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I was never a very good student. I had no dying ambition to top the class or get into the best university. I don’t know why but I never thought of it as a great accolade and always felt there was more to life. My father wasn’t okay with it, and as it turned out, I could not get into St Stephen’s because my marks weren’t good enough.
At some level I was very secure. I thought about stuff in my own way and did not want to follow the herd. I remember the Beatles had come to Bombay. I was in Cathedral when one of my friends said, “Let's go stand outside the Taj Mahal Hotel and see the Beatles.” And I replied, “Why would I do that? I want to hear them sing, not see their faces.”
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This self-comfort has played a part all through my life – giving me the confidence to do whatever I set out to. I was the youngest of three kids with an elder brother and sister whom I looked up to, but my father was my idol. He was noble, elegant and very thoughtful. I learnt a lot from him but the most important was never to act petty or get distracted by nonsense. I rarely heard him bad mouth others. He was not warm and cuddly but I loved him for his sense of fairness.
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After completing myCA, I moved to Bahrain with a single suitcase. I picked Bahrain because unlike Qatar and UAE, there you were allowed to drink in bars those days. So, the decision was very strategic but not in the right way. The firm, which later affiliated itself to Touche Ross, was run by Palestinians and Kuwaitis.
I learnt about Palestine from them. I made a lot of Palestinian friends and understood how they had been uprooted from their lives. I spent a month in Beirut during the civil war. We would head home from dinner outside and stop by the side of a wall because there was firing going on in the next two streets and then duck into our hotel.
I was doing quite well and they were offering me a much bigger role but the prevailing discrimination in Bahrain was getting to me. There was a beach open only for white people. Besides them, only the Emir could go there. Mediocre foreigners had club memberships while Indians would not be allowed. Indian labourers would sleep in tin sheds in 45°C heat and their passports were held back by their employers. Although I could have made a lot of money I could not live there, and so after two years I returned to the UK and joined a company called RCA. There again luck and timing came to my
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