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Lord Swraj Paul

Britain’s first South Asian peer talks about loving being British as much as being Indian.

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Britain’s first South Asian peer talks about how a tragic illness in the family took him from northern India to London in the 1960s.

Lord Swraj Paul – now the deputy speaker of the House of Lords – went on to build a billion dollar industrial empire.

He tells Riz Khan about how the loss of his four-year-old daughter changed his perspective on life – and how he came to love being British as much as being Indian.

This episode of One on One aired from Saturday, November 21, 2009.