Anji Reddy, founder of India's second-largest drugmaker, dies
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Buy SPH photosHYDERABAD, India - Anji Reddy, the founder of India's second-largest drugmaker, has died.
Company Chief Financial Officer Saumen Chakraborty confirmed the death but declined to comment on its cause. The company said in a statement he had been ailing for some time, Bloomberg reported.
Dr Reddy, a chemical engineer, founded Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. in 1984 and started funding research with an investment of 60 million rupees (S$1.24 million) in 1993 with the goal of making the Hyderabad-based company the first Indian firm to create a drug and sell it globally.
He spent his early years in the village of Tadepalli in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, where his father grew turmeric, an Indian spice. Dr Reddy graduated from the local high school and went on to get a bachelor of science degree from Andhra Christian College in Guntur in 1958.
