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From the Family Album


Late Kisharam and Radha Rupani, Nanik’s parents

Inauguration of office at Kalbadevi
Seen in the picture are Geeta and Late Kisharam with Neeta

Wife Geeta


Daughters Reena and Neeta

Daughter Neeta, Granddaughter Gehna and Son-in-law Sunil Datwani

Father Kisharam and his five brothers


Nanik, Neeta and Sunil Datwani, and Reena with Smt. Sonia Gandhi

Shivaji Patil, Speaker, Lok Sabha, with Nanik, Geeta, Neeta and Sunil Datwani

Nanik and Geeta with Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister



Leading the Junior Chamber

The Chamber’s All India Film Talent Contest
Nanik with Pramodh Chakraborthy, Dr. Ramanand Sagar, T.A. Pai, Bahadur Singh Bothra and Shakti Samanta

P.K. Sawant, Maharashtra Minister speaking with Nanik at Wadala Junior Chamber’s Jawans’ Canteen

Nanik, with Gangaram Joshi, Former Sheriff of Mumbai, and Lalit Mehta, President, Bombay Junior Chamber


Function to disburse funds to three Defense Services in 1971

With Gangaram Joshi, Balasaheb Desai and Dinesh Singh, External Affairs Minister

With Sanjeev Kumar


Mohan Saigal at a function organized by the Wadala Junior Chamber

With Sujit Kumar and Mani Bhathija

With Mala Sinha


With Mr. Bumsuklee, Ambassador, South Korea, S.P. Godrej and Nana Chudasama, Sheriff of Mumbai

With Shri Pahadia, Chief Minister of Rajasthan



In Social and Business Spheres

R.D. Bhandare, Former Governor of Andhra Pradesh inaugurating the Kalbadevi office of Nanik Silk Industries

With Pramod Navalkar and Usha Mehta

With Prof. Nanik Shivdasani


With Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi

Making a point to Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India at the official residence

With Sharad Pawar, Chief Minister of Maharashtra


With Balasaheb Thackeray, Shiv Sena Chief at Nanik’s Khandala Bungalow

With Uddhav Thackeray

With Sushil Kumar Shinde


Harish Mahindra inaugurating the Enkay Office

Swami Chinmayananda at the Rupani residence

With Vasant Dada Patil, Chief Minister of Maharashtra and Mr. Kim, Ambassador of South Korea


With Gurunath Kulkarni at an MPCC Seminar

With Vasant Dada Patil, Chief Minister of Maharashtra

With Mr. Bumsuklee Ambassodar, South Korea, Mr. Shantilal Meckoni, Mr. S.K. Wankhede and Mr. Harish Mahindra


With Atal Bihari Vajpayee and others

With Gulam Nabi Azad

With Shankarrao Chavan and Murli Adnani


Nanik with Dr. P.C. Alexander, Governor of Maharashtra

With Pramod Navalkar, MLA and Anil Deshmukh at the ‘Clean Mumbai Green Mumbai’ campaign

With Suresh Kalmadi


With delegates of World Sindhi Congress in New Delhi

With V.P. Naik, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, and Gangaram Joshi

With Javed Akhtar


With Shivraj Patil

Addressing a Seminar organized by the Science & Technology and Environment Cell of MPCC.
Seen in the picture are K.R. Narayanan, Union Minister for Science & Technology, and Prabha Rau

With Ashok Chavan and Ashok Patil, Maharashtra Ministers


With Prof. Ram Punjwani and Dadasaheb Rupwate

With Shalinitai Patil, Maharashtra Minister

Nanik meeting Fr. Gathhi, Chief of the Primary Section of Don Bosco School after 50 years!


With Steve Waugh, Captain, Australian Cricket Team. P.N. Mogre, Secretary General, IMC, is also seen

Prof. Nanik Shivdasani, Principal, Jai Hind College with Nandini Krishna, Ranjana Phadke, Padma Tatapudy and Nanik

With Madhukarrao Chaudhari, Speaker Maharashtra Assembly


With S.M. Krishna, Governor of Maharashtra

With Dr. B.S. Singhal, leading Neurologist

With Bimal Jalan and K.V. Kamath


With Niranjan and Kamal Hiranandani

With Narayan Rane

With Pramod Mahajan


With Hari Harilela and Dr. Ram Tarneja

With Ashok Hinduja and Srichand Hinduja, Chairman, Hinduja Group

With Dada Jashan Vaswani, Pradeep Chinai and Y.P. Trivedi


With Amitabh Bachchan

With Swami Ramdev

With Sachin Tendulkar

Finolex Academy - Mechanical and Chemical Engineering Building
A building in the academy sponsored by Nanik in memory of his parents, Kisharam and Radha Rupani

Kaivalyadhama Student Hostel
Being visited by Ms. Reena Rupani after its renovation sponsored by Nanik in memory of his parents, Kisharam and Radha Rupani

Gurukutir at Titwala
A classical dance program of Kalasadan was sponsored by Nanik in memory of his late father, Kisharam Rupani



Leading the Indian Merchants’ Chamber

With Mr. Sushil Kumar Shinde, Shailesh Haribhakti and Chhagan Bhujbal

With Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Sons Ltd. and A.K. Purwar, Chairman, State Bank of India

With Rajesh Kapadia and A.K. Purwar


With N.R. Narayana Murthy, Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Mahendra Sanghi, Former President, IMC

With Somnath Chatterjee and Sharad Pawar

India Calling Conference 2004, Singapore
With Suresh Kotak, Dr. L.M. Singhvi, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Ravi Bangar, Singapore’s Minister of State for Trade, Industry, and Foreign Affairs, Raymond Lim Siang Keat, Srichand Hinduja and Hari Harilela



From the Archives of Priyadarshni Academy

With Giani Zail Singh, President of India

With Prabha Rau, Maharashtra Minister for Revenue and Cultural Affairs

With Srikant Verma, AICC General Secretary and S.P. Nilangekar, Chief Minister of Maharashtra


R.K. Laxman receiving the Priyadarshni Academy Award
Nanik, Ramrao Adik, Maharashtra Minister for Finance and Planning, and Nana Chudasama are also seen

K.K. Tiwari, Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting speaking at the Award function
Prabha Rau, Maharashtra Minister for Revenue and cultural Affairs, Ajit Kumar Panja, Union Minister of State for Finance and Nanik are also seen

Poonam Dhillon speaking at an event. Seen in the picture are Prakash Mehra and B.R. Chopra


With Dimple Kapadia and M. Hidayatullah, Former Vice President of India

Sunil Dutt receiving Priyadarshni Academy Award from Ajit Kumar Panja, Union Minister of State for Finance
Ramrao Adik, Maharashtra Minister for Industries and Labour, and Nanik are also seen

With Sushil Kumar Shinde, Finance Minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, Maharashtra Revenue Minister, Sunil Gavaskar, S.B. Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, S.G. Wankhede and Ashok Patil, Maharashtra Minister for Sports


Sachin Tendulkar receiving Priyadarshni Academy Award

With Ajit Kumar Panja, Union Minister of State for Finance

With Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of India


With Madhukarrao Chaudhari, Speaker, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, and C. Subramanium, Governor of Maharashtra

With Brahamanand Reddy, Governor of Maharashtra

With Balram Jakhar, Speaker, Lok Sabha


With Fr. Aurelius Maschio of Don Bosco School, Meenakshi Seshadri and Mukesh Patel

With Kalyanji V. Shah

With Dr. Rajeev Bhowdhankar, Corporator, B.A. Desai, Dada Hotchand Advani and some prominent Sindhis


Hema Malini speaking at an event

Prahlad Chabbria, Chairman, Finolex Group of Companies receiving Priyadarshni Award from Sharad Pawar, Chief Minister of Maharashtra

With Prabha Rau and Nana Chudasama at the Round table Conference on Drug Addiction


With film legend Dev Anand

Nanik with Manisha Koirala, Poonam Dhillon and Meenakshi Seshadri

With Ramanand Sagar and Air Marshal (Retd.) I.H. Latif


Madhuri Dixit receiving Priyadarshni Award from Manohar Joshi, Chief Minister of Maharashtra
Also seen are Nanik and Gopinath Munde, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra

With Manohar Joshi, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Soloman Raj, Managing Director, IndusInd Bank and Gopinath Munde, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra

With Ram Jethmalani, MP


Discussing the Anti-Dowry Campaign with Shabana Azmi at his residence

Geeta with Madhuri Dixit

With Manohar Joshi, L.K. Advani and Nitin Gadkari


With Bob N. Harilela, Honorary Consul of Maldives in Hong Kong

Shivaji Patil, Deputy Speaker, Lok Sabha, is flanked by Hema Malini and Nanik
Ramrao Adik, Maharashtra Minister for Finance and Planning is also seen

With Manohar Joshi, Chief Minister of Maharashtra


With Meenakshi Seshadri

Dr. Rashmi Mayur receiving Priyadarshni Academy Global Award from Dr. P.C. Alexander, Governor of Maharashtra

With Dr. Michael Nobel, Executive Chairman, Nobel Charitable Trust


Yash Chopra receiving Priyadarshni Academy Award from L.K. Advani, Nanik and Suresh Kotak are also seen

With Ved Prakash Goyal, Ms Satu Hassi, L.K. Advani, and Dr. Ram Tarneja at the Global Awards Function

Ved Prakash Goyal, Union Minister for Shipping presenting a cheque to Tarun Vijay, Editor, Panchjanya, at an Award Function


With Steven H. Puthuff and Sandra Linck, Global Award Winners

With Vilasrao Deshmukh, Maharashtra Minister for Revenue and Cultural Affairs, and Noel Hon

With Dr. Nitu Mandke


With Jorma Ollila, Chairman & CEO, Nokia Corporation, Dr. Ram Tarneja and Anand Mahindra

With K.K. Tiwari and Vilasrao Deshmukh

L.K. Advani, Deputy Prime Minister of India presenting Priyadarshni Academy Award to Mr. John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister, U.K.
Nanik and Dr. Ram Tarneja are also seen


Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar receiving the Academy’s National Award from Suresh Prabhu
Also seen are Ram Jethmalani and Nanik

With Vilasrao Deshmukh, Maharashtra Minister for Revenue & Cultural Affairs, and Ramrao Adik, Minister for Finance, Planning, Law and Judiciary

With V. Ranganathan, former Chief Secretary of Maharashtra, Ramdas Phutane and Vijay Tendular at the Academy’s Literary Awards function


With Carlos Alfredo Magarinos, Director General, UNIDO, and Hon. Loren Legarda, Member, Senate of the Philippines

Urmila Matondkar receiving the Best Actress Award from Suresh Prabhu

With Suresh Prabhu, Haru Mahtani and Uday Kotak


With Megawati Soekarnoputri, Member of House of Representatives, Foreign & Inter-Parliamentary Commission, Indonesia, L.K. Advani, Haru Mahtani, Chairman, Wearwel International and Nitin Gadkari

With Praful Patel, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Government of India

With Shashi Tharoor, Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, U.S.A.



Making History in Parliament

Nanik Rupani speaking at the august gathering at the Parliament House
Seen in the picture are Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, Vice President K.R. Narayanan, President Shankar Dayal Sharma, and Speaker of the Lok Sabha Shivraj Patil

Nanik Rupani with Smt. Sonia Gandhi, President Shankar Dayal Sharma, Vice President K.R. Narayanan, Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and Speaker Shivraj Patil

Nanik Rupani proceeding to the Parliament House accompanied by Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, President Shankar Dayal Sharma, Speaker Shivraj Patil, Secretary General of Lok Sabha C.K. Jain, Secretary General of Rajya Sabha, Rama Devi and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Vijay Chauhan.