And suddenly I was on the phone to my stockbroker and my real estate agent, when I should have been talking to my clients.

And that's a poem by Charles Edward Carryl, who was a stockbroker in New York City for 45 years, but in the evenings, he wrote nonsense for his children.

This sense of multiple identities is something that Sen himself highlighted mischievously in his book Identity and Violence The same person can be, for example, a British citizen, of Malaysian origin, with Chinese racial characteristics, a stockbroker, a non vegetarian, an asthmatic, a linguist, a bodybuilder, a poet, an opponent of abortion, a bird watcher, an astrologer, and one who believes that God invented Darwin to test the gullible.