Wrongly wooed

What’s in a name? Plenty, if the name is Zubin Irani. In The Indian Express of May 10, 2015 in her weekly column "Inside track” writer Coomi Kapoor mentions "a Parsi businessman from Delhi named Zubin Irani met a senior foreign diplomat in the capital at a party and was flattered to find the envoy taking a special interest in him and inviting him for a meal. In fact, the businessman soon found himself very popular on the diplomatic circuit. Several ambassadors invited him for meetings over breakfast and lunch and solicited his views. Gradually, the penny dropped and the businessman realized he was being wooed for the wrong reasons. Word had mistakenly spread in the diplomatic corps that he was the husband of HRD (human resource development) minister Smriti Irani (whose husband is also named Zubin Irani). He hastily declined further invitations and has since moved out of the country.”