From negotiating with combative unions at the Powai plant in the late 1960s and placating Bal Thackeray to supplying 60% of the world's critical equipment - nuclear reactors, steam generators, defence equipment and now electrolysers - AM Naik has taken L&T to heights that would have been impossible without his "devotion, passion, conviction" and single-handed "commitment" to be builder to the nation and the world.