Beyond Boundaries

Swaraj Paul??The Lord Paul of Marylebone??is Labour peer in the House of Lords Chairman of the ??500 million Caparo Group a philanthropist best known for saving the London Zoo from closure and a prominent politician. Unusually for an NRI he is also recipient of one of India's highest awards the Padma Bhushan. By any yardstick his has been a career crammed with incident and achievement. Raised in Jalandhar Punjab where his father ran a small foundry making steel buckets and farming equipment he went to the US to read mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A thriving business career in India taken up on his return home was unexpectedly diverted into a heartbreaking battle to save the life of his fourth child Ambika. The search for a cure led him to London in 1966 and it was there eventually as he emerged from the trauma of her death that he set up Caparo today the largest family-owned business in Britain. In Beyond Boundaries Lord Paul recounts the high points of a life well lived. Here are the details of his business career including his run-in with DCM and Escorts his encounters with the famous and the mighty notably Indira Gandhi Sanjay and Rajiv; and a distillation of his personal and business philosophy. Written with insight and candour this memoir provides a glimpse into the making of one of the most outstanding success stories of our time.