Mansions of the Rich
The punchline of a popular ad campaign for a paint company says Har ghar kuchh kehta hai [Every home says something].That is what we, too, found when Forbes India asked some of India's richest people to allow us a peek into their homes and, thus, their lives
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The home of Shree Cement’s Bangur family in Kolkata is spread over more than 51,000 square feet and is one of the most opulent ones. It has nine bedrooms, seven living rooms, a home theatre, gymnasium and a temple, with a silver door, which is the abode of a Lord Venkatesh statue that is more than a 100 years old
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Lakshmi MIttal grew up in this palatial bungalow in Kolkata’s tony Alipore. He moved out of the city in the 1970s to start an entrepreneural journey that would make him the undisputed king of the global steel industry within three decades
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Murali Divi was never short of inspiration as he grew up in Machilipatnam, home to quite a few Indian legends, including India’s cricket captain C.K. Nayudu. Today, the billionaire Divi, seen here next to his ancestral house, is the new icon of the port town
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Though most of the Murugappa family has shifted to Chennai, it continues to treasure its ancestral home in Pallathur, Tamil Nadu. The over 80-year-old house is one of the few surviving examples of Chettinad architecture — a blend of colonial style and local craftsmanship — and extensive use of Burma teak and European tiles
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Qimat Rai Gupta moved into this house in Delhi’s Civil Lines in 1993, when Havells was a Rs. 40 crore company. Today, Gupta’s empire is worth more than Rs. 4,000 crore and he and his family are moving to a new home, also in the same neighbourhood. The new house is spread over 3,700 square yards, twice the area of the present one
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