When Anil Ambani got out of his Cuffe Parade home at 4.45am on Tuesday, there was nothing in his demeanour to indicate the day ahead would be an extraordinary one. A few hours from now, Reliance Power, a company promoted by him, would attempt to mop Rs 11,700 crore from the capital market. Not surprisingly, the sound and fury that accompanied India's largest initial public offering in the days leading to January 15 was intense.
But at 5.15am, half an hour after he was on the road, the IPO wasn't on his mind. Ambani had a feeling he was falling back on his training for the Mumbai marathon scheduled for January 20. A couple of kilometres down the line, he stopped by the Babulnath temple for a "30-second prayer". Eighteen kilometres into the run, he reckoned his timing was okay, smiled, and stopped running. He'd do fine at the marathon, he reckoned. A little later, he went to seek mother Kokilaben's blessings, and was at work in his Ballard Estate office by 9am.
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