As Managing Director of the Eiffel Tower Operating Company (SETE in French) Patrick Branco Ruivo always has a tall order on hand. “Yet, it is a task I do gladly, as I love my job,” said Ruivo on his flying visit to Mumbai.

The Parisian has been to New Delhi several times, “but it is my first time in Mumbai,” he said looking through the glass windows of the Taj Mahal hotel at Colaba at the evening rain, likely Mumbai monsoon’s last show of strength and the crowds swelling and surging, just like the sea near the Gateway of India.