Business Trailblazers of India

The ties that the Ambani family have had and continue to do so are meant to be the entries of the record books.   Once the most powerful family in India, the foundation of devotion to each other was shaken after the demise of Dhirubhai Ambani, the father of Ambani brothers. The way the two brothers feuded over the split of the empire that their father had created from scratch, it formed for a spectacle and was rancorous on so many levels. 4. But then, Kokilaben Ambani, a diminutive woman at 70, with sons Mukesh and Anil, daughters Deepti and Neena, sons-in-law Raj Salgaonkar and Shyam Kothari in tow, armed with a four-page agreement and a 300-word press statement, brokered peace between her warring sons. "I am confident that Mukesh and Anil will uphold the values of their father and work towards enhancing value for RIL shareholders," she said. The trouble was spelt when the elder brother started acting really big to the extent that the younger one found himself iso...

It was exactly on Kokilaben’s birthday in the month of February of 2005, when Anil Ambani, Chairperson of Reliance Group, surprised Tina, his wife by handing over the MoU of Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital. “For me it was like a birthday gift.” He handed over the project to her and said, “It is your baby now”, a project, she not only nurtured, but aided in prospering as well. Being a corporate-housewife and former Bollywood star with no knowledge of medicine or how to set up a hospital was handed the challenge and Anil told her that he would find her one person to help--after that she was on her own. As a matter of fact, it was Anil who the hospital started, told her that since that both of them have to start giving back to the society since they have got so much from it. “You have got so much from the society. I have got so much from the society. We need to give back. We need to nourish the people we live with, to nourish the societies we live in, the communities we live...