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In 1974, at age 19, Anil Agarwal left his family home in Patna, a small city on the banks of the Ganges River, and traveled over a thousand miles west to Mumbai — then Bombay — carrying nothing but a tiffin box and some bedding. Agarwal’s father ran a small aluminum firm, and Agarwal was beginning his own career in the metals trade, buying scrap metal from far and wide before trading it in India’s “Maximum City,” a metropolis of almost ten million people.
But despite being home to
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