Word: ramkrishna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seth Ramkrishna Dalmia is the kind of man who has made capitalist a nasty word in India. Dalmia said as much himself a few years ago. "I feel that from the age of twelve to these 57 years of my life, I have been accumulating the sins of wealth and palaces. I feel as if I had sucked the blood of the poor in establishing the big name of Dalmia...
When Seth Ramkrishna Dalmia was 18 he made his first million. Today at 60, Dalmia controls flour and sugar mills, cement and chemical plants, coal mines, banks, insurance companies and six news papers, including the influential Times of India. He is said to be India's third rich est industrialist.* Along the way, Dalmia has come to believe that he is indeed one among men, possessing unusual spiritual qualities. "I shall die peacefully with a smile on my face, "he once wrote, "an enviable state unattainable by ordinary men." And in the style of Indian saintly ones...
...neighbors are apt to suspect that he is running for sheriff. In India, where the climate is more spiritual, unconventional behavior is often taken as a sign that a man is angling to become a mahatma, a saintly soul. Last week the talk in New Delhi was that Seth Ramkrishna Dalmia, wealthy owner of the Times of India, was an active candidate for mahatma...
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