'Diamonds are not forever, ' eulogized a diamantaire on the sudden departure of the Tobi family of Surat from the diamond business. The Tobi family, among the first Baghdadi Jews to settle in the western shore of India, had successfully carved out a niche in the highly competitive diamond industry... achieving greater height of success when the mantle of the business was taken over by Hannah Tobi, though she was not from a business clan - daughter of a rabbi of Cochin synagogue. The road to her success was but not scripted by her alone; a secret three-member alliance known to the members as...