Cairn't answer

ONGC Chairman R S Sharma has been receiving several phone calls from journalists every day, 90 per cent of them on the recent deal between Cairn Energy and Vedanta Resources. Though he declined to comment on most of the queries, he had little choice in the press conference called to brief the media after the AGM: inevitably, the first seven or eight questions were all on the deal. Having tackled all of them, Sharma called a halt. “Let us have some more intelligent questions now,” he said.