Talk:Dhirubhai Ambani

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Dhirubhai Ambani was a visionary, an exceptional entrepreneur, and at the same time India's most controversial tycoon. Indian public opinion is deeply divided: To many he is a hero, to as many others a crook. The corporate cash of the incredible empire he built still makes sure that hagiography abounds and that criticism is suppressed. That prevents an open discussion of his merits and shortcomings. Indian politicians and bureaucrats admit in private that he had everyone who counted in his pockets. But at the time, India's economy was burdened with socialistic controls, state intervention was rampant, and entrepreneurial creativity was systematically stifeled. To beat the system, everyone had to exploit the greed of the people in power. Ambani did it much more effectively than anybody else. The entrepreneur in him would not be stifled. There is an excellent book on his life called "The Polyesther Prince" by Hamish McDonald. It sheds light on all aspects, the bright, the gray and the dark. Unfortunately, it is not for sale in India... from oliver in delhi

The guy sure did do some shady stuff. Need to include more on that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.91.35.210 (talk • contribs) . on 9th August 2005

• i agree! i have been told that he I have been told that he murdered people too, apart from other illegal things like giving lots of money to politicians and stuff. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 204.111.131.20 (talk • contribs) . on 10th February 2006

• I do not agree with above as the logic of human history dictates that no long term success story has been built this way: you should come out with facts and not reliance on hearsay is as good as a POV. --Bhadani 15:32, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

One thing I would like to point here is that no where it has been found that he used to bribe politicians. As a business house Reliance is still one of the biggest fund contributributors to Political Parties. They do not do it behind the viel, everything is on papers. One interesting fact is that he has always been critisized as a manipulator. Starting from the colums of S.Gurumurthy to recent non-biased colomists everyone has noted that the business house manipulates strigent laws to meet their business requriements. They have always used the loophole and they have never violated the established laws.

Even the allegations on a top Reliance Executive that he had hatched a plot to eliminate Nusli Wadia of the Bombay Dyeing also were baseless.. None of the judicial findings were able to support that claim.

So it would be interesting if his style of management is highligted, which is infact unique.. He was a noble person and perhaps the only businessman whose funeral was attended by thousands of common people. --IndianCow^Talk 22:06, 18 November 2006 (UTC)