‘In that one pill, I find a lot of spirituality’

Sunday 7 June '09

Dr Swati A. Piramal is director of Piramal Healthcare and as President of ASSOCHAM, she is the first woman to ever head an Indian industry chamber.

‘Religion is a soul-saving industry’

Sunday 31 May '09

Swami Agnivesh is known for his campaigns against bonded labour, alcoholism and female foeticide. He is also the President of the World Council of Arya Samaj

‘My conscience is my guide’

Sunday 24 May '09

Padma Bhushan recipient S. K. Misra is Chairman of INTACH

‘I believe in a third force’

Sunday 17 May '09

L. V. Krishnan is CEO of TAM Media Research, a TV viewership analysis firm that measures TRPs

‘I would love to be an inanimate thing, like a mountain’

Sunday 10 May '09

Anjali Gopalan is the founder and head of NAZ, a New Delhi- based NGO working on HIV/AIDS and sexual health

‘People are willing to live with less as long as they have the security’

Sunday 3 May '09

Vinod Rai is comptroller and auditor-general of India

‘You learn from hardship’

Sunday 26 April '09

M. Damodaran was Chairman of UTI, IDBI and the Securities and Exchange Board of India

‘Leaving behind a small mark is the reason to be alive’

Sunday 19 April '09

Amit Mitra is the secretary-general of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI)

‘Even putting my best foot forward is preordained’

Sunday 12 April '09

Admiral R. Tahiliani was Chief of Navy and the governor of Sikkim. He currently heads the India chapter of Transparency International

‘I am an instrument, chiselled for different things’

Sunday 29 March '09

Jaswant Singh, has served seven terms in Parliament and held charge of six ministries in BJP-led governments

‘India completely changed my life’

Sunday 22 March '09

Robert Chartoff is one of Hollywood’s legendary producers, behind commercial blockbusters like the Rocky movies and other critically acclaimed productions.

‘Nothing is random in life’

Sunday 15 March '09

Pavan Varma, head of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, has worked as a diplomat for many years and authored over a dozen books.

‘The idea of karma is quite believable’

Sunday 8 March '09

Patrick French is a writer and historian, best known for his work The World is What It Is: The Authorised Autobiography of V.S. Naipaul

‘The suffering of children puzzles me’

Sunday 1 March '09

Rajeev Chandrasekhar is an entrepreneur, Rajya Sabha MP and former President of FICCI

‘If you can’t discover a purpose, you just make it up for yourself’

Sunday 15 February '09

Mohammed Hanif is the author of A Case of Exploding Mangoes

‘In my work, I can’t really be myself.’

Sunday 8 February '09

Priya Dutt is a Congress MP from Mumbai

‘The less I have, the happier I am’

Sunday 1 February '09

Pico Iyer is a travel writer and novelist

‘I do not know what God is to me’

Sunday 25 January '09

Shubha Mudgal is a Hindustani classical vocalist. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2000.

‘Spirituality is in my work’

Sunday 18 January '09

Jagat Singh Mehta is a former foreign secretary of India. He received the Padma Bhushan award in 2002.

‘Hinduism to me is a way of life’

Sunday 11 January '09

D. Purandeswari, Minister of State for Human Resource Development, MP from Andhra Pradesh, daughter of TDP founder N. T. Rama Rao.

The distance between failure and success is minuscule

Sunday 4 January '09

Israeli-American entrepreneur Shai Agassi is revolutionising the automobile industry by reducing the dependence on oil with a holistic electric car system

‘My spirituality came from pain’

Sunday 21 December '08

Tarun Das is the chief mentor of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII).

‘Those 40 hours were the most intense learning process’

Sunday 14 December '08

Deepak Bagla is a director with 3i, an international private equity firm. He spent 40 hours at the Oberoi after barely escaping the terrorists at the hotel’s restaurant.

‘I can introspect anywhere’

Sunday 7 December '08

Jyotsna Suri is the chairperson and managing director of Bharat Hotels Ltd, which runs the prestigious Grand group of hotels.

‘I don’t believe i‘ll simply die’

Sunday 30 November '08

Ibrahim Alkazi is the founder director of National School of Drama. He is also a gallerist, a collector and a patron of the arts