Cut on the bias

Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar is known for his plain speaking with colleagues and the media. But last week, businessmen got a taste of it at a seminar on trade agreements and India’s exports strategy. Defending his ministry’s decision to opt for many free trade agreements, Khullar said the main reason was that India was growing and countries were knocking on the doors of Udyog Bhawan and not because “some Western country told me or some bloody WTO told me”. Touché.