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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

64-year-old intern: Just like Robert De Niro in The Intern, this business guru with decades of company-building experience starts again; says, 'I don’t have...'

For most people, retirement is supposed to be the finish line. You work for decades, build a career, earn your rest and finally slow down.

But for 64-year-old Otis D’Souza, slowing down was never really the plan.

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His story feels a bit like the 2015 film The Intern, where Robert De Niro plays Ben Whittaker, a retired widower who discovers that retirement isn't quite as enjoyable as he imagined. Looking for purpose, he joins an online fashion company as a senior intern and ends up working under a much younger boss played by Anne Hathaway.

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