most potential times is the master brand owing to its overwhelming success we have effortlessly leveraged this master brand times across platforms such as times now times pro navbharat times economic times etchow do you function in a crisis what is your crisis management mantra temperamentally i am cool and do not lose my composure i tend to view crises as an opportunity to evaluate my leadership teamswhat are some of the things you look forward to personally at this point i wish i could travel more i have never taken more than 10 days off in any year over the last 15 yearsone learns from life would there be any incident in your life that has made you suffer a temporary setback but proved to be of immense value and learning in the long run i am fortunate that i have not suffered any setbackson being voted impact person of the year 2013 while i am delighted at being voted the impact person of the year i accept this on behalf of my brother samir jain vice chairman and on behalf of the times family the centre of our universe has and will always be our readers listeners and viewers we have no political masters nor do we have any hidden agenda if we take anybodys side it is that of our readers listeners and viewers editorial views on all our platforms are aimed at leading opinion and driving change this has become a habit in our group we can with some modesty claim that governments legislatures and even courts have time and again taken cognizance of our views and acted on them we do not seek power or influence but we do want to use all our media platforms to do goodat 23 i internalised my brothers message when i was fresh out of college all of 23 years old at a formal meeting with senior managers of the times group i heard my brother samir jain vice chairman of the group talk about what is the business we are in what i vividly recall is his passionate and painstaking effort at explaining that we are in the business of advertising and not in the business of selling newspapers in retrospect i feel i had internalised this message to such an extent that it provided the impetus for me to explore and diversify into all potential advertisingdriven media businesses like radio tv internet and outdoor i admire my brother deeply for his brilliance and the manner in which hes transformed the group from the time he took over 35 years ago if print media in india is doing well unlike in most parts of the world its because of the innovations he introduced almost every media house and publisher said his experiments wouldnt work but eventually they all copied him his vision and original thinking reshaped indian newspapers and gave it a new growth trajectory as i grew into the business he gave me more and