There's something very catchy about a successful Punjabi Kudi. She fascinates by the way she makes things happen.

We figured for the Kudi it's kind of cool to be hot. She'll flaunt it, if she's got it. She's terrific at go-getting. She'll get with it, but buck trend. She'll toss hair if she's to leave you breathless. Riding a top car, for her, will usually mean getting streets ahead. She'd spend well, to earn better, work hard, to party harder.

From London to Ludhiana, she's making her mark, scripting a success story each new day. Nishtha Shukla who worked on the story for well over a month had a tough list on hand, a list of 50 known names that needed to be pruned to 18. It meant endless hours of debate, and waiting for the verdict of a full jury.

Moving on to movies, there's a mega one in the making. It's called Taj Mahal, and we've it on our new Box Office section. It has every potential of turning out to be a blockbuster, and a hit with western audiences. Like the film's co-producer Irsahd Alam says, "When people from across the globe come to India, they all come with the expectation to see the Taj Mahal. It is the most popular Indian beauty abroad. So when this movie goes out to the world, who wouldn't want to see it ?"

Many, let's hope.

In our last issue we had profiled the rocks to riches story of diamantaire Govind Kakadia. This issue we continue our diamond series, and bring to you the story of the $ 1.4 billion Rosy Blue diamond empire run by Dilip Mehta and his team of Harvard business school graduates. One in every 25 diamonds in the world is cut on Rosy Blue floors.

Also in this issue is a story of another successful Indian-Ravi Daswani of Charagh Din fame. He runs a shirt store inside a 10,000 square feet showroom on Mumbai's Wodehouse Road , enough to have your jaws drop to your knees. Even news network CNN has talked about this store. Celebrities walk in here a dime a dozen. Every two in five customer that enters Daswani's store is a lady. Now if that will not make a shirt store popular, nothing will.

Successful global Indians-like always we continue to focus on them.
 

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Sayantan Chakravarty
Editor