I was having a look at the Forbes list of world billionaires, and to my great surprise discovered 4 Indians sitting tight in the top 10 list!
What is this world coming to? If one goes by numbers, there are only 2 U.S. guys, Buffet and Gates (as usual), Carlos Slim, a Mexican telecom magnate, followed by a train of the 4 Indians: Mittal, the Ambani brothers and KP Singh, then comes a giant each from Sweden, Russia and Germany.
What is this world coming to? If one goes by numbers, there are only 2 U.S. guys, Buffet and Gates (as usual), Carlos Slim, a Mexican telecom magnate, followed by a train of the 4 Indians: Mittal, the Ambani brothers and KP Singh, then comes a giant each from Sweden, Russia and Germany.
The cumulative wealth of the Ambani brothers happens to be well over $80 bil, and add to that the fact that these two had achieved the largest growth in the past year, worldover.
As an Indian I loved it, but then there is a fact that bothers me : whereas Gates and Buffet have set aside a handsome share of their personal wealth for charity, the Indian guys out there seems to be less sensitive to such issues, although these are the people who being from the subcontinent and living there (except Mr. Mittal) should actually be more sensitive. To embellish this bewildering numbness towards such burning issues in their own society, Mr. Mukesh Ambani happens to be on his way to construct a 27 storey home!
Well maybe its their (comparative) young age or, simply because they are Indians.
Anyways, a question remains : What happened to Mrs. Gandhi's (weird) attempt at Indian socialism?
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