Harvard Business School’s India Conference 2017 invited Manish Malhotra as one of their estemmed guest speakers this year. Malhotra, who turned 50 last year, spoke of his childhood, his great love for movies, and how he faced consistent opposition from his parents who disapproved of his “tailoring” career. He also described the change-resistant attitudes of the film industry in those years, where the costumes had little to do with the fleshing out of the character. He touchingly began his speech by thanking Harvard for “inviting me here because it somewhere assures a person who is not educated, who hasn’t come to Harvard, who hasn’t studied at all. I haven’t even studied design, and so this evening, being with all of you really means a lot to me.”
