ML: Let’s start with your background.
NS: I was born and brought up in the Kalbadevi area of Mumbai which used to be the hub of wholesale trading in textiles. I always stood first in school. However, when I got into Sydenham, which was an elite college, I realised that everyone else is far ahead of me. That was when I came down to earth. We had industrialists’ sons studying with us, who were...