Fortune India Magazine - September 2019

In this issue

THE LUXURY ISSUE
This year’s Luxury Issue is about the charm of London and what makes the British capital a second home to India’s über-wealthy and famous. For years, Fortune India has been of the view that a luxury issue is not about expensive things you can buy. It’s not a catalogue of products that have hit the market and the reader can splurge on. At Fortune India, we believe luxury is a way of life for the truly wealthy, who buy things or indulge in experiences because for them it is the way they live their lives. In this year’s Luxury Issue, our editor-at-large Hindol Sengupta, who is somewhat of an in-house expert on all things London, takes you on a fascinating journey of the many aspects of this wonderful city which make India’s richest return there again and again. As Sengupta explains, “True luxury is not checking into a hotel but a hotel so intimate and so personalised—and, therefore, luxurious—that it merely feels like coming home. To the rich, London is coming home.” And so Sengupta takes you to Hyde Park, where some of the richest walk along unobtrusively while striking billion-dollar deals, even as ordinary people are taken in by the 350-acre park’s general warmth and beauty. He introduces you to areas like Knightsbridge, Belgravia, and Chelsea where the rich from the world over—and India—often descend to become Londoners and marinate in the London way of life. In this issue you'll find other interesting stories too.