What is Basant Kumar Birla?
[[File:Basant Kumar Birla - Kolkata 2009-05-02 0066.jpg|thumb|180px|Birla in May 2009]] '''Basant Kumar Birla''' (12 January 1921 – 3 July 2019) was an [[India]]n businessman. He was a member of the noted [[Birla family]]. He was chairman of the Krishnarpan Charity Trust, [[B.K. Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology]] (BKBIET) and other educational [[trust (business)|trusts]] and institutes. He also wrote many books, including his [[autobiography]] ''Svantah Sukhaya''. Birla was born in Calcutta (now [[Kolkata]]). He married [[Sarla Birla]] (1923–2015) in 1941, and had three children. Birla died in [[Mumbai]] on 3 July 2019, at the age of 98.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/birla-group-patriarch-basant-kumar-birla-passes-away-5813120/|title=Birla group patriarch Basant Kumar Birla passes away|work=The Indian Express|date=3 July 2019|access-date=3 July 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Commons category}} {{Authority control}} {{Bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Birla, Basant Kumar}} [[Category:1921 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Indian businesspeople]] [[Category:People from Kolkata]] [[Category:Indian philanthropists]]