Every time I see the video of those poor women being bashed up at the pub in Mangalore, I cringe and duck. It plays over and over again on the Indian news channels, and each time I can feel the blows on my body. And then Mr. Muthalik, the politician behind it, gloats and claims victory – his “moral police...

He almost fell off his chair and spilt his soup. It was an intimate dinner hosted by an auction house in Hong Kong, and I found myself seated next to one of their Asia region senior executives. We got talking…he does art, I do luxury brands, and I casually suggested that an artist is a brand, or rather...