Word: jayant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creation, which holds that the universe is still being formed by particles that appear out of nothing in empty space. When he presented his new gravitation theory to a packed meeting of Britain's venerable Royal Society, he modestly described his work, done in collaboration with Indian Mathematician Jayant V. Narlikar, as a slight extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity. "We are clearly aware," he explained, "that in putting forward still another idea we may be like small boys trying to steal apples...
Phones & Ashes. Though the four brothers regularly rotate responsibilities, Jayant is the most equal among the equals. "We know how a family business can be run," he says. "We never have disagreements...
...higher sugar tax largely aimed at the Madhvanis. But they have hedged against too much discrimination by heavily supporting charities and political parties in the three nations, and by presenting the government of Uganda with a $500,000 office building in Kampala. They have hired some black African executives. Jayant, a citizen of Uganda and a former member of its colonial legislature, continues to cultivate his old political friendships...
Educated at the University of Bombay, suave Jayant is a Hindu and strict vegetarian who also fasts one day a week and once each year for a fortnight eats only yoghurt. But he does business from an air-conditioned, four-telephone office on the shores of Lake Victoria and tools around in a blue Mercedes to visit the 12,000 workers for whom the Madhvanis provide free housing, schools and medical care. The brothers are frequent business visitors to Europe...
...salt, flour and seashells. Eventually he traded up to bicycles and farm tools, plowed the profits into new ventures, and bought the sugar plantation for almost nothing from white landowners afraid of the tsetse fly. Madhvani broke in his sons as plantation laborers and ruled with an iron hand. Jayant recalls that "all our meetings were held over the dinner table, and we never left his presence until 11:30 in the evening." Though he has been dead since 1958, Muljibhai's presence is still felt in another way. His ashes rest in a brass box in a filing...