Nearly half-way into his three-year tenure as chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), Nripendra Misra agrees to break bread with Business Standard. Like most bureaucrats, Misra is a member of the ultra-elite India International

Centre in the capital and initially chooses that as the venue. But while the IIC has class, its environs are staid, and the food boring. So I press Misra to change his mind. Fortunately, the 1967-batch Uttar Pradesh-cadre IAS officer relents, writes