"One must never think for a moment that customers don't notice anything, " says Biki.
"I knew hotels well because I'd lived in them as a child, " says Biki.
"This was totally Biki's baby, " says Anil Madhok, the hotel's first general manager.
Sitting outdoors at his meticulously tended 65-acre farm on the outskirts of New Delhi, Biki seems a study in relaxation.
Boddi Biki, 56, keeps his brother's grave tidy and his portrait in a place of honor in the mosque's office.
Biki insists, for example, that the rosebud in every room be no taller than one-and-a-half times the height of the vase.
During the Hee Biki ritual, male children learn the traditional guidelines for these practices as a part of their passage into adulthood.
Biki insists, for example, that the rosebud in every room be no taller than one and a half times the height of the vase.
Five days later, Amir Biki, a local Muslim activist, led about 1, 500 supporters on a march to the police station to free the four detainees.
Mukesh, 54, whose core business is oil and gas and 82 year-old Biki who lives and breathes his hotels business, may seem oddly matched.
While he is grooming his son, Vikram, part of the group's operations, and his nephew, Arjun, who works on projects, Biki has no intention of retiring soon.
By then Biki and his flamboyant older brother, Tilak Raj (Tikki), were part of the business--Biki, mostly in the design of hotels, Tikki, a playboy, in sundry operations.
So Biki tied up with Hilton International, agreeing to cobrand his Trident hotel chain. (The marketing deal ended in March.) He hints at future partnerships, even, perhaps, a merger.
But Biki Oberoi took extra steps after the September bombing of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan: No cars could be parked at the entrance of the hotel--no exceptions.
So Biki tied up with Hilton International, agreeing to co-brand his Trident hotel chain. (The marketing deal ended in March.) He hints at future partnerships, even, perhaps, a merger.
Biki's dad, Mohan Singh Oberoi, grew up in a village in what is now Pakistan and started as a billing clerk in the Cecil, a luxury hotel in the Himalayas.
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