The Secret to Happiness
ilesh Shah always thought he had the good life. As managing director of Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Company, one of India’s largest financial services group, money was never an issue. Initially, material pursuits like getting a good job, a new car, a swank house made him happy. But, as he soon discovered, “it followed a law of diminishing returns.” When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country, Shah joined a group of citizens in Mumbai to help find hospital beds, oxygen cylinders and transport for the seriously afflicted. It made him realise that true happiness “was to bring smiles to other people’s faces”. He then sings a few lines from an old Mukesh song to sum up his (Give yourself up to bring a smile to someone’s face, offer a shoulder to share someone’s pain).
