Rajeev Chandrasekhar is flattered to learn that there were many in India’s policy-making and business elite keenly following his every move after he sold his telecoms company and declared he was looking at opportunities “off the radar screen” on which to invest his newly-minted fortune.

After a bumpy decade challenging a young regulatory regime, and irritating business partners old enough to be his father, the young Bangalorean technologist-turned-entrepreneur could hardly have expected any kind of following.