New Delhi, Oct. 11 -- It's a coincidence, says Amitabh Dube, country president and managing director of pharmaceutical company Novartis India, that his son's name is Abhishek. "It was only later that we realised that, oh, we missed Jaya and Aishwarya in the family," he adds, grinning, in reference to the famous family in films.

At the Chambers, on the 25th floor of the Taj Land's End in Mumbai, Dube is seated with his back to the large glass windows that face the ocean. The once uncluttered view of the sea, now diminished by the building blocks of an upcoming addition to the bridge over the sea, is still spectacular, though such a view is, ironically, rare in a city by the coast. "We are a family of four 'mads'," he says, referring to wi...