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<div>{{short description|Indian businesswoman}}<br />
{{Notability|date=April 2021}}<br />
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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Ritu Nanda<br />
| image = <br />
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| birth_name = Ritu Kapoor<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1948|10|30}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Mumbai]], [[India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2020|01|14|1948|10|30}}<br />
| death_place = [[New Delhi]], [[India]]<br />
| occupation = Businesswoman <br />
| spouse = Rajan Nanda (m. 1969; his death 2018)<br />
| children = 2, including [[Nikhil Nanda]]<br />
| parents = [[Raj Kapoor]]<br/>Krishna Kapoor<br />
| relatives = See [[Kapoor family]]<br />
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'''Ritu Nanda''' (née '''Kapoor'''; 30 October 1948 – 14 January 2020) was an Indian businesswoman and insurance advisor.<ref>{{cite news|title=You make your own happiness. It is a state of mind|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/news-archive/web/you-make-your-own-happiness-it-is-a-state-of-mind/3/|accessdate=14 November 2014|newspaper=Indian Express}}</ref> She was the chairperson and [[CEO|chief executive officer]] of Ritu Nanda Insurance Services (RNIS). Nanda was initially managing a household appliances manufacturing business Nikitasha which got closed due to poor growth. She was the recipient of the ''Brand'' and the ''Best Insurance Advisor'' of the Decade awards from the [[Life Insurance Corporation of India]], the largest life insurance company of India.<br />
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Nanda entered the [[Guinness Book of Records]] for selling 17,000 pension policies in a single day.<ref>https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/raj-kapoors-daughter-ritu-nanda-was-top-lic-insurance-agent-held-this-world-record/1822864/#:~:text=Ritu%20Nanda%2C%20the%20late%20daughter,pension%20policies%20in%20a%20day.</ref> She also managed companies like Escolife and Rimari Corporate art services.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Nanda was the daughter of actor-director [[Raj Kapoor]] and his wife, Krishna. She was born in [[Mumbai]] on 30 October 1948. Her grandfather was actor [[Prithviraj Kapoor]], and maternal uncles were actors [[Prem Nath]], [[Rajendra Nath]] and [[Narendra Nath]]. Actor [[Prem Chopra]] is her uncle-by-marriage. Her brothers, [[Randhir Kapoor]], [[Rishi Kapoor]] and [[Rajiv Kapoor]], are film actors. She also has a sister, Rima Jain. Film actresses [[Karisma Kapoor]] and [[Kareena Kapoor]] are her nieces, while actor [[Ranbir Kapoor]] is her nephew.<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Ritu Kapoor was married to Rajan Nanda, an industrialist of India. She had two children, a son [[Nikhil Nanda]], and a daughter Nitasha Nanda. She was battling cancer and died of it on 14 January 2020.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cancer Treatment: India vs Abroad|url=http://idiva.com/news-health/cancer-treatment-india-vs-abroad/12059|accessdate=14 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.news18.com/news/movies/shweta-nandas-mother-in-law-ritu-nanda-passes-away-akanksha-puri-fights-with-co-star-2458175.html | title=Shweta Nanda's Mother-in-Law Ritu Nanda Passes Away, Akanksha Puri Fights with Co-Star| date=14 January 2020}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* ''The Voyage To Excellence'' ({{ISBN|81-223-0904-6}}) by Nichinta Amarnath, Debashish Ghosh and Amrita C Samaddar<br />
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[[Category:1948 births]]<br />
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[[Category:Businesspeople from Mumbai]]<br />
[[Category:Indian businesspeople in insurance]]<br />
[[Category:Punjabi people]]<br />
[[Category:Kapoor family]]<br />
[[Category:Deaths from cancer in India]]<br />
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