BUSINESS KING DHIRUBHAI AMBANI THE MANAGEMENT GURU
BUSINESS KING DHIRUBHAI AMBANI THE MANAGEMENT GURU Rising from a clerk in a British company in Aden, to the ‘prince of polyester’, to the uncrowned king of India Inc. and a Padma Vibhushan awardee, the senior Ambani lived a fascinating life, which was even adapted into the Bollywood blockbuster Guru by legendary director Mani Ratnam. He exported ginger, cardamom, turmeric and other spices to the west Asian market where he had established links during his Aden stint, and then branched out into textiles and yarn in the early 1960s. On his 86 th birth anniversary, ThePrint looks back at the story of how Ambani surpassed every established name in the business community in a matter of three decades. Learning the ropes Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani was born on 28 December 1932 in Junagarh, modern-day Gujarat, to school teachers Jamnaben (known to be a thrifty homemaker) and Hirachand Govardhandas Ambani. A fierce independence activist in s...
