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...India for being traders and moneylenders who figure prominently in the leading business houses of India. The family left for Calcutta, a center of Marwari activity, where father Mohan Mittal became a partner in a steel company. Lakshmi graduated with a business degree from the élite St. Xavier's College in 1969 and joined his father's firm before branching out on his own. "He was very strong in numbers," recalls Sisir Bajoria, a fellow Xavier's student. Mittal split from his father and two younger brothers in 1994 for reasons they don't discuss. He took the international...
FATHER RANJEEVAN XAVIER SRI LANKA...
When the tsunami hit the eastern Sri Lankan town of Thirukkovil, just before 9 a.m. on Dec. 26 last year, Father Ranjeevan Xavier cut short morning Mass at St. Joseph's, told his congregation to head for higher ground, tucked his cassock into his sash and ran toward the sea a few hundred meters away. "Almost immediately I found the body of a woman lying on a fence," says Father Ranjeevan, 30. "Her long hair had tangled in the barbed wire and trapped her. We'd had floods before, but I'd never seen that. I picked up her body...
...also for the cosmos. That's the inspiration for the brand's latest fine-jewelry venture, Eléments Célestes, which includes 16 pieces made of 15,400 stones, including diamonds, pearls and sapphires for a total weight of 330 carats. To present the collection, Chanel asked contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan to create original artwork inspired by the Eléments Célestes jewelry...
Barry is visiting scholar at the Tulane-Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research and the author of The Great Influenza