The Gatekeeper at the TAJ.

The TAJ was born because a man was turned away from a fancy hotel.

When prominent parsi industrialist Jamsetji Tata was refused entrance into Watson's Hotel in the 19th century because he was a native, he swore revenge & built the massive Taj in 1903, which outshone Watson's in every department.

It is less a hotel and more a proving ground for the human ego.

The Taj lobby and the adjoining toilets are where you prove your self worth - theoretically anyone can come in out of the heat and sit in the plush lobby, on the ornate sofas; amid the billionaire Arabs & the society ladies, or relieve themselves in the gleaming toilets.

The gatekeepers are instructed to stop no one.

But you need that inner confidence to project to the numerous gatekeepers, the toilet attendants; you need first to convince yourself that you belong there, in order to convince others that you do.

And then you realise that the most forbidding gatekeeper is within YOU.