Dr Peter Ganesh of the NHS Alliance said Mrs Hutt had taken "a brave step".
"Some clients have expressed concerns about a likely disruption, " says Ganesh Natarajan, chairman of Nasscom, the software industry association group.
At last, he saw to his right the sign for Ganesh Pai Fan and Furniture Store, and stopped his cycle.
Of Mumbai's many flamboyant festivals Ganesh Chaturthi is the biggest and best-loved.
She has, on occasion, worn saris to work, and she keeps an image of Ganesh, the elephant-headed deity of good fortune, in her office.
"What Englishness can't do that Britishness can do is appeal unambiguously to people of different ethnic origins, " notes Janan Ganesh, political correspondent for The Economist.
"The quality of the people we put in is graduates with experience, they perform better, so on matrix such as quality percentages we score higher, " says Ganesh.
Software firm Zensar, which is headquartered in the beleagured city and has 3, 700 workers on a 12-acre campus, is taking "eminent precautions, " said Vice Chairman and CEO Ganesh Natarajan.
Honoring Ganesh (known in Mumbai as Ganapati), the elephant-headed Lord of wisdom, good fortune and obstacles, the 10-day festival sees thousands of huge Ganesh idols displayed in "pandals" (pavilions) around the city.
Indeed, spirituality lies at the heart of Diwali, with devotees specifically seeking blessings from two prominent Hindu deities: Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and Ganesh, the elephant-headed god of good fortune and auspicious beginnings.
Even among the Hindu faithful, you may notice there are statues of Chinese deities like Kuan Yin that are decorated with the same garlands draped on Shiva and Ganesh, another testament to Penang's cross-cultural appeal.
His cramped office at Google.org boasts psychedelic posters, medical texts and awards from aid groups, along with a statue of the elephant-god Ganesh, in Hinduism the Remover of Obstacles (with a rotund belly to match Brilliant's own).
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