- published: 26 Feb 2014
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Subrata Roy (Bengali: সুব্রত রায়, Hindi: सुब्रत रॉय, Urdu: سبرت رائے) (born 10 June 1948) is an Indian businessman. He is the founder and chairman of the Sahara India, an Indian conglomerate with diversified businesses and ownership interests that include London's Grosvenor House, New York's Plaza Hotel, Aamby Valley City and Force India. Roy founded the company in 1978.
He was named among the 10 Most Powerful People of India in 2012 by India Today. In 2004, the group was termed by the Time magazine as ‘the second largest employer in India' after the Indian Railways. He has been in Tihar Jail since 2014.
Subrata Roy was born in Araria in Bihar, India 1948 to Sudhir Chandra Roy and Srimati Chhabi Roy. He studied at Holy Child School in Kolkata and later studied mechanical engineering from Government Technical Institute, Gorakhpur. Roy started his first business in Gorakhpur.
Roy joined Sahara Finance, a struggling company, in 1978, that ran a chit fund and took it over. He changed its financial model. Sahara is said to have used the financial model of much older Peerless Group. They are termed residuary non-banking companies (RNBCs) that accept deposits of very low amounts.
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It?s like I?m falling out of bed
From a long, weary dream
The sweetest flowers and fruits hang from trees
Falling off the giant bird that?s been carrying me
It?s like I?m falling out of bed
From a long and weary dream
Just exactly as I remember
Every root
Every gesture
I?m a heart in cold ground
Like I?m falling out of bed
From a long and weary dream
Finally I?m free of all the weight I?ve been carrying
Every woman blows her cover
In the eye of the beholder
I?m a fish now out of water
Falling off a giant bird that?s been carrying me
I fell open
I laid under
At the tap out
I was just a number
I wanna slip it over
And get back under
And if you think this is over
Then you?re wrong
If you think this is over
Then you?re wrong
If you think this is over
Then you?re wrong
(Wake me up, wake me up)
If you think this is over
Then you?re wrong
(Wake me up, wake me up)
Like I?m falling out of bed
From a long, weary dream
The sweetest flowers and fruits hang from trees
When I ask you again
When I ask you again
Wake me up
Wake me up
Wake me up
Wake me up
Wake me up
Wake me up
Wake me up