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Kolkata: He always prided himself on being ahead of his time, not worried about staking and losing money on innovations for which there were no takers at the time. After all, he was the son of the richest man in his province.

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A man “eccentric” enough to build his own mausoleum nine years before he died.

add_main_imageAssam’s leading tea plantation owner Hemendra Prasad Barooah, who died in Bangkok on Wednesday aged 86, wasn’t the kind of person to leave anything to chance, recalls his biographer Wasbir Hussain. For instance, Barooah left in his mausoleum, made out of green marble under his supervision in 2004, only one blank space to be filled up—the date of demise.

He’s succeeded by two daughters and four grandchildren, his wife and son having died before him.NextMAds

“It was clear in his mind how he wanted himself to be remembered,” says Hussain, an author and former journalist.

That mausoleum takes its p