The CEO-to-Median-Employee Pay Ratio mandated by Companies Act Section 197(12) read with Rule 5(1)(i) is one of the highest signal-to-noise governance disclosures in any Indian annual report. This educational piece decodes the metric, shows how to read its three-to-five-year arc, and illustrates the disciplined Pattern-A signature using Titan Biotech (BSE: 524717) FY25 audited markers — purely as a teaching case, not as a buy/sell view.