00:00At the time of, you know, intense duress, I can't even imagine the kind of stress you
00:07must have been through.
00:08Have you…
00:09There's no stress.
00:10I know, hospitality, it's like, you know, what every educational institute or culinary
00:16school must have taught you, that guests are king, they…
00:20Nobody teaches you anything.
00:22It is your presence of mind in those situations.
00:28Those situations are totally different in life.
00:32It is your instinct, it is your duty towards the human cause, to save human lives.
00:41For us, the only thing we learnt, and we passed it on to others was, guest is God, he's
00:48come to your house, you have to save his life.
00:52That's it.
00:53You put that to actually to, you know, it sounds great on paper, but to translate it
00:57into an actual thing, it's not easy these days, right?
01:01People are selfish.
01:02You care for your own life more than ahead of others, but you didn't, which is in a
01:06way…
01:07Why should you?
01:08Let the 300 people's lives be saved first.
01:12Their lives are more important.
01:13But did you come out stronger though, when you look back on it?
01:17Much, much, much, much more stronger.
01:20I had vowed that in 21 days, we will reopen all our restaurants.
01:24Nine restaurants, right?
01:25And you did.
01:26We did it.
01:27Is that your, in a way, you know, your way of showcasing triumph of human spirit versus
01:34any kind of calamity?
01:36This was man-made, of course, but…
01:37Yes.
01:38No, no, no.
01:39We wanted to send a message loud and clear that we won't be cowed down with these terrorist
01:45activities.
01:46We'll come back very strongly.
01:49In fact, I did my son's wedding, was the first banquet, which took place after the
01:54attack.
01:55But you are also a risk taker.
01:56If I've noticed it, after that episode, you seem to have taken more risk.
01:59Am I just reading it all wrong?
02:01I don't know you, but I know you from the profiles I read.
02:05If you don't take risk in life, what is a life?
02:08There's no challenge.
02:10I'm not a follower.
02:13Either be a leader and be ahead of people, or me too, I have not learned.
02:23Me too, it doesn't work.
02:25Me too, you're standing in the queue.
02:27You're one amongst the many.
02:29So you have to stand out.
02:31You have to take initiative, you have to be ahead of others.
02:35That's what all my life I did with the Taj Group.
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