hyderabad a hyderabadi turned member of british parliament and chairman of cobra beer lord karan bilimoria wants to brew beer in telangana and andhra pradesh in an exclusive interview with toi over email bilimoria reminisced about growing up in his ancestral mansion anand bhavan in west marredpally his days in hyderabad public school hps and what he finds wrong with the uk immigration policy excerptssecunderabad played an interesting role in your life what are the recollections from the west marredpally days at your ancestral home anand bhavan which was recently soldanand bhavan was my first home from birth in hyderabad my father was an indian army officer and we would often be with him but every two or three years he would be posted to nonfamily stations and anand bhavan was base for myself my mother and my brother my childhood memories in anand bhavan were of a large household with many dogs we were surrounded by beautiful fields where we kept a herd of cows and had fresh milk every day there were orchards and a large vegetable garden and we could see the secunderabad club from the back of the house in those days it was a happy home run by my maternal grandmother aimaidid you brew the idea to dabble in beer business in secunderabadi always wanted to manufacture cobra in hyderabad and for two periods in our companys history we manufactured at crown breweries just outside hyderabad while there we produced excellent quality cobra beer which was very wellliked and appreciated unfortunately for commercial reasons it was unviable and we had to stop production in the state i do hope we get the opportunity to produce cobra in telangana and andhra pradesh in the futurecan you recall memorable moments in your days in hpsi really enjoyed my time at the hyderabad public school and many of my contemporaries from there remain my close friends to this day the school was made up of beautiful buildings and large grounds where not only did we have excellent academic teaching but lots of extracurricular activities and sports one abiding memory was that we had to train as cadets for the annual school speech day and we had to march in precision i remember one year the chief guest was the nizam of hyderabad who was a classmate of my fathers at the doon schoolis it true that your father mr faridoon bilimoria named you karan after former rajya sabha mp and former jk governor karan singhit was at the doon school that my father met dr karan singh and i was indeed named after him something he reminds me about each time i see him karan is also in fact a parsi name albeit a rare oneparsis like tigers are rapidly dwindling there are only 60000 parsis in india in a population of over 1 billion in hyderabad the city you were born the number is slightly over 1000 the tiger numbers have improved after project tiger we now