On a sunny day in Kakira in the 1940s, on a hill overlooking the pristine shores of Lake Victoria, Muljibhai Prabhudas Madhvani and his sons were having a heated argument. The senior Madhvani loved trees and although many had already been planted on his sprawling estate, he wanted to plant yet another mile of them – running through the marshes to the southern edges of his estate. The younger Madhvanis argued that while previously they had planted trees along estate roads, there was not even a footpath in the marshes to justify this grandiose project. But to all their opposition, Muljibhai had one answer: “Men are not stupid; one day there is going to be a road here.”