Obituaries of Vijaypat Singhania mention the multiple roles of the charismatic industrialist. A successful businessman, record-breaking balloonist and pilot, adventure-sport lover and author, Singhania embodied the slogan of his popular Raymond suiting advertisement, “The Complete Man’’. His hero was J R Tata, also a successful industrialist and aviator known for his ethical business practices. Singhania’s brutally candid autobiography, An Incomplete Life, is a confession of his complicated personal life, including unfairly disinheriting his elder son, and the King Lear-like tragedy in his last years, when his younger son Gautam stabbed him in the back and evicted him from his palatial residence, compelling him to stay in rented accommodation.

Curiously, most of the write-ups on Singhania ignore another hat which he wore proudly, albeit briefly, as the founder and owner of The Indian Post, a respected Mumbai newspaper which operated from 1987 to the early 1990s. My connection with Singhania was during his time as The Indian Post’s proprietor when I headed........

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