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The Crazy Rise of the Indian Airport Tycoon // Le Point

Starting from the bottom of the ladder, Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao, built GMR step by step into a powerful conglomerate with interests in construction, energy and air transport. The 73-year-old businessman, with humble beginnings in a town of 5000 in northern Andhra Pradesh, is now worth USD 1.9 billion, according to Forbes.
I photographed the expansion work at T1 of New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport for Le Point. Read the piece here.
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For Le Point, I have also worked on two other stories: one about the French dairy major Lactalis’s presence in India and another about the advances in India’s space capabilities.