Ambani and Ambani drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means

Charles Dickens would have felt quite at home in modern-day India. In its teeming cities he would have found the stuff of his novels: the fizz of creative energy uncorked by industrialisation, the mix of fabulous riches and stultifying grime, high society and struggling slums, honest endeavour and distasteful enrichment. He would also have enjoyed Ambani vs Ambani, a legal dispute straight from the pages of Bleak House.