New Delhi, March 8 -- Dressed in a claret-coloured shirt and dark slacks, K.P. Singh is just back in New Delhi from Lynndale, his 110-acre home in Mussoorie, where he brought in his 95th birthday with family and friends, and musicians flown in for the occasion. "I love music. I love to dance. I wish I could sing or play, but I can't, so I listen," he says, when I ask Singh, who is No.12 on Forbes' list of India's richest and rumoured to host lavish parties with the best bartenders, chefs and international celebrity musicians, how he celebrated his birthday. "My life, I take every day as a birthday."

Born in Bulandshahr in present-day Uttar Pradesh on 19 November 1929-online sources say 15 August 1931 "but you know how certificates were m...