Hariram Sastri
Hariram Sastri (sometimes Shastri) is a multimillionaire[1] Malayali industrialist,[2] who heads the New Delhi-based 11,000-crore, $5bn[3] petrochemicals enterprise Vinmar International.[4][5] Vinmar and its subsidiary charity Pratham funds education efforts reaching over 10,000 Indian villages, and targeting 100,000 with much of this work overseen by Sastri's billionaire Indian-American partner, V. Goradia.[3]
Sastri is a noted collector of Indian art,[6] even launching a dedicated auction house, Triveda, with his reported wife,[2] Britannia Industries heiress Nina Pillai,[7] (to whom he reportedly proposed with an eleven-carat diamond ring[7]) to facilitate the sale of Indian artworks,[4][8] including pieces by Jamini Roy, Gaganendranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, F. N. Souza, Jagdish Swaminathan, Anjolie Ela Menon, and M. F. Husain.[6] Triveda later exhibited the debut collection by Aslam Shaikh.[9][10]
He is the grand-nephew and heir of V. K. Krishna Menon (and therefore grandnephew of Rama Varma XIX, Maharaja of Cochin, and great-great-grandson to both the last Koothali Nair and the Porlathiri Raja of Kadathanad.)[11] As Menon's heir, he received the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo from South African President Kgalema Motlanthe in 2008.[12]
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- ^ a b "Psst... the new man in Nina Pillai's life". The Times of India. 2001-10-06. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ a b Sorvino, Chloe. "How This Houston Billionaire Is Fueling Indian Education Reform". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ a b Singh, Kishore (2013-06-14). "Another gavel pounding launch". The Business Standard.
- ^ "Hariram Shastri - Vinmar International India Private Limited, New Delhi". AllPeople India. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ a b TT, Bureau (2006-04-11). "Canvassing for art". The Telegraph.
- ^ a b "'After marriage, I will be Nina Pillai Sastri'". The Times of India. 2001-10-18. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ "rediff.com: Of the fall and rise of art mart". m.rediff.com. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ Luxpresso. "India's Billionaires Are Buzzing About This Artist's Debut Show In Mumbai". Business Insider. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ "Touch of Divine". The Indian Express. 2011-07-31. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ Ram, Janaki (1997). V.K. Krishna Menon: A Personal Memoir. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-564228-5.
- ^ TwoCircles.net (2008-10-25). "Krishna Menon's kin traced for South African award". TwoCircles.net. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
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