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  An amusing thing happened. I got an interview call from Cacutta when I was posted in Delhi. I could not make much out of the role but being away from my mother city , I was inspired by my mother to fly down to Calcutta and have some sumptuous food as I had not been home for long and I had recently recovered from almost a life threatening battle with diarrhoea after consuming fruit juice from a local fruitstall in South Delhi while on a market visit . As the flight fare was being reimbursed , I decided to take a hop down to Calcutta .  The call was from a company called the Duncans Group. I was always starry eyed about the colonial companies in Calcutta . They covered industries from tea to jute to mining. Many of you may be familiar with the boxwallah culture. This involved doing business in monopoly areas , having a critical competitive advantage in the industry. It involved focused paperwork and completing work within a scheduled work hour , maintaining discipline in the o...