Wednesday, July 08, 2009
ANAND GIRIDHARADAS, The New York Times
ANAND GIRIDHARADAS, The New York Times
Indian to the Core, and an Oligarch
In the last century, Mohandas K. Gandhi was India’s most famous and powerful private citizen. Today, Mr. Ambani is widely regarded as playing that role, though in a very different way.
Mr. Gandhi was a scrawny ascetic, a champion of the village, a skeptic of modernity and a man focused on spiritual purity. Mr. Ambani is a fleshy oligarch, a champion of the city, a burier of the past and a man who deftly — and, some critics say, ruthlessly — wields financial power. He is the richest person in India, with a fortune estimated in the tens of billions of dollars, and many people here expect that he will be the richest person on earth before long.
Posted by Editor on 07/08/09 at 08:40 PM •
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