that was to lay the
The Rags-to-Riches Story of Ramkrishna Dalmia
It was a twist of fate that launched Ramkrishna Dalmia on the road to success, glory and fame, and it was again the hand of destiny that left him with fragments of the massive industrial empire he had built from nothing. In between
A True Blue Patriot
At a time when most industrialists were wont to toe the British line, Jamnalal Bajaj stood out with his active participation in the freedom struggle notwithstanding repeated incarcerations. MARWAR pays tribute to the indefatigable social reformer, patriot, freedom fighter and industrialist whose life
The indomitable baron of the fourth estate
A burning passion for all that he held dear, an intense sense of purpose, a firebrand patriot, an indefatigable warrior—these are traits that best characterise Ramnath Goenka, the architect of the Indian Express Group, who was loathed and respected in equal measure by
The Legend that was Gujarmal Modi
A patriot, a philanthropist and a tireless industrialist committed to achieving unremitting growth, Rai Bahadur Gujarmal Modi was the chief architect of the huge Modi group of companies that had a telling impact on the growth of India’s commerce and industry in the
The Fabled Cotton Baron Of Mumbai
Mumbai owes much of its transformational journey to the cotton merchants who reigned over the city’s flourishing cotton industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Among the most illustrious of them was cotton baron Ramnarain Ruia, the founding father of
The Rise and Fall of the Jagat Sheths
The extraordinary growth and fall of the legendary Jagat Sheths of Murshidabad in Bengal
In Tribute to a Forgotten Legend
A Marwari firm which stayed put in the inhospitable Thar and achieved much entrepreneurial success was Rai Bahadur Bansilal Abirchand, whose greatest architect, Sir Kasturchand Daga, deserves nothing short of a glowing tribute.
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