Born and brought up in Bombay of pre-independence India, Ronnie Patel spent several years of his life in London of the fifties and sixties. During that time and since, sometimes in turn, sometimes concomitantly, he became company executive, businessman (fashion garments, and poultry farming); actor, film maker, writer and poet. He has lived and travelled extensively round the world for business and pleasure, on postings of his German diplomat wife -- and has been an exemplary generalist. Except for the occasional forays, he retired from active corporate and business life well over a decade ago, even to shed, at last, the ubiquitous euphemism: consultant! His other interests include golf, bridge, scuba-diving, painting, and philosophising.<<