'Perhaps I should have asked questions about the ruby ring. What was its story? Where did it come from? But, at that young age, and in the societal milieu of the time (where fathers were somewhat aloof and not to be questioned), I did not...It was only much later that I unearthed the significance of the ring, and some of the mysteries it held-a lifetime later.' One evening in the early 1950s, when Ajit Singh Dutta...