Asian Power Couples
Pinky & Mehboob Lilani
Nusrat ‘Pinky’ Lilani is an Indian-born entrepreneur and food guru. She is founder and chair
of a number of awards including the Asian Women of Achievement Awards; the Women of
the Future Awards and the Global Empowerment Award. She is an Indian cookery specialist,
consultant and owner of Spice Magic Ltd. As a food guru, she has advised supermarkets, written
cook books and runs team building days for major corporations based around Indian food.
She is patron of several charities and was named as one of Britain’s 100 most entrepreneurial
women and one of the 30 most influential Muslim women. Pinky was awarded an OBE in 2007
for her work to celebrate women’s achievements.
Pinky Lilani
Mehboob Lilani is an Indian-born, businessman who moved to Tanzania at the age of five.
He came to Britain in 1963 to study chartered accountancy and is a director of a number
of companies and financial director at Croydon-based import/export company Capitan
(Europe) Ltd.
Lord Raj & Lady Veena Loomba
Lord Raj & Lady Veena Loomba
Lord Rajinder (Raj) Paul Loomba CBE is a philanthropist, founder and Executive Chairman
of clothing company Rinku Group, and a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords.
Loomba has become well known for his fundraising and campaigning concerning the
issue of widowhood in the developing world. His mother, Shrimati Pushpa Wati Loomba
was widowed at the age of 37 in India and Loomba experienced first hand the social and
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