“There was nobody to run the business...
“I came back to India, and at the age of 21, with no business experience, became responsible for my father’s firm. Those were days of immense struggle”
By M.G. ARUN
AZIM PREMJI,75
Diversifying the family business his father founded away from cooking oil and soap, Premji entered the information technology sector in 1982. Today, Wipro is an IT powerhouse, India’s third-largest software company
Born in Mumbai in 1945 into a Gujarati Muslim family, Azim Hashim Premji had, in his
