In 2009, Ramalinga Raju took India’s corporate scene by surprise when he resigned as chairman of Satyam Computer Services, the fourth-largest software exporter at the time.
He admitted that the company had been overstating revenues for years – a scandal in India knowns as “India’s Enron, and he could no longer keep that lie running saying “it was like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten.”
