Aditya Vikram Birla: How a 24-Year-Old Defied the Licence Raj and Built the Foundation of a $120+ Billion Global Empire
Aditya Vikram Birla, an MIT-trained chemical engineer, became India’s first true global industrialist by setting up 19 overseas factories during the Licence Raj era, long before economic liberalisation. Starting with a textile plant in Bangkok in 1969 at age 25-26, he laid the groundwork for what is today the Aditya Birla Group — a conglomerate … Read more