No talking

For a journalist to get an interview with DLF Chairman K P Singh is so rare as to make news in itself. So it was something of a surprise when a business chamber took the initiative to approach journalists with offers of an interview with Singh a few days after the Securities and Exchange Board of India barred DLF from the capital market for three years. The media duly prepared its questions, but the meeting did not take place for reasons that were never explained. There was no word from the business chamber or the company thereafter either. Perhaps the fact that the new Bharatiya Janata Party government in Haryana had announced that it would investigate land deals in the state had something to do with the company's policy since DLF is the most prominent developer in Haryana, especially its richest city Gurgaon.