Insight Tour: India

Bengaluru (Bangalore) - 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 Member 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

• Experience Karnataka's regional cuisine through inherited recipes and banana-leaf dining rarely offered outside the family itself

Bengaluru (Bangalore) - Uplifting Human Values

Hosted by Peter and Suparna Bhasin-Cooper, we spend two days inside the moral fabric beneath India's change and innovation, at the Art of Living International Ashram. Active in more than 180 countries and reaching over 500 million lives, the Foundation has worked for more than 45 years from a single premise: that transformation within the individual is what makes service to others possible. 

The Ashram is not only a place of retreat but a working institution: a gurukul, the traditional residential school where children live alongside their teachers and are taught in the Vedic tradition beside a modern education; a gaushala, where men and women from the villages train in a trade that revitalises traditional and sustainable husbandry; and world-class Ayurvedic facilities, including a 300-bed hospital. 

Note: Members can stay overnight at the Ashram's hotel, or return to Bengaluru and travel back early the next morning for the personalised longevity treatments. Further details will be provided on expression of interest.

Highlights

Arrival at the Art of Living International Ashram

• An arrival that recalibrates you before a single session begins
• Set inside grounds rarely opened to outside groups, 26,000 square feet of Kerala temple architecture framed by paddy fields and quiet

Guided Meditation with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder, The Art of Living

• Join meditation in Dhyan Mandir, the Ashram's meditation hall with capacity for 20,000 people
• Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned meditator, sitting with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar among thousands of seekers carries you effortlessly into a depth of silence few ever encounter

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

• Behind-closed-doors time with the Founder of Art Of Living, 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?

Behind the scenes at the Annapoorna Kitchen 

• A kitchen run entirely by volunteers feeds more than 20,000 people a day, 8.4 million a year, 60,000 a day during festivals, on the principle of Swayam Seva: self-help, self-reliance, everyone pitching in

Satsang and Meditation (Optional)

• Each evening the Ashram gathers for satsang: literally meaning 'the company of truth'
• Harmonium and tabla lead, the hall sings back, the tempo rises and then falls away into a silence held by thousands of people at once
• Nothing is required of you: no practice, no belief, no words. You can join in or you sit and listen to experience the energy unlike any concert you have attended

Bengaluru (Bangalore) - 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 Personalised Ayurvedic Treatments

• Nadi Pariksha reads the body at the wrist rather than the chart, taking its pulse to reveal constitution rather than complaint
• Members receive this personalised diagnosis through the radial artery, a consultation typically reserved for long-term residents, followed by curated 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 in a modern facility
• 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 on Maha Shivaratri, the Great Night of Shiva — a rare night to land in a city about to come alive around us.

Highlights

Arrival 

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

Our Mumbai program will also include curated meetings aligned with the specific investment interests of participating PWN Members, creating opportunities to explore India’s evolving investment landscape through a personal lens.

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

• In Bengaluru we met people who made their fortunes, in Mumbai we meet the generation who will be handed them
• Peer exchange with sons and daughters of Mumbai's established business families — men and women who are variously joining the family firm, resisting it, reforming it, or quietly building something of their own alongside it
• Candid, confidential conversations on 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 Slum 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, 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 curated spotlight for International Women's Day, meeting the women at the forefront of India’s next generation of wealth, enterprise and legacy
• Candid conversations the often-unseen role women play in holding families, enterprises and legacies together across generations
• 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 

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

An Evening with Rahul and Manisha Gera Baswani

• Step inside New Delhi's cultural world in a private home and studio among artists, writers, gallerists and collectors shaping India’s contemporary cultural life
• Meet Manisha Gera Baswani and explore how her work has captured the stories of Indian and Pakistani artists — and the enduring legacy of Partition
• Join the Baswanis and other prominent Indian artists for an intimate evening exploring art, identity, memory and the India of tomorrow

​New Delhi - Insider Insights

In New Delhi 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. 

Highlights

Insider Insights: Modern India, Modi India

• A private, off-the-record briefing with Adit Jain, Chairman and Editorial Director, IMA India
• Understand how more than a decade of Modi’s leadership has reshaped India’s economy, politics and policy landscape
• Adit Jain decodes the journey from the 1991 liberalisation to today — and what the numbers, policies and political shifts really mean for investors and families deploying capital
• Look beyond the current administration to the question few ask publicly: what happens after Modi?

Insider Insights: Australia and India

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

Insider Insights: Beyond the Family of India's Rising Elites 

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

• Enter the heart of the city’s celebrations around Jama Masjid, where the lanes come alive with food, markets, makers and families late into the night
• Walk through living history, exploring Matia Mahal, Chandni Chowk and Dariba Kalan — streets that have traded for generations, carrying the legacy of the Mughal capital into modern Delhi
• Come as guests, not spectators, share in the extraordinary local generosity, experiencing a celebration where community, hospitality and tradition remain at the heart of the city

Haveli Tradition and Legacy

• Experience a living legacy at Haveli Dharampura, a 19th-century home built around the traditions of the three-generation joint family
• Hear how a father and son revived the abandoned haveli using traditional materials, techniques and craftsmen — earning UNESCO recognition for their conservation work
• Enjoy a lavish dinner, Kathak beneath the jharokhas and conversation with the Goel family, with the illuminated Jama Masjid as the backdrop
• Candid conversation on family stewardship and the endurance of households after empire

​Closing Brunch: Reflections & Connections

• A considered reflection on the ideas, experiences and perspectives that shaped our time together in India
• Our group shares what we have learned about India’s evolving economy, culture, family, enterprise and philanthropy — and what it means for families deploying capital and building legacy
• We also reflect on the deepened connections within our group and explore the conversations that will continue long after the tour

For those wishing to extend their travels, PWN will provide a suggested add-on itinerary to Agra, including an opportunity to experience the magnificent Taj Mahal.