Moving from a small town in Uttar Pradesh to England to study aeronautical engineering and then the ascent to become a realty czar owning a bevy of luxury cars and a private jet, not to mention India’s largest real estate development company, having a market capitalisation of ₹1.8 lakh crore at its peak in 2008, reads more like a script out of one of Bollywood’s typical rags to riches movies. Yet that is the true life story of Kushal Pal Singh, the man behind real estate behemoth DLF.