This book is dedicated to my father, a retired stockbroker and investor who unknowingly gave me my first taste of equity markets and contrarian value investing—its ups and downs, ins and outs, and everything in between. An independent thinker, he marches to his own tune to most things in life, including investing. Since my childhood and beyond, I have witnessed vicariously and first hand the triumphs and tribulations of being a non-consensus investor and the fortitude it takes to go against the grain. His successes and failures have shaped my investing thinking in subliminal and explicit ways. It is only fitting that I dedicate this book to the man to whom I owe my personal and professional existence.