In the middle of the poorest state in India, Bihar, is one of the country's few industrial successes - a company town built round the TATA Steel Works.
Russi Mody, the man who runs it, went to Harrow and Oxford and once played duets with Albert Einstein. Today everywhere he goes in India he's garlanded and listened to with awe. He's India's best-known businessman, but he's also a pianist, a cordon bleu cook; and he tells reporter David Lomax that he hasn't had a strike at his works since 1928, is admired by the Unions and, at the age of 68, still enjoys flying his own private plane.

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