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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.

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The Hinduja brothers, clockwise from left, Ashok, Prakash, Gopichand and Srichand in Mumbai in 2011.

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.”

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