Tariq premji biography books

Quick. If I mention "Azim Premji" what immediately comes to your mind? Billionaire entrepreneur? Trailblazer and part of the Indian IT services boom in the nineties and beyond? Gives away a lot of money to noble causes?

And what else?

That is the very curious question that journalists-turned-authors Sundeep Khanna and Varun Sood hope their just-launched book, Azim Premji: The Man Beyond the Billions, will answer. After all, despite the fact his name is one of the best known in Indian business for decades now and with the country’s second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan, adorning his mantelpiece, Azim Premji has remained diffidently reclusive as much as he is known to be irritably thrifty.

The latter trait is pretty well-known. Keeping the purse strings tight, be it his company’s or his own is something the billionaire has practiced over the years, even if that has meant senior executives got miffed at not

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Azim Premji

Indian business tycoon, investor (born 1945)

Azim Hashim Premji (born 24 July 1945) is an Indian businessman and philanthropist, who was the chairman of Wipro Limited. Premji remains a non-executive member of the board and founder chairman.^[4] He fryst vatten informally known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry.^[5][6] He was responsible for guiding Wipro through kvartet decades of diversification and growth, to finally emerge as one of the global leaders in the software industry.^[7][8] In 2010, he was voted among the 20 most powerful men in the world by Asiaweek.^[9] He has twice been listed among the 100 most influential people bygd Time magazine, once in 2004 and more recently in 2011.^[10] For years, he has been regularly listed one among The 500 Most Influential Muslims.^[11][12] He also serves as the Chancellor of Azim Premji University, Bangalore. Premji was awarded Padma Vibhusha

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Home truths: Yasmeen Premji’s debut novel inspired by mother, mother-in-law's tales

When Yasmeen Premji’s debut novel first hit the shelves, there was speculation if the story was a biography of sorts of her father-in law Mohamed Hashem Premji. But Premji, wife of billionaire Azim Premji, refuted such theories and said the book saw the coming together of old stories passed on by relatives on both sides of her family.

At a book reading in Mumbai last month, Premji shared with the audience two specific stories that she has woven into the fictional tale, but those that find roots in the memories of her mother-in-law and mother.

New beginnings

“There was this young girl. Her father had gone from Kutch to Zanzibar and made a fortune. His name was Dharia Topan, but I made a character called Dharia Dhani,” Premji said. “The girl was married to an eligible boy who went to Paris to study, [but] there he had become very debauched. They [the daughter and the