Prajit said he was never jealous of his brother, whom he believes is afflicted with lifelong anger management issues. “The truth is not in the middle. The truth is on one side, and it’s not as if we are equally to blame,” he said. “There’s one guy with a pattern of behavior that involves rage.”
As proof, he recounted a 40-year-old incident that happened when Prajit returned home to India to marry his girlfriend, Susan Sobelewski, a concert pianist, whom he had met while he was in graduate school at Cornell University.
Projjal, then 17, was behind the wheel when another driver cut him off.
“Rather than slowing down,” Prajit said, “Projjal accelerates,” rear-ending the other vehicle.
“I decided not to be cut off,” Projjal said. “This is a trope my brother goes back to again and again about my anger issues. It was a road rage thing,” he said, adding that it was dismissed in court.
The Early Days of Aicon
In 1999, soon after Projjal finished his master’s in architecture, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he and his brother realized their dream of selling art when they launched their website ArtsIndia.com. In 2002, they opened a gallery near Madison Square Park, in Manhattan, and for a time had two other outposts, one in Palo Alto, Calif., another in London.
“A lot of people who set up galleries in the U.K. and America prior to them were effectively running mom-and-pop shops,” said Rob Dean, the co-founder of Pundoles, a Mumbai-based auction house. “It wasn’t done at this level of professionalism.”
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