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Deepak Bagla is a director with 3i, an international private equity firm. He spent 40 hours at the Oberoi after barely escaping the terrorists at the hotel’s restaurant. He was freed around 2.30am on November 28

What does spirituality mean to you?
I actually never thought of it, so this will be just off my mind… But I can say it is about something that suits the soul. And if I look at my daily routine, when I have had a good day’s work, and I am reading a bedtime story to my two boys as I put them to bed, it is the highest level of spiritual satisfaction.

So spirituality that way is about a deep satisfaction that brings me peace and comfort, the sense that it has been a good day, well spent. If I look at my life, I guess I would also say it has mostly been well spent, but above all, it has been full of luck, like what happened to me at the Oberoi the week before.

Indeed, was it about luck, was there guidance and protection in that ordeal?
Absolutely. Without any doubt, I feel there was a guiding and protective force at play at every single stage. At every moment, I felt as if I knew exactly what to do and how to do it. It was a very clinical process. It was not about panicking of thinking too much. That force simply somehow took care of me and guided everything in ways I could have never fathomed myself.
I was in Bombay for business and staying at the Oberoi. I usually eat at Tiffen but that evening, my colleague and I decided to leave the coffee shop and dine at Kandahar instead. Had we stayed, we would have not survived, like everyone else at Tiffen.

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