Clouds over Sun empire

The sun never sets on the Maran business empire. So they said. But, on Monday,  clouds of trouble began hovering over their empire. Kalanithi Maran started Sun TV with a bank loan of $86,000 in 1993 and his journey to becoming India's 16th richest person (Forbes ranking) with a total net worh of $3.5 billion is a classic example of political patronage. During these 18 odd years, most of the time DMK was in power — either at the Centre or the state, or both.

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