Feroze Gujral

Feroze Gujral is a philanthropist, art aficionado, businesswoman, columnist and media personality. Nominated one of India’s most beautiful women, she started her career as a fashion model, going on to become an international style icon, with a slew of style and beauty awards to her name. She presently runs two philanthropic organizations – the Gujral Foundation, founded in 2008 along with her husband Mohit Gujral, which primarily funds public projects on art, architecture, design and culture, and Outset India, a chapter of Outset UK, the contemporary art fund founded in 2001. She is on the founding board of Elle magazine and brand ambassador for Burberry India. She writes on lifestyle for Elle, Indian Express, Financial Chronicle, Vogue, Conde Nast Traveller, Marie Claire and Seminar

Early life

Feroze’s mother Viqar Ewari is half-Indian and half-British while her father George Ewari is half-Indian and half-Arab. She has two siblings – a brother, Hanut, and a sister, Anisha. Though rooted in the traditional Hyderabadi culture of the nawabs of yore, Feroze has had a cosmopolitan upbringing, having lived in many countries including Egypt, France and the United Kingdom. She is married into the Gujral family, to the well-known architect Mohit Gujral who is currently Vice-Chairman of DLF, one of India’s largest real estate company. Mohit is the son of the renowned painter Satish Gujral who is the elder brother of former Prime Minister of India, I.K. Gujral. Feroze and Mohit have two children – a son, Armaan, and a daughter, Alaiia, both currently studying in the US.