The oak-panelled conference room at Mumbai’s century-old family-owned Industry House has witnessed generations of the enterprising Birla family members preside over meetings. Surrounded by the omniscient presence of his larger-than-life clan’s accomplishments, stands Nirvaan Birla, the second son of Yashovardhan, or Yash—as he is popularly known—Birla, chairman of the Yash Birla Group.