▶ show up early for our 10 am appointment on a Thursday, Vardhman Textiles Chairman S.P. Oswal is in his first meeting of the day. In about 15 minutes, I am shown into a room which could be mistaken for a meditation chamber. Ludhiana’s golden winter sunrays streaming through the all-glass windows illuminate titles on the Indian philosopher Sri Aurobindo. Seated on one of the grey sofas lining the three walls of the room is the bespectacled second-generation businessman. The octogenarian’s slight frame, on which his grey woollen suit hangs a tad loosely,
