Did you say Kishore Biyani was the most reticent?
No, I said he was the most difficult to interview because as he said in the book he is more concerned about the future than the past. Everybody else was quite happy to talk about their childhood but I would say he is a relatively shy man and doesn’t have a lot of time for talking about the past. But it took over a while to drag it out of him. It was all done in one meeting though. In the end, he did understand what I was trying to do and he did open up. Which story would you say stands out as the most inspirational? I believe they are all inspirational in their own way. I think there is a set of character traits that contribute to success. All of them span generations, systems and geographical distances but at the end of the day they have all succeeded. Their stories reveal how business not only has changed from the license raj, but the change in the essence of business thinking and business structures. Why have you included just two women – Kiran Majumdar Shaw and Shanaz Hussain? This
