One In A Billion

- Srinivas Krishnan

All it took was a wrong turn for Rajendra Kumar Jain to become the proud owner of a beautiful 1965 Porsche 356. Call it love, destiny, karma, fate, providence, one thousand pounds sterling, whatever. It held Raj by the hand, took him around the corridors of Christie’s, made him skip a few rooms and led him straight into an auction room he had absolutely no plans of visiting.

There she was, an immaculate classic Porsche fluttering its eyelashes and waiting for it to lift Raj’s hand and make a bid. One-Two-Three-Sold to that tall gentleman over there.

Of course, it didn’t happen that way; I was just exaggerating. The bit about the fluttering eyelashes.

ART ON WHEELS

 Fifty-six-year-old Raj Jain is a British citizen of Indian origin, a businessman based in London. He is a globetrotting dealer in art, antiques, exclusive watches and curios. He also owns a fairly well-known retail outlet in the high street epicentre of London – at Bond Street in Mayfair, where people throw enormous amounts of money at his employees to buy small objects that tell the time.