Today, he has a net worth of $6.3 billion and annual group revenues of in excess of $3 billion. This is an unusually candid memoir of a truly desi self-made businessman who came to Delhi at age 20 with Rs 17 in his pocket. But the man continues to reinvent himself he is now also focusing on infrastructure and smart cities. Watching cable television for the first time, having a landline telephone at home, watching a movie in a multiplex, visit to an amusement park, dial-up internet. Chandra’s attempts to launch satellite telephony and a cricket league came a cropper. ‘The Z Factor’ by Subhash Chandra Most of us born in the India of late 1980s or early 1990s have experienced many firsts in our lives which our parents did not have the luxury of.

Several gutsy initiatives followed, though not all of them were successful. A little bit of luck and political patronage saw him make a fortune in rice exports to the erstwhile USSR. Starting work as a teen to pay off family debts, Chandra had to rely on bluff, gumption and sheer hard toil to turn things around. Referred to as the Media Moghul of India, Dr Chandra is credited with revolutionising the television industry by launching the country’s first satellite Hindi channel Zee TV in 1992 and later the first private news channel, Zee News.Ĭhandra has been a perennial outsider, repeatedly aiming high and breaking into businesses where he was considered an interloper. It is already available on Flipkart and Amazon India for pre-orders. The book is being officially launched at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival on January 21 and is available in stores from today. Book Review: The Z Factor - Subhash Chandra with Pranjal Sharma Aditya Prasad Chief Evangelist, Perfios Software and VP, Perfios International Business Published + Follow. The autobiography, written along with Pranjal Sharma and published by HarperCollins India, traces Chandra’s journey from Hisar, a small town in Haryana. Essel Group Chairman Dr Subhash Chandra’s autobiography, titled ‘The Z Factor: My Journey as the Wrong Man at the Right Time’, was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on January 20, 2016.

The z factor by subhash chandra