The banned biography of Dhirubhai Ambani speaks - Nothing succeeds like success!!

Currently, I am reading, ‘The Polyester Prince - the rise of dhirubhai ambani’, the banned autobiography of Late Dhirubhai Ambani. The book is a step by step detail of how Reliance grew from zero to a conglomerate of magnitude which even Dhirubhai would not have imagined. When he wanted to do something, it means the thing has to be done, no matter how. One thing which is pretty clear from the book is that law is not bigger than money and if you have enough money to fill the coffers of people at the helm of the government, one day you can become bigger than the government, bigger than the press and bigger than the judiciary. Reliance is a testimony to this fact and it has become so big that nobody dares to ask how it was made possible.

It makes me think that, there are biographies of JRD TATA, Mr. Birla and many more business barons but not a single book on the biggest and the mightiest group of India, Reliance. Is it so that Dhirubhai never wanted public acclamation, fame and media attention or because he was apprehensive and unwilling to share it in public? I think the later cause seems to be more appropriate, as is clear from the fact that this biography was banned as soon as it was launched. The book was launched just a day before the issue of Reliance Energy and was banned in India due to obvious reason. The Australian journalist has spoken very explicitly about the ways and means in which government officials were tamed to frame the rules in favour of Reliance.

I am finding the book extremely interesting and it is a must read for all those who are interested in getting an insight of the way India’s biggest corporate house was built. But everything in the book can not be considered at par as the book has no comments from the Ambanis’ themselves and in wake of absence of any other evidence we have to believe the author as he has cited reasonable sources of evidence in the book.

Please let me know, if anybody is willing to read the book!! I will share the same with you. See you soon with a review on the book as I expect to finish the book this weekend.