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To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

When I am in that lane, and I hear, 'Caster Semenya from South Africa,' I always know I am doing it for my people. They love and support me, and I will always do them proud; I will always put them first. Without them, I am nothing.

In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.

'What will people say?' is a feeling every Indian girl grows up with.

Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.

I call my tiki bar my tiki office, even though I also entertain out here all the time. This beautiful, open-air space is such a creative environment for me. It's where my writing partner and I wrote much of the script for a Mamas and Papas biopic that's in the works, and where I have my meetings.

I like doing business with people in India.