There are around 6,500 diamond manufacturers of which Palanpuri Jains operate a mere 6 per cent, or around 400 companies. But they stand out for being highly interlinked through blood ties. ......
Shandilya Trivedi turns the focus on Banaskantha, a BJP stronghold where the Congress is tryinghard to put up a decent fight Banaskantha, an arid and underdeveloped region of Gujarat, gave a huge......
Shandilya Trivedi turns the focus on Banaskantha, a BJP stronghold where the Congress is tryinghard to put up a decent fight Banaskantha, an arid and underdeveloped region of Gujarat, gave a huge......
Kanan Shah, who lost her husband in the July 13 blast in Mumbai last year, tells Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel that no one out there really understands what it is to be the closest kin of a......
A Palanpuri Jain whose father and uncles were also jewellers, Choksi always wanted to be the Vijay Mallya of the diamond world, and chased the larger-than-life image by hiring actresses and models......
'We did not know we would one day dominate nearly 70 per cent of the market.''Today, of 100 diamonds available for trade in Antwerp, 93 are cut and polished in India.'A fascinating excerpt from......
There are around 6,500 diamond manufacturers of which Palanpuri Jains operate a mere 6 per cent, or around 400 companies. But they stand out for being highly interlinked through blood ties. ......
'If there is any industry that is unfit for modern corporate form it is the diamond trade.''But no one was asking the right questions.''The music was playing and so the game was on,' says S......
The suite at New Delhi's Imperial Hotel is absurdly large. Vases full of white roses have been strategically put on table-tops across the room, and on one side a huge veranda lets in the autumn......