Jewels of Gujarat: Sunita Lyn Williams


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MAKING INDIA PROUD She is a born genius, who works hard with utter devotion and has set records on her two flights to the International Space Station. So successful is she, yet humility is her closest acquaint. A humanitarian, Mrs. Sunita Lyn Williams, lovingly called Suni, loves pets and thus dreamt of being a veterinarian but ended up being an astronaut, someone who holds the record for total cumulative spacewalk time by a female astronaut with 50 hours and 40 minutes, becoming a role model for young girls in Science and Technology.




Jewels of Gujarat: Vishram ‘V.J.’ Jadva Patel


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HE MADE THE WORLD HIS UNIVERSITY “Doing things better, every day” defines his life. A swimmer in the open sea, he has been trekking through places like Kailash, Mansarovar, Mount Kilimanjaro, to name a few and playing tennis for past many years. A certified pilot and diver, he is an avid traveller, travelled to far-offs like Arctic and Antarctica. How does Mr. Vishram Jadva Patel switch to being a builder of some of the most outstanding sites, an industrialist to look up to, an indispensible connect between India and Africa and a charismatic person?




Jewels of Gujarat: Niranjan Shamalbhai Shah


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STRENGTHENING INDO–US RELATIONS Engineer and business executive, Mr. Niranjan Shamalbhai Shah has accumulated many accomplishments over the years but his greatest challenge was when he was a child with a Bombay-dream, but no money for his college education. Yet he took a leap of faith, crossed thousands of miles and achieved the American-dream. Several years later, with hard-work and family support, he decided to bring his birth and adopted countries closer. Tough, yet he did it! How, he shares.




Jewels of Gujarat: Ela Gandhi


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WALKING ON THE GANDHI’S PATH She comes from the family of a person who changed the entire course of India’s independence struggle. A gem at heart, with gray hair, she still takes forward the legacy that was started more than a decade ago. One among the few ladies who have done something great for humanity, here’s Dr. Ela Gandhi, an anti-apartheid activist from an early age, the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi.




Jewels of Gujarat: Dahyabhai Revabhai Patel


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WHEN PASSION EQUALS SUCCESS He treasures each minute he spent in his native, with his family, companions and teachers. The family man left his loved ones at an early age to anchor their future and let them have a financially fulfilling life. With his passion for innovation, Mr. Dahyabhai Revabhai Patel has created a revolutionary product, which has made him a reckoned name in the world of pharmaceuticals.




Jewels of Gujarat: Lavjibhai Dungarbhai Daliya


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THE MAESTRO OF HEARTS He hails from a village so small you probably have never heard the name of. People recognise him by not his name but the title he has earned. Rightly called Badshah, meaning the king, he feels and works for the needy. We ask him why do people call him so, when innumerable understand their needs and work for them. Lavjibhai Dungarbhai Daliya, the Badshah, himself shares...




Jewels of Gujarat, Volume II


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Jewels of Gujarat – Leading Global Gujarati Personalities: Vol II is an anthology of biographies of the 100 most influential Gujaratis around the world. Among these personalities are the celebrated entrepreneurs like Mukesh Ambani, doctors like Kiran C Patel, astronauts like Sunita Williams, philanthropists like Manu Shah, social activists like Ela Gandhi and many more from 30 countries from 35–40 fields. The book takes its readers on a rollercoaster voyage of happiness and sadness, victory and defeat, with these world-renowned figures from different walks of life to see what made them stand in a different race of success.




Jewels of Gujarat: Nimisha Jayant Madhvani


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A DIPLOMAT AND ENTREPRENEUR OF UNITY AND VIGOUR Carrying entrepreneurship in her DNA, she is a lady who remained family-minded, fun-loving, adamant towards her goals and proud of her heritage since her childhood. Life has emboldened her, making her understand that smart discernment fills life with hopes. Happy and sad phases remain there, but for her, it is only happiness that counts. Though Ms. Nimisha Jayant Madhvani hails from Uganda, her love and respect for her native and heritage are incessant. She shares how!




Jewels of Gujarat: Dinesh Manilal Zaveri


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COVERING THE WORLD WITH PEARLS Exploring the unexplored lands more than once, Mr. Dinesh Manilal Zaveri showed grit to dig the pearls from a country near the Pacific Ocean. Choosing a nation that has seen devastation quite often to come back to life more determined and unwavering, he learnt to remain resolute and strong-minded, facing all odds with his humbleness and polite nature, growing manifold to finally establish a legacy that his next generation embraced deliberately.




Jewels of Gujarat: Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani


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THE RICHEST, THE SIMPLEST The world knows India's richest and most influential man is quiet, modest and shy! A technocrat and management expert par excellence, he could always see far into the future and pinpoint the businesses that would change the face of his company profile. The biggest difference in him and other businesspeople is his ability to understand what is must, desirable and avoidable. This quality alone has made Mr. Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani the richest and most influential figure in India