2. Indu Jain
Rank: 29
Net worth $1.9 billion (As of October 2013)
Age: 77
Source of Wealth: media, inherited and growing
Residence: New Delhi, India
Country of Citizenship: India
Marital Status: Widowed
Children: 2
Indu Jain chairs media conglomerate Bennett, Coleman & Co., the publisher of 13 newspapers and 18 magazines. The company claims that its daily newspaper the Times of India, is the world's largest by circulation; the Economic Times, is world's second-biggest financial newspaper after the Wall Street Journal. It also says Its Times Now television channel dominates primetime English-language news slot. Radio Mirchi is the country's largest FM radio network, with 32 stations.