Meet Prakash Shah: Mukesh Ambani's Right Hand, Who Left His Rs. 75 Cr Job To Become A Monk

Meet Prakash Shah: Mukesh Ambani's Right Hand, Who Left His Rs. 75 Cr Job To Become A Monk

Prakash Shah, a former Vice President at Reliance Industries, has captured the limelight, and it's not for business success but for a profound spiritual transformation. In June 2025, Shah and his wife, Naina Shah, relinquished their high-profile lifestyle and took Diksha (initiation) as Jain monks on Mahavir Jayanti, leaving behind a reported Rs. 75 crore annual income. Their journey towards spirituality has attracted national attention, sparkin…

From ABC to OSB: a journo’s journey to becoming a Benedictine monk

Rohan Viswalingam being baptised in 2021 with his sponsor. Photo: Supplied. You would be hard-pressed to find a workplace less likely to nurture a vocation as a Benedictine monk than ABC News.   But 32-year-old Rohan Viswalingam, who worked in the ABC’s Ultimo offices for a decade in news production, is now wearing the white habit of a Benedictine novice at the abbey of New Norcia, two hours northwest of Perth.  “The thought did occur to me that…