Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Sabeer Bhatia N. R.

Narayana Murthy Sunil Mittal Vijay Mallya

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw:

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (born 23 March 1953) is an Indian entrepreneur. She is the Chairman & Managing Director of Biocon Ltd.

Early life
She was born in Bangalore, and educated at the Bishop Cotton Girls School and Mount Carmel College at Bangalore. After completing her Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from Bangalore University in 1973, she went to Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education (nowUniversity of Ballarat), Australia to study brewing and qualified as a master brewer in 1974. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw started her professional career as trainee brewer in Carlton & United Beverages in 1974. In 1978, she joined as a Trainee Manager with Biocon Biochemicals Limited in Ireland.

In Biocon
Collaborating with the same Irish firm, she founded Biocon India with a capital of Rs. 10,000/- in 1978. The initial operation was to extract an enzyme from papaya. Her application for loans was turned down by banks on two counts biotechnology was then a new word and the company lacked assets. Over the years, the company grew under her stewardship and is today the biggest biopharmaceutical firm in India. In 2004, Biocon went for an IPO and the issue was over-subscribed by over 30 times. Post-IPO, Shaw held close to 40% of the stock of the company and was regarded as Indias richest woman with an estimated worth of Rs. 2,100 crore (~U.S. $ 480 million).

Personal life
She is a civic activist, especially with respect to municipal administration in Bangalore. She is also an art collector. She has authored 'Ale and Arty,' a Coffee table book about brewing beer illustrated by paintings of some of India's renowned artists. Famous brewing families and beer firms are the subject of the book. In 1998, she married John Shaw, an expatriate manager and Indophile from Scotland at Madura Coats. John Shaw resigned as the managing director of Madura Coats the same year and joined Biocon as its Director for International Business and the Vice Chairman of the Board. She is also a great enthusiastic trekker. In an interview with the Deccan Herald dated September 9, 2003, Ms. Shaw revealed pride in Bangalore, the city where she was born and brought up and her disappointment about the changing beauty of old Bangalore she knows. In her interview, Ms. Shaw lamented at the crumbling beauty of Bangalore that was at one time a paradise city with a soul. She felt that Bangalore has a unique culture of its own and the infrastructure had not kept pace with development and hence led to decay in the beauty of the city. She felt that Bangalore culture includes its own theatres, food, music, academics, architecture. "There are very few cities in India where academicians and scientists are glorified the way they are in Bangalore", she said.

In her effort to preserve the character of Bangalore, she has been proactively involved in various city improvement plans like the Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF). Being a lover of art and arty things, her office is adorned with artifacts and paintings by Yusuf Arakkal and various other artistes reflect her feelings. She has been a trustee of the Karnataka Chitra Kala Parishat as well. Ms Shaw holds very dear the MV Memorial Award she was given (MV popularly stands as a nick name for the great visionary Sir M Vishwesharaiah, architect of modern Karnataka). According to Ms. Shaw, she personally knew Sir MV and they were good family friends. The award reminded her of her childhood days and she felt honoured to receive it.. ACHIEVEMENTS OF MS.SHAW.

Recognition
She was termed India's Biotech Queen by The Economist and Fortune, and India's mother of invention by New York Times. One of the nine Indians to be listed in the 100 most influential persons of the world in the 2010 Time Magazine. Some of the major awards won by her are: -

Nikkei Asia Prizes - Regional Growth by Nikkei Inc. (2009) Interviewed by Channel NewsAsia in programme Conversation with Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, series 3

Episode 1 (2008)

Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award (2006) Padma Bhushan (2005) Honorary Doctorate from Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) (2005) Lifetime Achievement Award from Indian Chamber of Commerce (2005) Honorary Doctorate of Science, from Ballarat University (2004) The Economic Times Business Woman of the Year Award (2004) Whirlpool GR8 Women award for Science and Technology (2004) Australian Alumni High Achiever Award from the IDP Australian Alumni Association (2003) Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Healthcare & Life Sciences Category (2002) Woman of the Year from the International Women's Association, Chennai (19981999) Padma Shri (1989) Outstanding Young Person Award by Jaycees (1987) Rotary award for the Best Model Employer (1983) Outstanding Contribution Award (AWAKE) (1983) Gold for Best Woman Entrepreneur, Institute of Marketing Management (1982)

Sabeer Bhatia
Sabeer Bhatia (born December 30, 1968) is an Indian entrepreneur who co-founded Hotmail.

Biography
Sabeer Bhatia was born to a Hindu Punjabi family in Chandigarh, India. His father, Baldev Bhatia, was as an officer in the Indian Army who later joined the Indian Ministry of Defence, while his mother, Daman Bhatia, was a senior official at the Central Bank of India.
[1]

Bhatia was schooled at the St. Joseph's Boys' High School in Bangalore. In 1986, he began his undergraduate education at the Birla

Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) in Pilani and was transferred to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) after two years at BITS. After graduating from Caltech, Sabeer went to Stanford University in 1989 to pursue his M.S. in Electrical Engineering. At Stanford, he worked on Ultra Low Power VLSI Design. At Stanford, he got inspired by entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs and Scott McNealy and eventually decided to become one himself. Instead of pursuing a Ph.D. after his Masters, he decided to join Apple. [edit]Founder

of Hotmail

Sabeer Bhatia joined a startup company called Firepower Systems Inc, where he spent two years. In 1994, Sabeer started working on new ideas for the Internet and he teamed up with Jack Smith, a colleague from Apple Computer, Inc. The two came up with the concept of a web-based database entitled Javasoft. While pursuing this idea, they subsequently realized the potential of a web-based e-mail system and thus decided to create one called HoTMaiL (the uppercase letters spelling out HTMLthe language used to write the base of a webpage). In order to attract attention, the e-mail service was provided for free and revenue was obtained through the advertising on the website. Draper Fisher Ventures invested $300,000 on the project and the service was launched on July 4, 1996.[2] In less than six months, the website attracted over 1 million subscribers. As the interest in the web-based email provider increased, Microsofteventually took notice and on December 30, 1997 (Bhatia's 29th birthday), Hotmail was sold to Microsoft for a reported sum of $400million [edit]Other

ventures

After selling Hotmail, Bhatia worked at Microsoft for about a year and in April 1999, he left the company to start another website, Arzoo Inc, which was shut down when the dot-com bubble burst. In 2010, he relaunched Arzoo as a travel portal. He started (alongside co-founders Shiraz Kanga and Viraf Zack) BlogEverywhere, a website attempting to capitalise on the emergingblogosphere. In 2006, he became an angel investor for NeoAccel, a network security vendor and maker of SSL VPN-Plus. In November 2007, he released an online office alternative to Microsoft Office, called Live Documents. This application allows users to use their documents both offline and online, edit, collaborate and share documents in real-time with others, and sync documents between various computers and users. Users can also download their Microsoft Office plug-in, which allows them to get the best of offline and online offices suites, along with full compatibility for all office document formats. He has also pushed for enabling access to the internet through cable television in Indian homes.

In January, 2008, Sabeer announced the launch of his latest venture SabSeBolo.com,[3] a free web-based teleconferencing system ("Sab Se Bolo" means "(Let's) Talk To Everyone" in Hindi). On 14 June 2009, Sabeer Bhatia's SabseBolo acquired Jaxtr, the internet telephone service startup for an undisclosed amount.[4] Jaxtr will function with the same brand name and help SabseBolo with its large userbase.[4] His future plans include the development of a new city in India called Nanocity. The aim of Nanocity is to replicate the vibrancy and ecosystem of innovation found in the Silicon Valley. [edit]Personal He married Tania Sharma, heiress of the Baidyanath group, in 2008. They have known each other for eight years as friends. They were married in a private ceremony in Langkawi, Malaysia. [edit]Awards

"Entrepreneur of the Year," Awarded by the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (1998) Named to the "Elite 100," Upside magazine's list of top trendsetters in the New Economy Recipient of the TR100 award, presented by MIT to 100 young innovators who are expected to have the greatest impact on

technology in the next few years

Selected by the San Jose Mercury News and POV magazine as one of the ten most successful entrepreneurs of (1998) Named by TIME as one of the "People to Watch" in International Business (2002)

N. R. Narayana Murthy
Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy better known as N. R. Narayana Murthy, is an Indian businessman, software engineer and the founderof Infosys Technologies, a consulting and IT services company based in India. He is currently the non-executive Chairman of Infosys. He was the CEO of the company for 21 years, from 1981 to 2002. After stepping down as CEO in 2002, he has broadened his scope of activities to social services as well as promoting India globally. His estimated net worth is $1.6 billion as of 2010. In 2009, his lectures delivered around the world have been published as a book A Better India: A Better World [2].

Early life
Born into a Kannada family in Mysore, India on August 20, 1946, Murthy graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Engineering, University of Mysore in 1967 after attending government school, and received his master's degree from IIT Kanpur in 1969. His first position was at IIM Ahmedabad as chief systems programmer where he worked on a time-sharing system and designed and implemented a BASIC interpreter for ECIL (Electronics Corporation of India Limited). After IIM Ahmedabad, he then joined Patni Computer Systems in Pune. Before moving to Mumbai, Murthy met his wife Sudha Murthy in Pune who at the time was an engineer working at Tata Engineering and Locomotive Co. Ltd. (Telco, now known as Tata Motors) in Pune. In 1981, with an investment of Rs.10,000 ($250 at the time) from his wife, he founded Infosys with six other software professionals. He served as the president of the National Association of Software and Service Companies, India from 1992 to 1994. Mr. Murthy is the brother-in-law of serial entrepreneur Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande and the uncle of former NASSCOM Chairman and MphasiS chief Jerry Rao.

Personal life
His wife, Sudha Murthy ne Kulkarni, is an Indian social worker and accomplished author. She is known for her philanthropic work through the Infosys Foundation. Her sister, Jayashree Despande is wife of enterpreneur and founder of US-based Sycamore Networks, Gururaj Deshpande. They have two children - Rohan and Akshata. Rohan is engaged to Venu Srinivasan's (of TVS motors) daughter Lakshmi Venu. Akshata Murthy is married to Rishi Sunak.

Corporate profile
Murthy served as the founder CEO of Infosys for 21 years, and was succeeded by co-founder Nandan Nilekani in March 2002. At Infosys he articulated, designed and implemented the Global Delivery Model which has become the foundation for the huge success in IT services outsourcing from India. He serves on the boards of various companies and universities across the world. Murthy serves as an independent director on the board of the DBS Bank of Singapore. This is the largest government-owned bank in Singapore. He also serves as a director on the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India, as the co-chairman of the plc. and as a member of the Board of NDTV, India. He also serves as an independent director on the board of the European FMCG giant Unilever. He is an IT advisor to several Asian countries. He is also an Independent Director on the board of HSBC. He also serves on the boards of the Ford Foundation and UN Foundation. Indo-British Partnership, as a member of the Prime Minister's council on trade and industry, as a member of the Asia Advisory Board of British Telecommunications He is the chairman of the governing body of the International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore, and was the Chairman of the Governing Body of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Directors of INSEAD, Board of Overseers of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Board of Trustees, Business Advisory Council of Great Lakes Institute of Management - Chennai, Singapore Management University Board of Trustees and the Board of Advisors for the William F. Achtmeyer Center for Global Leadership at the Tuck School of Business. Mr. Murthy also sits on the Board of Governors of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM), a graduate school of business located in the Philippines and is also the Chairman of the Board of Members of School of Management [3],Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) located in Bangkok, Thailand. He is the chairman of the [4], Asia Business Council, an organization headquartered in Hong Kong. He is also a member of the Advisory Boards and Councils of various well-known universities such as the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Corporate Governance initiative at the Harvard Business School, Cornell committee on academic affairs and committee on alumni affairs and development, Yale University and the University of Tokyos President's Council. Murthy retired from his executive position at Infosys on 20 August 2006. However, he continues as the Non-Executive Chairman of the board[3]. Murthy started a new venture capital fund called Catamaran Venture Fund with the money he got by selling 800,000 Infosys shares worth 174 Crores. Sudha Murthy does it again by helping him in setting up his VC Fund by giving him Rs.430 crores which she got by selling quarter of her stake 1.6% in Infosys.

Accolades
Murthy has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors. In 2008, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, a second highest civilian award by India and Lgion d'honneur, the highest civilan award awarded by France. In 2000, he was awarded the Padma Shri, a civilian award by the Government of India.He was voted the World Entrepreneur of the Year - 2003 by Ernst & Young. He was one of the two people named as Asia's Businessmen of the Year for 2003 by Fortune magazine. In 2001, he was named by TIME / CNN as one of

the twenty-five, most influential global executives, a group selected for their lasting influence in creating new industries and reshaping markets. He was awarded the Max Schmidheiny Liberty 2001 prize ( Switzerland), in recognition of his promotion of individual responsibility and liberty. In 1999,BusinessWeek named him one of the nine entrepreneurs of the year and he was also featured in the BusinessWeek's 'The Stars of Asia' (for three successive years - 1998, 1999 and 2000). In 1998, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, one of the premier institutes of higher learning in India, conferred on him the Distinguished Alumnus Award, and in 1996-97, he was awarded the JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award. He was awarded the Dean's medal by the Wharton Scool in 2001. In December 2005, Narayana Murthy was voted as the 7th most admired CEO/Chairman in the world in a global study conducted by Burson-Marsteller with the Economist Intelligence Unit [5]. The list included 14 others with distinguished names such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobsand Warren Buffett. In May 2006, Narayana Murthy has, for the fifth year running, emerged the most admired business leader of India in a study conducted by Brand-comm, a leading Brand Consulting, Advertising and PR firm. The Economist ranked him 8th among the top 15 most admired global leaders (2005). He was ranked 28th among the world's mostrespected business leaders by the Financial Times (2005). He topped the Economic Times Corporate Dossier list of India's most powerful CEOs for two consecutive years 2004 and 2005. TIME magazines Global Tech Influentials list (August 2004) named Murthy as one of the ten leaders who are helping shape the future of technology. In November 2006, TIME magazine again voted him as one of the Asian heroes who have brought about revolutionary changes in Asia in the last 60 years. The list featured people who have had a significant impact on Asian history over the past 60 years and it included others such as Mahatma Gandhi, Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Muhammad Ali Jinnah etc. He was the first recipient of the Indo-French Forum Medal (2003), awarded by the Indo-French Forum in recognition of his role in promoting Indo-French ties. He was recently awarded the Commander of the British Order (CBE) by the British government. He was awarded the IEEE Ernst Weber Leadership Medal in 2007. In 2010 the board of directors of the IEEE elected him as an honorary fellow of the IEEE. In 2010, in what is considered to the be the highest professional distinction for an engineer, the American National Academy of Engineers (NAE) elected Murthy as a foreign member. Murthy also holds over 26 honorary doctorates from universities across the world.

Awards

Padma Shri - Government of India Padma Vibhushan - Government of India Officer of the Legion of Honor - Government of France[4] Order of the British Empire- Government of United Kingdom.[5]

Books by Narayana Murthy

A Better India, A Better World, Penguin Books, 2009, ISBN 978-06-7008-283-4

Sunil Mittal
Sunil Bharti Mittal (born 23 October 1957) is an Indian telecom mogul, philanthropist and the founder, chairman and managing director of Bharti Enterprises. The US$7.2 billion turnover company runs India's largest GSM-based mobile phone service. He is the son of Sat Paul (former MP) and Lalita.[1] In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honor.[4]

Early life
Sunil Mittal, was born in Punjab. His father, Sat Paul Mittal had been the Member of Parliament (M.P) from Ludhiana.He attended scindia school at gwalior and He graduated in 1979 fromPunjab University, Chandigarh, with a Bachelor of Arts and Science.[5] His father died of cardiac arrest in 1992.[1]

Bharti group
Mittal built the Bharti group along with his brothers Rakesh and Rajan,[1] becoming India's largest mobile phone operator in just ten years. The UK-based telecommunications company,Vodafone and Singapore's SingTel both own stakes in the recently renamed flagship companyBharti Airtel. The group also has partnerships with Axa for insurance and with the Rothschild family. Airtel now serves over 110 million Indian customers becoming the largest telecom operator in India.

Entrepreneurial ventures
A first generation entrepreneur, Mittal started his first business in April 1976[6] at the age of 18, with a capital investment of Rs 20,000 (U$500) borrowed from his father. His first business was to make crankshafts for local bicycle manufacturers.[7] In 1980 he sold his bicycle parts and yarn factories and moved to Mumbai.[7] In 1981, he purchased importing licences from exporting companies in Punjab.[6] He then imported thousands of Suzuki Motors's portable electric-power generators from Japan. The importing of generators was suddenly banned by the then Indian Government and just two licences to manufacture generators in India were issued to two companies. In 1984, he started assembling push-button phones in India[6] replacing the old fashioned, bulky rotary phones that were in use in the country then. Bharti Telecom Limited (BTL) was incorporated and entered into a technical tie up with Siemens AG of Germany for manufacture of electronic push button phones. By the early 1990s, Mittal was making fax machines, cordless phones and other telecom gear. Mittal says, "In 1983, the government imposed a ban on the import of gensets. I was out of business overnight. Everything I was doing came to a screeching halt. I was in trouble. The question then was: what should I do next? Then, opportunity came calling. While in Taiwan, I noticed the popularity of the push-button phone -- something which India hadn't seen then. We were still using those rotary dials with no speed dials or redials. I sensed my chance and embraced the telecom business. I started marketing telephones, answering/fax machines under the brand name Beetel and the company picked up really fast."[1] In 1992, he successfully bid for one of the four mobile phone network licences auctioned in India.[1] One of the conditions for the Delhi cellular license was that the bidder have some experience as a telecom operator. So, Mittal clinched a deal with the French telecom group Vivendi. He was one of the first Indian entrepreneurs to identify the mobile telecom business as a major growth area. His plans were finally approved by the Government in 1994[6] and he launched services in Delhi in 1995, when Bharti Cellular Limited (BCL) was formed to offer

cellular services under the brand name AirTel. Within a few years Bharti became the first telecom company to cross the 2-million mobile subscriber mark. Bharti also brought down the STD/ISD cellular rates in India under brand name 'Indiaone'.[6] IndiaOne was Indias first private national as well as the international long-distance service provider, and, thus, became a major factor in Bharti's success by providing services cheaply. In November 2006, he struck a joint venture deal with Wal-Mart, the US retail giant, to start a number of retail stores across India. In July 2006, he attracted many key executives from Reliance ADAG, NIS Sparta and created Bharti Comtel. In May 2008, it emerged that Sunil Bharti Mittal was exploring the possibility of buying the MTN Group, a South Africa-based telecommunications company with coverage in 21 countries in Africa and the Middle East. The Financial Times reported that Bharti was considering offering US$45 billion for a 100% stake in MTN, which would be the largest overseas acquisition ever by an Indian firm. However, both sides emphasize the tentative nature of the talks, while The Economist magazine noted, "If anything, Bharti would be marrying up," as MTN has more subscribers, higher revenues and broader geographic coverage.[8] However, the talks fell apart as MTN group tried to reverse the negotiations by making Bharti almost a subsidiary of the new company.[3] In May 2009, Bharti Airtel again confirmed that he was in talks with MTN and companies agreed to discuss the potential transaction exclusively by 31 July 2009. Bharti Airtel said in a statement "Bharti Airtel Ltd is pleased to announce that it has renewed its effort for a significant partnership with MTN Group". Talks eventually ended without agreement, some sources stating that this was due to opposition from the South African government.[9]

Personal life
Mittal resides in Delhi. He is married and has three children. He is superstitious about the number 23, as he was born on the 23 and also got married on the 23.[10] He also stops eating meat before any big venture.[10]

Philanthropy
He is opening a football academy in Haryana or Goa to help India send a team to the 2018 FIFA World Cup.[5] Mittal has also been working towards educating India through the Bharti Foundation. The foundation has established over 200 schools and libraries in India, as well as providing scholarships for college students. For his work with the foundation Barron's named Mittal number 16 on its 2009 list of the world's top 25 philanthropists.[11]

Vijay Mallya
Vijay Mallya (born 18 December 1955) is an Indian liquor baron and Rajya Sabha MP. The son of industrialist Vittal Mallya, he is the Chairman of theUnited Breweries Group and Kingfisher Airlines, which draws its name from United Breweries Group's flagship beer brand, Kingfisher. He also owns the Formula One team Force India, the Indian Premier League team Bangalore Royal Challengers, and the I-League team East Bengal FC [3] Mallya has an estimated net worth of $1.0 billion.[4] He receives substantial press coverage that focuses on his lavish parties, villas, automobiles, Force India, Royal Challengers Bangalore and his yacht, the Indian Empress.

Personal life
Mallya was born in a Konkani Gaud Saraswat Brahmin family originally from the town ofBantwal (near Mangalore in Karnataka. He is the son of Vittal Mallya and Lalitha Ramaiah. He was educated at La Martiniere Boys' College, Kolkata[5] and completed his degree at St. Xavier's College, Calcutta under Calcutta University. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate inBusiness Administration by the California Southern University[6]. However recent press reports have raised questions on the validity of this degree and the university, saying a university by that name could not be located and another university called South California University of Santa Ana did not have his name in their honorary degree lists. Mallya has been married twice. His first wife was Samira, a former Air India hostess, with whom he has a son, Sidhartha Mallya. He later married Rekha, his neighbor in Bangalore, with whom he has two daughters, Leana and Tanya.[7] He has a stepdaughter (through his wife Rekha Mallya's earlier marriage), Laila Mahmood, who was involved in the IPL Scandal[8] who works for Lalit Modi, the former Indian Premier League Commissioner. [9]

Business
Breweries
Mallya took over as Chairman of United Breweries Group in 1984. Since then, the group has grown into a multinational conglomerate of over sixty companies, with an annual turnover which increased by 63.9% over 15 years to US$11.2 billion in 1998-1999 . The focal business areas of the group encompass alcoholic beverages, life sciences, engineering, agriculture, chemicals, information technology, aviation and leisure. In May 2007, United Breweries Group announced the all-cash acquisition of scotch whisky maker Whyte & Mackay for 595 million (approximately Rs 6000 crore).[10] In 2005 he took over Millennium Breweries Ltd (formerly known as Inertia Industries Ltd), which owned the two premium beer brands named Sandpiper and Zingaro.

Airlines
In 2005, Mallya established Kingfisher Airlines. At present, the airline connects 32 cities. Kingfisher Airlines obtained a 26% stake in Air Deccan, a low cost Indian airline which Mallya later acquired fully and rebranded as Kingfisher Red. Vijay Mallya and his Jet Airwayscounterpart Naresh Goyal announced an alliance after a marathon meeting on 13 October 2008 at Mumbai, India.[11]

Investment in sports
Formula One
In 2007, Mallya and the Mol family from The Netherlands bought the Spyker F1 team for 88 million euros.[12] The team changed its name to Force India F1 from the 2008 Season.[13] Team's carVJM-01 was named after its owners Vijay Mallya, Jan Mol and Michiel Mol. Mallya also represents India in the FIA World Motor Sport Council, where he has a seat from 2009 to 2013.[14]

Football
Mallya's United Breweries sponsors the East Bengal and Mohun Bagan football clubs inKolkata.[15] He also was part of the consortium that acquired Queens Park Rangers FC, as part of the Bernie Ecclestone, Flavio Briatore and Lakshmi Mittal.[16] Vijay Mallya has recently indicated its intention to buy AS Bari, a football team which plays in the Italian Serie A.

Cricket
Mallya's flagship firm UB Group owns the Royal Challengers Bangalore team in the Indian Premier League. He won this team in an auction by paying US$111.6 million for the team.

Political career
Mallya entered politics in 2000 and replaced Subramanian Swamy as the president of the Janata Party, a breakaway faction of the originalJanata Dal party. His party contested almost all of the 224 seats during the Karnataka State legislative election. He campaigned vigorously through the media, but his party failed to make any impact and did not win a single seat. Following the party's failure in the elections, it has been largely ignored by the media,[17] although Mallya recently became an MP independently.

Auction purchases
Vijay Mallya is noted for his successful bidding in auction of items that are considered of great cultural value to India.[citation needed] In 2004, he placed the winning bid of 175,000 for the sword of Tipu Sultan at an auction in London, and brought it back to India.[18] In March 2009, Mallya successfully bid for the belongings of Mahatma Gandhi at US$1.8 million, in a New York auction that initially caused an uproar in India and its government tried and failed to prevent it from going under the hammer.He also have an eye on Syed Hassan Hyder's(From Hyderabad) Bike when it comes for auction.[19][20][21]

Other business

Establishment of Mallya Hospital in Bangalore. The hospital is located in Vittal Mallya Road, named after Helped to fund the Mallya Aditi International School, a private school in Bangalore.

his father.