Synopsis This engaging and informative biographical account offers a glimpse into the life of a renaissance person with varied interests over a span exceeding 40 years. The Author, who embarked on his covenanted commercial career with a European Agency House at the mature age of 21 takes the reader to the era of ye olde worlde charm, of British decorum and etiquette whilst at the same time revealing the teething problems during early days of freedom and the gradual evolution of the Indian entrepreneur – and Indian Manager. Mr. Bakre’s remarkable journey from the hallowed portals of Cambridge to the verdant tea plantations of eastern India and then on to the grit and grime of Calcutta’s jute industry, to the din and bustle of mercantile Bombay is a success story that shows the fusion of business and art, of the concrete with the abstract.