Nusli Wadia is an India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n Parsi entrepreneur, a textile magnate and an important person in the real-estate business. He is the son of Neville

Neville Wadia

Neville Ness Wadia was an English businessman, philanthropist and a member of the Wadia family, an old Parsi family which, by the 1840s, was one of the leading forces in the Indian shipbuilding industry, having built over a hundred warships for the British and having established trading networks...

 and Dina Wadia

Dina Wadia

Dina Wadia is the daughter of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan, and Rattanbai Petit.-Early life:Dina was born in London shortly after midnight on the morning of August 15, 1919...

. His mother Dina Wadia is the daughter of Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a Muslim lawyer, politician, statesman and the founder of Pakistan. He is popularly and officially known in Pakistan as Quaid-e-Azam and Baba-e-Qaum ....

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The Economic Times

The Economic Times

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 once described Nusli Wadia as "the epitome of South Bombay's old money and genteel respectability". He was also famously accused as being the only man who could walk in and out of the residences of Lal Krishna Advani

Lal Krishna Advani

Lal Kishanchand Advani known as Lal Krishna Advani is a Veteran Indian politician. A former president of the Bharatiya Janata Party , which is currently the major opposition party in the Indian Parliament. He also served as a Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004...

 and Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee is an Indian statesman who served as the tenth Prime Minister of India three times – first for a brief term of 13 days in 1996, and then for two terms from 1998 to 2004. After his first brief period as Prime Minister in 1996, Vajpayee headed a coalition government from...

, when the BJP was in power, and talk frankly to both of them
Nusli Wadia is the chairman and majority owner of Bombay Dyeing

Bombay Dyeing

Bombay Dyeing is the flagship company of the Wadia Group, engaged mainly into the business of Textiles...

, a major Indian textile company, and has vast holdings in real estate

Real estate

In general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...

 across Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

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Nusli Wadia is a member of the Wadia family

Wadia family

The Wadia family is a Parsi family originally based in Surat.Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia began the Wadia shipbuilding dynasty in 1736, when he obtained a contract from the British East India Company for building docks and ships in Bombay...

, and a direct descendant of Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia

Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia

Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia was a Parsi from Surat, India and was a member of the Wadia family of shipwrights and naval architects.Known for his high standards of workmanship, Lovji Wadia secured contracts with the British East India Company to build ships and docks in Bombay in 1736...

, Sir Cowasji Jehangir (Readymoney)

Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney

Sir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney, CSI , was a Parsi community leader, philanthropist and industrialist of Bombay, India .Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney came from a wealthy Parsi family. His grandfather and two great-uncles had moved in the early 18th century from Navsari, near Surat, to Bombay and had...

 and Dinshaw Maneckji Petit

Dinshaw Maneckji Petit

Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, 1st Baronet , Parsi entrepreneur and founder of the first textile mills in India. He was also the grandfather of Rattanbai Petit Jinnah, who later became the wife of the founder of Pakistan, Mr...

, as well as a distant relative of JRD Tata.