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Minhaz Merchant’s book on AM Naik is more than a biography, it is also a meeting of minds

Relocating from Mumbai’s Andheri at the age of 10 to a tribal village in southern Gujarat can be tough. On top of that, landing up in a school with traditional Indian cow dung-plastered floors can be devastating.

While the life of Larsen & Toubro chairman AM Naik(75) is widely chronicled and he is among the most accessible top corporate chieftains of India, it probably needed a seasoned veteran like Minhaz Merchantto bring Naik’s angst out in the open. Naik has often spoken about his village upbringing — at the ancestral hamlet Endhal and nearby Kharel, where his father Manibhai Naik moved back, to head a newly-established school. He rarely lets on that he was essentially a Mumbai-boy, uprooted and moved to a village.

“It affected Naik,” says Merchant, who has penned Naik’s biography. “It also toughened him up,” he adds. The biography titl Biography of michael jackson.