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A JOURNEY EXTRAORDINAIRE

The Reluctant Billionaire: How Dilip Shanghvi Became the Richest Self-Made Indian

By Soma Das

Publisher: Penguin Portfolio

Pages: 520

Price: ₹799

a young man called Dilip Shanghvi, son of a Calcutta-based (now Kolkata) wholesale distributor of medicines, decided to set up a drug company. As for assets, he had his father’s medicine shop (the sole Calcutta stockist of Torrent, the only Indian pharma company that focussed on psychiatry at the time), a few friends and a

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