‘Antilia’, the 27 storey residence of Mukesh Ambani in Mumbai is the most expensive outrageous home in the world with a cost of more than thousands of crores of rupees. While crores of people in the country has not even a roof above them and sleep in the pavements and roads, one family stays in a super-palatial skyscraper with six floors for underground parking, three helicopter pads and hundreds of staff to run the house. This is atrocious, outrageous and intolerable.

This is all the result of the anti-people neo-liberal policy being pursued by both the NDA and UPA governments for more than last two decades. This filthy neo-liberalisation, which on the one side makes the rich the richer and the poor poorer should be defeated. The report in the Business Line is reproduced below:

NEW YORK, MAY 14:
Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani’s skyscraper residence in Mumbai is the most expensive billionaire home in the world according to a Forbes list, which also includes Indian-origin steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal’s houses in London.

Ambani’s 27-storey, 400,000 sq ft skyscraper home ‘Antilia’, named after a mythical island in the Atlantic, tops the Forbes list of the most expensive homes in the world.

“The title of the most outrageously expensive property in the world still belongs to Mukesh Ambani’s Antilia in Mumbai,” Forbes said, adding that it is “far and away” the world’s most expensive home, with construction costs reported between $1-2 billion.

The house has six floors of underground parking, three helicopter pads, and allegedly requires a staff of 600 to keep it running.

To put Antilia’s scale and cost into perspective, Forbes compared it to ‘7 World Trade Centre’, a 52-storey tower that stands near Ground Zero in Manhattan, with 1.7 million sq ft of office space, and built at a cost of $2 billion. ( Courtesy: Business Line)