@jacquesm, I appreciate your links below. But I don't see much critical analysis in those links. For example, in the wikipedia article, there are no details about what he did from 1962 to 1991. What projects did he handle during this time, any crisis, etc. Did he fail anywhere or was it midas touch everywhere? A CEO of $100B empire has no controversies?

Btw, the article conveniently skips 2G scam that happened in India and how his company got a good price on the spectrum. I am not saying he did wrong stuff...but its not entirely overboard.

However, I agree with you, that he definitely leveraged is starting position and made for international expansion.

Btw, if you have $1B starting money, whether you are in first world or third world doesn't matter...you can buy companies anywhere.

Tough crowd.

These are starting points, use them to pull up more information, put it back into google, rinse, repeat.

It won't be long and you'll be drowning in critical analysis, such as the time when the farmers whose land was to be vacated for the Nano factories revolted.

I can't do your research and reading for you.

As for the takeover of corus/hoogovens, that was a $13 Billion deal, getting from $1B to the point where you can do a buy-out at that level is a fairly impressive affair, it was the largest international take-over by an Indian company in history.

That alone makes it exceptional and I think you're underestimating the magnitude of that achievement.

Oh, and you don't need to do the @username thing here it's not twitter.