The Travels Of A Hybrid Sahib

Simon Scraff, Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline Healthcare, tells Bhupesh Bhandari that he falls somewhere between White Moghul and pucca sahib

India has played host to two kinds of Englishmen: those who adopted local customs, wore Indian dress with ease and took Indian wives, and the pucca sahibs.

But it is difficult to put Simon J Scraff, chairman of GlaxoSmithKline Healthcare Ltd, in either of the two categories. He has spent 27 years in India