Hariram Sastri

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Hariram Sastri (sometimes Shastri) is a multimillionaire [1] Malayali industrialist, [2] who heads the New Delhi-based 11,000-crore, $5bn [3] petrochemicals enterprise Vinmar International. [4] [5] Vinmar and its subsidiary charity Pratham funds education efforts reaching over 10,000 Indian villages, and targeting 100,000 with much of this work overseen by Sastri's billionaire Indian-American partner, V. Goradia. [3]

Sastri is a noted collector of Indian art, [6] even launching a dedicated auction house, Triveda, with his reported wife, [2] Britannia Industries heiress Nina Pillai, [7] (to whom he reportedly proposed with an eleven-carat diamond ring [7] ) to facilitate the sale of Indian artworks, [4] [8] including pieces by Jamini Roy, Gaganendranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, F. N. Souza, Jagdish Swaminathan, Anjolie Ela Menon, and M. F. Husain. [6] Triveda later exhibited the debut collection by Aslam Shaikh. [9] [10]

He is the grand-nephew and heir of V. K. Krishna Menon (and therefore grandnephew of Rama Varma XIX, Maharaja of Cochin, and great-great-grandson to both the last Koothali Nair and the Porlathiri Raja of Kadathanad.) [11] As Menon's heir, he received the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo from South African President Kgalema Motlanthe in 2008. [12]

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