{"id":1049101,"date":"2026-11-14T07:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T01:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1049101"},"modified":"2026-11-14T07:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T02:03:04","slug":"how-a-ludhiana-bicycle-parts-maker-became-indias-lord-of-the-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/14\/how-a-ludhiana-bicycle-parts-maker-became-indias-lord-of-the-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Ludhiana bicycle parts maker became India&#8217;s lord of the rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunil Bharti Mittal, the chairman of Bharti Enterprises, is completing 50 years as an entrepreneur, having started out in 1976 with a modest bicycle-parts business in Ludhiana. His journey from a small manufacturing unit took him to the chairman&#8217;s office of one of India&#8217;s largest business groups and also India&#8217;s lord of the &#8216;rings&#8217; as Bharti Airtel remained India&#8217;s largest mobile operator by subscriber base for nearly a decade, from 2009 until the Vodafone-Idea merger in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunil Bharti Mittal, the chairman of Bharti Enterprises, is completing 50 years as an entrepreneur, having started out in 1976 with a modest bicycle-parts business in Ludhiana. His journey from a small manufacturing unit took him to the chairman&#8217;s office of one of India&#8217;s largest business groups and also India&#8217;s lord of the &#8216;rings&#8217; as Bharti Airtel remained India&#8217;s largest mobile operator by subscriber base for nearly a decade, from 2009 until the Vodafone-Idea merger in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049116,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049101\/revisions\/1049116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}