Lord Desai finds lady love

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0;</script><br />NEW DELHI: Lord Meghnad Desai, he of the strait-laced LSE and Einstein hair, is an unlikely hero of a Mills & Boon tale. Romantic fiction is not the forte even of Kishwar Ahluwalia, managing editor of Roli Books. Yet call it chemistry or Cupid, when world-renowned economist met little-known publisher, all kinds of ridiculous things happened.</div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="27.0%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/471466.cms" alt="/photo/471466.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="">Lord Meghnad Desai (above)</span><br /><span style="" font-size:="">Is to wed Kishwar Ahluwalia</span><br /><br /><img src="/photo/471467.cms" alt="/photo/471467.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Stars shone, bells chimed, and a romance blossomed over champagne and </span><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="" font-style:="" italic="">Chameli</span><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">.The two are all set to get married (both for the second time) in two ceremonies, one in Delhi, the other in London. And to think that three months earlier they hadn’t even set eyes on each other.</span><br /></div> <div align="center" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center" border="1" width="41.6%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" white=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" color:="" ba0000="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""> Also read:</span><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""><a href="http://health.indiatimes.com/articleshow/367447.cms" target="_blank">What A Woman Wants In A Man</a></span><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""><img src="/photo/471468.cms" alt="/photo/471468.cms" border="0" /> <a href="http://health.indiatimes.com/articleshow/420139.cms" target="_blank">Indian Doc Defines Love</a></span></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Lord Meghnad Desai, 63, first met Kishwar Ahluwalia, 47, last November when she helped him in the editing of his book </span><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="" font-style:="" italic="">Nehru’s Hero: Dilip Kumar In The Life Of India</span><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">. </span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">She’s articulate and attractive, but, while no leggy arm-candy, comparisons will be made to liaison of Padma Lakshmi and Salman Rushdie. Certainly the gushy quotes sound familiar.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">She says,‘‘He is the sort of man that one would just have dreamt about as a girl.’’ He says, “Asking her to marry me was the craziest, most irrational thing I could do.’’</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""><formid=367815></formid=367815></span></div> </div>