You can, they say, always tell a Harvard man. That
couldn't be truer than of Nirupam Bajpai, 30, who is busy co-ordinating
the all-new India Program at Harvard U. Educated in Lucknow, Delhi, and the MIT, Nirupam
is the first Indian to head a six-member policy research team at the Harvard Institute of
International Development. Says the student of Jeffery Sachs, who is drawing on a diverse
faculty from several Harvard schools: ''We aim to provide the best policy advice while
disseminating data on India.'' You can't, they also say, tell a Harvard man much...
This may be her third and, possibly, last reverie. First, Avanti
Birla, 31-the doting wife of Yashovardhan Birla, 31, the
chairman of the Rs 800-crore Ashok Birla Group-tried her hand at managing Viking, a travel
agency her hubby owns. Then, it was Nature Options, a healthfood operation that she
eventually decided to shut down. Now, Avanti may have finally found her little business
pre-occupation: Reverie, a boutique she has floated in tandem with designer Manish
'Rangeela' Malhotra. Unique, because Manish tries to style an outfit for you even as you
walk around. As for Avanti, who never ever wears less, designerwear must come naturally to
her...
She is his musical muse. Not only does Rama Prasad Goenka,
68, the founder of the Rs 6,200-crore RPG Enterprises, privately admit that he took over
the Rs 93-crore Gramophone Company of India years ago because of his wife, Sushila
Goenka's, 61, obsession with music, she is, along with her elder daughter-in-law,
now the inspiration behind Gramco's recent forays into film production. After the musical
successes of Sapnay and Bada Din, Gramco's latest is in Bengali, Hotath
Brishti (Sudden Rain), which will be released in July, 1998. Says the soft-spoken
Sushila: ''He who hath no music in his soul is a dead man.'' Need we add that it was
Ramababu who first recognised her ear for music?
When he spent his last
holiday in February, 1998, in the Lakshadweep Islands, little did the 56-year-old Piyush
Gunawantrai Mankad, know that he was going to return to a rather enviable
tussle-over him. By the middle of last month, the then-secretary in the departments of
industrial development and public enterprises was being torn between Union Minister For
Information & Broadcasting, Sushma Swaraj, 46-who wanted, and eventually got, him as
her secretary-and Union Industry Minister, Sikander Bakht, 80, who simply refused to let
go of him. Clearly, PGM must be rated the most-wanted bureaucrat in the GOI...
You can, they say, always tell a Harvard man. That
couldn't be truer than of Nirupam Bajpai, 30, who is busy co-ordinating
the all-new India Program at Harvard U. Educated in Lucknow, Delhi, and the MIT, Nirupam
is the first Indian to head a six-member policy research team at the Harvard Institute of
International Development. Says the student of Jeffery Sachs, who is drawing on a diverse
faculty from several Harvard schools: ''We aim to provide the best policy advice while
disseminating data on India.'' You can't, they also say, tell a Harvard man much... 
This may be her third and, possibly, last reverie. First, Avanti
Birla, 31-the doting wife of Yashovardhan Birla, 31, the
chairman of the Rs 800-crore Ashok Birla Group-tried her hand at managing Viking, a travel
agency her hubby owns. Then, it was Nature Options, a healthfood operation that she
eventually decided to shut down. Now, Avanti may have finally found her little business
pre-occupation: Reverie, a boutique she has floated in tandem with designer Manish
'Rangeela' Malhotra. Unique, because Manish tries to style an outfit for you even as you
walk around. As for Avanti, who never ever wears less, designerwear must come naturally to
her... 
She is his musical muse. Not only does Rama Prasad Goenka,
68, the founder of the Rs 6,200-crore RPG Enterprises, privately admit that he took over
the Rs 93-crore Gramophone Company of India years ago because of his wife, Sushila
Goenka's, 61, obsession with music, she is, along with her elder daughter-in-law,
now the inspiration behind Gramco's recent forays into film production. After the musical
successes of Sapnay and Bada Din, Gramco's latest is in Bengali, Hotath
Brishti (Sudden Rain), which will be released in July, 1998. Says the soft-spoken
Sushila: ''He who hath no music in his soul is a dead man.'' Need we add that it was
Ramababu who first recognised her ear for music? 
When he spent his last
holiday in February, 1998, in the Lakshadweep Islands, little did the 56-year-old Piyush
Gunawantrai Mankad, know that he was going to return to a rather enviable
tussle-over him. By the middle of last month, the then-secretary in the departments of
industrial development and public enterprises was being torn between Union Minister For
Information & Broadcasting, Sushma Swaraj, 46-who wanted, and eventually got, him as
her secretary-and Union Industry Minister, Sikander Bakht, 80, who simply refused to let
go of him. Clearly, PGM must be rated the most-wanted bureaucrat in the GOI...