One of Surinder Arora’s first exposures to Irish people was in 1977. He was moonlighting as a wine waiter at the Renaissance Hotel at Heathrow in London, which at the time was run by an “Irish mafia”, led by Limerick native Brendan Curtin. “A few years later, I got my pilot’s license and I flew over half a dozen of my friends from the hotel to Shannon. Meeting the Irish people was something I just fell in love with. The Irish and the Indians are very close, there’s lots of commonalities,” he tells The Currency. Since those days, Arora has…

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