Manjushree Khaitan, Chairperson of 105-year-old Kesoram Industries, passed away aged 68 on Thursday. Khaitan, who joined Kesoram's board in October 1998 and assumed the role of Chairperson in July 2019, died in her Kolkata home following a brief illness. Khaitan was the daughter of late industrialist BK Birla, who is the grandfather of India's ninth richest billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla.