Asian Power Couples
Muqit Teja & Vinita Agarwal Teja
Muqit Teja is founder of Zamadini Advisors Ltd and director of Canadian mineral exploration
company Silver Corp. Born and brought up in Kenya, Muqit has a Bachelors degree in Accounting
and Finance from the University of Warwick. His background is focused on international finance
and advisory services to the exploration and mining industry, with a primary focus on precious
metals. He married Vinita Agarwal in what was described as a “wedding of the century” in
Venice in 2011.
Vinita Agarwal Teja, daughter of industrialist Pramod Agarwal, is a philanthropist working
at The Agarwal Foundation, a private family trust set up to alleviate poverty in India. Vinita
has recently joined The Grassroot Soccer (GRS) Ambassadors Council (AC), an influential and
passionate group of supporters in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
Cyrus & Pervin Todiwala
Cyrus Rustom Todiwala OBE is chef proprietor of Café Spice Namasté and a celebrity television
chef. A Parsee, Cyrus was born and brought up in Bombay where he trained at the Taj Hotels
Resorts and Palaces chain in India and rose to become executive chef for eleven restaurants
within those hotels. He moved to the UK in 1991 and opened Café Spice Namasté in 1995.
He has subsequently launched a range of condiments and sauces called Mr Todiwala’s, and a
second restaurant called Mr Todiwala’s Kitchen, which is located at Heathrow Airport. He was
awarded an MBE in 2000 and an OBE in 2009. Cyrus met his wife Pervin at the Taj Hotels Resorts
and Palaces chain where they both trained. They married in 1984.
Cyrus & Pervin Todiwala
Pervin Todiwala is Co-Patron and Operations Director of Cafe Spice Namaste and Mr Todiwala’s
Kitchen. The acknowledged driving force behind the Todiwala family business, Pervin was born
in Bombay, where she trained at Dadar Catering Collegeand qualified as a chef at the Taj Hotels
group where she met Cyrus. She has managed to raise two sons, oversee over 30 staff and grow
a business by taking up the front of house and financial responsibilities.
Paul & Kashmir Uppal
Paul Singh Uppal is a Conservative Party politician from the United Kingdom. He was born in
Birmingham to Sikh parents of East African descent. He studied Politics and Sociology at the
University of Warwick. Paul was selected as the Conservative party candidate on 16 February
2007 but did not win a seat until 2010 when he was elected as the Member of Parliament
for Wolverhampton South West. In July 2010 he was elected Chairman of the All Party Urban
Development Group and in 2012 he was elected Parliamentary Private Secretary to David
Willetts at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Paul Uppal
Kashmir Uppal is a senior solicitor based in our Birmingham. She has specialised in clinical
negligence claims since 1996 and is a member of The Law Society’s Clinical Negligence
Accreditation Scheme
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