Mahesh has been in Oman for almost 25 years. He worked with the State Bank of India group, Banque Indo Suez, BankMuscat and Merrill Lynch before starting Trinity Investments. Why Trinity? Apparently because of the three women in his life... his wife and two daughters! You can contact him at mahesh.verma@apexmedia.co.om

Alan Jay Lerner, the American lyricist and librettist who penned the lyrics of My Fair Lady had also written:

I like April…it’s the birthday month! But then all months are birthday months. However, April is a special month. April 4 saw yours faithfully climb, nay, trudge across the hill.

A week ago, while the world mourned the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr and the hanging of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a few celebrated the birthday of a 50+ (actually 55-plus now!) follically challenged father-of-two.

“I must be cruel only to be kind,” said Hamlet, referring to the killing of the courtier Polonius. It was subsequently uttered in the Indian Parliament by the Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, while presenting the 2012 budget, referring to the killing of the dreams of many. The literary pinch was probably to veil the fact that what is in store will be more cruel and less kind!

“Beware the Ides of March!” The soothsayer’s warning in 44 BC to Julius Caesar (later famously dramatised by the good old Bard of Avon), has forever etched that date with a sense of foreboding.