India International Insight Tour

Bengaluru - One Day, Three Tables

We begin our journey through India and our immersion into Titans, Gurus and Maharajas in Bengaluru, where India's new wealth is made — and where our access to rare insights starts before the itinerary officially does. The day opens behind the doors of a palace built in the image of old royalty, moves into a private room with the founders and scientists shaping modern Indian enterprise, and closes at a family table in Halasuru, where the only inheritance is a recipe passed down, never published.

Highlights

Diwan-i-Khas: The Opening Long Lunch

• A PWN Members-only opening lunch inspired by the Mughal court's private chamber for trusted counsel — the room where decisions, not spectacle, happened
• Each participant sets out what they have come to find, while the group begins the conversations that will carry through the journey

The New Wealth Titans

• Rare, private dialogue with the leaders creating the new wealth of India — conversations not staged for a public audience
• Explore how public investment in science, technology and biotechnology laid the foundations for first-generation fortunes, told firsthand by the people who built them

Oota: Seven Generations at One Table

• A welcome dinner inside the family kitchen of Bengaluru Oota Company
• Experience Karnataka's regional cuisine through inherited recipes and banana-leaf dining rarely offered outside the family itself

Bengaluru - Uplifting Human Values

We move to the Art of Living International Ashram, a global movement active in more than 180 countries — and step inside a working institution most visitors only ever see from the gates.

Highlights

Arrival at the Art of Living International Ashram

• Check in at Meeravanam, part of the Sri Sri Wellness Ayurveda Centre, set inside grounds rarely opened to outside groups
• Experience an environment inspired by Kerala temple architecture, surrounded by paddy fields and greenery

Midday Guided Meditation with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

• Join meditation in Dhyan Mandir, the Ashram's new meditation hall
• Sit among thousands of seekers in a rare experience of collective stillness few outsiders are invited to share

Private Audience with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder, Art of Living

• Behind-closed-doors time with Gurudev himself, centred on the questions this journey is circling: what is wealth for, what is worth building, and what does it mean to hold something without needing to keep it?

Satsang and Meditation

• Optional evening satsang, where music, chant and silence gather thousands into a shared experience, from a vantage point most visitors never reach

Bengaluru - A Journey into Ayurveda

Today explores a different idea of health, one that begins with constitution rather than symptom — with rare, individual access to a system usually experienced only by residents of the Ashram itself.

Highlights

Nadi Pariksha and Ayurvedic Treatments

• A private Ayurvedic pulse diagnosis, reading the body's constitution through the radial artery — a consultation typically reserved for long-term residents
• Scheduled treatments at the Panchkarma Centre

Ashram: A Centre of Excellence

• A behind-the-scenes tour of the gurukul, where children live alongside their teachers and learn through Vedic and modern education
• Rare access to the Sri Sri Gaushala, home to more than 1,600 cows and indigenous Indian breeds
• Step inside a 300-bed Ayurvedic hospital providing traditional holistic healing
• A private demonstration of the Art of Living Intuition Process, performed for our group alone

Transfer to Mumbai - Maha Shivaratri

We leave the Ashram and travel to Mumbai, arriving at the Taj Mahal Palace on Maha Shivaratri, the Great Night of Shiva — a rare night to land in a city about to come alive around us.

Highlights

Arrival at the Taj Mahal Palace Mumbai

• Check in at one of India's most storied hotels, facing the Gateway of India and the Arabian Sea

Sundowners at the Taj

• Private, residents-only poolside refreshments at Aquarius — a space closed to the public and rarely opened to outside groups
• A quiet moment before the energy of our Mumbai program kicks off

Mumbai - Families and Generational Success

We walk out at first light, before the heat and traffic, with a guide who reads the city like a private ledger. Within a mile of the hotel stand the names of the families that shaped civic Bombay: Sassoon, Jehangir and others whose philanthropy built libraries, galleries, colleges and public life. In the evening, we step inside a conversation rarely offered to outsiders: the generation preparing to inherit, reform, resist or rebuild family enterprise.

Highlights

A City With Its Donors' Names On It

• Early morning heritage walk led by Bombay Heritage Walks, with behind-the-scenes stories most walking tours don't cover
• Explore the Taj Mahal Palace, Fort, Horniman Circle, Flora Fountain, Oval Maidan and Kala Ghoda
• Consider how merchant families turned wealth into civic memory

Dinner Exchange with the Next Scions of Mumbai

• A rare, candid evening exchange with sons and daughters of Mumbai's established business families — the kind of conversation that doesn't happen in a boardroom
• Explore return, identity, legacy, succession and the personal negotiations behind family enterprise
• Hosted by Neha Wadhwa, Founder and CEO, 6 Advisors

​Mumbai - What the Ledger Does Not Show

On International Women's Day, we spend the morning inside a district most visitors only see from a distance, and the afternoon with women whose influence rarely makes it into the annual report.

Highlights

Dharavi Walking Tour

• Walk with community guides through one of Mumbai's most enterprising districts, with access built on years of trusted relationships
• Explore recycling yards, leather workshops, papad-making and the Kumbharwada potteries
• Close at the Reality Gives Community Centre with Krishna Pujari, co-founder of Reality Tours & Travel
• Understand enterprise, dignity and social entrepreneurship from inside the community, not through the window of a coach

• The Unwritten Office: The Matriarch in the Survival of the Family and Enterprise — a private session rarely put on the record
• Reflect on the women whose roles may not appear in shareholdings, board seats or succession plans, yet often determine whether families endure
• Explore the contrast between buildings that outlive families and institutions designed to carry purpose across generations

​New Delhi - Two Cities, One Delhi

We arrive into the capital the British built and spend the evening in the one it was meant to replace, walked by insider guides who unlock doors most visitors pass by. Lutyens' Delhi offers marble colonnades, order and Art Deco confidence. Old Delhi offers markets, mosques, havelis, households and lanes that keep trading long after empires have ended.

Highlights

Arrival at The Imperial New Delhi

• Check in at one of Delhi's great heritage hotels, opened in 1936
• Settle into Lutyens' Delhi before entering the older city

The Night of the Moon: Celebrating Eid al-Fitr

• An after-dark walk through Old Delhi as the city celebrates Eid, with access to lanes and courtyards a guidebook won't find
• Experience Chandni Chowk, Matia Mahal, Dariba Kalan and the lanes around Jama Masjid
• Observe bangle sellers, henna artists, perfumers, tailors, kitchens and families preparing for celebration, from the inside of the street rather than the edge of it

Haveli Tradition and Legacy

• A private dinner at Haveli Dharampura, built in 1887 and restored by a father and son over six years, inside rooms rarely opened for groups
• Explore heritage conservation, family stewardship and the endurance of households after empire

​New Delhi - Counsel and Canvas

With Delhi at rest for Eid, we sit behind closed doors with three people who read India for a living — the kind of briefing usually reserved for ministers, boards and visiting delegations. In the evening, we cross to Gurgaon and enter a private home where modern India is encountered not through policy analysis but through art, memory and conversation.

Highlights

Insider Insights: Modern India, Modi India

• A private, off-the-record briefing with Adit Jain, Chairman and Editorial Director, IMA India
• Explore India's liberalisation since 1991, the Modi era, policy, elections, capital deployment and what may come next

Insider Insights: Australia and India

• Understand where the bilateral relationship is deep, where it remains aspirational, and where Australian capital is genuinely wanted

Beyond the Family: India's Rising Elites

• A candid look at the rise of professional chief executives, first-generation founders and returning diaspora wealth
• Proposed speaker: Ashutosh Garg, entrepreneur, executive coach, broadcaster and Founder, The Brand Called You

An Evening with Rahul and Manisha Gera Baswani

• A private evening inside the Gurgaon residence and workshop-studios of Rahul and Manisha Gera Baswani, rarely opened beyond their own circle
• Engage with collectors, artists, writers and gallerists shaping India's contemporary cultural life

​New Delhi - Agra - The Magnificent

We close in Agra. The Taj Mahal was built by Emperor Shah Jahan as an act of remembrance, yet his final years were spent looking at it from the fort downriver while succession battles unfolded around him. After nine days of founders, fortunes, families, informal economies, women without title, households that endured and institutions that carried purpose, we close this Indian Odyssey reflecting on beauty, inheritance and what lasts.

Highlights

Indian Railway Express to Agra

• Travel by train from New Delhi to Agra
• Experience the rhythms of Indian travel between two historic centres

The Taj Mahal and Agra Fort

• Visit the Taj Mahal, one of the world's most powerful monuments to memory and devotion
• Explore Agra Fort, where power, family, succession and loss become part of the same story

Participant Reflections and Closing Dinner

• A private sundowner overlooking the Taj Mahal at The Oberoi Amarvilas, a vantage point held for our group alone
• Closing dinner and participant reflections on the lessons, relationships and insights gathered across the Insight Tour