A Voyeur’s Guide to the Billionaire Experience

In this new-year special edition we celebrate affluence

» Maharaja for a day (and two nights)

At the modest price of Rs 5,50,000 a night

» On a Wing and a Whim

Aboard the Rs 250 crore corporate jet that Mukesh Ambani and Vijay Mallya own

» Feel Like a Million Dollars

The spa treatment costs are small change if you won't blink at paying Rs 1,25,000/night for the Presidential Suite here

» Before you can say Harley-Davidson

Prozac at Rs 12 lakh a pop

» Banker's Ghost

Any Rolls-Royce is a feast for the senses. But this model, with a base price of Rs 3.5 crore, is an experience in a class of its own

» Dancing with Tufts

When you get a Rs 5,000 haircut from Alessandro Calvio, you have something of a ballet happening on your head

» Out for a Duck

At Rs 8,500, the Peking Duck is the most expensive dish on the menu of Hakkasan, a restaurant that has many of Mumbai's swish set as patrons. But let's just say it's an acquired taste

» In Search of the Rs 5,000 Paan

The quaint shop in Aurangabad that sells a highly expensive paan formulated for an extraordinary purpose

» The Rs 90,000 Diet That Crashed

It was meant to knock off 20 kilos in 20 weeks, but if the fiscal setback was a shock, so was the physical cost—gnawing hunger, mortifying hairfall and dry skin