Billionaire Family Feud Puts a Century-Old Business Empire in Jeopardy
As clashes pile up in courts in London and Switzerland amid suggestions of misogyny, the possibility of a messy unraveling of the Hinduja Group is rising.
The Hinduja brothers, clockwise from left, Ashok, Prakash, Gopichand and Srichand in Mumbai in 2011.
Photographer: Umesh Goswami
As a child in London, one of Karam Hinduja’s favorite pastimes was watching Bollywood movies with his grandfather Srichand Hinduja, the patriarch of a sprawling global business empire.
“He and I, without fail, once a week, whatever was new, whether it was good or bad,” Karam said in a recent interview in Geneva. “That’s a lot of how we bonded.”