{"id":855,"date":"2009-11-25T02:26:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T08:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/tdblog\/?p=855"},"modified":"2009-11-25T04:12:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T10:12:41","slug":"of-forbes-indias-100-richest-top-10-picks-from-our-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/tdblog\/2009\/11\/of-forbes-indias-100-richest-top-10-picks-from-our-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Forbes India&#8217;s 100 Richest: Top 10 picks from our readers&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of the year again, Forbes is out with it\u2019s richest people \u2013 2009 list, both Indian &amp; International.<\/p>\n<p>What was interesting is the list of richest Indians. The story, the lifestyle, the dreams just kept flowing through our minds as we were reading scores of this information spread around all across the globe, right from Forbes issue to wiki sources to financial sites to top media news centers online, covering range of articles on these.<\/p>\n<p>We ran a quick \u2018Who\u2019s your favorite top 10 of the 100 list survey across our different readers \/ members spread across the globe at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdivine.com\">www.techdivine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The survey ran across few selected of our regular readers \/ members (6000+) across, online with responses from 1981 members wherein we got the favorite ten picks of the 100 list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These choices of top ten from the 100 were based on the following criteria<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Our survey ran as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Of the\u00a0100 \u00a0listed in FORBES India\u2019s richest (list was attached), who would you vote as your personal favourite in terms of:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Is the most idolized of all in business &amp; personal life<\/li>\n<li>Is most diversified of all in terms of business<\/li>\n<li>Widely popular<\/li>\n<li>More media friendly<\/li>\n<li>Known popularly for business &amp; social: Profits &amp; Contributions&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Favourite 10 among, Techdivine readers \/ members personal top ten of the forbest top 100 list were:<\/p>\n<p>The business guru &amp; messiah\u2019s eldest <em>, Mukesh Ambani (52)who topped the Forbes richest list with $32 billion; Anil Ambani (50) with $17.5 billion; then the man of steel himself,\u00a0Lakshmi Mittal (59) with $30 billion; Azim Premji (64) with $14.9 billion; Adi Godrej (67) with $5.4 billion; Kumar Birla (42) $7.8 billion; Shiv Nadar (64) with $3.7 billion; Subhash Chandra (59) with $2.7 billion; Kalanithi Maran (44) with $2.3 billion &amp; Shantanu Prakash (44) with $920 million.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Finally,the man who stood at number one as the favourite among top ten was none other than, one of the most respected &amp; deeply loved, the Non-executive chairman of Infy, Narayana Murthy (63) with net worth $1.5 billion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_860\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-860\" class=\"size-full wp-image-860\" title=\"forbeslistperstop10india\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/tdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/forbeslistperstop10india.jpg\" alt=\"Indias richest top 10 picks\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/tdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/forbeslistperstop10india.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/tdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/forbeslistperstop10india-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/em><p id=\"caption-attachment-860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indias richest top 10 picks<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> The top ten favourites:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Popularity voting: Topping the charts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Most Idolized:<\/span> Narayana Murthy<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Most Diversified<\/span>: Anil Ambani &amp; Mukesh Ambani<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Popular across the Globe<\/span>: Narayana Murthy<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Media Friendly<\/span>:Anil Ambani<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Complete Entreprenuer<\/span>: Narayana Murthy<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<h6>Kindly note: These are surveys taken randomly with people from across the globe registered with us as readers \/ members &amp; no part of the survey is to cause any personal or professional harm \u00a0\/ disrupt harmony \/ to any of the names listed above. These votes are not connected in any way with Forbes, but are top 10 Favourites selected from the readers base at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/\">www.techdivine.com<\/a> &#8211; \u00a0members personal top ten of the forbest top 100 list. We sincerely respect the business leaders from every walk of life and are proud of the names discussed above as they are our source of inspiration to grow ahead in life, both professionally and personally.<\/h6>\n<p>Dear readers &amp; members, thank you for your views \/ mails &amp; votes &amp; for particiapting in this survey. 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