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                                                    Dhirubhai Ambani

       Born: 28 December 1932, Chorwad

       Died: 6 July, [2002] (age 69), Breach Candy Hospital Trust, Mumbai

       Wife: Kokilaben Ambani {1955- 2002}.

             Nationality: Indian

             Children: Mukesh Ambani, Anil Ambani, Nina Kothari, Deepti Salgaocar.

            Grandchildren: Akash Ambani, Isha Ambani, Anant Ambani,Jai Anshul                                             Ambani.

            Siblings: Ramaniklal Ambani, Saurabh Patel, Triochana Ben

            Awards: Padma Vibhushan [2016].

            Occupation: Founder of Reliance Industries[RIL]; Founder of Reliance                                          Capital, Reliance Infrastructure and Reliance power

Introduction:

AN INVITATION

                    TO BOMBAY

The envelope was hand- delivered to our house in Golf Links, Tan enclave in New Delhi whose name captured the clubbable lifestyle of its leisured and propertied Indian residents, soon after we had arrived in the middle of a north Indian winter to begin a long assignment. It contained a large card, with a picture embossed in red and gold of the elephant- headed deity Ganesh, improbably carried on the back of a much smaller mouse. Dhirubhai and Kokilaben Ambani invited us to the wedding of their son Anil to Tina Munim in Bombay.

             In January 1991, just prior to the explosion in car ownership that in later winters kept the midday warmth trapped in a throat- tearing haze overnight, it was bitterly cold most of the time in Delhi. Our furniture had stil not arrived- a day of negotiations about the duty payable lay ahead at the Delhi customs office where the container was broken open and inspected- and we camped on office chairs and fold- up beds, wrapped in blankets.

        The Iraqi invasion of Kuwalt had pushed up oil prices and forced the Indian Government to evacuate some three mil ion of its citizens working in the Gulf. The extra half- bil ion dollers all this cost India was pushing the country close to default on its foreign debt. officials from the Ministry of Finance were already negotiating a bail- out from the IMF in washington.

A Persuasive Young Bania

                               

Among all the 550- odd princely rulers left, with British Residents at their shoulders, to run their domains in the last years of the Raj, few were more eccentric than Mahabatkhan, the Nawab of Junagadh.

          The Nawab's family had run this fiedom, one of several in a political jigsaw covering te Saurshtra peninsula in Gujarat, since a faujdar or military commander of the Mughal Empire named Sher Khan Babi founded his own subordinate dynasty in 1690. Two and a half centuries later, this warrior's descendant was best known for his love of dogs. Mahabatkhan had 150 of them, with an equal number of dog- handlers on his payroll and individual quarters for all the canine retinue. To celebrate the 1weddng'

        The Nawab was the first political target to come into the sights of Dhirubhai Ambani, although it is unlikely thet he was ever specificaly aware of it. It was during a movement aimed at overthrowing the Nawab's rule and securing Junagadh's accession to India during the partition of British India in 1947.

                        Ambani's particular caste is called the Modh Bania, from their original home in the town of Modasa north of Ahmedabad before a migration many centuries ago to Saurashstra. The Modh are one of three Bania caste in this part of Gujarat, who might eat meals together but who would each marry within their own caste.They are strict vegetarians,and only the man take alcohol.

Dhirubhai Ambani Dead

Ambani's was admitted to the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai on 24 June 2002 after he suffered a major stroke. It was his second stroke, the first had occurred in February 1986 and had paralyzed his right hand. He was in a coma for more than a week and a number of doctors were consulted. He died on 6 July 2002.

The country has lost iconic proof of what an ordinary Indian fired by the spirit of enterprise and driven by determination can achieve in his own lifetime.

This new star, which rose on the horizon of the Indian industry three decades ago, remained on the top until the end by virtue of his ability to dream big and translate it into reality through the strength of his tenacity and perseverance. I join the people of Maharashtra in paying my tribute to the memory of Ambani and convey my heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family.