Hyderabad: Deccan Chronicle and Indian School of Business on Monday kick started their joint initiative to profile and achieve the corporate history of major companies in Hyderabad.
“Major companies were all begun by one enterprising individual who went on to build an empire in his lifetime. Family business histories are said to be a great source of rich stories,” Deccan Chronicle editor A.T. Jayanti said.
She was speaking at a workshop conducted by Aditya Arya, a well-known photographer and archivist of rare photographs, on the importance of archives at ISB in the city on Monday.
The workshop was conducted as part of DC and ISB’s joint initiative to profile the history of major companies in Hyderabad.
Explaining the importance of archiving history through photographs, Arya said visual history would give neutral account of events as against the written history, which could have coloured by the historian’s ideological leaning.
As part of the project, ISB students will interact with the companies and create archives, which will be a part of the ISB library.
Some of the content will be published in this newspaper, which has been chronicling Hyderabad for the last 75 years.
The companies, which have agreed to be part of this project include healthcare major Apollo Hospitals, India’s largest pharma company Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, infrastructure major GMR Group, India’s first private vaccine maker Biological E, construction major Gayatri Projects, India’s second largest denim maker Suryalakshmi Cotton Mills, the Aladdin family, the promoters of erstwhile Hyderabad Allwyn, Vazir Sultan family, the forgotten founders of India’s third largest cigarette maker and the city’s oldest firm VST and another oldest city-based company Kharkana Zinda Tillismat.
