{"id":808,"date":"2004-12-10T06:56:43","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T11:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=808"},"modified":"2005-04-13T13:16:52","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T18:16:52","slug":"forbes_names_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/10\/forbes_names_in\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Forbes<\/em> names India&rsquo;s richest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/home\/lists\/2004\/12\/08\/04indialand.html\" target=\"new\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/forbesRichest200x192.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"192\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Forbes<\/em> magazine\nreleased its inaugural list of India&rsquo;s 40 wealthiest businessmen, with half of\nthe entrants hailing from the nation&rsquo;s burgeoning technology and pharmaceutical\nsectors.<\/p>\n\n<p>Topping the list with $11.2 billion is London-based steel magnate Lakshmi\nMittal, who holds 88% of Mittal Steel. The company will\nbecome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000623.html\">the world&rsquo;s\nlargest manufacturer of steel<\/a> following their acquisition of rival International\nSteel.<\/p>\n\n<p>Other facts of note:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Nineteen  created their fortunes from scratch<\/li>\n<li>Eleven made their money in technology<\/li>\n<li>Nine made their fortunes in pharmaceuticals<\/li>\n<li>Forty percent live in Bombay<\/li>\n<li>Two Patels made the list, which means I will spend this weekend digging through\nthe family tree.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><em>Forbes<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/home\/lists\/2004\/12\/08\/04indialand.html\" target=\"new\">India&rsquo;s\n40 richest<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes magazine released its inaugural list of India&rsquo;s 40 wealthiest businessmen, with half of the entrants hailing from the nation&rsquo;s burgeoning technology and pharmaceutical sectors. Topping the list with $11.2 billion is London-based steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, who holds 88% &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/10\/forbes_names_in\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}