Making It Big

Binod Chaudhary is best known as the force behind Wai Wai noodles, a brand that has sold more than a billion packets in India alone. Making It Big is his own account of how he built a business career that took him to the top ranks of Asian industry.

He heads the Chaudhary Group, whose interests run across banking, insurance, finance and housing. He has also put money into hotels and real estate, and he works in partnership with firms such as India's Taj Group. In 2013, Forbes named him a dollar billionaire, the first Nepali entrepreneur to be listed that way.

The book follows a man whose drive to grow his enterprises has carried him through serious obstacles along the way. Told in his own voice, it is an encouraging story for anyone interested in entrepreneurship or in how a business empire takes shape. The memoir was a huge bestseller in Nepal.