Shekhar Natarajan

And we were like in a single room.

So we always had that shared experience of sadness.

staying silent within ourselves, though we had these extreme emotions.

And that became very formative in our life.

And a lot of people misunderstood who he was as a person.

Because what he was able to do at that time that no one understood him really well and no one did is the fact that he would see things that no one can see in those episodes.

Which was really extraordinary.

He could literally solve a math problem in seconds when it is so complicated.

Or he could basically figure out how the crater of the moon looks.

like just imagining it.

He's that extreme, right?

And people thought he was crazy, like who's this guy talking about the moon?

He hasn't even gone to the moon yet.

So I think that extreme personalities are formed early, I feel.

I firmly believe in that.

And it's sort of like, to your point, is nurtured a little bit by your circumstances and who you live.

And it's very difficult to tease it out.

What caused what.

Because I was born to the same parents.

My mother was equally turbulent even that time.