he is BBC World�s first correspondent based in India, at the channel�s Mumbai office. She hosts the well regarded India Business Report on the channel today. Karishma Vaswani was born in Singapore and brought up in Jakarta. While her friends from Warwick University in England, from where she majored in English and American Literature, interned at investment banks, she decided to pursue her childhood dream. �I had always wanted to be a writer or a journalist,� Vaswani says.

In pursuit of that dream, she applied for internship at the BBC and CNN bureaus in Jakarta, and ended up receiving offers from both. ... more