My Life My Style: Bharat Kewalramani

'I have actually read Piketty'

Best work moment
Going home

Books on your bedside
Kindle with many books, but I have actually read Thomas Piketty.

Massage or workout to de-stress
Beer

Designs that have caught your eye recently
El Ganso

Your IT tools
iPad

Favourite spirit
Amaro Averna

Favourite wine
Château Haut-Brion

Favourite champagne
Bollinger R.D.

Your sleeping ritual
Hit pillow, sleep

Favourite TV show
Montalbano

Best gift received
Daughters

Best gift given
Dinh Van bracelets

Favourite Accessory
Leatherman knife

Favourite cuisine
Sindhi

What food items do you like to shop for?
What the recipe calls for

Newspaper and TV channels and websites you prefer
The Financial Times and The Guardian

Where do you like to sit when being driven? Upfront with driver of back seat like sahib?
Back seat. Safer.

On a plane, do you prefer to network, sleep or catch up on films and reading?
Sleep is the safe and refreshing option.

Do you fill customer feedback forms? Why?
No. By the time some fellow reads it the product will be dead!

Fancy coffee or masala tea?
Beer

What do you cook on your day off
Caramels, ice cream, tagliata, pasta

Are you a beach or mountain person?
I sail. The sea is key, the beach is superfluous and the mountains are to be avoided.

Your favourite city?
Where I am at the moment.

You get your work clothes from
Am I a carpenter that I need a boiler suit?

The shoemaker you trust your sole with?
Berluti

Your shaving mantra
Shave as little as society allows without growing a beard, and use disposable razors in India to reduce infection.

The gels and oils and lotions you swear by
Never use any. Am I a Smyrna merchant?

Your favourite evening wear?
Orange pants

What's your weekday breakfast like? And weekend?
Forced to eat fruit. Apparently it's good for me.

Your current set of wheels
A bicycle

In the car is it sleep or cell for you?
Reading

God for you is…
Non-existent

Favourite cafe
Le Cherche Midi

Favourite restaurant
Trishna

Workday lunch is
Skipped

Your ideal holiday
Trinken und Essen with friends, if I can find them

At parties do you like to talk turkey or make PC?
Eat turkeys

A few of your Goddesses are
My wife

Alpha males you know:
Why compete with myself?

Your favourite motto
'Fat-bottomed girls make the rocking world go round'

Bharat Kewalramani
CEO 3D Packaging; Sailor