Jewels in my strong room

It isn't every day you find a woman sitting with her back to a strong room, its steel door guarded by a combination lock and, very likely, some biometric clearance too. A bouncer at a bank? Not pretty likely, not if you've met Mira Gulati nee Jain, that is. The frail, slim 26-year-old is forceful all right, but as she's at pains to point out, "I'm a feminine person, not a feminist."

Which could be why she's wearing armloads of wedding bangles and insists that though she's well travelled, her favourite destination of all time is the Maldives, where she honeymooned recently. "My husband is 100 per cent behind my venture," she explains, though of course, it was her father who invested Rs 25 crore to set off her career as a