I am very confident that we will be able to convince all the stakeholders - the shareholders, the governments and the employees, that this is in their best interests.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

We have experienced highly challenging global market conditions in the past quarter with significant steel price decline in all regions.

It's difficult for them to do a deal at these levels.

We have no intention of shutting down plants. We have always said there will be no redundancies or lay-offs as a result of this merger.

I came from a Hindi medium school the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.

In the past twenty years, we have lived through several cycles and we have always managed to buy under good terms and conditions at the right time. This has enabled us to build a solid group that is now the world number one.