Mr Worldwide

Amit Bhatia and Vanisha Mittal with Justin Bieber in 2013Mr WorldwideAmit Bhatia the soninlaw of Londonbased steel tycoon LN Mittal shot into the international limelight in 2004 when he married Vanisha Mittal in an OTT celebrations at the Palace of Versailles Bhatia is also an entrepreneur in his own right and is the founder of Swordfish Investments and The Global Relief initiative and also owns the popular English football team QPR amongst other interests But word comes in that the low profile erstwhile Delhi lad might have also played a role in bringing down Justin Bieber to Mumbai last month in a gig produced by a group Delhi boysBhatia and Vanisha with Kourtney Kardashian in Cannes recentlyThey have been close friends for quite sometime and were spotted partying together in London in 2013 The story had made the tabloid pages during that time as Bieber was going through his bad boy phase and media interest was high informs a Londonbased source And the friendship obviously endured over the years as this tweet by the lipsyncing teen sensation prior to his arrival indicates Dubai is incredible India you are next Amit Bhatia u ready To which Bhatia had replied with a resounding Cannot Wait Whats more Bieber is not the only international sensation known to be close to Bhatia We are informed that a couple of weeks ago Amit and Vanisha had flown to Cannes on their PJ along with Kourtney Kardashian who shared a picture with them on social mediaLalit ModiOnline and everywhereLalit Modi is a oneman social media army Not an hour passes without some update about the beleaguered IPL founder and economic exile Last week the bon vivants tweets and posts found him in locales as wide ranging as London Portugal Madrid and Italys Lake Como district and his subjects were as wide ranging tooP ChidambaramFrom his snide what next will they make about reports that Vivek Oberoi would be playing a character based on him in an upcoming movie to a thumbs up to his son Ruchir Modi who is emerging as a chip of the old block to a wish you were here while watching the Real Madrid vs Juventus game with a gaggle of glam pals Modi appears to be all over the globeArun JaitleyBut what stood out from all this epic gallivanting was his cryptic comment on what he perceives to be his twin nemesis Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram and current Fin Min Arun Jaitley Two brothers Different parties same objective Get lalitkmodi he posted with an animated GIF on his timeline this week following the CBI raids on the formers son One has met his fate one left to go He cackled ominously describing the tweedledee and tweedledum bespectacled legal and political luminaries Two best friendsNilanjana RoyThe ladies of Calcutta They hail from the land of Durga and Kali which might account for their perceived stridency and epic cool So when a twitter troll recently bunched together a swathe of Bengali women including Sagarika Ghose Arundhati Roy Sunetra Choudhury Pallavi Ghosh and Shoma Choudhury who are celebrated equally for their grey cells as for their outspokenness calling them deadly poisonous venom spewing creatures it attracted much noticeKaruna NundyMamata BanerjeeOf course this generalisation like all generalisations was odious but when you consider that the troll had left out another dozen or so more of the tribe like fiery author and columnist Nilanjana S Roy constitutional and media lawyer Karuna Nundy and Bangladeshi Supreme Court lawyer Sara Hossain the allusion didnt seem so flippant after all Especially when the subject of Mamata dis name was not even broachedTara Alisha Berry and Nandini SenOf enterprising mothers and their loving daughters Recently when young actress Tara Alisha Berry aka Tasha called her grandmother Bubloo Sen in Bangalore to enquire how she was and what she was doing the feisty octogenarian responded aptly with Growing old Gracefully The octogenarian is mother to Nandini Sen onetime super model and TV actress who even as she guides her daughters nascent Bollywood career is deeply engaged with her mother on a daytoday basisMy beautiful mother has always been very enterprising she says of the lady who was born in Calcutta and went on to have a flourishing career on radio before settling into a 25year stint as principal and director of Jacob Sassoon High School in Mumbai From being the principal of a school to planning and cooking the best food ever to writing a book shes always been the best says Sen adding Her latest enterprises include a vegetable garden in her balcony a book club an active Facebook account and designing boho chic kurtis and skirts with matching shawls from her old saris NiceEasy come easy goThis venerable and leading hotel chain which has been witness to a stream of high level exits at its upper echelons recently appears to be even more riven with politics than ever as executives scramble to keep ahead of shifting tides and loyalties The impact of so many hirings and sackings is playing havoc with morale said one highprofile harried insider who having managed to keep afloat through two regime changes is looking eagerly forward to his retirement in a couple of months Meanwhile the grapevine has it that after the exit of its top guy who had been brought in from the outside to shake things up the old guard that he had replaced is going to be back in the saddle again