Business & Industrialists

India's economy was built by a handful of people who bet big and often started with nothing. This section tells their stories: Jamsetji Tata, who built a steel city and a science institute before India was even free; Dhirubhai Ambani, who went from petrol-pump attendant to the biggest name in Indian business; the Birlas; the Infosys founders coding a software giant out of a small flat; Verghese Kurien turning village milk into Amul. Told as lives and gambles, not balance sheets — the risk, the ruthlessness, the reinvention. How a poor country grew its own tycoons.