Ashifa Sarkar Vasi, Thomas Hoy, Gregory Kroitzsh at Lower Parel’s Barking Deer on Wednesday evening. Pics/Shadab Khan

Gregory Kroitzsh: If you polled Indians, I'd bet a lot would say what is America doing? Who is this crazy guy?
Thomas Hoy: I don't know… what do Indians know about Trump?
Ashifa Sarkar Vasi: What does anyone know about Trump?
We didn't even have to trigger the conversation. As soon as Kroitzsh (50), Hoy (52) and Sarkar Vasi (35) — all American citizens currently living in Mumbai — sat on the high seats at Lower Parel brewery, Barking Deer, which Kroitzsh owns, the conversations headed to Donald Trump. An American businessman, television producer and now the Republican Party nominee in running for the 2016 presidential elections, he is discussed as is an election that has the whole world on tenterhooks.

Hoy, a jet pilot, has been working in India since 2012 and Sarkar Vasi, a trained ballet dancer raised in Lousiana, now teaches in Mumbai where she lives with her husband and a four-year-old daughter.

Hoy: I've read about Trump's media releases for 35 years, and I hate him. He has a Grandiose syndrome. He has a team that gets every printed word about him [and puts it up in his office] because he loves his name to be used in print.
Kroitzsh: His big thing was to get on the cover of TIME magazine. Even when the article was critical, as long as he was on the cover, he was happy.
Hoy: He is not going away, that's what feeds him, the attention and media spotlight…
Sarkar Vasi: ...And he's getting a lot of that right now.