Entrepreneur Lord Karan Bilimoria praised India’s inclusivity and diversity at the Rising Bharat 2025 Summit, highlighting the success of minority communities like Parsis.
There is no limit to what any minority can achieve in India, said entrepreneur Lord Karan Bilimoria, responding to a question on how he sees Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas” as a person who belongs from a minority community himself.
“I can only say from my own experience that there is no limit to what any minority can achieve in India. The opportunity is there for everybody,” Bilimoria said at the Rising Bharat 2025 Summit in New Delhi.
India allows everyone to flourish; the diversity allows any community, from those as small as the Parsis to hundreds of millions of other communities, to actually flourish, Bilimoria said, who said this is one of India’s biggest strengths.
“If you look at the demography, and going back to diversity — I am a Zoroastrian Parsi. There are more than 1.4 billion people in India and there are only 100,000 Parsis in the whole world,” he said.
He discussed how the population of Parsis has been small and yet, the people from the community have produced towering figures who shaped the Indian story.
“At no time have there been more than 800 Parsis in Delhi. And today, they number 33 million (in Delhi). Yet, the little community has produced chiefs of the Army, Navy, Air Force, MPs, The Tata Group,” he said, “The point I am making is that India allows everyone to flourish.”
Another of India’s strengths, Bilimoria said, is its entrepreneurial spirit, which he said was suppressed for decades after Independence.
“Look at it around the world. It’s absolutely phenomenal. I went to the Hyderabad Public School, and from that school today, [we have] Satya Nadella, head of Microsoft; Ajay Banga, the head of the World Bank; Shantanu [Narayen], the head of Adobe; and I don’t know how many chief ministers of states and cabinet ministers,” Bilimoria said.
“We had a prime minister of Indian origin in the UK just now. And it makes me very proud,” the businessman concluded.