Reliance Industries Limited Chairman Mukesh Ambani was part of Independence Day celebrations along with his family in London. Mukesh Ambani-led RIL’s official X (Twitter) handle Flame of Truth posted a video showcasing the Independence Day celebrations by the Ambani family. Reliance Foundation Chairman Nita Ambani is seen waving the national flag while Isha Ambani, Akash Ambani’s wife Shloka Mehta are also seen with their children in the video
Anand Mahindra, Chairman of Mahindra Group, shared an emotional video of an Indian Army jawan originally shared by Major Pawan Kumar, Shaurya Chakra (Retd), who had originally shared it on Independence Day. Anand Mahindra wrote, “If you want to understand the emotional connect between Indians and our Jawans who protect us, look no further than this video…. I salute this family…”
RPG Enterprises Chairman Harsh Goenka wrote on X (Twitter), “I asked my Guru On #IndependenceDay, your thoughts on how to make India better? He said, “It is already beautiful. Wonderful people. Fifth largest economy. Great democracy. Led by a very able leader. Just get off social media and stop seeing news channels - it’ll look better.”
Harsh Goenka also re-shared a post on X (Twitter) celebrating Navroz Mubarak, which is the Parsi New Year. The post read, “Navroz Mubarak! It's Navroz, the Parsi New Year, today. From industry titans to cultural icons, Parsi’s impact is woven into the fabric of our nation.” It mentioned notable contributions from the Parsi community including that from industry leaders such as Tata Group Founder Jamsetji Tata, Ratan Tata, Father of Indian nuclear programme Homi Bhabha among others
Founder and CEO of People Group and the founder of online matrimonial service Shaadi.com, Anupam Mittal shared a powerful campaign by the company, “Happy 76th ‘In-dependence’ Day. 76% of our women drop out of the workforce after marriage & childbirth and become forever ‘dependent’. We cannot win if our women don’t work. @ShaadiDotCom is working with several NGOs to bring 10 m women #BackToWork … Help spread awareness.”
On India’s 77th Independence Day, BoAt co-founder Aman Gupta announced that 2.5 crore units of BoAt products have been produced in the country. He wrote on X (Twitter), “Made For India Made By India Made In India India makes boAt. It’s Not at all been easy. But, we are getting there…. one Step at a time. Celebrating the milestone of making 2.5 Crore Units in India.”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Executive Chairperson of Biocon Limited, shared a video of Chidambaram Natarajar Temple in Tamil Nadu, where the priests conduct a pooja for the Indian National Flag and then hoist it on the occasion of Independence Day
upGrad’s Ronnie Screwvala celebrated a ‘paw-fect’ Independence Day. He shared an image of his dog Skye and mouth-watering rainy day snack vada pav along with hot tea on X (Twitter) and wrote, “Rainy day - Vada Pav - with gunpowder and green chillies - with quintessential Indian Chai - and Skye looking on - … it’s always the simple things in life that give us the maximum joy - always. Happy Independence Day as the sun sets on our 76th.”
Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji wrote on X (Twitter), “To celebrating the magic that is India - 76 years young. Happy Independence Day!” A few days earlier, he had also shared the image of his grandfather M.H. Hasham Premji, who had founded one of India’s leading IT firms Wipro, and wrote, “This is a never seen before photograph of my grandfather which was recently discovered. He founded the consumer care business of Wipro in Dec 1945 before the independence of India.”
CP Gurnani, MD and CEO of Tech Mahindra, wrote on X (Twitter), “Tech Mahindra On #IndependenceDay2023, make a “Bhasha Daan” towards making India an AI superpower. Come, be a part of #ProjectIndus, India’s bold initiative of building its own LLM, with 40+ dialects of the Hindi language.”
Mohit Joshi, MD & CEO Designate at Tech Mahindra, shared an image of CP Gurnani and himself along with their entire team on X (Twitter). He wrote, “It was a terrific experience celebrating with some of our @Tech_Mahindra colleagues in Australia. Wishing everyone a #happyindependenceday!”
Unacademy Founder Gaurav Munjal announced Sumit Jain, the founder of Graphy App and NextLevel App, as a partner at the ed-tech firm. Gaurav wrote on X (Twitter), “I have some news to share. @sumjain, who has been with us for more than 3.5 years now is now our new Partner. Partner at Unacademy is like a Co-Founder who joined at a later stage. Sumit has been like a Co-Founder to us since day one and has scaled Graphy to what it is today.”