New Delhi: Anand Mahindra the chairman of Mahindra Group is one of the most popular industrialists of India has built a very successful and thriving business empire. He is most famous for his social media posts as much as he is for his business ventures. Even though Anand Mahindra is very active on social media platforms and a lot of information is available about his business ventures there is hardly any information available about his family. Anand Mahindra who is managing the Mahindra Group with a market of Rs 1.9 lakh crore is married to Anuradha who was a journalist and later launched the magazine Verve. She is currently the editor of magazines Verve and Mans World. They have two daughters Divya and Aalika. Both Divya and Aalika live abroad. Neither of them holds leadership positions in the Mahindra Group nor does his wife is a part of the family business. Divya has a bachelors degree in designing and visual communication from New York. After completing her degree she worked as a freelancer in 2009. Since 2015 she has been working as an art director at Verve magazine. She married Mexican-born artist Dord Zapata and settled in the United States. Mahindras second daughter Alika married a French national. Anand Mahindras two daughters and wife stay away from Mahindras business. When asked about this Anand Mahindra said that he has given full freedom to his daughters to take their own decisions. He never forced his daughters to join the company and they got married according to their own choice. I tried to get my daughters to make their own choices” says Mahindra. Once in a board meeting he was asked why his daughters were not part of the business. Responding to this he said that both his daughters are part of the family business. He said that Mahindra & Mahindra is not a family business for him and his daughters help their mother with the magazines. Anand Mahindras wife Anuradha founded two magazines as stated above. Divya is the creative director of the magazine and Alika is the editorial director. Anand Mahindra told that his grandfather started the company in the year 1945 as a patriotic gesture. He saw his business as a custodian of public money. Thats why he also believes that Mahindra & Mahindra is not his family business. Though it is not yet known who will take forward the multi-million-dollar business empire of the Mahindra Group after Anand Mahindra.