Built-up bias

Real estate developers in India may have grown multi-fold in the last few years, but it appears the finance ministry does not consider them big enough. For a meeting with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, it invited the usual suspects from among India Inc’s leaders — the Ambani brothers, Ratan Tata and Sunil Mittal, R P Goenka, Shashi Ruia, Adi Godrej and so on. But when a ministry official was asked if the head of a leading real estate company was invited, the answer was, “No, we have called only big shots.”