Tea & symmetry
Nirmal Sethia, the passionate founder of Newby Teas, extols the virtues of a precious drink he believes is 5,000 years old.
NIRMAL Sethia was never born to be common.
"I was born to be different," declares the founder of Newby Teas. Despite suffering from food poisoning, following a meal at a high-end restaurant the night before, the 75-year-old British-Indian tycoon got out of bed and showed up for the Raffles Conversation interview, much to the chagrin of his minders. Looking spiffy and in good spirits, he seems none the worse for wear. "I never wanted to do what every common man did," he says with a cheeky grin.
Throughout his life, Mr Sethia was "never a common man", including ditching as a young boy the life of wealth and privileg…
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