Platinum is becoming a preferred metal for jewellery consumers in India, due to a relatively moderate rise in prices. The jewellery demand for gold, the perennial choice, rose 69 per cent in the

Cycling around Surat in the mid-1960s, Dilip Mehta, a gangly teenager learning the ropes of the diamond trade, had little inkling of the globe-trotting road that the stones would take him on. It