Nusli Wadia, corporate India's uncompromising samurai, built a diversified conglomerate. With an aristocratic spine and legendary temper, he successfully fought his father for Bombay Dyeing and fiercely battled Dhirubhai Ambani. Despite his "unyielding streak" causing a fallout with Tata, his career was defined by high-stakes combat. Now 82, Wadia faces his empire's twilight, with succession issues and diminishing parts of his inheritance. Yet, he remains a magnificent, solitary lion, a defiant Indian figure whose historical heft is celebrated, even as his group is no longer among the largest.