A lot is going on in Dr Zul Merali’s life. He has just moved from Canada back to Kenya. He is buying everything brand new. His house is almost empty, save for a brown leather couch that sits imposingly in the living room, where everything from cameras to books lumps together like a pack of Athenians gathering at the Pnyx Hill.
In what may well be his last dance, the Founding Director of the Brain and Mind Institute at the Aga Khan University still holds that childlike glee and boyish charm when he is talking about things dear to him: mental health, cooking and photography.
