

It was sometime in the 1980s, and we were at a party at a mutual friend’s place, which grew increasingly more liquid as the evening progressed, at the end of which he came, put his arm around me and said, “ Arre, aap Thompson mein kya kar rahe ho, aapko toh Ogilvy mein hona chahiye.” He was probably a junior account executive at the time. The very first time I met Piyush, I remember, he offered me a job. But the most fascinating has, perhaps, been Piyush Pandey – whom I happened to know long before he became Piyush Pandey. I always seem to have found myself in the right place at the right time, I’ve had some great adventures, and seen some of the greatest advertising people of our times from up close. For some reason, I chose the latter option and, over the years, it has turned out to have been a terrific ride. One was from a magazine, the other from a boutique ad agency the first paid little, the second paid even worse.


Just out of college, I had two job offers.

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