(What looks like a set is actually a corner of Harshad Mehta’s drawing room in his sprawling Madhuli apartment at Worli, Mumbai.) During two longish interviews. I found him to be a genial, no-nonsense person, ready to consider multiple points of view, though impatient – as if suffering from high IQ. He convinced me that many others in his place would have entangled themselves in a similar imbroglio. I think his belief that money can buy absolutely anyone was his undoing.