The annual general meeting (AGM) of Reliance Industries (RIL) is one of the most-awaited annual events in the Indian stock markets as well as the corporate calendar, possibly second only to the Union Budget. The late Dhirubhai Ambani had used this as a platform to display the size and reach of RIL among the stock-market fraternity and it was executed with a lot of pomp and show. Old-timers vividly would remember the AGM in 1985 at Cooperage Football Ground, with over 12,000 shareholders in attendance. With the failing health of the patriarch and, in the post-Dhirubhai Ambani, the ensuing family