The corporate world is replete with stories of small ventures making it to the big League because of one man and his vision. Thrissur, a small town in Kerala, witnessed such an event in 1929. At a time when banking was big business and only the exceptionally rich dabbled in it, a small group of men in Thrissur decided to defy Convention and set up a Bank. They were not equipped with the skills and sophistication to venture into the complex world of finance but they had enormous confidence in themselves. The Bank they set up was the South Indian Bank. They never sought a place in history but later they become part of it.