Dhirubhai Ambani

Dhirubhai Ambani
Born	December 28, 1932 Chorwad, Gujarat, India
Died	July 6, 2002 (aged 69) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Business Magnate; Chairman ofReliance Industries
Net worth	▲ US$6.10 billion
Religion	Hinduism
Spouse	Kokilaben Ambani
Children	Mukesh Ambani Anil Ambani
Website
www.ril.com

Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani, (Gujarati: ધીરુભાઈ અંબાણી) also known as Dhirubhai, 28 December 1932, - 6 July 2002, was an Indian rags-to-riches business tycoon who founded Reliance Industries in Mumbai with his cousin. Ambani took his company (Reliance) public in 1977, and by 2007 the combined fortune of the family (sonsAnil and Mukesh) was 60 billion dollars, making the Ambani's the second richest family in the world, next to the Walton family. Dhirubhai has been one among the select Forbes billionaires and has also figured in the Sunday Times list of top 50 businessmen in Asia.^[1]

Dhirubhai started off as a small time worker with Arab merchants in the 1950s and moved to Mumbai in 1958 to start his own business in spices. After making modest profits, he moved into textiles and opened his mill near Ahmedabad. Dhirubhai founded Reliance Industries in 1958. After that it was a saga of expansions and successes.

Reliance's story as a company has been a 'bitter-sweet' saga in India. While on one hand it remains one the biggest Indian conglomerates but on the other hand it is also a company known to evade taxes and being intransparent^[2].It has presence in various sectors like petrochemicals, textiles and is involved in the production of crude oil and gas, to polyester and polymer products. The companies refinery at Jamnagar accounts for over 25% of India's total refining capacity and their plant at Hazira is the biggest chemical complex in India. The company has further diversified into Telecom, Insurance and Internet Businesses, the Power Sector and so on. Now the Reliance group with over 85,000 employees provides almost 5% of the Central Government's total revenue.

In 1986 after a heart attack he has handed over his empire to his two sons Anil and Mukesh. His sons have helped Reliance to grow in a more globalized world after 1991.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore
Born	7 May 1861 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency,British India
Died	7 August 1941 (aged 80) Calcutta, Bengal Province, British India
Pen name	Gurudev/Bhanu Shingho
Occupation	Writer, lecturer
Nationality	Indian
Ethnicity	Bengali
Genres	Poet, novelist, short-story writer,essayist, playwright, thespian,educationist, spiritualist,philosopher, internationalist,painter, cultural relativist, orator,composer, song-writer, singer,artist
Subjects	Literature
Literary movement	Bengal Renaissance
Notable work(s)	Gitanjali Gora Ghare-Baire
Notable award(s)	Nobel Prize in Literature 1913
Spouse(s)	Mrinalini Devi (1883–1900)
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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there. In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms. He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. From time to time he participated in the Indian nationalist movement, though in his own non-sentimental and visionary way; and Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his devoted friend. Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915, but within a few years he resigned the honour as a protest against British policies in India.

Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West. In fact his fame attained a luminous height, taking him across continents on lecture tours and tours of friendship. For the world he became the voice of India's spiritual heritage; and for India, especially for Bengal, he became a great living institution.

Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was first of all a poet. Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry are Manasi (1890) [The Ideal One], Sonar Tari (1894) [The Golden Boat], Gitanjali (1910) [Song Offerings], Gitimalya (1914) [Wreath of Songs], andBalaka (1916) [The Flight of Cranes]. The English renderings of his poetry, which include The Gardener (1913), Fruit-Gathering (1916), and The Fugitive (1921), do not generally correspond to particular volumes in the original Bengali; and in spite of its title, Gitanjali: Song Offerings(1912), the most acclaimed of them, contains poems from other works besides its namesake. Tagore's major plays are Raja (1910) [The King of the Dark Chamber], Dakghar (1912) [The Post Office], Achalayatan (1912) [The Immovable], Muktadhara (1922) [The Waterfall], andRaktakaravi (1926) [Red Oleanders]. He is the author of several volumes of short stories and a number of novels, among them Gora (1910), Ghare-Baire (1916) [The Home and the World], and Yogayog (1929) [Crosscurrents]. Besides these, he wrote musical dramas, dance dramas, essays of all types, travel diaries, and two autobiographies, one in his middle years and the other shortly before his death in 1941. Tagore also left numerous drawings and paintings, and songs for which he wrote the music himself.

From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969

This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book seriesLes Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.

Rabindranath Tagore died on August 7, 1941.

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Young Businessman Kalanidhi Maran

Kalanidhi Maran

Kalanidhi Maran (Tamil: கலாநிதி மாறன்), born 1964, is the Chairman and Managing Director of Sun Network, which is the most profitable Television network in Asia.^[1][2]. In June 2010, He acquired Spice Jet which is the most profitable ^[3] airlines in India^[4][5]. His television channels and newspapers are primarliy concentrated in South India and FM radio stations, DTH service, Airlines are spread across the country.

Early life 

• Schooling at Don Bosco, Egmore, Chennai. 
• In Loyola College, Chennai he became student’s union chairman and led an agitation on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue.
• Received MBA from the University of Scranton. 
• Worked for Kungumam Tamil Magazine owned by his family in the late 1980s. 
• In 1990 he started a monthly video (VHS) news magazine in Tamil called Poomaalai which was stopped in 1992 due to piracy. 
• He Founded SunTV on April 14, 1993 with an investment of 86000 US$ from Bank loan.

Notable Achievements

• He is the 17th richest Indian with net worth of 4 Billion US$ (Rs 18000 Crores) . 
• He is the highest paid business man in India. 
• He has won Young Businessman awards from CNBC, ERNST & Young. 
• Prestigious USA based Forbes magazine named him as "Television king of southern India". 
• He was also among the few representatives at a roundtable with visiting U.S. President Bill Clinton. 
• Sun TV was listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange on April 24, 2006.

Business entities

• Sun Network - South Indian Television Channels 
• Sun Direct DTH - Direct to Home broadcasting Service. 
• Spicejet - Airlines 
• Suryan FM - Tamil Radio 
• Red FM - MultiLingual Indian Radio 
• Sun Pictures - Tamil Movie Production house 
• Dinakaran - Tamil daily news paper 
• Tamil Murasu - Tamil evening news paper 
• Kunkumam,Mutharam,Vannathirai,Kumguma Chimizh - Tamil magazines 
• Sumangali Cable Vision(SCV) -Multi System Operators (MSO) 
• Sun 18 -to distribute its channels through cable, DTH, IPTV, HITS and MMDS.

Family
He is the son of Former Union Minister of commerce Murasoli Maran, nephew of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, and the brother of India's textile minister Dayanidhi Maran. He married Kaveri a Kannadiga in 1991 and has a daughter named Kavya (Born 1992)[3]. His wife is the Joint Managing Director of Sun network. He proved to be successful in spite of his father's political rivals ruling the state for most of the period since he entered the media business. He also emerged as No.1 in neighboring states where his competitors includes politicians and business men from those states.

Dispute with Karunanidhi's family
In May 2007 followers of Karunanidhi's son M K Azhagiri attacked Maran's newspaper office after a survey in the newspaper claimed people prefer M K Stalin over Azhagiri .Later in Dec 2008 it was claimed that dispute between Maran and Karunanidhi Families was resolved. However in 2010, a criminal case against Kalanithi Maran was filed by Azhagiri owned Cable TV distrubiton company Jak communications.