The Hindu Business Line : Mukesh at convocation, keeps silence

"PLEASE step back, you are interfering in the proceedings, the event is basically for the students, move out of the action zone, please keep quiet, tell me when you are settled so that we can begin, please do not make noise, please move back... "

The Director of Gandhinagar-based Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Prof Arvind Kudchadker, had his task cut. The first convocation of the institute was an event for the students and protecting the solemnity of the occasion was his responsibility.

At the receiving end of the Professor's ire were an unruly bunch of television and still cameramen and reporters, who had turned up at the institute in full strength to get an all-important "byte" from the Chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd, Mr Mukesh Ambani, who is also the President of DA-IICT. The convocation saw the Union Cabinet Minister for Science and Technology and Ocean Development, Mr Kapil Sibal, being nearly ignored by the media.

In fact, the event might not have attracted such intense media interest had the spat between the Ambani brothers not been making headlines each day.

But the scribes had to go back with no "byte" from the Ambani senior, who refrained from saying anything more than pointing out the contribution of his `papa', who built the vast Reliance empire from scratch.

He stressed that his group company, Reliance Infocomm, was committed to Dhirubhai's dream of making India a knowledge-based economy and announced two more DA-IICTs at Jammu and Kashmir and West Bengal.

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