To think a little boy growing up in the stables of the Wadia bungalow on Malabar Hill, where his father worked as a butler, dared to dream big enough to establish an empire that changed the country’s Western music retail and education scene forever. 

“This, without being a teacher or performer himself. The only thing John played was the gramophone!” his Lebanese wife Antoinette Gomes had quipped with a laugh during my earlier interview with her family.