So today, all eyes are on the US elections and it would not be wrong to say that most of them are anxious
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So today, all eyes are on the US elections and it would not be wrong to say that most of them are anxious. Will Hillary Clinton manage to wrestle victory from the mouth of her email and other Clinton Foundation-related scandals, or will Trump emerge as the winner and take the world to the edge of extinction as he is expected to do if he does get his (tiny) fingers on the nuclear button?
Barkha Dutt, who has been camping out in the States covering the elections in support of her pal Hillary (Tina Brown is a common friend) posted a picture of herself in Philadelphia at a concert for Hillary featuring Katy Perry.
"Apart from her experience and multiple qualifications, I have always liked her toughness in the face of so many attempts to pull her down. I think it resonates with so many accomplished women everywhere in the world. Definitely ready to 'roar' for her (as Perry would say)," said the feisty news anchor, who has seen her share of 'so many attempts to pull her down too.'
Will the Roar be resonating all the way to the White House? Watch this space.
Not sitting on the fence for sure
Mumbai's tycoons are often accused of sitting on the proverbial fence — especially on matters that concern their own bottom line — but this picture of two of the city's leading business heads Harsh Mariwala and Shiv Salgaoncar, proves that they are no ordinary fencers.
Shiv Salgaoncar and Harsh Mariwala (6th and 7th from left) on their recent trip
Shot on a recent trip abroad in their breeches, jackets, gloves and with rapiers held jauntily aloft, both Salgaoncar and Mariwala, who head well-established businesses, appear to be to the manor born.
After all, the ancient sport of fencing, one of the five activities featured in the modern Olympic Games, originated in Europe and has been refined over the years by both the Italians and the French, and is known to be one practised by nobility.
And now that some of our big boys have gotten off their fences and taken to the graceful sport, how about a display of some rapier sharp wit soon?
Get him to the church on time
If you find more than unusual activity among Mumbai's beautiful people this month, booking flights to Goa, scouring for places to stay while there and acquiring glamorous resort wear for the trip, put it down to the upcoming wedding of Sula founder, wine evangelist and bon vivant Rajeev Samant to the lovely Margarita Andronova, his bride from Moscow.
Rajeev Samant and Margarita Andronova
To be held at the end of the month, the couple has chosen Goa for their celebrations and given Samant's vast network of friends, cultivated through decades of partying all over the world, is expected to be a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
"I've already started receiving discreet inquiries if I will have spare rooms at my home," said a paid up member of Mumbai's cool set, whose riverside villa boasts an inviting pool. "People I haven't spoken to in decades are crawling out of the woodwork," he smiles.
The last time round when more or less the same champagne and white linen set celebrated an event on this scale in Goa was 16 years ago, when restaurateur AD Singh married Sabena.
He said 'tata'
By now, the whole world and his brother have heard how professor Nirmalya Kumar, the trusted aide of former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry and a key member of the hastily dismantled Group Executive Council of Tata Sons, was sacked from the $103 billion group in just 'a minute' a few hours after Mistry's removal.
Cyrus Mistry
Now, it turns out that the person entrusted with the irksome task was none other than old Tata hand, the soft-spoken and low profile Farokh N Subedar, COO on the board of Tata, who has served in many senior management positions in the group, including as senior vice-president, finance, as well as company secretary at Tata Sons.
"Those who know Subedar will know what a fine gentleman he is," says a Bombay House insider, adding. "From all accounts, he tried to make the onerous message as genteel as possible. He added, "The stress that Bombay House senior executives, who have spent their professional careers in a more decorous tradition, must be experiencing is unimaginable." Indeed.
Shaken and stirred
It appears as if the chattering classes from all three of Mumbai's Hills — Pali, Cumballa and Malabar — have been shaken and stirred by the viral clip featuring a high profile Mumbai society hostess and art patron that's been doing the rounds this weekend. Why so? Well, it depicts her in particularly poor light mouthing outrageous sentences.
Sources say that the lady in question swears that it is a morphed and doctored video, commissioned by her estranged husband with the sole purpose of maligning her and that she is considering criminal action against him.
"She's also saying that she has enough evidence to prove that an international concierge outfit, which is a front for an escort service, was engaged for an offsite for top-level Indian biz leaders, by him and is being regularly used by politicians and other famous names since then," says a source.
As for the damning video that is being circulated, the lady in the news is dismissive. "Anyone who knows me can tell it's not even my voice in the video. In fact, I wish I had such a husky one," she says, according to the source.
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