THE
AMBANIS INDIA’S RICHEST FAMILY
The AMBANI name has long elicited awe and wonder in India, a country where the rich are very rich and the poor are very, very poor. Here, the wealthy live in super large homes that resemble palaces, usually served by an army of employees. But India is also a country where belief in feng shui and its own version of this art of placement - Vaastu - holds sway. So when Mukesh Ambani’s 27 storey SKY PALACE was recently unveiled to the world, an amazing structure built for just ONE family to occupy in the heart of Mumbai city at a cost exceeding a billion dollars, we find our attention focused on India’s rich and on the Ambani brothers, heirs to the huge RELIANCE fortune founded by their father. In this issue, FSW pieces together the amazing family saga of these two brothers who continue to compete with one another under the phoenix eyes their mother, the family matriarch, the only one able to keep the brothers in check…
Mukesh Ambanis’s new sky palace in the heart of Mumbai City features 3 helipads, garage space for 160 cars, 37 000 sq ft of living space!
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his is the PRIVATE home of 53 year old Mukesh Ambani, the elder of the two brothers. See how it towers over the rest of surrounding Mumbai - definitely dominating the landscape better than any
palace can - so the feng shui is very tall poppy indeed, which is both good and bad!
When something as iconic as this building registers itself onto the consciousness of a city’s landscape, those
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