Would you please walk us through your early years of education and the decision to become a lawyer?
Growing up, the primary focus was always on sports, fitness and being a good human being. Academics was reasonably important, but not considered the top priority. My dad was an officer in the Indian army and my mom was a school teacher. Since the army is a transferrable job, my mom and I travelled to wherever my dad was posted and hence a lot of childhood and education was spent in various army cantonments across the country. However, to bring greater stability to my education, and to help foster greater focus on sports and cocurricular, I was sent to the Army Public School, Dagshai, a boarding school near Shimla to complete my education.
I was always unsure about my career path and was always pretty good at computer programming, physics and math. However, reading The King of Torts by Jeffery Archer at a…