Kanwal Sibal was Foreign Secretary to the Government of India from July 2002 to November 2003. His diplomatic career spans 41 years. He was India’s Ambassador to Turkey (1989-1992), Deputy Chief of Mission in the United States (1992-1995), with...

Shuchita Sonalika is the Director and Head of the Confederation of Indian Industry UK. For this week only, we have changed our normal format to a Q and A with Shuchita.

BBC television and radio presenter Anita Anand presents Any Answers every Saturday at 2pm on BBC Radio 4.

Lance Price is the first foreign book writer to have interviewed Indian PM Narendra Modi. He talked to us for “Leading Lights” before leaving for Delhi to launch his fourth book, “The Modi Effect” published by Hodder and Stoughton and Hachette...

For International Women’s Day week Asian Voice had to feature a female Leading Light.

Oorvazi Irani is a young, Parsi Zoroastrian filmmaker. She is the director of her home production company “SBI Impresario Pvt. Ltd.,” incorporated by her father Sorab Irani in 1975.

Ismail Ahmed was born in Hargeisa in Somaliland, the autonomous northern part of Somalia. His parents were local traders.

Satish Luhar is the Head of UK-India bilateral and prosperity relations at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Dr Virander Paul joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1991. 

35-year old health instructor Darren Carroll has an Anglo-Indian father and an English-born mother. He’s proud of the matriarchal culture in his family that trickles down from his strong Indian grandmother. “We all listen when she speaks,” he...