India, Jan. 16 -- Once my uncles came around to the idea of manufacturing, a confident, Yeh bhi kar lenge (We can do this too), pledge resounded around the Munjal residence and workplace. It was, of course, easier said than done.' The lines from Sunil Kant Munjal's book The Making of HERO: Four Brothers, Two Wheels and a Revolution that Shaped India in more ways than one sum up the can-do attitude of the business family. Unveiled recently by former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, it traces the journey of how Munjal brothers created the business empire after losing everything amid the brutality of Partition.

The panel discussion organised by the publisher, Harper Collins, had the likes of Sanjiv Goenka, Venu Srinivasan, Ajay S Shriram a...