Ram Buxani
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Ram Buxani | |
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 Ram Buxani in Dubai, 2023. | |
| Born | 1941 |
| Died | (aged 83) Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| Education | Washington International University |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Website | rambuxani |
Ram Buxani (1941 – 8 July 2024) was an Indian businessman and chairman of the business conglomerate ITL Cosmos Group.[1][2] He became a well-known figure in the Indian community after his role in influencing the Indian government to abolish estate duty in 1985.[3]
Buxani was born in 1941 in Hyderabad, Sindh in British India.[1] Like many other Sindhi Hindu families, his family migrated to India after the Partition of India in 1947.[1] His father died when he was five years old.[4][5]
At the age of 18, in order to support his widowed mother and family, he started to search for a job in Mumbai. After seeing an advertisement in a local newspaper, he applied for a job as an executive assistant with International Traders Limited in Dubai. Buxani started working in 1959 as an office clerk at the ITL outpost at Dubai and eventually rose to chair the Cosmos ITL group in 2014.[1][6]
Buxani was also a writer and actor, having acted in 28 plays.[1] He had three daughters and seven grandchildren.[1]
His 2003 autobiography, Taking the High Road, was a bestseller in Dubai for several months. It was subsequently translated to Arabic, Hindi, Malayalam, and several Indian and Pakistani languages.[7][8] Another book, titled Sindhis – God’s Gift to Global Economy, was published in 2007.[9]
Buxani died in Dubai on 8 July 2024, at the age of 83.[10][11]