
Dr. P.C. Lunia
Internationally renowned Jeweler, Dr. P.C. Lunia was born in Jaipur on April 13, 1943. Besides being an innovative and enterprising businessman, Dr. Lunia is also a prominent social worker who has a series of incredible books to his credit featuring vision for “Golden India”, “Golden Russia” and “Golden America”. He has compiled his unparalleled knowledge and experience of precious stones in his book on “Sapphire: A Miracle Gem”, which is one of its kinds.
Having travelled the whole of India and more than 50 countries of the world, Dr. Lunia has closely seen the different facets of life in India and other developed countries. In order to realize his long cherished dream of bringing back the golden days of ancient India, he founded a Non-Profit social organization – Golden India Foundation for the sole purpose of uplifting the downtrodden. Being the chairman of this foundation, he heads the think tank constituted for research on fundamental problems like poverty, overpopulation, under development, corruption, moral torpor, lack of sensitivity, ecological and environmental degradation, ethnic and communal violence and host of other problems.
Dr. Lunia has not only furnished achievable action plans in his books but he has been actively pursuing the implementation of the crucial reforms by meeting the diplomats and bureaucrats concerned. Dedicated to the noble cause, Dr. Lunia through his renderings, has been making constant efforts towards stirring a healthy dialogue among the intellectuals, bureaucrats, politicians and businessman for devising new ways and means for eliminating various problems in our society.
In recognition of his holistic efforts, dedication, selfless service, able leadership and enterprising skills, Dr. Lunia has been conferred with many national and international honors like “International Man of Knowledge” by Mr. Arun Jetly, the Union Minister for Law, Government of India, on behalf of the WISITEX Foundation. Adding to long list of his accolades, he was recently honored with the prestigious “Proclamation” by the US Congressmen Joe Wilson at the “Capitol Hill”, Washington D.C. and has got the “Jefferson Book Award” for the year 2003-2004 by World Business Forum, Inc. for his outstanding book “A Vision of Golden America – An Achievable Action Plan”.