Underwhelmed in Hyderabad

BEST's Editor found little to get excited about at the 14ABC battery conference.

Cue drums, cue elephants, cue candle lighting ceremony: yes once again, its another Asian Battery Conference, this time in the magnificent city of Hyderabad, in incredible India.

OK, spot the errors and lies in my opening paragraph. That's right, no elephants and it all depends what you mean by "incredible". Incredible that the country's overwhelming bureaucracy made it nigh on impossible for some of the invited Chinese speakers to get visas to the conference, for several companies to have . . .