{"id":1549,"date":"2005-05-14T18:06:36","date_gmt":"2005-05-14T23:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1549"},"modified":"2006-02-02T08:43:49","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T13:43:49","slug":"mr_hughes_is_no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/14\/mr_hughes_is_no\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Hughes isn&#8217;t taking visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/4540395.stm\"><img alt=\"\" hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/SaharaEmployees.jpg\" align=right vspace=10 border=0><\/a>The Air Sahara magnate, Subrata Roy, has apparently fallen ill and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/4540395.stm\">disappeared from public view<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>One [rumor] says that an entire floor of a super deluxe hotel was recently bought by Sahara in Mumbai (Bombay) and converted into a make shift hospital&#8230; the blood pressure of the Sahara boss has fluctuated frequently&#8230; He said the Sahara chief was now leading a much more disciplined and orderly life &#8211; even doing yoga and regular exercises&#8230;<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/4540395.stm\"><img alt=\"\" hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/SubrataRoy.jpg\" align=right vspace=10 border=0><\/a>Roy has Mughal tendencies:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>He has a fleet of private jets and helicopters and one of his mansions is modelled on the White House. Another residence &#8211; located in a private city he has built at the cost of tens of millions of dollars &#8211; is a replica of Buckingham Palace.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"margin-right: 0px\">He commands a swarm of worker bees which is almost as large as the standing army of the United States and almost three times as large as <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.co.uk\/business\/employment\/0,39020648,39163405,00.htm\">IBM<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px\">\n<p style=\"margin-right: 0px\">&#8230; [with] 900,000 employees &#8211; Sahara is India&#8217;s biggest private sector employer&#8230;<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"margin-right: 0px\">The rumor mill has reached Jacksonesque proportions with a <a href=\"http:\/\/us.rediff.com\/money\/2005\/may\/10sahara.htm\">petition of habeas corpus filed<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px\">\n<p style=\"margin-right: 0px\">A habeas corpus petition, claiming that Sahara group Chairman Subrata Roy had been kept in &#8216;illegal detention&#8217; by his wife and some other senior officers of the company, was filed with the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Monday.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Other <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/msid-1101404,curpg-2.cms\">rumors<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>According to Sahara group insiders, Roy was resting in the Sahara group&#8217;s Amby Valley &#8211; a 10,000-acre resort-style getaway &#8211; a few hours drive from Mumbai.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Maybe Roy&#8217;s chillin&#8217; with Amby Valley fans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000972.html\">Michael Douglas<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000753.html\">Christina Aguilera<\/a>. Billionaire disappears into private valley &#8212; could it be <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Things_in_Atlas_Shrugged#Galt.27s_Gulch\">Galt&#8217;s Gulch<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Sahara magnate, Subrata Roy, has apparently fallen ill and disappeared from public view: One [rumor] says that an entire floor of a super deluxe hotel was recently bought by Sahara in Mumbai (Bombay) and converted into a make &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/14\/mr_hughes_is_no\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"-1","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}