Inveigling his way into prime minister Indira Gandhi's inner circle, Ambani found the power to control yarn prices.

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But he never attacked the Murdoch empire or any other newspaper group by name and although he believed the media was out of control, he always resisted calls from within his own inner circle to take them on.

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