8/8/2019 Indu Jain Belongs to the Sahu Jain Family and is the Current Chairperson of India

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Indu Jain belongs to the Sahu Jain family and is the current chairperson of India's largestmedia group , Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. , which owns the Times of India and other large newspapers. Her net worth is said to be US$4.4 billion, making her the 17th richestIndian in the world. [2] She is widowed with two sons.

Indu Jain is Chairperson of The Times Group. She is a spiritualist, an entrepreneur, aneducationalist, a humanist, a patron of art and culture. In her capacity as Chairperson of The Times Group, Indu has since infused new energy into the further growth of India'slargest media house. The Times Group publishes India's largest newspapers, whichinclude The Times of India, The Economic Times and Navbharat Times. In addition, thegroup enjoys a dominant presence in magazines, events, radio, the Internet and television.Indu's eclectic cultural interests, social concerns and spiritual inclinations have brought awhole new dimension to the functioning of a conventional media house. The TimesFoundation, which she founded and carefully guides, has garnered international acclaimfor its, often pioneering, activities in the field of development. An educationalist, par

excellence, she is President of Times Foundation. A humanist to the core, under her direction, The Times Foundation runs - Community Services, Research Foundation andTimes Relief Fund for disaster relief's like floods, cyclones, earthquakes and epidemics.Indu's championing of women's causes is also very well known. She actively supportswomen's rights, women's uplift and the encouragement of entrepreneurship.

Indu is founder President of the Ladies wing of FICCI (FLO). A patron of literature andculture, she is Chairperson of the Bharatiya Jnanpith Foundation, which awards India'smost prestigious literary award, the Jnanpith, and supports endeavours in the field of literature in every major Indian language. She addressed the United Nations in 2000 atthe Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders, a speech in

which she stressed the need for oneness among faiths and went on to chair a specialsession of the conference. Ms Jain is also the guiding force behind The Oneness Forum,formally launched by the President of India in 2003. The Forum recently awarded theMahatma-Mahavira Awards to outstanding individuals from all of walks of life and isinvolved in several activities that seek to bring, and highlight, a sense of Oneness in theworld. Spreading the message of Peace Within First, Indu Jain spear heads a movementto spread the principles of peace globally. http://www.whereincity.com/india/great-indians/women/indu-jain.php