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Indian Parliamentarian’s Business Born of War Reporting Puts Him In Billionaires Club
The fifth of eight children of a government officer, he has been a lifelong member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu nationalist organization, the ideological parent of the BJP.
As a teenager, one of India’s new billionaires saw a sister die of a high fever because their father didn’t have enough money for a doctor.
Ravindra Kishore Sinha has come a long way since the mid 1960s of his native Patna city in the central Indian state of Bihar, one of the poorest in the country.
Today Sinha, 67, wears various hats.