Pallavi Gogoi is Chicago-based finance correspondent for Business Week magazine. Her route to the Midwest Heartland has been varied. A career spanning eight years, it has extended over three continents, several cities and a diverse mix of writing. Pallavi started her journalism career at The Telegraph newspaper in Calcutta, while simultaneously studying for her Masters Degree in English Literature from Hindu College, Delhi. A year after being initiated into the world of journalism by the passionate Kolkata Bengalis, she moved to Delhi to edit the Oped page for The Asian Age, which at the time was India's first international newspaper. Soon Pallavi started writing about politics and relevant social issues for the paper. In 1994, her coverage of the national elections from the districts and villages of the state of Karnataka won her praise for successfully predicting an unexpected outcome. Soon after, she was transferred to London as a foreign correspondent, where she covered politics, race relations and South Asian issues. There, Pallavi scooped an interview with Altaf Hussain, Pakistan's public enemy Number One - it was Hussain's first interview to any journalist, from his hideout in Mill Lane, where he lives as a political asylee. The BBC was all over the Asian Age story and other publications followed suit. Pallavi was transferred to Washington, D.C. as the newspaper's U.S. correspondent, but she decided to try her hand at financial news and joined Dow Jones Newswires in 1996. She worked there for four years, writing about the economy, corporate finance, commodities and stocks. While there, Pallavi also wrote extensively for The Wall Street Journal, which is published by Dow Jones. She joined Business Week in May 2000. Pallavi, and her husband Alok Jha, a former Saja-er (now in Mckinsey & Co.), have a 17-month-old jewel of a daughter named Rhea. -30-