Best deal inked
Patni Computers Ltd
Most imaginative form of payment received
Still to receive
Favourite champagne
Krug
Your sleeping ritual
Remember my God
Favourite TV show
Sanskar Lakshmi on Zee TV; Reena, my wife, produces the show.
Books on your bedside
Biographies of sports and business leaders
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Massage or workout to de-stress?
Workout
Designs that have caught your eye recently
Furniture by Philippe Starck
Your IT tools?
My Blackberry
Favourite fashion designer
Frida Gianini
Favourite spirit
Talisker 25 years old.
Favourite wine
Chateau Latour
Best gift received
Anything from my wife and children
Best gift given
Celebrating my father’s 75th birthday at Chinmaya Ashram
Favourite cuisine
Fusion
What food items do you like to shop for?
Cheese
Newspaper, TV channels and websites you prefer
ET/DNA/Star Cricket
Where do you like to sit when being driven? Up front with driver or backseat like sahib?
Backseat
On flights do you prefer to network, sleep or catch up on films and reading?
Sleep and catch up on films
Fancy coffee or masala tea?
Neither
Can you cook? What?
Nothing
Do you fill customer feedback forms?
Rarely, only when I am unhappy with the service
Are you a beach or mountain person?
Beach
What’s your cologne?
Issey Miyake
You get your suits from?
Gucci
What’s your shaving mantra?
Shape my French beard to perfection
Who’s your favourite shoe maker?
Tanino Crisci
Your bathing preferences? Shower, tub or bucket?
Shower
What’s your weekday breakfast like? And weekend?
Egg and fruit on weekdays, masala dosa on weekends
Your current set of wheels?
Mercedes E-270
In the car, is it sleep or cell for you?
Cell and Blackberry
God for you is…
My belief
Favourite café?
Fouquet at Champs-Elysées
Favourite restaurant?
Zodiac Grill at the Bombay Taj and Vetro at the Oberoi at Nariman Point
Workday lunch is?
Home food
What’s your workout regime?
Six days a week equally for cardio and weight training
Your ideal holiday spot
The Maldives
At parties do you like to talk turkey or make PC?
Surely, turkey
A few of your Goddesses are?
Laxmi and Saraswati
Alpha males you know
Dr Vijay Mallya
Your mantra
Nothing is impossible