Opinion
Prasad Sangameshwaran
Jun 26, 2017

Blog: Will the Lion shift its den?

In a chance encounter with Sir Martin Sorrell on the red carpet at Cannes, this writer discovers that it’s the closest one gets to bearding a lion in its den

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