Bitter byte

As chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), Ram Sewak Sharma has his hands full - he assumes office at a time when all eyes are on Trai for its recommendation on net neutrality over which the regulator and a panel appointed by Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad have drawn severe consumer criticism. So when television journalists queued up on Monday for his 'first-day quote', Sharma appeared terribly miffed. In due course, he obliged all of them, but not before saying, "I am not sitting here for this (giving bytes)".