Chapter 200

Arni acknowledged that Mumbai was its normal cosmopolitan self. Meetings overran into cocktail and dinner parties that went on into the early hours of the morning as the socialites of the city mingled with its movers and shakers. Tonight he was dining with a fellow entrepreneur, an Indian in his early fifties, originally educated in England, who had returned to Mumbai to take over a family business. Amongst the guests was a Bollywood actress who was currently trying to engage Arni's interest in something more intimate than dinner table conversation by asking him if he had yet visited the city's latest exclusive nightclub.