What do conductor Zubin Mehta, the late Freddie Mercury, Homi K Bhabha, director of the Humanities Center at Harvard, poet Dom Moraes, Attorney General of India Goolam Essaji Vahanvati, Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, actors Boman Irani, Kunal Vijaykar and Hindi film director Sooraj Barjatya have in common?

Not much, except that they all at some time or the other attended that venerable incubator of genius and good manners known as St Mary’s School in Mazgaon.