On Sunday, UAE lost one of its finest entrepreneurs who was widely credited with playing a crucial role in shaping modern Dubai. Fondly called the ‘textile king’, Vasu Shroff died at the age of 85 of natural causes.
Priya Kumar, who authored Shroff’s biography A Regal Man: The Life and Lessons of Vasu Shroff, described working with him as a transformative experience.
“I came to document his story, and he turned the lens around,” she said. “On the very day I arrived to interview him, he interviewed me. He had learned my life as I…

