Dilip Shanghvi’s rise as India’s richest man

In 1983, a young man from Bhawanipur, Kolkata, stepped tentatively into the Indian pharmaceutical market with an investment of a few lakh rupees to start a generic drug company.

Thirty-two years later, that astute businessman, Dilip Shanghvi, is now India’s richest man and his company, Sun Pharmaceuticals, the country’s largest and world’s No. 4 drugmaker.

Divya Rajagopal traces the rise of Sun and Shanghvi to the pole position...