Burning rubber

Pawan K Ruia, chairman of the Ruia Group, which recently lost tyre-maker Dunlop to a court decision, was spotted at the Allahabad Junction railway station after the Maha Kumbh’s Mauni Amavasya Snan on February 11. Given that India Inc’s heavy-hitters came in on jets, private and others, to Allahabad and fly out after a quick dip, it was unusual to see a hassled Ruia run for his train on a packed railway platform just hours after over 30 died in a stampede. Is the closure of Dunlop already forcing the industrialist to travel cattle-class? Or, was it a case of last-minute planning? Either way, Ruia may just be looking for some divine intervention, and where else than the Maha Kumbh for some of that!