L to R - Dr. Vamsi Krishna Bandi, managing director, and Dr. B. Partha Saradhi Reddy (BPS), chairman, of Hetero Group of Companies at their home in Hyderabad. With Rs 90 lakh from his savings, and by selling a plot of his land and his shares at Dr Reddy’s, BPS Reddy set up a laboratory in Hyderabad in 1993. Today, the company boasts of over 21,000 employees and has grown into one of India’s best-known pharma companies.