Five questions for Novartis India's MD

Novartis India's vice chairman and managing director Ranjit Shahani once joked that almost every passenger even on a "Virar fast local" knows about the company and its anticancer, Glivec (imatinib mesylate), with the backdrop of the Supreme Court ruling last year rejecting a patent for the product and high decibel allegations by activists that the Swiss company was attempting to get the legal framework for examining patent applications in India relaxed.