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Most people who know me today may find it difficult to believe that I was once quite the mischief-maker. Now I’ll admit that most of my mischief revolved around avoiding Hindi exams, but what I do remember are the speeches that followed. You see, in most Indian families, you’ll get to hear one of two…

Anyone who knows me well will tell you that I ought to have had my photograph pasted alongside the entry for ‘workaholic’ in the Oxford dictionary years ago. We compete with our classmates as children, burn midnight oil trying to outwit entire campuses as teenagers and bask in the glory of eighteen Watt fluorescent tubes…

In most parts of North India, you’ll come across some interesting family names which have roots dating back to their first ancestors’ professions, such as Screwvala, which literally means screw vendor. However, back down in South India, I was content with the fact that our names didn’t mean much; or at least that’s what I…