Who should lead India

Deeds not words. These are some of the rich , powerful and successful indians who have shown us how to earn the millions. They have made it to the billioneres club.They have earned it and they are able to keep it going.

 According to the Forbes magazine, India has recently become home to the largest number of billionaires in Asia. The following data comes from the Forbes list of India's richest 

Until the late 1960s, royalty like Nizam  dominated the elite list in India.We respect our Tatas and Birlas, but  common men  like Dhirubhai Ambani began to amass fortunes in the last quarter of 20th century as the country began to liberalise controls on industry. 

So it is that time where we all can dream big, and strive to become billionaires. Till then be inspired by our fine fellowmen!


1 Lakshmi Mittal 51 56 London Arcelor Mittal Steel

2 Mukesh Ambani 49 50 Mumbai Reliance Industries Diversified 






3 Anil Ambani 45 48 Mumbai Reliance - Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group Diversified 

4 Kushal Pal Singh 35 75 Delhi DLF Universal Real Estate, Construction 






5 Azim Premji 12.7 61 Bangalore Wipro Diversified but primarily software and IT-enabled 
services 





6 Sunil Mittal 12.5 49 Delhi Bharti Airtel Telecommunications 





7 Shashi Ruia & Ravi Ruia 12 63 Mumbai Essar Group Textiles, Steel, Shipping 





8 Ramesh Chandra 11.6 68 Delhi Unitech Construction, Real Estate 





9 Kumar Mangalam Birla 11 39 Mumbai Aditya Birla Group Diversified 






10 Tulsi Tanti 10 47 Pune Suzlon Wind Power 






11 Savitri Jindal 8.5 58 Hisar, Mumbai Jindal Steel Metals 

12 Anil Agarwal 7.4 52 London Vedanta Resources Mining
13 Gautam Adani 6.7 45 Ahmedabad Adani Group Infrastructure
14 Grandhi Rao 6.2 57 Hyderabad GMR Group Infrastructure
15 Adi Godrej 5.2 64 Mumbai Godrej Industries Diversified 

6 Uday Kotak 4.6 46 Mumbai Kotak Mahindra Finance 

17 Indu Jain 4.4 71 Delhi Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. Media 




18 Shiv Nadar 4.3 61 Delhi HCL Consumer electronics, ITES
19 Anand Jain 4 50 Mumbai Jai Corp Limited Real Estate
20 Dilip Shanghvi 3.9 50 Mumbai Sun Pharmaceuticals Pharmaceuticals
23 Jaiprakash Gaur 3.9 76 Delhi Jaiprakash Associates Infrastructure 
24 Cyrus Poonawalla 3.1 67 Pune Serum Institute of India Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology 

Kalanithi Maran 2.7 42 Chennai Sun Network Media
26 Subhash Chandra Goel 2.6 55 Mumbai Zee Network Entertainment
27 Baba Kalyani 2.5 56 Pune Bharat Forge Metals 





28 Rakesh Wadhawan 2.35 55 Mumbai Housing Development & Infrastructure Ltd Real Estate
29 Rahul Bajaj 2.3 67 Pune Bajaj Diversified 

30 Malvinder & Shivinder Singh 2.25 NA Delhi Ranbaxy Pharma 

31 Venugopal Dhoot 2.2 52 Mumbai Videocon Consumer durables
32 Rajan Raheja 2.15 54 Mumbai Rajan Raheja Group Diversified
33 Niranjan Hiranandani 2.1 57 Mumbai Hiranandani Developers Pvt. Ltd Real Estate
34 Vivek Burman 2 70 Delhi Dabur India Limited Herbal consumer products
35 L. Madhusudhan Rao 1.9 41 Hyderabad Lanco Group Infrastructure
36 Gautam Thapar 1.8 46 Mumbai Avantha Group Chemicals, infrastructure & engineering
37 Anurag Dikshit 1.75 35 Gibraltar PartyGaming Online gambling
38 Vikas Oberoi 1.7 37 Mumbai Oberoi Constructions Property development
39 N.R. Narayana Murthy 1.69 61 Bangalore Infosys Technologies Software and IT-enabled 
services 

40 Anu Aga 1.67 65 Pune Thermax Energy and environment engineering solutions
41 Gracias Saldanha 1.65 70 Mumbai Glenmark Pharmaceutical
42 Vijay Mallya 1.6 51 Bangalore United Breweries Group Beverages, Airlines
43 Naresh Goyal 1.55 56 Mumbai Jet Airways Airlines
44 Murali K.Divi 1.53 Divi's Laboratories Pharmaceuticals
45 Jignesh Shah 1.37 Financial Technologies Financial software
46 Yusuf Hamied 1.32 69 Mumbai Cipla Pharma
47 Nandan Nilekani 1.26 50 Bangalore Infosys Software and IT-enabled services
48 Pradeep Jain 1.25 Parsvnath Developers Real estate
49 Siddhiprasad 1.24 34 Nagpur Essel Propack Diversified
50 Habil Khorakiwala 1.23 63 Mumbai Wockhardt Health
51 Rohtas Goel 1.20 Omaxe Real estate
52 S Gopalakrishnan 1.18 51 Bangalore Infosys Software and IT-enabled services
53 Brijmohan Lall Munjal 1.12 83 Delhi Hero Honda Automotive
54 Rakesh Jhunjhunwala 1.10 Rare Enterprises Investments
55 Keshub Mahindra 1.08 Mahindra & Mahindra Diversified
56 Nimesh Kampani 1.05 61 Mumbai JM Financial Financial services 

We all know who mallika or vipasa are, we love all our khans and all the celebreties, but hard working though they are  these here guys can be powerful leaders for us. We should learn from their experience in the fianncial world how to go ahead in life. 

Please go to my photos and see more of our captions of Industry , the people who create jobs and support  families . And how about paying them the respect they deserve!
Kudos and we salute the future leaders of our country!

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