...It was steak for lunch. As the two Indians at the JW Marriott in Atlanta cut into it, they gave the American seated across the table something to chew on. “We would like to buy Novelis.” Debnarayan Bhattacharya, the managing director of Aditya Birla group flagship Hindalco Industries , which was less than one-fourth the size of Novelis, had just uttered the bravest words of his career. It was August 2006. ..