Opening up the possibility of two marriages taking place in business tycoon and Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani’s family later this year, his daughter Isha Ambani got engaged to Anand Piramal of the Piramal group over the weekend.
In a development that came less than six weeks after Mukesh Ambani’s elder son Akash had a “pre-engagement” ceremony with diamantaire Russell Mehta's youngest daughter Shloka Mehta in Goa, Anand — son of corporate magnates Ajay Piramal and Swati Piramal — proposed to his long-time friend Isha at a temple at the hill station of Mahabaleshwar in western Maharashtra.
Family sources said that Isha and Anand celebrated the happy occasion at a luncheon get-together with their respective parents Nita, Mukesh Ambani, Swati and Ajay Piramal, Isha’s grandparents, Kokilaben Ambani and Purnimaben Dalal. Also present on the occasion were Isha’s twin brother Akash, younger brother Anant, Anand’s sister Nandini and other family members.
Both the Ambani and Pirmal families have known each well for than four decades now.
Though there was no official announcement from either of the families about the date of their marriage, sources said that Anand would enter into a wed-lock with Anand in December this year.
In the case of Akash, the Ambani family has not so far made public the dates of either his engagement or wedding with Sholka Mehta. Sources said that the couple might get engaged in June and their wedding might take place in December this year – either coinciding with that of or after the marriage of Isha and Anand.
Anand, who holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School, is the founder of Piramal Realty, one of the country’s leading real estate companies.
Piramal Realty is the second start-up that Anand founded after passing out of the Harward business school.
Anand – who is also the Executive Director of the Piramal Group –had earlier launched Piramal Swasthya, a rural healthcare initiative that treats 40,000 patients a day.
Anand served as the youngest president Youth Wing of the Indian Merchant Chamber.
Isha, twin sister of Akash Ambani, is on the Boards of Reliance Jio and Reliance Retail and is credited widely with instilling a culture of youthful dynamism in the business.
Isha holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and South Asian Studies from Yale University. She will be completing her Master in Business Administration programme from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford by June.