For many years in the late Eighties and early Nineties, I used to work at our family textile business. The factory was in Ankleshwar, an industrial estate about an hour's train-ride from my home in Surat. I would usually go to the factory in the afternoon, and return in the late evening. The business did not do that well and after Manmohan Singh liberalised India's economy starting in 1991 we could not compete, and shut it down a few years later.