Life usually refuses to go the way you planned it. Out of Loyola college in Chennai and working for A.F. Ferguson’s in Mumbai, Jose Dominic had his life charted out. The West beckoned and he was set to leave for Dubai or the United States with his wife in tow to make a career for himself in consulting and tax advisory.
But life had other plans. The eldest of five brothers, a sudden illness of his father’s forced Dominic to come back to Cochin (now Kochi) in 1977-78 to take charge of the family business (his siblings were still studying).