Rahul Nanda: How I made the Sunday Times rich list

Despite terrifying threats from Mumbai's gangsters, Rahul Nanda wasn't deterred in growing his company into India's premier security services business.

Rahul Nanda's introduction to the business world was anything but gentle. In 1987, when Nanda was just 16, his father had a stroke. "I had to take control of his share in a chain of Chinese restaurants." He soon suffered another setback when his father's partner took over the majority of the Mumbai-based chain.

However, Nanda used the opportunity to prove himself. Left with just one restaurant, he worked hard to improve the business. His other family members were impressed and after two years they decided he should run the other family business a security firm called TOPS Security Guard (TSG).

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James McKeigue

James graduated from Keele University with a BA (Hons) in English literature and history, and has a certificate in journalism from the NCTJ. James has worked as a freelance journalist in various Latin American countries.He also had a spell at ITV, as welll as wring for Television Business International and covering the European equity markets for the Forbes.com London bureau. James has travelled extensively in emerging markets, reporting for international energy magazines such as Oil and Gas Investor, and institutional publications such as the Commonwealth Business Environment Report. He is currently the managing editor of LatAm INVESTOR, the UK's only Latin American finance magazine.