Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria

Karan Faridoon Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria,   CBE , DL , FCA (an haife ta a ranar 26 ga Nuwamba 1961  ) ɗan kasuwa ne ɗan ƙasar Indiya ɗan Birtaniya,  memba na Majalisar Iyaye, kuma tsohon Shugaban Jami'ar Birmingham .

Bilimoria ya kafa kamfanin giya na duniya Cobra Beer, kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban kamfanin har zuwa Nuwamba 2024. Baya ga ayyukan kasuwancinsa, Bilimoria memba ne mai zaman kansa a majalisar wakilai mai zaman kansa, kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin Chancellor na Jami'ar Birmingham daga 2014 zuwa 2024, kuma shi ne tsohon Shugaban Hadaddiyar Masana'antu ta Burtaniya (2020–2022) kuma Mataimakin Shugaba (2022–2024).

 Asalin iyali 
An haifi Karan Bilimoria a Hyderabad, Indiya, daga cikin dangin Parsi na Zoroastrian waɗanda suka fito daga Gujarat. Kamar yadda sunan 'Bilimoria' ke nufi, gidan kakannin iyalin shine ƙaramin gari na Bilimora, wanda ke gefen kogin Ambika, a Gandevi taluka na gundumar Navsari ta jihar Gujarat .

Iyalan Bilimoria suna da ƙwarewa sosai a fannin kasuwanci da kasuwanci, amma mahaifinsa da kakanninsa duka sun yi aiki a rundunar sojojin Indiya.  A shekarar 1931, kakansa na uba, Nasservanji D. Bilimoria, yana ɗaya daga cikin 'yan Indiya na farko da aka naɗa a matsayin jami'i a rundunar sojojin Indiya daga Kwalejin Sojoji ta Royal, Sandhurst, kuma ya yi ritaya a matsayin Birgediya . 

Mahaifin Bilimoria, Faridoon Noshir Bilimoria (1933–2005), wanda aka fi sani da 'Janar Billy', ya yi aiki mai tsawo da kuma shahara a rundunar sojin Indiya. A matsayinsa na matashi, sabon jami'i, ya yi aiki a matsayin ADC ga Shugaban Indiya na farko, Rajendra Prasad . Shekaru da yawa bayan haka, ya jagoranci bindigogin Gorkha guda 2/5 (Rundunar Kan iyaka) a lokacin Yaƙin 'Yantar da Bangladesh . Daga baya ya yi aiki a matsayin Babban Kwamandan Babban Kwamandan Rundunar Sojojin Indiya. A shekarar 1990, yayin da yake aiki a wannan mukamin, Gwamnatin Indiya ta tura FN Bilimoria zuwa Sri Lanka don yin bitar aikin Rundunar Tsaron Zaman Lafiya ta Indiya, wacce aka tura a wannan ƙasar a lokacin Yaƙin Basasa na Sri Lanka a ƙarƙashin Yarjejeniyar Indo-Sri Lanka . Bisa shawararsa ne aka dawo da rundunar a shekarar 1990, wanda hakan ya kawo ƙarshen yaƙin soja da Indiya ke yi da LTTE . 

Mahaifiyar Karan Bilimoria, Yasmin Bilimoria (wacce aka haifa a Italiya), 'yar Jamshed D. Italia ce, wani Shugaban Rundunar Soja a Rundunar Sojan Sama ta Royal Indian . Mahaifiyarta, Aimai Italia wacce aka haifa a Bharucha ta Hyderabad, 'yar DD Italia ce, wani ɗan kasuwa kuma ɗan siyasa mazaunin Hyderabad wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin memba na Rajya Sabha a shekarun 1950 (wannan kakan Karan ne na uwa).  Mahaifiyarsa da kakansa na uwa sun yi karatu a Birtaniya a Jami'ar Birmingham .

 Ilimi 
Bilimoria ya yi karatunsa na farko a Hyderabad daga Makarantar Jama'a ta Hyderabad da ke Begumpet, Hyderabad inda iyalin suka zauna a gidan kakannin mahaifiyarsa, Anand Bhavan, yayin da mahaifinsa ya yi aiki a ofisoshin sojoji daban-daban a ƙasar. Yayin da yake girma, iyalinsa suka fara raka mahaifinsa, kuma Bilimoria ya halarci makarantu bakwai daban-daban kafin a tura shi makarantar Hebron da ke Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu,  tare da ƙanensa, Nadir. Lokacin da yake ɗan shekara goma sha tara, Karan ya sami digirin farko na kasuwanci daga Jami'ar Osmania da ke Hyderabad a 1981.

Bayan ya sami tallafin karatu, sai ya koma Landan inda ya cancanci zama akawu mai hayar kuɗi tare da abin da ake kira Ernst &amp; Young a yau kuma ya sami difloma a fannin lissafi daga Jami'ar London Metropolitan . Bayan haka ya karanta shari'a a Kwalejin Sidney Sussex, Cambridge .  Yayin da yake Cambridge, Bilimoria ya buga wasa a ƙungiyar polo ta jami'ar, inda ya shirya rangadin farko a Indiya, inda ya sami Half-Blue a 1988, kuma ya jagoranci ƙungiyar muhawara da Oxford na tsawon shekaru biyu, inda ya zama mataimakin shugaban ƙungiyar Cambridge Union kafin ya kammala karatunsa a 1988. 

A lokacin rangadin Indiya na ƙungiyar polo ta Jami'ar Cambridge, Bilimoria ta lura cewa sandunan polo da aka yi a Indiya sun bambanta kuma suna da inganci fiye da waɗanda aka yi a Birtaniya. A lokacin, sandunan polo da aka yi a Argentina sun shahara sosai amma bayan Yaƙin Falklands, an hana shigo da kayayyakin Argentina zuwa Birtaniya kuma babu wata gasa tsakanin masana'antun Burtaniya. Bilimoria ta fara shigo da sandunan polo daga Indiya don cike gibin, tana sayar da su cikin nasara da riba ga Harrods da Lillywhites . 

 Manazarta 

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