111 years ago, my grandfather Husseni Gunja was born in Bombay, India, supposedly as he told us with his characteristic flair, on 10/10/10 (although record-keeping really was not a thing back then so who knows?). With little economic means, he raised seven children on the fifth floor of one of the high-rise flats on Mohammed Ali Road – where the causeway would come to dominate the landscape decades later.