"My life has been full of interesting people", Rama Prasad Goenka tells Business Standard when asked about memories of an era when the open Indian economy was converted into a closed one based on the licence raj by the person whom he openly idolises, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
He was 83. Goenka is survived by his wife Sushila and sons Harsh Vardhan and Sanjiv.
The split of the Rs 19,000-crore (Rs 190 billion) RPG empire is now complete, with Rama Prasad Goenka's younger son, Sanjiv Goenka, on Wednesday stepping out of the shadow of the umbrella brand that traces its history to 1820.
He made his mark in diverse businesses, ranging from tyre to music.
The BPO's board will meet on Friday to finalise deal.
CESC Properties, a subsidiary of the group's power utility, CESC Ltd, is building the city's first luxury mall, Spencer's Galleria. It will house 20 luxury brands, a first for Kolkata.
Succession planning is the new mantra by which traditional groups are warding off territorial disputes.
Speaking on the current economic meltdown, RPG said that the global meldown would help India emerge to be a much stronger economy.
RP would agree that his four years in Presidency College, the influence of great teachers such as historian Sushobhan Sarkar ("I would go into a trance, listening to his lectures"), and regular visits to bookshops like Dasgupta and Dhar & Sons in College Street, made a bibliophile of him.
The Duncans Goenka group is in a spot of bother over the death of workers and non-payment of dues to employees.
Business should be pleasure, not pressure, believes Thrissur-based T S Kalyanaraman.
The state needs great numbers of new-generation entrepreneurs.
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