Writing 500 pages of interesting stuff on somebody who is as painfully shy as Dilip Shanghvi is no mean achievement, and Soma Das deserves credit for bringing to life the remarkable story of Mr Shangvi’s journey from a tiny shop in the bylanes of Dawa Bazar in Calcutta of the seventies to create the world’s fourth largest speciality generics maker and India’s most valuable pharma company — Sun Pharma.
It is clear even from the book that Mr Shanghvi is a man of few words. After all, his only reaction after becoming the country’s richest man in 2015 was that he

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