India, June 11 -- Your memoir, Things We Don't See, begins very differently from a conventional corporate autobiography.

Yes, that was deliberate. I wasn't interested in writing a chronology of achievements. What interested me more was the movement of experience, learning, perception.

The title itself came from childhood. My mother used to speak about intuitions and unseen things. I remember questioning my father about what she had said: "There are things we don't see." That sentence stayed with me all my life.

Your book is surprisingly philosophical - stars, mortality, fear, nautankis - the first mention of any business-related concept appears more than halfway in.

I grew up in a village without electricity. There was no pollution, a...