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Foreword
had no intention of writing my autobiography.I am neither a politico nor La socialite nor a top Industrialist/Businessman whose life could possibly interest others. That this fortuitous event occurred is quite accidental and it happened because of an unexpected incident. It was my daughter Dharini's idea to write my biography and that too was accidental. She was travelling with me to USA in one of a series of foreign travels and on one of the internal air flights in USA we were not able to get adjacent seats. She was sitting next to an unknown American gentleman who suggested that she should write about my eventful life which appealed to her.
About this, I think it would be best if I reproduce what Dharini had written about this encounter between her and her American co-passenger on that flight.
During the interval between our sitting in the plane and take off of the plane, she was obviously talking to the American gentleman when I went to look for her before the flight took off. She said that I should sit in her seat and talk to this fine American gentleman. I agreed to her suggestion and sat next to him for about half an hour or so during which we exchanged a lot of our experiences in life and since I was much older than him, I must have talked much more about my life events than he of his. Afterwards, I went back to my seat and Dharini resumed her seat and
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