By TN Ashok.
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August 28, 2025
India’s two biggest billionaire clans are locked in a corporate cage fight, and it’s as dirty as it gets. On one side: Gautam Adani, the ports-to-power tycoon and Modi’s golden Gujarati. On the other: Anil Ambani, the younger Ambani brother once groomed as a defense czar — now watching his empire crumble under raids, lawsuits, and a very public smear campaign. This isn’t just business. It’s politics, media warfare, and raw survival. Welcome to India’s billionaire bloodbath.
RAIDS, RUINS & REVENGE: The battle flared when India’s federal sleuths — the CBI and Enforcement Directorate — stormed Anil Ambani’s plush homes and offices. They claim he’s the kingpin of a giant housing loan scam, siphoning billions. But Anil’s camp says it’s punishment, pure and simple. Once Modi’s favorite — handpicked for the 2016 Rafale fighter jet deal with France — Ambani is now being paraded as a cautionary tale.
Remember Rafale? Modi junked years of talks, flew to Paris, and announced India would buy 36 jets directly from President François Hollande. Overnight, Anil Ambani’s brand-new defense outfit was roped in as Dassault’s partner. Congress cried “scam.” Modi shrugged. Anil basked in the glow. Fast- forward to 2025: the Rafale dream is ashes, Ambani’s companies are drowning in debt, and now the cops are at his gates.
ENTER ADANI, THE SURVIVOR: While Anil sinks, Adani sails. Despite the Hindenburg bombshell that branded his group “the biggest con in corporate history,” Adani is still standing tall — thanks to government banks, regulators, and political cover. His empire stretches from airports and green energy to media and defence. And he’s making sure Anil’s misery is broadcast on prime time.
MEDIA WARS GET UGLY : Adani’s shiny new trophy, NDTV, is leading the charge. Once a bastion of liberal journalism, NDTV now sounds more like Adani TV. Night after night, it blasts headlines about Ambani’s raids, defaults, and court embarrassments.
Anil hasn’t taken it lying down. His old media allies and friendly platforms have struck back — hammering Adani over the Hindenburg scandal. They gleefully track his lawsuits in U.S. courts, painting him as a fraud propped up by Modi’s magic wand. It’s NDTV vs. Reliance media, in a mud- slinging contest straight out of the tabloid playbook.
POLITICS IN THE SHADOWS: Both billionaires rose on the back of political blessing. Both hail from Modi’s home state of Gujarat. But while Mukesh Ambani — India’s richest man — has mastered staying indispensable no matter who rules, Anil fumbled. Telecom dreams? Dead. Defense crown? Gone. Debt? Everywhere.
Adani, meanwhile, expanded like wildfire, collecting ports, airports, coal mines, solar farms — and yes, NDTV. Even the Hindenburg hit that vaporized $100 billion in market value didn’t dethrone him. Modi’s machine shielded him. Now, as Anil faces raids, the message from Delhi is unmistakable: one Gujarati billionaire is in, the other is out.
RAFALÉ: THE GHOST RETURNS: The Rafale deal, once Anil’s ticket to glory, is now a ghost haunting him. Why was an untested firm handed a defense jackpot? Why bypass established players? The Congress keeps asking. With Ambani now under the scanner, the questions sting harder. Adani, ironically, is now muscling into defense — drones, aerospace, joint ventures. It looks like the crown Modi once placed on Anil’s head has shifted squarely to Adani.
BLOOD IN THE WATER: Insiders whisper this fight is just the opening round. As elections near, more moguls could be sacrificed to show Modi’s government is “tough on crony capitalists.” Today it’s Anil. Tomorrow it could be steel tycoons, telecom barons, or anyone who falls out of favor. But for now, the spotlight is on the two warring giants. Anil, battered and cornered. Adani, bloodied by foreign attacks but still standing. And every blow is televised — NDTV vs. Ambani’s media, each turning financial scandal into prime-time theater.
THE FINAL ROUND?: From Paris jets to Indian courtrooms, from Wall Street shorts to TV slugfests, the Ambani-Adani showdown is no ordinary business rivalry. It’s a morality play of how fortunes rise and fall in Modi’s India. One man who once strutted through Elysee Palace with a prime minister is now dodging fraud probes. Another, branded a fraud abroad, still dines at the high table in Delhi. Corporate war, political drama, media circus — the bloodbath is here, and the knives are only getting sharper.
