How Rajeev Chandrasekhar Got His Groove Back P.S: But only after he decided to let go BPL Communications. Now for that messy fight with his father-in-law.
Business Today, July, 2005 by Krishna Gopalan
None of Rajeev Chandrasekhar's detractors-the list includes his father-in-law T.P.G. Nambiar, who accuses him of wrongfully wresting control of BPL Communications, investors such as Actis (formerly CDC), who have issues with the way he operates, and investment bankers who have sniffed around and walked away claiming that no buyer would be interested in a BPL Communications in which the man has a residual minority stake-would accuse him of stupidity. After all, the 40-year-old once worked for technology blue-blood Intel before marrying into the BPL Group (his wife is TPG's daughter Anju) and taking it into the telecommunications space.
Chandrasekhar is also no stranger to greatness. For a while, BPL Mobile Communications and BPL Mobile Cellular, the two telcos that come under...
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