"India is not one story. It is a thousand inheritances negotiating the future."

 

Discovering India is like uncovering one paradox after another. It's where first-generation technology fortunes sit beside centuries-old mercantile families. Where ancient systems of knowledge are scaling into modern institutions. Where capital, philanthropy, faith and enterprise remain more tightly bound together than in almost any other market family offices engage with.

This is An Indian Odyssey: Titans, Gurus and Maharajas — Insights into culture, capital and generational success. 

Over nine days, PWN Members move through distinct geographic and cultural thresholds — beginning with a VIP residency at the world-renowned Art of Living Foundation Ashram in Bengaluru, then the commercial dynasties of Mumbai, and finally the imperial legacies of Delhi — to explore the great liberating paradox of family enterprise: that the surest way to hold something forever is to learn the art of letting it go.

This Insight Tour is designed specifically for multi-generational families of significant wealth and family office principals across Australia and New Zealand, focused on the psychology and dynamics of navigating significant family wealth across generations.

India is no longer a distant growth story. It is one of the defining theatres shaping modern wealth. 

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Bengaluru

Titans, Gurus and New Wealth
3 - 5 March 2027

Bengaluru is India's new wealth engine: a city where science, technology, biotechnology and entrepreneurship have created first-generation fortunes on foundations laid by decades of public and philanthropic investment. We begin in the image of a paradox: a palace built in 2001, old royalty recast for the age of new capital. From there we meet the founders and scientists who helped create modern Indian enterprise.

We'll then be immersed in a VIP residency at the Art of Living International Ashram. Members pair meditation and breathwork taught at their source with private Ayurvedic longevity consultations — a healing tradition refined over millennia, experienced in its living home.

What is learned here does not stay in Bengaluru. In a country where enterprise, family and faith have never been separate, this is where Members acquire a framework for understanding stewardship that will inform every conversation that follows. 

Highlights

  • Private dialogue with leading first-generation Indian wealth creators
  • Welcome dinner at Bengaluru Oota Company, exploring inheritance through family recipes, regional cuisine and generational memory
  • A weekend residency at the Art of Living Foundation Ashram, blending self-reflection with an immersive cultural and wellness experience
  • Meditation, yoga and breathwork taught at their source, in the tradition's own home
  • A private audience with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder, The Art of Living
  • Individual Ayurvedic longevity consultations and treatments
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Mumbai

Families, Enterprise and the Ledger Unseen
6 - 8 March 2027

Mumbai is where India's trading families built civic identity in stone, education, libraries, galleries and hotels. Here, wealth did not only build companies. It built the city, and wrote family names across its public life.

Our Mumbai program explores the visible and invisible architectures of value: families preparing the next generation for stewardship, informal economies that run without capital or title, and the women whose work often determines whether a family survives its own wealth.

Highlights

  • Transfer into Mumbai during Maha Shivaratri, one of the most significant nights in the spiritual seeker's calendar
  • Early morning heritage walk through the Taj Mahal Palace, Fort, Horniman Circle, Oval Maidan and Kala Ghoda
  • Dinner exchange with the next scions of Mumbai's established business families
  • Dharavi walking tour with community guides, exploring enterprise, recycling, pottery, leather, food and social entrepreneurship
  • International Women's Day spotlight on matriarchs, family enterprise and the unwritten work of keeping wealth, identity and family together
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New Delhi and Agra

Legacy, Impermanence & Succession
9 - 11 March 2027

Delhi is two cities at once: the imperial capital of Lutyens' order and the older city of Shahjahanabad, where households, markets, havelis and religious life endure long after empires end.

In New Delhi, we sit with people who read India for a living: an economist and strategist who explains the country to those deploying capital, Australia's senior representative in India, and an entrepreneur and adviser who understands the rise of India's new elite. We then move from policy and analysis into private cultural life, spending an evening in a collector's home among artists, writers and gallerists.

The tour closes in Agra, at the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort, reflecting on inheritance, succession, memory and the magnificent.

Highlights

  • Old Delhi evening tour during the Eid al-Fitr celebrations, walking Chandni Chowk, Matia Mahal and the lanes around Jama Masjid
  • Dinner at Haveli Dharampura, a restored 19th-century haveli recognised by UNESCO for cultural heritage conservation
  • Insider briefing on modern India, policy, markets and the question of what comes after Modi
  • Private assessment of Australia-India relations with the Australian High Commissioner to India
  • Discussion on India's rising elites beyond traditional family houses
  • Evening with Rahul and Manisha Gera Baswani in Gurgaon, among contemporary Indian art, collectors, writers and cultural leaders
  • Journey by Indian railway to Agra, visiting the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort
  • Member reflections and closing dinner overlooking the Taj Mahal

"Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself." — Reymond Page


Travel Between Cities

This program moves between Bengaluru, Mumbai and New Delhi. Participants should expect a combination of private transfers, domestic travel and train travel as part of the experience.

PWN will provide further guidance on recommended arrival and departure arrangements, internal transfer details and any optional components during the registration process.

 

Who Should Participate

This Insight Tour is designed for PWN Members who are:

  • Principals and trustees of family offices and private wealth structures

  • Next-generation family members preparing for stewardship roles

  • Family office executives and advisers seeking deeper India market intelligence

  • Families considering capital allocation, philanthropy, enterprise partnerships or cultural engagement in India

  • Philanthropic leaders exploring the intersection of purpose, service and institution-building

  • Members interested in family enterprise, succession, wellness, human values, art, culture and legacy

 

Explore the Tour in More Detail

This Insight Tour has been designed as a rich, multi-city journey, with each day offering a different lens into India’s culture, capital, family enterprise and legacy.
To see how the experience unfolds, view our Preliminary Program.

To learn more about the leaders, hosts and experts joining us along the way, visit Who You’ll Meet.

 

Registration Details

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This is an intimate Member experience, designed for a small group of up to 25 participants so that conversations can be candid, personal and deeply connected.

If this journey feels aligned with your interests, we would be delighted to hear from you. To express your interest, secure your place, or ask any questions about the program, please contact Sandra Duncan, International Insight Tour Manager, at [email protected].