Kishore Biyani to Sunil Mittal: India Inc titans who defined #FreeIndia

[caption id=“attachment_1660469” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  Indian telecom tycoon Sunil Mittal, 56, has cemented Bharti Airtel’s position as India’s biggest mobile operator with 200 million domestic customers. Image: Reuters[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1662571” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  From working in his father’s small sweet shop in Agartala to obtaining a new bank licence to start a full-fledged bank in India, Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, 53, has come a long way. Bandhan, the NGO he started in 2001 that gave small loans to help the poor in Kolkata’s suburban town of Konnagar, beat large conglomerates like Reliance and Aditya Birla Nuvo to bag a commercial bank licence in 2014.[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1662573” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  Dilip Shanghvi: From a pharmaceutical start-up with sales of $0.02 mn in 1983, Sun Pharma has grown to become the largest drug manufacturer in the country and is worth over Rs 1.64 lakh crore today thanks to the efforts of its introvertive but business-savy founder Dilip Shanghvi. Sun Pharma to the fifth spot globally in the generic drugs market. Shanghvi, 58, is India’s third richest businessman with a net worth of $16.3 billion.[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1662575” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, MD and chairman of Biocon, started the company in her garage in 1978, with just Rs 10,000. Today Biocon is Asia’s largest biopharma concern, worth Rs 3,655 crore. Not only is Shaw an astute businesswoman but is also considered one of Asia’s top philanthropists. Shaw, 61, is also one of the few business personalities active on social media. Her tweets on corporate and civic issues have large fan following.[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1662577” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  Kishore Biyani: The Indian retail czar, Biyani, 53, changed the way Indians shop. From setting up the first Pantaloons store in Gariahat, Kolkata in 1997 and then the first Big Bazaar in Mumbai at Phoenix Mills in 2002, Biyani redefined many rules. He brought the concept of discount marketing and destination malls to India. Today, with a pan India presence, Future Group is a well-known household name and is worth Rs 5770 crore.[/caption]