ML: We always start from the beginning. What are your roots?
AB:I come from a town called Cannanore, which is on the northern tip of Kerala, part of an area called Malabar. It is historic for many reasons. It is just 60 km from where Vasco Da Gama landed first. So it was the earliest point of contact between the West and India. A lot of the history is Portuguese. There’s a fort which...