nagpur when arun lakhani a post graduate from lit decided to humour his astrologer friend by agreeing to make computerized horoscopes he had no idea where his destiny would take him today sitting in his wellappointed home into which he has recently shifted lakhani has the good fortune of speaking about benefits that will emerge for the people from the 24x7 water supply scheme that his company orange city water is spearheading for nmc finding his comfort zones in the city which he says is more eq driven than iq driven lakhani has combined his amiable personality with business acumen to leave a strong imprint i never considered taking up a job and was evolving projects in reuse of black oil even during my student days says lakhani whose family in malkapur ran an lpg agency and had a cotton ginning and pressing business an astrologer friend came up with the idea of computerized horoscopes when we were just out of college so i took rs 60000 from my family and bought a computer in 1984 says lakhani whose first brush with business was titled bhrigu vision with four cars and a group of friends who fanned out in all four directions around nagpur bhrigu vision teamed up with people who would get them clients we would give them 40 of the fee that we would charge explains lakhani profitable use of computer technology led him into developing software to build database for oil companies he also conducted energy and water audits for power and cement companies when oil companies began to give contracts for bottling of lpg lakhani found himself equipped to take it up we created a business model which did away with the inefficiencies of oil companies we increased the number of bottling plants to cut down on the cost of reverse transportation of empty cylinders says lakhani and adds that today the governmentowned companies are also following the same module our cylinders weighed 12kg and it was hard competing with subsidized cylinders supplied by government agencies says lakhani who then sold out his business and invested in adcc and vil the latter being a housing company at that time supporting him through all this is his wife vandana my fatherin law felt that i should be in office looking after daytoday administration so that arun can focus on his work but that did not stop her from being a handson mother too giving space to her two sons sidhartha and sarang she ensured that they did well in their pursuits sidhartha explains my role well when he says that arun has a longterm view and i execute it on a daytoday basis she says of her elder son who scored the highest marks in the state in cbse std x board exams but it is the younger son sarang a national level badminton player who got more of her attention when he expressed his desire to pursue badminton siddhartha told us that since he is the