One of the first things we find out about Nandini Piramal is that academic success has come easily to her. At San-Qi restaurant in Four Seasons, Mumbai, she narrates her scuba diving experience. Her scuba diving course had two parts: a written test based on a prescribed book and a physical test to be taken in the swimming pool. She cleared the written test with flying colours. “I am good at passing tests, as I like studying, but getting into the pool and swimming was not for me. I did not enjoy it,” she says.
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