Mukesh turns writer to tell Reliance story

He is known as a man of few words as much as for his execution skills of mammoth projects, but industrialist Mukesh Ambani will now put his thoughts and business philosophy into words in a new avatar as a writer.

The book, expected to hit the shelves early next financial year, would be the first by Ambani and is likely to be published by global publishing major Penguin, sources in the know said.

Incidentally, Ambani, chairman of the country’s most valued corporate house Reliance Industries, was ranked today as the richest Indian for the third year in a row by business magazine Forbes.

When contacted, an RIL spokesperson did not offer any comments and queries sent to Penguin India were unanswered.

Sources said the book would dwell upon the growth chart of the polyster-to-petrochemicals-retail major RIL group, as also the business philosophy of the biggest corporate house of the country, as seen by its chairman.

Ambani, whose net worth has been pegged at $27 billion by Forbes, could also give some insights into how Reliance group grew into the country’s biggest entity, but might not dwell into the personal space of one of the most talked-about Indian business families.

In 2007, on her 75th birthday, Ambani family matriarch Kokilaben brought out a pictorial biography on the life of her husband, late Dhirubhai Ambani.