‘‘Sabh kuch seekha hamnein, na seekhe angrezi — Bas yeh fark hai aapme aur hamme’’ — Gangaram L. Talekar to a well-heeled CII audience here today. Not a name familiar to most people around the country, nor even to the two lakh Mumbaikars who use his services every day. But Forbes magazine knows Talekar; it featured him in a survey in 1998.
And Alok Sharma’s is another name you’d have a problem identifying. Yet, in 2001, he accomplished a task that would challenge even logistical giants like UPS: keeping law and order at the Kumbh Mela.