After what feels like ages, I step inside the Chambers, the restricted, members-only dining club at the Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai. I have a lunch meeting with Ashu Khullar, Citi India’s CEO and the man in charge of its Bangladesh and Sri Lanka operations.
I find Khullar, dressed in a white shirt and blue suit without a tie, sitting at a white linen-covered table facing the Arabian Sea — presenting a long-familiar view that I am seeing for only the first time in this dreary year.
He enquires about my well-being as I take a seat. Unlike his predecessor,