The culture of questioning emanates from Anand Mahindra at the top right through to the bright minds inventing its future.

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Anand Mahindra, its boss, is now forming a group of small Indian auto-component manufacturers to challenge multinationals such as Delphi.

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Tractor tycoon Anand Mahindra was an early backer, who lent his family's name and took a 15% stake in Kotak's startup.

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The bank was originally co-founded by Kotak and tractor tycoon Anand Mahindra in 1985 as a small financial services firm which acquired a banking licence in 2003.

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Anand Mahindra, vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra, says he doesn't regret being trumped by Tata, which had to endure the harrowing fallout of the global recession following its pricey acquisition.

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Anand, whose favorite car is the Mahindra Bolero, has lately been spotted in a Rexton SUV, made by the Korean subsidiary and recently launched in India.

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Harvard-educated Anand, soon to turn 56, represents the third generation of the Mahindra clan to run the family enterprise that his paternal grandfather and great-uncle founded in 1945 as a steel trader and then an assembler of Willys Jeeps.

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