How Sandeep Kumar became one of Asia’s best bartenders – after dropping out of college

My dad was the eldest of 13 children. As an adult, he and seven of his siblings and their families lived on the same small street in a slum area of Bangalore in southern India. I was born in 1984 and have a younger brother and sister. I was always outside with the other kids. We played “leg cricket” – hitting the ball with our leg – in the street. There were often power outages and when they happened at night people would come out of their homes. We kids loved playing hide and seek during the blackouts. Most of the time, I didn’t sleep in my house. I slept at a friend’s place or at an auntie’s house. I’ve never had a problem sleeping, I can sleep anywhere. Sometimes my mother came to get me and bring me home and sometimes she didn’t.