Mukesh Ambani and Reliance Industries

Mukesh was born on April 19, 1957, to Dhirajlal Hirachand alias Dhirubhai Ambani (Dhirubhai) and Kokilaben Ambani in Aden, Yemen. He was brought up in Mumbai, India. He was the eldest of four siblings – a younger brother, Anil Ambani (Anil), and two sisters, Dipti Ambani (now Salgaoncar) and Nina Ambani (now Kothari). Mukesh’s father, Dhirubhai, went to Yemen at the age of 16 and worked as a petrol pump attendant in a trading and oil bunkering fort in a city named Aden. Dhirubhai shifted to India in 1958 and started a business in trading spices...