From a Mumbai chawl to the Forbes rich list!


A year ago, everybody complimented Manoj Tirodkar for his restlessness to grow and create value. Today, the same lot will turn around and say that is his millstone.

At a dinner banquet last year at the Taj Mahal rooftop - after successfully concluding a merger between Aircel's towers and group company GTL Infrastructure - Tirodkar was hailed as sagacious, humble and hands-on by a motley bunch of suave bankers, analysts and media persons.

Tirodkar, for most, epitomised the new entrepreneurial India, transcending his humble beginnings in the chawls of Mumbai's Girgaum as a charting broker in the shipping industry, and claiming his place in the Forbes

T he punishment has been severe. Tirodkar's listed entities Global Telesystems Limited (GTL) and Global Telesystems Infrastructure (GTL Infra), two sister concerns with large holdings by foreign investors have been mauled by investors in the past week.

On Monday alone, GTL plummeted 62 per cent in one trading day, the second-highest fall in a single day in over a decade for BSE-500 stocks after the Satyam crash.

To put it in perspective, since last Thursday, the two companies together have lost Rs 4,420 crore (Rs 44.2 billion) in market capitalisation a 63 per cent erosion.

While GTL infrastructure owns the assets and earns rental income, GTL sells the equipment and offers other services to operators.

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A s in the past, conspiracy theories abound. First there was speculation that foreign investors in the counter were dumping the stock on fears that Mauritius may start taxing capital gains.

Then there were whispers of corporate rivals hell-bent on launching an assault on the company and the fire sale was a precursor to a takeover.

Such gossip usually gets aggravated in the street, especially when it comes to GTL, as many still associate with Tirodkar's chequered past.

GTL's chairman is not new to controversy. At 27, he had become a poster boy of the dotcom boom in 2000-01, only until it later emerged that the stock was part of a pack of securities whose prices were jacked up artificially by the now-tarnished and banned operator, Ketan Parekh.

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A KP redux was also the talking point, and what was more worrying was the fact that Tirodkar was not buying up the falling shares to provide support. Was he, then, not confident of his telecom tower operations?

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From a Mumbai chawl to the Forbes rich list!
From a Mumbai chawl to the Forbes rich list!

Tirodkar, for most, epitomised the new entrepreneurial India, transcending his humble beginnings in the chawls of Mumbai's Girgaum as a charting broker in the shipping industry, and claiming his place in the Forbes rich list while rubbing shoulders



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