ZAITOON ESMAIL – ALY JAGMAGIA – 7 April 2015
Once seen as a trading community from Gujarat, today Ismaili women and men are helping to shape India’s future. Builders of some of the country’s premier healthcare and financial institutions, they are also strengthening government administration.
In the late 1970s, a young graduate returned to India after having completed his degree at the London School of Economics. Back then, a foreign degree was a ticket to green pastures overseas. Few economists and political pundits shared even half the enthusiasm for India’s future that they extol today.
At that time the verdict was simple: return meant ruin.
And yet, much to everyone’s surprise, Nasser Munjee returned anyway. What seemed a momentous decision at the time would help him to become the architect of some of India’s most well known financial institutions.
Meet Nasser Munjee: Corporate chairman, economist, avid urban planner — and an Ismaili.
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