Girmaji Jain

Vasu

Precious Pedigree When the genius of a woman devoted to her profession fuses with nature at its triumphant greatest, the result is Vasu Jewellery. It takes a practiced eye to pick a jewel from a palmful of rough-cut gemstones. To most of us they all look the same and yet their values may vary tenfold. Viraporn Ratanaprasatporn, the lady owner of Vasu - a Sansakrit word that describes a precious object drawn from the earth - can seperate the stones that might suit a secretary's engagement ring from those destined to adorn the glitterati of high society. Indeed, Virapron is herself uncommon, even unique. Being born into a family of jewellry traders obviously helped the young girl to cultivate a sharp eye for the microscopic perfection that separtes inspirational precious stones from the merely workmanlike. But that was only the beginning. A steely determination to always seek out the best grew with each encounter with the most radiant stones. At the same time, Viraporn uncovered a brilliant streak of creativity that most immaculate setting for each stone so as to leave nothing tochance. As, her horizons of understanding widened, so the path forward narrowed. In New York she graduated with distinction from the gemological Institue of America. And although Viraporn freely admits that there is nothing unusual about that these days,