Sant Singh Chatwal
Sant Singh Chatwal is an Sikh Indian-American businessman. He is planning to start a new hotel chain in India and is willing to invest $100 million. According to The Indian Express, "he is a former Indian Air Force pilot who migrated to the United States in the 1980s and started the Bombay Palace chain of restaurants, channeled the soft money contributions through 14 different business despite having declared bankruptcy in several cases." .
Mr. Chatwal is undeniably successful today. In February 2006, he hosted an extravagant wedding in India for his son Vikram. The wedding including a week of festivities spead out over a week and three Indian cities and a veritable fleet of chartered planes. Guests included Bill Clinton, Deepak Chopra and the Prime Minister of India.[1]