Rahul Bajaj
The industrialist who led Bajaj Auto for decades and made its Akurdi factory in Pune a household name across India.
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The industrialists and entrepreneurs who made Pune a city of factories, vaccines and software.
Pune is not only a city of history and learning. It is also one of India's great industrial cities, home to companies that make motorcycles, cars, engines, forgings, vaccines and software for the whole world. Here are some of the people who built them.
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Cyrus Poonawalla
Founder of the Serum Institute of India in Hadapsar, which makes vaccines used by children in many countries.
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Shantanurao Kirloskar
The engineer and industrialist who built the Kirloskar group into one of Pune's first great engineering companies.
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Baba Kalyani
Chairman of Bharat Forge in Mundhwa, which supplies forged parts to vehicle and aircraft makers around the world.
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Anand Deshpande
Founder of Persistent Systems, one of the IT companies that made Pune a software city.
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Chitale Bandhu
The Chitale family's sweet shop, started in Pune in 1950, whose bakarwadi is now known all over India.
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